Guild Wars 2

What game designer thought it would be fun to sit for two and a half minutes watching a stack of junk to be refined into different junk at a crafting station?

gw2 crafting is the fastest and least painful of all the mmo I have played

KittensWithClaws.3097:

What game designer thought it would be fun to sit for two and a half minutes watching a stack of junk to be refined into different junk at a crafting station?

The question is why you refine junk into another kind of junk in the first place?

Who is forcing you to do such a task except yourself?

KittensWithClaws.3097:

What game designer thought it would be fun to sit for two and a half minutes watching a stack of junk to be refined into different junk at a crafting station?

Hence a second monitor and the youtubes……

I’ve heard of this new fangled invention called the forum. You start crafting then you can post remarks on other people’s threads while the crafting does its thing. It’s pretty cool and I highly recomend it.

I’ve also heard of things called “books” and “newspapers” but I’ll need to wiki them to get more information about how they work.

I just hire the neighbor kid to play my game. Easy peezy.

I love gw2 crafting system in general, the speed with which it does it etc, but what they could do, is add another button u can hit while crafting large quantities of mats, that shows you like slide images of gw2 or something like that, so ur not looking at the crafting UI but something a bit more interesting.

Well, you are doing something wrong. I refine my stuff into very sellable objects… But then, I’m 500 in everything.

I can’t stand crafting, in games.

I tool a deep breath and did it, in WoW, when it gave prof bonuses and I felt the game itself was pretty solid; but I just can’t get the impetus up in this game.

A game which I feel has too many other, ongoing, issues.

Crafting, like many other activities in MMO’s, is a time sink. For that matter, MMO’s in and of themselves are time sinks. Boring? Heck, yeah.

I’ve tried the crafting system in every MMO I’ve played except, iirc, Tabula Rasa. They’ve all been boring. The actual act of crafting in most of them is much the same. You click something. In the better ones, the actual crafting takes little time and the materials lists are short, even if some are rare.

The best aspect of GW2 crafting is that if you are making a lot of something, you can pick the number and, as Flesh and Mash say, go do something else. The worst aspect for me is the multiple layers involved (use x of this and y of that to make z; use a and b to make c; use x of d and y of e to make f; then combine g, z, c and f to make what you want).

The OP must not have a lot of experience with MMO crafting. For one thing, Anet created a system where most of your points leveling comes from discovery not creating the same thing over and over. And Anet created a system by where the more you do of something the faster it goes, something you don’t see in most MMOs, in fact, I can’t remember any.

If it really bothers you, OP, tab out and check your email or watch a video. Because it’s not that big a deal for most people. If it were, we’d have seen a lot more about it. This community is not shy.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’ve heard of this new fangled invention called the forum. You start crafting then you can post remarks on other people’s threads while the crafting does its thing. It’s pretty cool and I highly recomend it.

I’ve also heard of things called “books” and “newspapers” but I’ll need to wiki them to get more information about how they work.

No no no, you’re doing it all wrong. You need to tell OP about the invention of the video and websites where it’s like the discovery channel but with humans, lots of heavy petting and no David Attenborough.

This passes the time much faster but can get you in a sticky situation pretty quick!