The crafting grind

[Snolily]

Check out Kalifas Artexas crafting ideas, he mentioned in one of his posts about a couple of crafting games that would be fun, one of them was based off of Guy's grocery games, if you haven't seen that show you definitely should to see what he's talking about. Doesn't necessarily have to be with just cooking. Anyways my fiance and I have been grinding all the crafts to 50 and the most tedious thing I've noticed is farming farming farming crystals(shards) like 3 days in a row for me at a time. Also as you get higher you have to go out and farm this and farm that etc.... But with the GP it goes down real quick and takes forever to fill back up. When I need to use actions to help with crafting and then i'm waiting very slowly for it to regain again that is tedious in itself.

[Mature]

I think is a bad idea involving red scrips to make 2stars lvl60 gear. Because the grind is collosal and you are only limited to some per week. Something that not even artisan stuff went thru!

Blue scrip should be part of making high lvl gear and not red scrips. If we looking for a quick solution.

The other solution is to make reset red scrips daily. Like ixali quests for ehcanti stuff. So that MB can flow. Right now is a right nightmare if you ask me.

[Adrasteia]

They should also probably just replace Byregot's Brow with Byregot's Blessing across every class and give Carpenters something different. Making Reclaim baseline would help a ton, too. Having to pump out an extra 5-10 collectables every week because Hasty Touch decided to give you the finger five times in a row and you didn't have Reclaim isn't a good deal, to be honest. It'd make it easier for someone to just pick up a single crafting class and go after red scrips without having to do so much leveling for other crafting classes.

[Train88]

If i ever attempt red scripts again, i'll make a note to use reclaim for failed ones. Currently spinning my wheels though, i don't know how long this will last.

[FoxyAreku]

If i ever attempt red scripts again, i'll make a note to use reclaim for failed ones. Currently spinning my wheels though, i don't know how long this will last.

I'm still so confused as to how anyone could fail the crafts that get selected for red scrips, do you need rotation help? I could offer some pointers.

[Adrasteia]

I'm still so confused as to how anyone could fail the crafts that get selected for red scrips, do you need rotation help? I could offer some pointers.

It's easy if one or more of the following is true:

1) You don't have Byregot's.
2) You don't have HQ materials.
3) You don't have HQ level 60 gear.
3) You get multiple Hasty Touch failures. With no melds, full HQ gear, no HQ components, and HQ Onion Soup, I can miss about three Hasty Touches total before I slip under the 4000 collectability threshhold. (I think 3 missed puts me at about 4049~ collectability or thereabouts).

[FoxyAreku]

It's easy if one or more of the following is true:

1) You don't have Byregot's.
2) You don't have HQ materials.
3) You don't have HQ level 60 gear.
3) You get multiple Hasty Touch failures. With no melds, full HQ gear, no HQ components, and HQ Onion Soup, I can miss about three Hasty Touches total before I slip under the 4000 collectability threshhold. (I think 3 missed puts me at about 4049~ collectability or thereabouts).

Well yeah but for the 1 and 3 you shouldn't be worrying about red scrips in the first place until you fix that. >.>
It's just I'm able to do all the red scrip turn ins really easily even on classes that are wearing nothing but level 60 gear unmelded with no HQ materials in the synth. It's just kinda baffling, maybe they don't have byregot's blessing or gear though.

[Adrasteia]

Well yeah but for the 1 and 3 you shouldn't be worrying about red scrips in the first place until you fix that. >.>
It's just I'm able to do all the red scrip turn ins really easily even on classes that are wearing nothing but level 60 gear unmelded with no HQ materials in the synth. It's just kinda baffling, maybe they don't have byregot's blessing or gear though.

I mean... even with the above-mentioned conditions, I still am reliant on Quick Synthesis to actually get to the threshhold, and that 80% failure rate starts to add up fast. It's by no means easy, even if you're crazy enough to get CRP up to 50 and have enough money to afford HQ right out of the gate.

[Train88]

I'm wondering though, put yourself in the dev shoes, what would you ask them to do about 2 star crafting?

For sure i would like crafting to keep up with the new raid gear. That or make interesting glamors like the augmented sets. A point for whatever grind they put us through. Right now you're not even rewarded with crafting gear as you need the gear to make it. If i wanted money i'd be selling leveling gear like someone else said.

Right now the most expensive red script item is 26 tokens and the cheapest is 7. I see 2 possibilities here: Either change the token cost from 50 script to 40 script making costs 1300 -> 1040 and 350 -> 280, or reduce the number of tokens needed for the most expensive item or two. like maybe 20 tokens for the weapon making it 1000 red scripts. There is also the foil to make so it would still be difficult, just less time consuming. It would also be more forgiving on failed attempts.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

The conterfoil really aren't difficult though. if you get all HQ items, that gives you 4000 of the 5900 collectability you need for it, it would be hard to NOT be able to get an extra 1900 quality through touches.