Currently to have just a tiny chance of rolling a BiS item you need to invest 150k gold and hundreds of hours of grinding. THEN you are given a key to the casino where you can spin the wheel for 1 in 3600 chance to roll 1 BIS piece. You could play the game for years and never have 1 BiS piece this isnt fun and everyone i know who crafts has stopped. The only people i know who still craft are newly getting max level and trophies to try their spins. Eventually they will find out how bad the RNG casino is with 5-10k each roll and quit crafting too.
Things needed to make crafting feel worth time and effort.
Actually make the roll chance of 595-600 1/6 for 600gs items instead of 1/16 (unconfirmed but definitely isnt 1/6 for legendary rolls)
Change timeless shards to 1-5 craft mods to set an attribute and allow mixed attribute mods
Allow use of legendary weapon parts (fire crystal core, ice crystal core etc) lets you force a 2nd perk. (Will need to introduce parts for jewelry and armor to have a farmable way to craft better items)
Change salvaging to give back 20-35% of the used legendary materials. (My opinion that salvaging in this game is the worst in any MMO I have played in and needs to be fixed)
Make Legendary Timeless Shards pick 2 perks and the attribute at 600gs (Currently 99% of people have never gotten this schematic from caches)
Same here. Most of the people stopped crafting. Only the 2 big companies on my servee do some “crafting event”. And a few madlads.
But otherwise i’ve seen plenty trying to sell their armor/weaponsmith trophies. Most of the players want gold to buy their BIS. But how can the buy their BIS when noone craft and so the trading post is getting emptier and emptier by the day. Most of the BIS sold are not orichalcum crafts, but M10 legendary lucky drop.
Feels bad, man. I’m finally one precision armoring tools away from not having to borrow trophies from my company friends (I’ll own all 3), and I don’t even craft anymore lol. I’m still going to get them all, but definitely a waste of money right now. The cost of these 3 trophies could have bought me a really good amulet or something.
Yep. I personally love the crafting in the game,but the odds of getting the perks is abysmal.
This is why the majority of the player base is still around 600 gs and only the top companies that can often declare wars have 625 gs and all BiS gear.
Is what it is.
wow u actually had a good one!
After 100 rolls i have no BIS at all…best one is GA perk with resilient and thats it.
NEVER crafting again. Absolute waste
iv seen others do it its just sooooooo exceedingly rare
its almost not worth it.
some times i think i should just sell anything i get my grimmy hands on and just buy BIS stuff for 250- 500k instead of wasting my time.
but i wont lie. i do like some of the gambling aspect.
its fun watching companies and people roll stuff and chanting no wammy no wammy no wammy.
but its just far to unfair for the amount of effort that goes into it.
now i wouldnt care nearlly as much if farming for the mats was more trivial.
the second instanced nodes come, materials converters for crafting mods, potentially better timeless shards or a new pvp crafting timeless shards from salt tokens then maybe it could be better and more people can start rolling again.
without at least all of that crafting will still be hot dog water.
I wanted to chime in here as well. Can we use Umbralls in combination with Azoth to increase perks and gearscore when we craft? As it is right now, the gambling doesn’t make it worth crafting anymore, considering the rewards versus effort. It seems like there is immense effort to gather and refine, then craft, only to get a 595 - 599 piece of gear with two stats that aren’t pertinent for what we want to achieve. There is more discontent with the outcome, which makes the initial effort worthless or not worth bothering with. Or, maybe introduce crafting plans that will guarantee a class specific piece of gear with 600 GS, like that Troublemaker 9000 for example.
I find the crafting fun but to do a crafting session of 10-20 pieces it takes me weeks to solo farm it and then gamble away months of materials. If I had unlimited money like the major companies still playing the game it would be a blast. But for now I’ll just log in and do my CDs in the hope something changes.
Thanks for the response, as you can see by this thread and a few others on this topic, 100% of players feel that crafting is not in a good place.
Its unanimous at this point that a QoL improvements is required here. Its not even a maybe lol.
I recognize that there are 1000s of bugs the devs want to address but like the storage fix, crafting fixes will relieve a lot of tension and will greatly increase the desire to participate in that area of the game.
People WANT to craft because its fun but features and results are preventing us from enjoying it.
Is he a crafter? With Developer generated gold? I am a crafter too, major trophies everything. Was it worth? NOT for a split second.
I could have used all that money to buy the Armors i need.
Crafting should either not exist or get fixed.
Scott said he was a crafter in a monthly video update recently.
I am waiting to hear back from Zelme on who the head of crafting is for New World and see what they have to say before I log back on again.
Being a master crafter is one of the reasons a lot of people play these sorts of games and if they aren’t going to fix/address it I will just stop playing and log in and try the expansions when they release
Id at least love to hear what their plan is. Then I would probably log in and do my dailies at the very least but right now I am kinda over it
