Originally Posted by
TattersailNightwish
I have a question - I played wayyy back when ARR launched (anyone remember how AWFUL those first two weeks were? You would have to wait in a queue for HOURS and then once in, some people would stay in-game all day just so they didn't have to wait to get in later on? But I digress).
As I said I played from launch, for about six months or so. I just started over from scratch about six months ago, and am loving it.
But my memory may be failing. Correct me if I'm wrong but originally didn't you HAVE to go to crafters to meld something (there were no melding NPC's at the time)? I seem to remember a lot more shouts of, "LOOKING FOR A GSM FOR A FEW MELDS!!", etc.
So these melding NPC's were added in at some point - was there any reason given at the time? Maybe just that having to always look for a crafter to meld was a PITA, so they factored that out?