Runestone watch useless

[TheUndeadDestroyer]

As far as I was aware from devs videos and from all the hyped online and in game, the runestone watch was supposed to allow you to craft any weapon or armour that is not named with 598 - 600 GS.

Apon attempting to craft some stuff I find out that it is only for con gear and weapons. It Only allows the con stat. So the hype was for nothing. Only tanks really get any use from this but tanks didn’t need the advantage. 595-600 was fair play across the board but now only con items get an advantage.

What is the point of this ?

As far as the devs said it was for all stats you could choose and as far as the devs said it’s all stats but NOT including con. In live game it’s the opposite it’s only con.

Is this just a mess up ? Or a really badly planned advantage for tanks ?

[ComfortablyNumb]

There have been a few threads over the ptr period asking for other options besides con. It was always only con.

@Agreon

I think that the addition of the Runestone Stopwatch in the PTR is a great move by the devs to make crafting more accessible. For those that don’t know what Runestone Stopwatches do, they are a crafting component that provide +3 to the min and max of a craft roll, which lets maxed out crafters hit 598-600 Gear Score on crafted items.

However, crafts using the Runestone Stopwatch can only be done with Con at the moment. This limits their usefulness, especially for builds that run low Con. Can the devs confirm if they will be adding more attribute options to Runestone Stopwatches before the July release? Thanks for all of your hard work!

[VengeanceAE]

Considering con was (and is) the most widely crafted attribute on gear, I don’t see why this is something that makes it “useless”. Aside from the 5 con crowd, everyone can accommodate 1 piece of con gear. And even if you can’t use the gear yourself, if you can craft 595-600 normally, you can use these to craft items to sell, which is important. I like the fact that I don’t have to go buying more Guardsman insignias and I have 2x greater chance at getting a legendary item.

[TheUndeadDestroyer]

Yh it is nice just to sell but it should be for all attributes not just con. Now the market could get flooded with con gear and not other attributes which may also raise the price of other attributes gear and lower the price for con gear. It’s a proper sucky move what they have done. Definitely should be changed to include all attributes.
Also now tanks who mainly use con gear can make their BIS gear a lot easier and faster than any others.devs on a few mmo’s including new world have said about keeping everything fair. This certainly is not fair