Crafting now a Waste??? -GM's care to share?

[stairbuilder1]

I have only been playing for a few months, but it doesn't take a genius to see how several of the changes they have made in the last few patches and also in the special events are aimed fully and totally at taking away easy ways to make gold. Doesn't surprise me as this is the trend for most businesses these days. What they don't seem to understand that people that play and don't spend a whole lot of real $$ bring in people that do. In the last 2 months I have seen so many people give up on allods and quit because of these changes. Not good for business, imo.

and ofc I am a bit ticked about the changes to alch/herb. I spent a lot of gold lvling my alch and now you can lvl them with gathering...iso of a refund of my gold, lol.

I would also really like to see changes that would allow us to make end game gear with crafting

[kraftycheese]

I would also really like to see changes that would allow us to make end game gear with crafting

You used to be able to but it seems like developers just forgot about professions at some point. Once the level cap increased from 42 to 45, the "end game" items you could craft were no longer worth it. The only thing you could make money off of was that god forsaken leather chest piece that Imperials need for a Gipat quest.

[lowrads]

Crafting does drive gpot expenditure because crafting takes up ungodly amounts of inventory space. Mats don't even stack past twenty, which is sometimes not even enough for crafting more than one item. I've had mailbags go to more than fifty pages on crafting mats alone.

I think disassemblers have it worst because of the bounding effect, and because AH fees are murder on secondary markets. If they had the ability to buy, but not sell, bound items, it would be a big improvement. What are they supposed to do? Harass their own guildies endlessly and stand next to npcs to spam offers to buy leather and cloth at +50%? In game trading tools are so bad that it seems like there would be a lot of appeal for some kind of out of game app.

I would have thought a 50% penalty from npcs was adequately stiff to spur a little greed, but markets are troublesome to get to, and markups from AH agents can quickly eclipse that. Perhaps there should be designated crafting areas where people will naturally become congregated, and where other players can expect to go and have a decent chance of doing a bit of barter without drowning the whole sector in spam. Maybe crafters could be tied to npc anvils or looms. Maybe animal npcs could drop skins and humanoids drop cloth instead of eyeballs.

Likewise, crafters need to make items with stats as varied as those offered by quartermasters. Item improvement would also be a big draw.

[chromeplate]

I came here to see what the deal with crafting in Allods is, as a new player. This is some depressing stuff, y'all.

[eliserenity]

I came here to see what the deal with crafting in Allods is, as a new player. This is some depressing stuff, y'all.

This^

I've been a die hard crafter since Ultima Online. I just installed Allods since the crafting system in Forsaken World is all but broken.

I am grateful for this post. I won't waste time here now and will uninstall.

[hbkushkaz]

Don't worry,guys.I play on ru server and we got that problem solved - now you can craft not just ordinary gear,but also astral gear and upgrading items.So just wait like a month or so and you'll get rewarded

[dasupascouty]

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[dasupascouty]

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[Gspud1903]

So there is some hope for crafting?