Or they could put it into it's own category named crafting furnishings and adjust the limit when new sets come out.

I like the idea of having one station do everything, but not happy with " ... the total cost of these new items being well over 10,000 writs per station." as this is excessive considering each station is 250 writs. You may be fine with that cost, but I doubt you'll find the majority of players who have this set up are.

EDIT: I agree with the original poster, we are running out of slots in our houses for all the crafting stations.

I am a big proponent of this idea. With the limited amount of slots we have to optimize all the the space we got.

Fine with whatever ZOS decides to do so long as they don’t make the ones, we already have obsolete. Give us some way to convert the current tables we have into the new tables if they go this route. The thing is if ZOS makes this super crafting station then most guilds will want at least 2 or 3 of them and not just one for their guild halls.

Stay safe and enjoy the journey 😊

PS. ZOS stop the micromanagement of the green tree 🥺

It has been brought up many times that the attunable stations could be implemented such that you purchase a station then purchase upgrades to be able to attune them to gear sets. This would allow players to upgrade a single station or continue to have multiple stations. At the same time to preserve players who already have a large number of stations a merge function could be created to allow a player to merge on station into another. The problem is ZOS doesn't seem interested in resolving the problems caused by their uncontrolled introduction of more crafted sets.

Jthomas56 wrote: »

If I do have a fully designed guild hall with stations laid out I hate having to tear it down by 12 items at a time every 6 months.

Why do you have to tear it down every 6 months?

How would a multiple attunable crafting station even work? I mean, I can see this getting horribly bugged in the combination process.

Probably better to not have this implemented in my opinion. Look what has happened to the bankers and traders, lol!

I don’t even understand how that got messed up.

I completely agree with necessity to solve the furnishing slot creep problem. On the other hand, of example options provided by OP personally I find option A too long in performing by player and option B severely contradicting to existing in-game logic. I would suggest the following as an option C:

1. Remove attunable stations from the game at all, replacing them with a new consumable item, let's name it Unfinished Drawings (Blacksmithing Drawing, Woodworking Drawings etc., by a type of the craft skill). These should cost the same amount of vrit vouchers, to keep the voucher price balance intact. Each existing attunable station should be either replaced with a corresponding Unfinished Drawings item, or, as an option refunded withvouchers so its owner may have spent them as he sees fit.

2. All crafted sets should have their place in Collections, just as dungeon, trial and all other sets do. Starting quality for recreating them should be normal (white), as you can already craft them in this quality minimum.

3. To add the crafted set to collection, you must find its location and use Unfinished Drawing item there, to add to Collection all items that can be crafted with that craft skill. I.e. if you find a set location, use an Unfinished Blacksmithing Drawings there, you add to your Collections all weapons and heavy armor from that set that can be crafted with blacksmithing. All alrady attuned crafting stations should be removed upon implementing, with automatically adding a corresponding pieces of sets to Collections, as above.

I would also suggest moving the number of traits known prerequisite from the stage of crafting the item (or reconstructing / adding a set bonus in this option) to the stage of adding to Collection - which would be a great Quaity Of Life improvement, when a player will need a character with a high number of traits learned to add a set to Collection and then will be able to use it on any of his characters without need to constantly relog to craft some gear. This is the same design logics that is already present in reconstructing the set gear in its present state (you get it added on one of your characters, can recreate on any of them).

4. As a supplemental option, I would also suggest replacing reconstruction mechanics with separate craft of item and adding a set bonus to it.

To summarize:

Pros of this option:
- problem with crafting stations eating all furnishing slots in house solved;
- voucher economy is intact;
- process of obtaining the set is virtually the same;
- process of crafting set gear is more handy for a player;

Cons:
- to craft a set, you need to add it to your collection first.

@Jthomas56

An excellent question!

The core of my idea in its original state is in adding the sets to the collection, yes - not to a particular set of crafting stations. One player, i.e. a guildmaster, granting a permission to use his sets collection to other player, i.e. his guildmate, would require a whole new mechanics added to the game, and such feature would be a Quality Of Life improvement of the same caliber as a gift system was, because this mechanics can potentially be used to give another player an access to other collectibles (costumes, skins etc.)

And I definitely do agree to have this added to the game, 146% true.

Without implementing such a system, the guildmate player, in addition to learning a necessary amount of traits, will need to obtain a number of vouchers (which can be done by crafting an items for master writ quests at the stations that are directly at the set's location) to add a set he needs to his collections - which would prevent him from access to sets from DLCs he doesn't have.

They could easily create a new sort of transmute like station that works the same way a transmute station does when "re-creating" drop sets, where it just let's you pull up a big chart of all the sets available and what you can craft is not greyed out and you just hit one button after selecting your item and bam - done!