It doesn't worth to craft low lvl armors and weapons... :(

netsike · April 2014

I have a feeling, that it really doesn't worth to craft low level armors and weapons. It's kinda disappointing, because a lot of us love to craft, but right now the only thing what make sense is destructing items, researching and collecting materials. Why? Well:

1. The only thing what we can actually craft are white items, because to make a whole green set is hard (for this you need a LOT of refining materials) and it gets outdated in 4-5 levels.

2. It's too hard to find the refining materials and you need too much of them. I would make it less rare and decrease the required amount for low lvl items. (for example for a lvl10 green armour you just need 2, for lvl30 3 and so on.)

3. The XP for crafting is ridiculously low, for destructing items you get much-much more.

Please change something about it! Make it more worth and give us the feeling that it's not completely useless...

Avidus · April 2014

Since finding crafting materials is extraordinarily easy and anybody regardless of profession skill can do it levelling by crafting items cannot be the highest gain.
Note that your professions do not level off 'experience' they level off inspiration.
Which you would also gain from deconstructing items, and also researching traits.
Instead of trying to create a full set of green items, why don't you find items and upgrade them? It is much easier to do.

Also from experience I have played as a smith and frequently found that every 2 levels I could craft items better than what I had.

Crafting is considered a separate style of play in The Elder Scrolls, so a level 3 fresh out of coldhabour might decide only to craft Swords, and through buying items and only levelling their smithing they can then provide the very best players in the game with the very best of swords.

Lupinemw · April 2014

I have to agree with @Avidus the game reflects a good complexity and doesn't need to be changed.

I can build elements for people and also decon elements. If your looking to power level I have to ask why?

There are many ways to boost what IP you gain though. Make a pile of daggers at max level give them to someone to decon. They do the same, so you share the burden. You both gain from it. Always do max level as well as it reduces the need for the Racial item.

netsike · April 2014

I don't want to power level, I just simply feel like it's completely unnecessary to craft low lvl items. But seems like it's just me who feels this way.

Lupinemw · April 2014

A lot of the time it isn't worth crafting low level stuff as 2 levels alter you can find better from a drop.

Sad fact but so very true. Its only when levelling takes a little longer does the suit last longer. Unless your a power gamer running the same thing all the time then it doesn't

Opioid · April 2014

I used blacksmithing at low level to make better items for the slots I had yet to find a decent drop or quest reward upgrade for. It works incredibly well for that. And yes, you'll probably find something better for most slots in 2-4 levels, but for the off chance that you don't happen to find anything useful, it's nice to be able to craft something for yourself.

Beyond that, crafting is really just a time and materials grind and it's true worth will not be seen until more people get to 50 and get some veteran ranks and break into the higher tiers of content and crafting items.

Destabilizator · April 2014

Green/blue/whatever doesn't mean anything, it just has tiny bit more of armor or damage. What makes it worth is 1) good trait, which you can select 2) good enchant, which you can theoreticaly make, but as it is now, it's the biggest pain.
Think of crafted items as tabula rasa for you, you can choose type/slot, even set, trait and top it with enchant of your desire. Or you can go into the wilds and hope that heavy chest with Infused and max magicka drops, how does that feel?

Exarch · April 2014

My characters are almost entirely wearing gear they crafted themselves, which feels very satisfying; that feeling alone makes it worth the expenditure of my time.

SadisticSavior · April 2014

netsike wrote: »

The only thing what we can actually craft are white items, because to make a whole green set is hard (for this you need a LOT of refining materials) and it gets outdated in 4-5 levels.

This changes once you get into the teens. Green items are much easier to craft.

1) Use lockpicks and start opening chests...they drop green items every time for me. Deconstruct them.

2) Craft material nodes respawn quickly. Find a good cluster and farm them. This is the exploration part of the game.

If crafting was that easy there would be no point in crafting. This is a game. If you are low level (below 10) it is normal to be using white items.

netsike wrote: »

It's too hard to find the refining materials and you need too much of them.

How is it hard?

netsike wrote: »

The XP for crafting is ridiculously low, for destructing items you get much-much more.

Which is exactly as it should be. You can find items to deconstruct fairly easily.

netsike wrote: »

Please change something about it! Make it more worth and give us the feeling that it's not completely useless...

It already is like that. You are not going to be able to craft the stuff people will pay money for till the mid level game...it is like that in every MMO.

SadisticSavior · April 2014

netsike wrote: »

I don't want to power level, I just simply feel like it's completely unnecessary to craft low lvl items. But seems like it's just me who feels this way.

There is no demand for low level stuff because everyone can already craft low level stuff.

If they made it easy for you to craft high level stuff you'd be in the exact same boat you are now...why would anyone buy stuff from you if they can craft it themselves?

netsike · April 2014

Well, maybe you guys are right...I will give it a try again.

NordJitsu · April 2014

Crafting is incredibly useful once you get to 50.

As you level, you should just focus on leveling your crafting.

I occasionally craft low level stuff, but mostly just for guildies who want it. The stuff that you pick up from random drops is more than adequate for the current difficulty of the content (low difficulty.) The only reason to craft yourself something better is if you're having trouble with a particular quest/boss/dungeon.

Chalybos · April 2014

Even at lower levels it's worthwhile to craft, even if it's just to sell the components on the broker.

Killing mobs that drop skins, or are near the nodes you want, that should be fast, a non-distraction, that gets you some free XP while you're at it. The gear I find? I deconstruct or research, while wearing crafted gear according to the level I'm at. This allows crafting to be zero-impact on my gold, while maintaining the ability to have a full set of gear waiting for a new alt, along with upgrades as they progress. But one of the nice things is the tempers & such that you get from it. I have yet to buy one resource. And then there's the stuff for later on in the game (yeah, I play slow, and like to complete every quest at least once).

I see this as a natural part of the flow of the game, but then I always prefer to be self sufficient. This is according to my preferred playstyle, though. Individual preferences and all that.