Alpha First Look: Video 6 – Gathering and Crafting

[Radacci]

I don't like to be spoon fed content. Maybe you do. They replaced gathering with a no skill vending machine. I guess that's fun...

ya being spoonfed stuff you dont like is much better, just for the sake of feeling special?
you're still gonna need to grind up your class level, and fail to gather a lot. so you're overdramatizing things.
It didnt need any skill before, you just needed to know what nodes dropped what, and where to chop. but if making a simple timed chop is skill to you...well good for you that you enjoyed that.
Actually it was easier before, since you ALWAYS got something if you knew where to chop. now it's X% chance, so you'll always risk not getting anything.

[Delsus]

Just hope that SE decides to ignore this little slip up, or else you're getting the boot.

No one has told me how saying your in the test is SE propitiatory information yet, explain to me how that is the case and I will shut up about it.

[Orophin]

Not enough whining in this thread yet. The other video threads had way more complaining, let's try to keep things up to standard.

On topic, I like what I'm seeing with gathering. My inventory filled up items I didn't want half of the time, so it's good to be able to narrow down items you'd actually want to gather, whether it's to sell or to use yourself. It looks like the Triangulate ability shows all nearby gathering nodes, and when he used Arbor Call, it searched out the highest grade node in the area, even though it wasn't on his immediate minimap. The XP chains seem like a nice addition too.

As far as the mini-game going away, I could really care less. It seemed more like one of those early measures implemented to combat RMT as far as I'm concerned, and I eventually memorized where each thing was anyway, so it's kind of a moot point to have it.

For crafting, the recipe book is a GREAT addition. Based on the character they showed crafting, it looks like by level 9 you have two abilities for crafting already, one that raises quality and another that restores some of your CP. Durability is no longer 100 on every item and it seems the durability varies between the items they picked to craft. It also looks like the durability goes down by a static amount of 10 each time. I also like the completion log they were showing by checking off the recipes they've already made. I imagine completing my crafting logs for all my crafts will be something to pass some time.

Anyway, I'm happy with what I'm seeing for gathering and crafting overall. It looks way more accessible and faster paced now.

[Radacci]

Just hope that SE decides to ignore this little slip up, or else you're getting the boot.

i doubt it. it wouldnt be good for their testing plans to test server stability, if they banned everyone who even mention being in alpha...

[Delsus]

i doubt it. it wouldnt be good for their testing plans to test server stability, if they banned everyone who even mention being in alpha...

They do ban for NDA breaches, and take it very seriously, but no one can tell me how mentioning you're in alpha is a breach of the NDA, it's never mentioned.

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Made it easy for you all, here is the entirety of the NDA, how in any way does it say people cannot say they are in the NDA?

[Radacci]

Not enough whining in this thread yet. The other video threads had way more complaining, let's try to keep things up to standard.

On topic, I like what I'm seeing with gathering. My inventory filled up items I didn't want half of thetime, so it's good to be able to narrow down items you'd actually want to gather, whether it's to sell or to use yourself. It looks like the Triangulate ability shows all nearby gathering nodes, and when he used Arbor Call, it searched out the highest grade node in the area, even though it wasn't on his immediate minimap. The XP chains seem like a nice addition too.

As far as the mini-game going away, I could really care less. It seemed more like one of those early measures implemented to combat RMT as far as I'm concerned, and I eventually memorized where each thing was anyway, so it's kind of a moot point to have it.

For crafting, the recipe book is a GREAT addition. Based on the character they showed crafting, it looks like by level 9 you have two abilities for crafting already, one that raises quality and another that restores some of your CP. Durability is no longer 100 on every item and it seems the durability varies between the items they picked to craft. It also looks like the durability goes down by a static amount of 10 each time. I also like the completion log they were showing by checking off the recipes they've already made. I imagine completing my crafting logs for all my crafts will be something to pass some time.

Anyway, I'm happy with what I'm seeing for gathering and crafting overall. It looks way more accessible and faster paced now.

ya especially since inv is much smaller now too. it would be horrible to get random loots clogging up inv all the time.

[Twiddle]

I don't like to be spoon fed content. Maybe you do. They replaced gathering with a no skill vending machine. I guess that's fun...

How exactly are you linking inconvenience with skill? 1.0 is NO different then the video. Except the theory craft and speculation is no longer needed...

You see you NQ gathering result %
And under it is the HQ gathering result %
So you know if you gear is helping you, holding you back and so on and so forth...

[Radacci]

They do ban for NDA breaches, and take it very seriously, but no one can tell me how mentioning you're in alpha is a breach of the NDA, it's never mentioned.



Made it easy for you all, here is the entirety of the NDA, how in any way does it say people cannot say they are in the NDA?

Oh i know they ban ppl for posting pics and videos etc, that isn't official info yet. but yah, not for simply saying you're in alpha, that would be odd.

[Tempestmoon]

As far as picking what you are going for on the list and failing and getting nothing... Where does it show/say in the video that you get nothing? I didn't see him fail any of his attempts in the video. Maybe you get nothing, maybe you get a random item. Has the Dev team confirmed either way? I don't know, so I am asking

[Radacci]

As far as picking what you are going for on the list and failing and getting nothing... Where does it show/say in the video that you get nothing? I didn't see him fail any of his attempts in the video. Maybe you get nothing, maybe you get a random item. Has the Dev team confirmed either way? I don't know, so I am asking

ya maybe you get random item from failing synthesizing too ;D
No but he did miss getting a wind shard, and it says : you got nothing