Creation Magic and Summoning

[Cleretic]

Everything indicates that crafting is largely a mundane process and outside of the use of elemental crystal and perhaps certain applications no actual magic is at play.

Use of catalysts as a means of overcoming arcane limitations was definitely a thing both in ancient times and the present, though.

Yeah, anyone who says the crafting classes are using creation magic of any kind are just proving how they didn't actually pay attention to the crafting storylines, and are giving what was basically a joke sidequest more weight than all of them. Every single crafting story actually explains that the most magic we're doing is stuff like using fire crystals to heat things up, or wind crystals to aid in cutting motions.

Hell, Leatherworker's stories just wouldn't work on a basic level if it turns out we were doing creation magic. Their stories are focused on calling out shoddy workmanship, producing mid-cost goods, and taxidermy; none of those really swing if it turns out every leatherworker is just some variety of wizard.

[Layte_Aeon]

Yeah, anyone who says the crafting classes are using creation magic of any kind are just proving how they didn't actually pay attention to the crafting storylines, and are giving what was basically a joke sidequest more weight than all of them. Every single crafting story actually explains that the most magic we're doing is stuff like using fire crystals to heat things up, or wind crystals to aid in cutting motions.

Hell, Leatherworker's stories just wouldn't work on a basic level if it turns out we were doing creation magic. Their stories are focused on calling out shoddy workmanship, producing mid-cost goods, and taxidermy; none of those really swing if it turns out every leatherworker is just some variety of wizard.

Well it's not creation magic but lorewise the method of crafting we use is synthesis, using the energy of crystals to perform the work you'd usually do in a fraction of the time. However it still requires that the crafter know what they're doing and be able to do it. Also it requires crystals and the general populace doesn't quite have the same access to crystals that we do.

[Absimiliard]

I see some people didn't actually read the quest text as they leveled their crafters if they're just dismissing out of hand the multitude of indicators present through out all of the DoH questlines. There's far more than one "joke" questline.