AGS why do you hate crafters?

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First I want to say the game has the most amazing gathering and crafting of any game on the market.

Gathering feels good and is rewarding. Hell the sound of chopping wood is soothing.

Since launch AGS has hated crafters. It is the most unrewarding thing to do in the game and the worst return for your gold. Gold sink doesn’t even come closet to describing the crafting. Gold wasteland is a better suited descriptor.

In the current iteration of the game it is 10x easier to get your BiS Item from either Dungeon drops or PvP reward crates. You get instant 600 GS items with god perks that you actually want.

I have 200 weaponsmith/armoring. I do not wear a single piece of crafted gear. Everything I did all the time and gold I spent was a complete waste lol.

The barriers to even have a SLIM CHANCE of getting what you want via crafting are astronomical.

To level armoring you need 300k Gold. Once you level to 200 you need 150k in trophy’s.

Once you have flushed 450k Down the drain. You now have the pleasure of spending 15k per a roll for a slim fkin chance at anything useful. Most of the time you won’t even get a legendary. Weapon smithing cost are nearly identical. Almost 1 million gold to level up 2 crafting skills for a opportunity to RNG.

This is what causes people to quit playing games not just new world but any game. Not being rewarded for your time and effort.

The golden scarab/stopwatch/shards are a very small bump in the right direction but they are by far not nearly enough.

Now with stopwatch/scarab/shards crafting will cost way more per a item and STILL have Fk you player RNG in it.

You will be able to throw 30k at a single craft and still not be able to craft a 600s item. You have a chance. Then on top of the chance to get 600 gs You have another chance to get the other perk you might want.

You are still talking multiple layers of RNG here that will gate people from crafting. If we spent 100 hours leveling up our trade skills…1 million gold…+20-30k per a craft…We should damn near be able to craft what we want at least 600 gs items.

The future will remain as it is right now if nothing changes.

Crafting is useless and is for silly people to waste their time and money. Spend your time running dungeons or pvping.

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I make 50-60k/day armoring. I’m not going to go into specifics, because I like my mat prices where they’re at… But if you get away from the mindset of “I must craft RNG BiS pieces in order to be rewarded”, crafting can be incredibly lucrative.

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When I got 200 everything I was <1% of people to do so according to steam. I was also able to aquire those trophies you are talking about but back then they were far more expensive. During and after I got up to 2.6 million crafting and refining for crafting. I had to make a company just to store the money. Then decided it’s best to just stock up on thousands of asmo, phoenix, runic etc.

To say crafting is silly is almost embarrising honestly.

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I agree, crafting is very underwhelming. BiS averages about 2m+ to roll currently, but the new golden scarabs will do a lot to make crafting useful again.

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This is the thing a lot of people miss.

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The problem with crafting isn’t that it depends on little luck, it has to be… The problem is that you can be bis without making crafts or buying. The game can drop you the best part of each slot, so there is no logic in crafting.

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