Can we make crafting more USEFUL....?

[Ziggyzapps]

Kinda sad they didn't add any battle gear as well... we're basically just crafting crafter gear so that we have better gear to craft more crafter gear...it's kinda redundant. Sure we are preparing for 3 star but some of us won't even be interested in playing when that patch drops.

[Zojha]

[...] we're basically just crafting crafter gear so that we have better gear to craft more crafter gear...it's kinda redundant.

Battle content at endgame revolves entirely around getting better battle gear to tackle content with higher iLvL restrictions to get better battle gear out of it so you can then do the battle content you got the gear from more easily until the next even patch where you get to do more battle content for even better battle gear. That and farming gear with inferior stats for glamour.

If that works fine for battle content and not for crafting content, maybe the deeper issue lies in the design of crafting content and not the redundancy of the system.

[Ksenia]

*snip* maybe the deeper issue lies in the design of crafting content and not the redundancy of the system.

The deeper issue might be that it's all a gear grind, treadmill and that's an issue with all MMO's and it's the core to burn out and apathy issues that all MMO's face. Both battle and crafting has seen most players skip intervals of the gear grind treadmill because they have done it 15 times. (How many people CBA to meld for the last phase knowing they would get this new 2 star?) I'm still just going to wait and see what augmented blue looks like. "Been there, done that". It's true for most aspects of the game.