crafting changes

[kiagenwa]

(namely intimidating dragon girl who learnt combat so she could explore dangerous ruins in search of history rather than save the damn world)

I wish we can choose personality for our WoL so our reactions to MSQ events would suit more to our background or make our choices matter (like a different string of events should be made another choice, then go back to common point, diverge, and repeat).
But it would take tons of resources to make it work and not contradicting any lore so it would never be I guess.

On the topic, the shards are there as processing material. i.e. fire+wind needed to do blacksmithing.
So maybe the way that we can do crafting with only the equipment we have is only unique to us?

HQ items elimination would badly affects low level crafters, but at higher level it'd just be a small challenge.