So, how is the crafting?

Brabus

As the title says (asks).

Nadia

should really ask this quest  in a week

 

you need be level 40 to craft 

the vast majority of players cannot craft

Digna

One note is that the level 20 gathering quests for the 2nd tier (rare) items is BAD. Collect 20 copper for the 1st level of the gathering quest and then go find some tin. Now you have to go back to those same copper nodes that everyone else is depleting and farm farm farm. 1 rare I hit the first node out and the rest require 125-150 normals to find. I have friends who had to pick up over 300 copper to get the one tin. Since the resources recharge at about 1% per 2 minutes, it takes a while.

(To those who haven't gathered in game, it has a % bar which is similar to a hit point bar. Every time you take a resource (i.e. 1 copper) the node depletes by 10%. The resource 'heals' at approximately 1% for 2 minutes so even if you stand there at a depeleted (0%) item, you need to stand there for approx 20 minutes to get one node. )

Then they tell you you aren't skilled enough to get the next level of resource to gather though it never tells you what level to try coming back.

Nadia

I agree

the game has bad design for harvesting at launch

- but I'm sure it will be revised

Digna

I forgot to finish off the post. Then you can't collect any more items (tier2 at least) until you hit level 50.

I mean there's fast leveling in the game but WTH...

Level 50 before you can get iron? Kind of dumb.

ethion

bet you need to be level 60 to craft with iron so it might not be a big deal....

Definitely agree though the harvesting system sucks and would only be fun if the game were solo :P