Crafting Needs a Place in Endgame Raiding

[Teykos]

Either way.. someone suggested earlier (it may have ever been you) a system similar to what we have for melding. Where you can commission someone to make something for you using mats in your inventory. Those mats could certainly be attained either by tome buying or raiding, and wouldn't be tradeable.. so the person getting it would -have- to have done the content. There are solutions that could work, and obviously not everything is perfect.. but there are a few with fingers in their ears that just seem to hate crafting in general.

I threw in the thought, because I read her suggestion as having untradeable raid-only components, which is worthless if the item is intended for crafting gear and the raider is not also a crafter. That just brings up the pointless argument of "I shouldn't have to raid in order to craft" into this game, which it really does not need.

[Sunarie]

I threw in the thought, because I read her suggestion as having untradeable raid-only components, which is worthless if the item is intended for crafting gear and the raider is not also a crafter. That just brings up the pointless argument of "I shouldn't have to raid in order to craft" into this game, which it really does not need.

Right, or people claiming they have to craft in order to have BiS stuff. Your solution fixes both of those. The untradeable bit is still something I personally wouldn't mind and was more at all the people shouting crafters are greedy and crap. I could care less about making money, I haven't really used my crafting in that way at all.. and I am very often the poorest person in my FC. I do care that I spent the time and energy to get all of it to 50, and it's essentially worthless to my FC now save for crafting food and potions.