Guild Wars 2

What is the general census on crafting ?

I personally think its well done until endgame , I wish there would have been rare craft able items recipes you can get from dungeons or open world exploring . The corrupted recipes are nice we need a lot more stuff like that in future to keep crafters happy . I dont like the mystic forge at all i would have sooner gave those recipes to crafters to learn n make …

whats your opinions ?

Mystic forge supplies true rarity so there can be a demand for an item… Its frustrating… but without it someone would just mass produce the cool graphic and everything ceases to be and no one will be driven to farm mats to drop into the forge..

They just need to institute a system that after so many attempts by supplying a you lost token that you collect enough tokens to then get what you desire… so you win eventually…

You know like skeeball tickets.. .yeah you need 500 tickets for that really cool item…

children don’t know that 5 dollar toy cost their parent 50bucks in skeeball plays.

Crafting has three purposes, support levelign the character thats learning the skill with gear and exp then end game purpose feeding the forge, and you need it for crafting the legendary of your choise

I love crafting but it does not pay. It is fun and interesting, but they need to seriously revamp it to make it worth the developing effort (it is very well done as far as recipes, “fun” and the looks of icons, especially the food) But it does not pay, and takes entirely too many of everything (which leads to farming and grinding, alas) for stuff, or farming and grinding for gold to pay for stuff.

You are also at a serious disadvantage because your main competitor is the developer, who can, of course, make niftier stuff. The armor class for example, of a tailored item is a full 10 points lower than the armor class of a developer item of the same type, and so what is the point?

I do it because it is interesting to me, kind of like chemistry or physics. I hope someday they will make it worthwhile as a real part of the economy.