timborggrenlarsenb16_ESO wrote: »

Ohh, man crafting is lame in this game, they told us before release, ohh yea crafting will be the spinding wheels. Yea my ass, I have never seen one text in the chat(In any of them) where players are looking for crafters.
Men in almost any other mmorpg, half the chat is spamed, with player looking for crafters all the time.

So what happend to thies "words" Zenimax?

I'm gonna guess you play from 2-3am CST on NA, and I have to agree zone chat is dead at that time, especially for those looking for Crafters... Ok, sarcasm aside, I see players looking for Crafters and Crafters selling their wares every day in chat on AD side, EVERY SINGLE DAY, ALL DAY LONG. That paired with the fact that the majority of players doing end game content, currently considered Vet DSA and Sanctum Ophidia, still use at least some crafted gear because it's superior to even the drops in those instances. There are the defacto sets like Warlock, Footman, Healer, Aether that are the go-to's of their role like DPS/Tank/Healing but outside of those (and maybe a small handful of others) crafted gear IS superior to other dropped gear. In any case there SHOULD be at least some part of every character that's dropped set items from end game content as BiS.

There are players all day looking for [X] Trait Crafters, players looking to buy certain Glyphs, Potions, Food as well as players selling all of the above and even individual Trait gear for research, which they learned themselves via Crafting and have been making money on it since then. Crafting in ESO is very good and the crafted gear is still superior in many cases to any other type of gear found in ESO.

Gyudan wrote: »

I suggest you check this thread about the latest addition to PVE drops and how good it is compared to crafted sets.

Also, in ESO Live (01:29:00), Paul Sage said he hoped there would be more unique items open to crafters. I'd like to see that too, rather sooner than later, because right now crafting is quite lame indeed.

That is really nothing special. I'm not sure how that is better than my standard Hunding's Mother set I hang on both my and my son's NBs.

If you are killing wholesale, which is where gaining benefit from deaths really helps, you don't need speed, the Stamina back is nice though. As well, for VR14, none of those numbers are especially good. Hunding's Rage is better and with the added 8% Weapon Crit and 4% Spell Crit from 4 Night Mother ... well I have found nothing better.

Rosveen wrote: »

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Gyudan wrote: »

I suggest you check this thread about the latest addition to PVE drops and how good it is compared to crafted sets.

Also, in ESO Live (01:29:00), Paul Sage said he hoped there would be more unique items open to crafters. I'd like to see that too, rather sooner than later, because right now crafting is quite lame indeed.

That is really nothing special. I'm not sure how that is better than my standard Hunding's Mother set I hang on both my and my son's NBs.

If you are killing wholesale, which is where gaining benefit from deaths really helps, you don't need speed, the Stamina back is nice though. As well, for VR14, none of those numbers are especially good. Hunding's Rage is better and with the added 8% Weapon Crit and 4% Spell Crit from 4 Night Mother ... well I have found nothing better.

How are those numbers not good? It's the same crit as Hunding, with lower weapon damage bonus but instead stamina return AND ability cost reduction. The same reduction that made everyone and their mother wear Seducer.

It's less than a ring to me. I can hang more Stamina Reduction than that on jewelery.

Certainly my sorcs wear Seducer but it just allows more stuff in the jewelery department really.

It's all a trade off. Because I can do everything at max level with my crafting army, I can make the numbers do what I want them to. This set is no big deal for me.

Oh yeah. My wildly pampered new, level 18, potion guzzling NB, gets new Hunding's Mother every 2 - 4 levels. He is a bit OP I think. So I can come up with that twice a day sometimes. Go hunt your spiffy stuff, have fun

Natjur wrote: »

Crafting is super easy to level so almost everyone has a crafter or two, or in a guild with 10+ crafters. Basic supply and demand.

So much supply, so little demand = no profit. All the best sets are drops only so crafters are only good for making a dropped item into legendary but as there is only a very small different, even that is not worth it.

They need to allow max crafters to modifty armor\weapons. Eg allow them to change the trait stone on a dropped armor\weapon or even convert armor type (med to light etc)

The only trade skill that makes real money is selling stacks of potions for 10k a pop.

You obviously aren't doing it right then. Take Nirnhoned trait items, those are STILL selling for 12-16K each. Pots are NOT a high profit item, just a high demand item. The value of (25) of 3 different herbs + the Water is just over 9K, meaning at 10K/sale you're making less than 1K for something that takes quite a while to process, but a single Nirnhoned trait weapon/armor sells for 7-11K over the cost of the Nirncrux/mats for almost no work at all.

You're also incorrect about the best gear being dropped only. Almost everyone uses SOME crafted items in their setup paired along with those drops like Footman, Warlock, Aether, etc. I do agree though that Master Crafters should be able to change the trait of an item, even if it's at great cost or some complicated process. Also I'd like them to allow players to repair their own armor/weapons (if their skill is high enough in said profession) at a cost of the materials that made it. So if you have a 50% durability loss to your chest and it cost 15 Voidstone Ingots to craft it (even as a dropped item) then it would take 7-8 bars to repair it to 100%.