Crafting = Impossible to Guage

[thefinalrune]

I'm all to familiar with this myself. As a THF I have a fairly constant need for status bolts for my standard play style but since the crafter fallout there has literally been almost no availability of these bolts any more. So, reluctantly I've had to take to crafting myself to skill up to where I can finally make my own bolts. The only sad part is between the limited availability of supplies and other crafters, I need to both farm up 90%+ of my supplies and level various other crafts as well since all the materials I need to craft bolts with are also not being made any more.

Not to mention that on the rare chance someone actually puts a quiver of bolts on sale these days the cost has practically tripled from where it was at this time last year.

Honestly, what I'd love to see is SE offering a vast number of the 10-50 level ranges of weapon and armor items via vendors at more reasonable prices. Not that vendor prices have ever been reasonable after the level 10-11 gear anyway.

[Sylvane]

Honestly, what I'd love to see is SE offering a vast number of the 10-50 level ranges of weapon and armor items via vendors at more reasonable prices. Not that vendor prices have ever been reasonable after the level 10-11 gear anyway.

The only problem with this is that it does very little to solve the problem with crafting. More than anything it would make crafting MORE pointless. What needs to be done is to have materials available at vendors that is more cost efficient for players to craft gear from. A large portion of crafted materials are pointless to make in the first place, and the ones that are worth making, aren't worth the time/effort to put into getting materials to make. Especially when you end up selling them for less than the raw materials are worth. If materials were readily available at a decent price, some things might be worth crafting again. Selling more gear at lower prices only undermines the crafting system more than it already has been.