I LOVE the crafting in this game. Want better gear, go do dungeons, trials, etc. Want to feel what it's like for your crafting to mean absolutely nothing? Go to that one game (not mentioning names) where the last time crafting was any good, Arthas was taking over.

Ok, guys, you convinced me that crafting is alright and pretty important.

However I would like to address a similar topic: Don't you want an expansion to the crafting system as The Shadow Scout said:

TheShadowScout wrote: »

That being said...

...crafting -could- use something more to perk it up. Some way to craft more interesting stuff.

Sometimes I wish we could craft items beyond the usual drops... maybe with some really rare drop items, like those monster trophies - work them into a crafted item for some "extra" property you cannot get from any drops for example...

Sometimes I wish the undaunted stuff would not just come from boss drops and chests, but the dungeon bosses only dropped crafting materials, and then people would craft the helmet/shoulder themselves...

Sometimes I wish we had more things to craft, like jewelry made weapons (spell foci for example, or eands/runestones and such... if we get new weapon skill lines for those...)

Sometimes I wish we had more fun consumables to craft as well, like perhaps alchemical AoE smoke/gas grenades (would only need a third solvent type...) or scrollcrafting that can make consumable scrolls with class skills, as well as player made recipes & motiv pages...

Oh, well. Maybe some expansion, someday?

I strongly agree with the expansion of crafting like that, because I cannot see myself doing the same stuff for 2 more years or so. We already saw how the Summerset added jewelry crafting and it was really awesome, but now I kinda don't want anything new in crafting I want the system to be more refined (lol). Maybe some fresh new additions to already existing professions

I love crafting in most game, and it IS useful here as well. I don't use it for housing(sorry but after Conan Exiles housing here is just weak. Not a fair comparison, different games, but it doesn't do anything for me here. Just my opinion) I don't make bank on it either. I keep my mats,(although having 10 crafters doing writs daily adds up) but it gives me a freedom to play with builds and try out off meta.

I DO wish crafting had a bit more at the master level yes. Like once you're 9 traits on all you can craft dropped gear, but only at 80% strength since its "manufactured" and not dropped. Master alchemists can combine mats into the next level(10 greens into a blue and so forth)

tmbrinks wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

Crafting your own potions is at least 25% cheaper than buying them on the market.

Crafting your own glyphs, cooking your own food are both about 50% cheaper than buying them on the market.

You have to be able to upgrade your own gear, since much of it is bound.

Transmutation to get a better trait on your gear!

There's quite a bit that crafting does for you still!

New Moon's Acolyte (a crafted 9-trait set) is among the top sets for DPS this patch.

If you farm your own mats, then crafting your own potions, poisons, glyphs, food, and drinks is usually 100% cheaper than buying them at the guild traders. The exception would be if you need to shop for some ingredient that you've run out of, or that is really difficult to farm because of its very low drop rate or because it only drops from some source or activity that's beyond your current skill level. And this Anniversary Jubilee is a good opportunity to try to stock up on rare ingredients and mats that you can hopefully find in some of your reward boxes.

There's still a value in time. Perhaps it can't be quantified in the quite the same way, but it's there.

That's true. And different people put a different value on their time, which makes it even more difficult to quantify.

I was actually responding from the assumption that you'd meant buying mats and crafting stuff with it, versus just buying the end products. I know some players simply don't like farming, and would rather buy mats so they can focus on questing, doing dungeons, doing BGs, doing PvP, or whatever else they prefer to do.

In my case, I don't usually go farming or using survey reports until I'm too low on certain mats to do my writs, but I don't mind stopping and harvesting resources while I'm riding or running from place to place doing other things. I'm one of those players who likes to loot every crate, barrel, backpack, bag, sack, corpse, and treasure chest when doing a delve or dungeon, so I tend to have a large quantity of every type of mat and ingredient in the game, except for rare mats or ingredients. And I don't value those things nearly as much as most players do; for instance, I'll gladly give a small amount of some mat or ingredient to a player without charging for it if they need it for their writs, as long as it's something I have a lot of.

Anyway, there's no question that crafting things yourself is definitely less expensive than buying them from other players.