Consolidated thread of DoH suggestions - post 2.4

[Sibyll]

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That's why I said "new" recipes. As in future recipes added later on. I agree it would be stupid to go back and redo everything.

Similar to how certain Synths say "Hiqh-Quality Unavailable" for housing items or "Aspect: Earth" for certain recipes you could have a designator that says "Cross Class Skills Unavailable" for certain higher level crafts. These crafts would be designed with each specific craft in mind and the specific skills that the specific class has available in mind.

Remember that some of the housing items are balanced around the idea that you can't HQ them and are given absurd progress bars to make PbP be completely required to do them. All of the crafting classes more or less have a theme associated with them: Alchemy is all about CP, Carpentry is about Inner Quiet Stacks, Armorsmith is about taking big chunks out of the progress bar etc. I don't see why it's so difficult to grasp that Alchemy recipes would be balanced around the skills they have available to them, because only an Alchemist can attempt the recipes.

Honestly, I think the system needs a complete overhaul. The crafting system is becoming more and more like a gimmicky WoW crafting system. There are a lot of people that play the game just to craft, and are quite disappointed that SE is treating the crafting system like a time sink for DoW/DoMs rather than as it's own entity. Gearing crafters is becoming arguable more difficult than gearing a DoW/DoM class for all the wrong reasons.

You seem content with crafting being a secondary thought just like most MMOs treat it, I'd like to see it be something more. I'll agree to disagree and leave it at that.