They started down the road of crafting quests but i think they scrapped it as there were much much more important things to work on, so it’s been on the backburner easily since october.
Finishing those crafting quests, rewarding Crafting gear in those quests and giving them Schematics for technically BiS gear that you can equip and wear at lower required levels could bolster the want for crafting.
395 GS Set with Weapon, Armor and Jewelry that you can craft at 50 with a level requirement at 32. (Currently 395 GS = level 38)
450 GS set with Weapon, Armor and Jewelry that you can craft at 100 with a level requirement at 42. (Currently 450 GS = level 59)
525 GS set with Weapon, Armor and Jewelry that you can craft at 150 With Level Requirement at 52.
All 3 perk usable.
Current Requirements at 500 is level 60 so a level 52 can craft the last set and wear it until 200 Armoring when they can craft Voidbent. They should also make Voidbent Weapons and Jewellry. Reward for crafting is always being ahead of the game. Expertise would just be a fundamental thing and getting 200 on your Trade Skills can bypass the 500-600 grind by making usable gear for all classes that are craftable and tradable at 200.
So then, while you’re levelling you can go through these 3 questlines for Armoring, Weaponsmithing, Engineering and Jewelry to acquire these schematics, then farm to make this gear.
My playstile bis is different. I’ve got like 200 625 items and few pvp sets that are not bis and what I would like. I’ve been running same gear almost for pvp for like 6 months it ain’t bis apart from 2 items that cost me a million so we defo need all bis we can get and enjoy playing all weapons the way we like. Easy or not it’s the battles we fight between us that make it interesting so bis pvp gear should be easy to obtain. Pve doesn’t need bis because it’s too easy anyway
I’d love to try a heavy SnS/xx tank support build and compliment it with IG, VG or just plain ol’ spear to debuff and CC, no damage but be a CC/Debuff menace on point, but in order for me to try this out I need a base of around 100k to get the items that aren’t BiS and for it to be truly effective I’d need tons of gold. Shirking Heals/Shirking Fort/Resil
Something like 150 dex, 300 con, maybe even 350 con, idk. the 150 dex to me seems extremely good tied with shirking. Add Trenchent Rend, Shirking Frost and Keen for cooldowns + Rend.
Exactly this! Pvp can turn into finding a build that works for you and you have fun with it + your skill level making a difference. Now I have lights with con to just cover loads of builds but I can’t get the perks I want for each and practice with them to see if I can make them shine. What if I want to do medium or heavy ? Barely anything available.
I have, “general,” Heavy/Medium Chests and helms, so when it comes to medium, i have 2 perkers with a couple 3 perkers in this category with con and 0 skill perks.
for my other builds I Buy/Craft gloves, pants and boots. for 3 builds i have Resil/Freedom chest and Resil/Freedom Helm.
For light I have Resil/Freedom boots, Resil/Shirking fort boots and Resil/Freedom and Freedom/Shirking fort medium chest. Finding the specific piece i need is difficult, but this is the only way to experiment with new builds. Build around generally good pieces. lol.
Please consider OPs opinion as one voice of the many.
Not all think this way. As mentioned on other threads, i am more likely to quit raising gold and pveing just to build another BIS set for a different class in the current system. Because of how difficult it is…
2mill gold for one classes equipment is outrageous…i would be excited pvping or doing mutations in other classes if i can play them effectively in the gear of my choice.
I never craft anymore, i almost never do my dailies because it just doesn’t feel worth it…but i still log on everyday to play the game.
Timegates and crafting are the two most complained about topics next to desync. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this OP opinion is a heavy outlier.
These perk changes, with the inclusion of perk changes and GS changes is an objective good, and this game needs something like that.
After playing on the PTR and farming a few chests, open world bosses and running dungeons and really getting a feel for the RNG, and looking at the craft rolls. I don’t want to play on live anymore.
Why?
Because currently on live, everything that drops is garbage. And everything that gets crafted is garbage. It’s like driving down to the casino. Entire chest run world tour, all salvage. Dungeon run, couple of ok boss drops, rest is garbage.
Drop 20k on some craft rolls, guess what all garbage. Won’t even sell worth the materials.
Like, America levels of garbage into the Ocean salvaging effort here. The fact is people won’t even bother crafting certain stats under the current system because if the roll is bad it’s worthless.
What this system ultimately fostered is not even about who has BiS. It’s about everything we get being garbage, and not useable. At the very minimum this change will allow people to easily gear up in purple two perks that have something other than luck because it was cheap on the TP. Like actual combat perks.
I could rail on this forever, but these changes are very good and make playing the game better. And even makes simple things we do daily more rewarding.
It’s not about “poor people” whining that they want BiS. I’m not going to stoop that low and call you RMT, but i will call you a water Baron. The only reason someone would not want this change is to keep the price high. Instead of rolling with the changes and selling the new pieces and having to compete instead of playing lottery.
No. I don’t need you to tell me a damn thing. Let ME tell you what I will do after I finally get the gear I want! I’ll finally be able to stop wasting endless coin on crafting garbage and go do the pvp I want to do r rather than hitting damn rocks for hours and hours on end to try and ultimately fail at creating a usable piece of equipment.
This. Exactly this. These idiots in here saying it should be lowered are likely in mega companies that own ww/ef and can afford to roll millions in gear every week. Go fk yourself.
I don’t think they have an option here. More people give up on this game daily because of how unrewarding this system is. You save for days or even weeks to get enough mats and gold to buy mats then when you go to craft get nothing but fucked. I can’t count the number of people just in my own company that quit because of this system. You invest months worth of time before you can even have the chance to roll gear (or rmt gold and skip the wait!) with the trophies and insanely rare and stupid and unneeded crafting gear. (Who the hell likes all these sets???) Then after months you get to spend more months basically farming weapon parts because you get nothing but garbage.
This entire system is further exacerbated by the fact that 1 company can subjugate an entire fucking server and drain the entire economy to feed their own crafters which creates a system where you can literally NEVER catch up to them in terms of gear power. I say it myself that gear isn’t everything but it sure is demotivating to know you’re forever second class thanks to the poor design choices by these developers.
I cant find crap on the market for dex because its too risky to roll dex armor. No one will buy cast offs. Armor is rolled con/int/focus/str but not dex. So if I want something I have to craft it myself. Ive tried that numerous times only to end up pissed off that I wasted over 200k worth of materials for garbage salvage.
it ain’t bis apart from 2 items that cost me a million so we defo need all bis we can get and enjoy playing all weapons the way we like. Easy or not it’s the battles we fight between us that make it interesting so bis pvp gear should be easy to obtain. Pve doesn’t need bis because it’s too easy anyway