Quote Originally Posted by Harly View Post
Finally, WHY WHY, WHY are the base materials for certain items at a higher crafting level than the item they combine to make. Of all the tings wrong with the crafting system this is the most discouraging.
This is because it takes WAAAY more skill to forge a Longsword blade than it takes to put a longsword together ......
I think they are making the crafting system WAY too realistic. Have you noticed that just about every recipe in the game is a real life recipe? I have... It just has an unrealistic method to use realistic materials in these realistic recipes. Whoever was behind the Synthesis concepts in the old team sucked at fantasy lol.