Tips on gathering materials

sweaty

Looking for tips on how to make my time gathering materials most effective.

vagrant0

Learn where things show up, learn how to time how long it takes for them to respawn, plan a route, spend all day running that route.

Realistically though, it's better to just gather what you can, and just sell it. While yes, crafting may be fun, it can be rather expensive to make it past skill 3, and can cost alot more when it comes to skill levels past that. The sad reality is that even if you spend a week farming materials at level 30, you will still probably end up coming short of bringing even one of them through the level 4 quest without buying many from others.

Additionally, because everyone is trying to get their skills past level 4, material prices for low-mid materials are quite high, so you could probably take advantage of this, and end up affording decent equipment, rather than taking your chances in spending most of your savings just trying for a 2 star item. Lots of times I see 2 star equipment with fair stats being listed on auctions for close to the selling price (still cheaper than a plain one bought from vendor). Many of those with money problems early on, have those money problems because they are buying equipment from vendors, and selling their materials to vendors.

The only crafting skill that almost everyone should get should be apocathary, this allows you to make consumable items to do many useful things.

sweaty

So you are saying Crafting isnt worth it... i have heard otherwise. Anyone else have an opinion?

vagrant0

sweaty wrote: »

So you are saying Crafting isnt worth it... i have heard otherwise. Anyone else have an opinion?

It's worth it, in the long run, if that's what you really want to do, and can spend many MANY hours farming materials, and searching around town for the best prices. At low levels however, it is not. There are simply too many low level crafers, not enough materials, and not as much need for the equipment which is being made. Higher level crafting however is a different story, but getting there, again, requires ALOT of time and money (ingame currency and otherwise) to get what is needed.

My suggestion was based on the feeling that most people playing the game do not make it into the level 80+ range, so likely, even if they spent all that time initially, raising their crafting skills, they would lose interest in the game before they can actually start turning a profit (without many hours spent farming). By the time you're 80+, spending 100k for 30 materials, still sucks, but isn't going to hurt as much. Even if you don't care about spending all that time, you will need to be level 50 to get any of your crafting skills to level 4, which is usually where most people stop because they don't have the levels, or cannot afford materials that they can no longer farm. Even for those who make it past level 50 and level 4-7 crafting, there isn't much call for their skills since people start using TT weapons at level 60, and TT armor at 70, which lowers the demand for other crafted equipment. Most guilds usually have atleast a few people who can already handle these things by the time anyone needs them.

Appocathary can still be a very good investment of time and effort, and can earn a fair deal if you know what to make, and don't need it yourself. Other crafting, like tailor or smithing, tends to only break even if you spend a significant portion fo your time gathering materials or killing only those things that drop those materials. Craftsman is a slightly different story since there are fewer of them, however they still have to buy/farm the same materials that everyone else is, so may have some problems.Although the supply of 2 star or higher jewelry is lower, so is the demand.

Naris - Heavens Tear

If you have an excess abundance of time or money crafting is worth it. Since everyone and their horse appears to want to craft their own junk (and wants good stats for their own junk) I could see you farming mats a good 6-8 hours a day without questing (grinding in that area though) just to get the mats you need to make good gear.

Or... you could pour real money into Zen and buy the materials. This may not be a bad idea for things that drop only from mobs (and thus get outleveled by you too fast).

Ermosa - Heavens Tear

well when i dont have quests i grind at place were mobs drop what i need and were i can mine(herbs etc) needed mats for crafting. Just try pay more attention which mobs drop ur needed mats and were can mine lots of herbs etc...
and herbs,rocks, woods respawn in 10 mins