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Kristal
06-10-2011, 05:28 PM
Woodworkers can buy a key item called Bolt Maker from the woodworking guild.
This key item allows woodworkers to craft a full stack of bolts in one synth by using 3 times the materials and a bundling twine. However, the level of most bolt recipes is so low, the crafter will often get HQs. HQs that are wasted, since the NQ result already gives 99 bolts, the maximum. Had the crafter not used bolt maker and crafted 3 times, he'd like have 297 bolts, rather then 99 bolts.

Since even low level crafters will get HQs occasionally, this means the crafter will always lose out when using recipes with this key item...

So I would suggest to change the result of boltmaker recipes from 99 bolts to 1 bolt quiver, with 2/3/4 quivers as HQ result. (The only Bolt Maker recipe that does not have a quiver is the Black Bolt, so a Black Bolt Quiver item will have to be added.)
Daniel_Hatcher
06-11-2011, 10:07 AM
If they did it then they defintely should auto-quiver them, just do like Synergy. 99-297
Godofgods
06-11-2011, 07:32 PM
It is true. While the idea behind Boltmaker, and probably other KI's like it, was well intended and a good idea at that; Its never used by anyone because you lose out on any HQ chance. If a person is going to take the time to gather all the mets for this, plus having leveled their craft, their goign to go for getting the msot outa the synth as they can. Anyone that would gather everything together and use boltmaker, would be better off jsut buying on the ah in many cases.

Adjusting this in a way to allow HQ results to come through would be of benefits to any crafter. It might even help (a little) enecourage people to craft items liek this. (Since crafting 99 boltheads 1 at a time, takes alot of time)

And just for the hell of it, since we have boltmaker, how about arrowmaker :D
Tsukino_Kaji
06-18-2011, 06:02 AM
People wasted thier time on that KI? You do not have my sympathy.
Kristal
06-22-2011, 05:28 PM
People wasted thier time on that KI? You do not have my sympathy.

It was only 10k guild points. And I had the hope that one day SE devs would realize this key item is junk and fix it.
Maybe their trained monkeys need bananas to be motivated to fix it?
Tsukino_Kaji
06-22-2011, 07:48 PM
No besause they think things like storing AF weapons is something that needed to be worked on instead.