Thank you for the crafting changes

[Nabiri]

@Nabiri

The list you posted is right...but wrong at the same time. I won't rehash the explanation darkstar gave because it is spot on but I will add this:

That list only applies if you are making everything yourself. That's not the way it is supposed to work. You are supposed to buy this part or that part from the ward, get your friend to make this other piece, and then you sit down with the final mats and make the item. The system allows you to level the crafts and do everything yourself... IF you want to, but most aren't going to do that. If this game had a healthy population, things would work out just as they were intended to do. In fact, in the beginning they did work just this way. It wasn't until people started dropping out of the game that this issue became one.

It was never "wrong" because I only said that there are 37 different types of items in that recipe - which is correct. I never claimed that items further in the recipe couldn't be bought or anything to speed along the process/skip steps. I never even implied that. I actually said that they could be. I was only surprised that a single recipe could contain so many items.

I would have been wrong if I had said, "You absolutely have to collect every item yourself in this game," but I didn't.
I would have been wrong if I claimed that some of the 37 items didn't turn into secondary items in the recipe, but I didn't.
I never claimed or implied any of the things you think I did.

And on another note, who is to say how people are "supposed to" craft? People do many different things. People do what's right for them. What's fun for them. No one has the right to tell someone, "you're playing the game wrong."