I am relatively new, and I was pretty excited about the addition of musical instruments. I login during lunch today then look into what was required to craft instruments. It requires progressing to level 50 in furniture. I don’t have a house yet, and have been neglecting furniture in favor of the other crafting skills.
To progress in furniture, the level 0 recipes require a tier 5 “Pure Solvent” for the ash stain. Either the component is rare or new as I do not have any. So I cannot craft a single thing to start out, which seems like poor design to me. Wood and iron sure, but seems strange.
Also, IMO, crafting is a level 60 man’s game. I didn’t level up any of my crafting tradeskills until I started having the monetary flow to enable me to do so.
Ok. I’ve been playing it for the crafting aspect mostly and ignoring the leveling for most part. Trying to be self-sufficient. I gather all my own mats, while doing a quest/faction run. Rinse and repeat.
I’m not sure if I read the release notes correctly, but I think you can salvage lower solvent tiers into pure solvent now. Try it on one or two of the lower solvents and see if it is true.
I did a low level supply crate run and got like 60 pure solvents out of it. Crafted the 300-gear level instruments, except the guitar which i got from initial quest.