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Nakilos · 06-15-2006, 09:50 AM

I like and dislike the tradeskill changes. While it was annoying to be unable to harvest trivial nodes (good change), the getting a large volume per node I don't think was too smart. It complements the current system, but it will have an effect on market prices I am sure for every tradeskill made item. Also they increased the rate rares are harvested if you are higher skill, by exactly how much I am not sure, but I expect those items to be much cheaper. I like and dislike the no sub combines thing too. As an alchemist, the bulk of my exp was making inks. I would make 120 or so for the first 5 levels of a tier and use the rest to make app4s and getting large sums of first time exp. Now I'll just have to grind out massive piles of app4 scrolls. Not that app4 was worth much anyway, but the volume will be an inventory hose when I make them. I guess we'll see the effect of the mass harvestables on market prices, but I expect everything to have very little value due to the commonality now.

The worst thing about doing tradeskills in this game is definately the UI, that UI summed it up rather well. Its next to impossible to sort by specific categories of items you want to make to cut down on clutter (I can have it just list scroll recipes, but I can't find a way to list poisons or potions only for example). Also most people just don't know how exactly the whack a mole game works, and its just not well explained at all.

It seems they are trying to go the WoW route of making tradeskills something everyone does because its pretty easy to do rather than allowing people to pick to be craftspersons or adventurers. I met many people who rarely go exp at all and only take orders on items all day, and the rarity of those people allowed them to have a unique place in the world, and I expect pretty much anyone who had an aversion to tradeskills to now max them out for the assorted quests which require them at high levels, removing that uniqueness.

Or I could be totally wrong about everything, and tradeskills will be fine. Who knows.

06-15-2006, 09:50 AM	#47 (permalink)
Nakilos Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,591 -1 Internets	I like and dislike the tradeskill changes. While it was annoying to be unable to harvest trivial nodes (good change), the getting a large volume per node I don't think was too smart. It complements the current system, but it will have an effect on market prices I am sure for every tradeskill made item. Also they increased the rate rares are harvested if you are higher skill, by exactly how much I am not sure, but I expect those items to be much cheaper. I like and dislike the no sub combines thing too. As an alchemist, the bulk of my exp was making inks. I would make 120 or so for the first 5 levels of a tier and use the rest to make app4s and getting large sums of first time exp. Now I'll just have to grind out massive piles of app4 scrolls. Not that app4 was worth much anyway, but the volume will be an inventory hose when I make them. I guess we'll see the effect of the mass harvestables on market prices, but I expect everything to have very little value due to the commonality now. The worst thing about doing tradeskills in this game is definately the UI, that UI summed it up rather well. Its next to impossible to sort by specific categories of items you want to make to cut down on clutter (I can have it just list scroll recipes, but I can't find a way to list poisons or potions only for example). Also most people just don't know how exactly the whack a mole game works, and its just not well explained at all. It seems they are trying to go the WoW route of making tradeskills something everyone does because its pretty easy to do rather than allowing people to pick to be craftspersons or adventurers. I met many people who rarely go exp at all and only take orders on items all day, and the rarity of those people allowed them to have a unique place in the world, and I expect pretty much anyone who had an aversion to tradeskills to now max them out for the assorted quests which require them at high levels, removing that uniqueness. Or I could be totally wrong about everything, and tradeskills will be fine. Who knows.