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crystal7j
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I picked tailoring and I might have run into a snag but I have yet to investigate it completely. I need "Bolt of Wool Cloth" to craft my next items and it looks like it might be a pay with in real life money item. If that is the case I'm going to disapprove. Crafting should be a completely free aspect of the game.
Anyone else have any take on this?
Anyone else have any take on this?
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Imo this isn't crafting at all. I have come to terms long ago that players will put up with the most simplistic and basic thing but this isnt even crafting because none of it is useful. You can get to level 60 with your character LONG before you can craft anything your character would actually use other than shirts and pants nothing is useful.
Only leadership offers something that is useful other than making shirts and pants for your class. So in other words 90% of professions is just nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt at a money sink. You need to level up your class profession so you can get those nice gemmed shirts and pants and that will cost you some coin and zen.
You get resources by using your various 'kits' (lock picking, arcana, dungeoneering, etc). You could also buy them off the AH...
It takes a long TIME to rank up crafting, unless you pay to win and just pay for 50% increase speed assets and instantly craft items with diamonds...
The items you can make are pretty good, they just seem to lag behind your (or my) levelling rate... meaning at level 60, you are making level 40 gear. So you need to basically make trash to rank up to level 20 and get the 'end game' stuff a lot longer.
As it stands now, im thinking of dropping lwing and just focusing on leadership. At least that profession is somewhat useful even it low lvls (if only for gathering tiny bits of AD).
as I see it, the levels require unique mats that take too much time and effort to obtain, even for the lowest level. it doesn't make sense because at lower levels you change gears too quickly and you can't craft a purple until your tailoring is at level 20 (which is perhaps attainable long after you've reached level 60)
IMO it's not a necessity to enjoy the game, but if you're a completionist or simply have enough patience to craft that godly gear then do spend time levelling your craft.
F2p can go two ways. It can offer great mounts, pets, cosmetics, and potions - the way I approve. Or f2p can damage or inconvenience game play advancements. I disapprove of this route. It generates resentful patrons and they will go play something else sooner or later if the resentment builds to the point game play doesn't feel fun anymore.
Crafting is one of those things you just want to do right when making a game. It has been done wrong in every mmo. It would be nice to see it done right for once. It would put this game on the map if crafting was done right.
There not being a variety of wardware is one of the most repeated complaint/suggestions I am seeing in General Forum. This is where crafting could shine. But not if we have to pay irl cash. It will kill crafting if that happens / is happening. That doesn't mean devs couldn't still sell a fancy wedding outfit or the like in Cash Shop that cannot be crafted. But everyday wear should be crafted and there should be a lot of variety of it. Crafted items should never be purchased from an npc or cash shop. There should never be an item of like kind better looking and stat'ed bought at an npc than a crafted item.
I do like very much the crafting on a site outside the game. That was a good idea; plus points for you devs.
Thanks for the info!
I wouldn't call it time investment. You don't have to stare at the screen for 18 hours. Start them around dinner time and they'll be done by lunchtime the next day. Before you know it, you'll have plenty. On my lvl 60 GF I have 2 footmen, training a third and recruiting two mercenaries at the moment. That leaves me two slots to do other tasks. Just because something takes time, doesn't mean it's a huge time investment. People are just impatient. Be glad you don't have to grind for rare materials to do the simplest of tasks.
Really, my only complaint with crafting is that it's impossible to keep up with your character level, unless you play very rarely. But that isn't really an issue either, since you will be replacing gear within hours up until you reach lvl 60. It doesn't even cost much, at east not up to and at around level 12-13. You basically only need to buy one material by the hundreds in order to craft (spools of thread, for example), but you will certainly earn more than you spend while playing.
Besides that, I guess the only problem is its lack of uses. But like I said, that may very well change when it's maxed and/or the devs implement some changes. The minute Alchemy is introduces, I will level that as fast as possible as well. Hell, you don't even have to be in the game to train professions.
When you say use the extra xp for companions, what do you mean by that?
Ok, I thought that I had seen a note that you can do this. Where the heck *is* it in the website? I have not been able to find it.
Then you log in and you can do your professions amongst other things
He simply means that the XP gained from the tasks lets him level companions. Even if your character is max level, the XP is still gained and also goes into companion levels.
alchemy will make the very obsolete cleric even more so, might as well just drop the class from the game at the end of beta, don't even allow anyone to be able to make one
There's a task to gather wool scraps. You then need to buy thread from the profession vendor; They're like 30 copper each. Buy a bunch because you'll need them. You can then weave wool cloth using the scraps and thread. A similar setup happens later, only with cotton.
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Fallen Earth had a very good crafting system; more or less everything you could use in that game could be crafted yourself. Crafting in Neverwinter is not the best crafting system ever, but it is far from the worst.
My main is level 18 in mailsmithing, and 14 in Leadership. Have not payed any real money, although I have spent AD on zen for costumes. You can level all crafts from 1 to 20 without paying any real money.
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