Thoughts on Heavensward

[RiceisNice]

Wait, what's wrong with gathering and crafting ? Besides the fact that it's useless for DoW/DoM end game gear ?
Since mechanically, I find the crafting and gathering system to be awesome.

In a nutshell
>In order to do red scrip crafts, you need to do favors to get two types of materials, ten of each.
>The ways favor work, you get a 15 minute buff for a specific area, and you have a random chance to get a concealed node to spawn after emptying a level 60 node. In other words, its 15 minutes of RNG gathering
>>In average, most players would get 3 or 4 items per favor. But you need 10 materials to trade in, so on average, you'd spend 45 minutes on one type of favor to get the amount needed for a trade in.
>>>The above only speaks for one of the two materials that you need ten of...so now you need 10 of the other favor materials. Which would be another 45 minutes on average.
>You trade the above two sets of items in to get mats for one crafting material (ingots, asral lumber, silk, etc). Most body pieces need 3 to 4 of these crafting materials. Offhands need four, mainhands need five. This becomes an incredibly huge timesink and the time ratio for gathering:crafting is incredibly skewed.

Sure you can make it a collaborative effort where yo uget 5 gatherers together, but the matter of fact is, the favors themselves are in essence, a long wrestle with RNG. There's no challenge to it and it can get extremely tedious after 10 minutes. The awful bracket of 15 minutes means you can't reliably go on duty finder to pass the time, and you really can't pause during those 15 minutes. without sacrificing efficiency.

[GabrielK]

Clarification..

Oh, thank you, you mean this new "system" introduced, damn, should've put 2 and 2 together. ><