Thoughts on Crafting

The last blog was very interesting because of the mention of crafters making a name for themselves

Personally i hate crafting but support a great system for those who enjoy it.

I hope that with making a name they are gonna do a bit more then wow.. like crafted by...... (insert name)

I think it depends on the community a great deal how crafting is gonna turn out.

Or a very very low chance to crit on items making them epic..

Then a global billboard goes out saying '{insert name here} has made this {insert epic loot here}'

Then wait for the mass amount of tells.

That would be cool.
Maybe we could make items for pvp too.
(i.e cannons, shields,)

A crit chance on crafting...... how epic...

talking about epic I heard a good mmo nerd joke.. and for the love of going offtopic.

Quote: Simon (a friend of mine)

"Women come and go, but Epics are bound when picked up!"

Im naming my toon "In China"
That way it always will say Made In China

Thanks Darka, I was in a very bad mood at work today. But those 15 words you wrote down brought a smile back on my face.

That is an epic name for a crafter.

Ill start my crafting when i reach max adventuring level.

I'll probably start crafting right away, that way, I'll be able to buy so much crap so I can soar the higher levels later on.

It'd be good if we get some people who enjoy crafting to start right away since we will probably have mare than enough people collecting mats as they go, once we know what they are, that way we can have some high level crafters as we approach the end game content.

Darka wrote:Im naming my toon "In China"
That way it always will say Made In China

Won't it say made by In China?

Name your character A Bag of Giblets or The Overmind.

Also, 'A useless NPC' would work. "You killed a useless NPC" "A useless NPC destroyed your base!"

I loled xD

As far as crafting goes, I'm guessing that they're going to loosely mimic WoW's profession system. If that's the case, then, well, I'll just be a lazy crafter, haha. If its a new system however, then I guess it'll be worth our time to find exploits efficient crafting methods within the system.

If they do the same thing that WoW did with professions, I will be very disappointed. I'm hoping they come up with some new, or at least interesting system that doesn't get boring after you make your first three items. I am sure that someone somewhere will come up with a better way to craft than hitting a button marked 'create all' and leaving for three hours while you make ten-thousand blaster rifles.

I've only played SWG, but I thought they had a pretty good system there. I doubt TOR will have a very in depth crafting system.

I think crafting needs to be more fleshed out...especially more than WOW has. I think it needs to involve materials that can be easily accessable, though accessability will become rarer as you gain experience in it. Since I am the avid crafter on WOW that I am, having the same animation for everything over and over again can get fairly boring...spice it up a bit.

Vanilla wow's crafting was good, that high end items were crafted. Last time i played wow, crafting was for that extra little boost to your raiding toon and not much else (except maybe for making potions). LOTRO has a crit roll on crafting, but since expansions and this crit rate rose, it is not as special to crit any more. From my crafting experience I get the feeling it is better to be a collector and sell mats and buy the few crafted items you need. Or even better, it seems all guilds have a few dedicated crafters and you can feed them mats to get your supplies. Those dedicated crafters get big hugs from me.

I'll definitely give crafting a go.

the crafting on SWG was much better than anything else but I think this had a lot to do witht the cities as you could craft and sell with no issues in your own citioes

This just in!
We may not have to go through the grind of gathering and mob humping to do crafting!
Check this interview out. He manages to get really close to a direct description of the crafting system. In this interview he alludes to the process being more heroic and moving away from the farming tradition... what could this new saxy process be ^.^
http://angryjoeshow.com/2010/06/swtor-interview/

Kinda boisterus, and a little annoying but really fun to watch.

Ok nutshell interview:
Q: What will crafting be like? We know crafting is like having a recipe for an item, then gathering the things to make the item, and then going to a place and making the item. How is TOR implementing this process.
A: We believe the crafting system should be more heroic, as Han Solo would not go become a moister farmer [to craft items for his Millennium falcon] they are using a new crafting system that uses a new mechanic for getting the resources.

There will be recipes but they did not comment further on the actual process just that the crafting system will be unlike any in existence in the manner of gathering and preparing recipes for development. In this I believe it will be more akin to a real market where you can purchase or acquire specific ingredients off a market structure and craft from there. It may also be level dependent to a degree because he heavily implied how level progression and armor sets unlock certain abilities/powers ect.

Yet as it stands this will be a fully epic game, not like any seen on the market today ^.^ this makes my crafting meter stand at maximum curiosity as I await the next quarters announcements. >.< I'm so excited I could pee if i was not a cyborg!

Also a highlight of this interview was the fact of the group mission player dialog choice. In this each player will be able to select a flavor text way to respond to dialog and for the most part its whom ever has the best 'roll' wins. Now rolls are impacted by armor choice (sets give bonuses) and character level and attributes (plus some undisclosed modifiers I am certain) and this contributes to all players in one group choosing an answer and the one whom wins the roll answering the question.
Now for Life or Death questions and answers the majority wins, which will help a lot if you PUG and some douche wants to try and spoil your fun, just remember keep majority in group and stay on Team Speak to keep everyone on the same page or someone is going to get killed in game lolz.

hmm interesting....whatever crafting version we have, I think that people gathering mats should be able to sell their mats to the guild (maybe at a guildies discount).

Hahaha that guy cracks me up.
Can't wait, sounds like crafting is going to be made to help your character more so than selling the things you make. Unless it's your old equipment? Idk just a guess