5.1 Crafting Feedback Thread

[Jojoya]

If need to rub your accomplishments in the face of others to feel proud of them..then yes you won't get through crafting anymore.

Then why is SE introducing Expert Recipes and Skysteel Tools? Why aren't they sticking to what they'd done the past 2 expansions?

Skysteel Tools sound very much like a way to rub your accomplishments in the face of others. From what SE has said, normal crafters are unlikely to complete the more advanced stages of the tools though we won't know this for certain until they're added to the game and we can start getting into the system.

If true, you're going to have to put up with the hardcore crafters waving their shiny tools in your face.

The vastly inflated MB prices Pre-5.1 was disruptive. You want anything at all, a crafted tool, armor, weapon, you pay tooth and nail for it. 100k, 150k, 200k+ it was simply ridiculous.

Prices at the start of any expansion in any MMO are always inflated. Fewer players have leveled to cap. Fewer players have geared up. Fewer players have had a chance to get a good stockpile of mats collected. You've got fewer players capable of meeting the demand for crafted goods. They have to spend more of their time trying to keep up with demand, and that's time they can't be doing other things they'd also like to do.

It's not disruptive. It's normal.

Considering vendor prices for NQ gear are already into the 40k range, 100-150k for a player crafted HQ item is not outrageous. These items don't magically appear out of thin air unlike the vendor items. It takes time to gather materials. Time to craft the intermediate step materials. Time to make the final item. This isn't WoW's 5 second crafting system.

You want the nicer item that requires someone else's time investment to create, then it's only reasonable that you pay for the other person's time.

Or do it yourself. I doubt you'd be complaining as much about what others charge if you were the one investing the time making the item.

There's always one last option. Go without.