Thread: 5.1 Crafting Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Jojoya

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.


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.

Skytools are crafter versions of Relic weapons. Relic weapons have never at any point impressed me figured out really fast the massive grind is not worth the reward. A dent to the ego when you bust your rear for a weapon just to see someone carrying something almost equal but requires less effort to obtain. Example Tome weapons vs savage weapons As for Expert recipes they rely on a new proc, Soon as theory crafters figure out the system everyone will be doing them. Agree with you on the MB part, One of reasons I craft not fond of paying others for things I can do myself and also enjoy doing.


p.s Putting win10 on my computer tomorrow. May computer nerds everywhere be on my side..lol