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Is crafting worthwhile in this game?
I've been looking for a solid themepark game to go back to for a while and I guess it will either be Rift or WoW till GW2 comes out, if not beyond that, or along with it.
I have a couple of 85s in WoW and a 50 and a couple of high 40s in Rift. I haven't played either for a while, but I know the crafting in WoW is not that worth it (jewelcrafting and enchanting were the best things the last time I played WoW actively).
How is crafting in Rift? Is it worth sinking gold and time into? I just dinged 50 when I quit, so I didn't do much crafting and I didn't get any raid gear yet, so if crafting can help me start raiding, that would be one thing to consider.
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It's been a while since I played Rift, but when I did I had all crafts at max, mostly to aid guildies. There were some nice starter to mid-endgame things you could make, but getting the patterns for them was an annoying grind. Sufficiently so that, depending on how much in-game money you have you might be better off getting the mats together yourself and asking around for someone who can make the items you want. You can generally find a crafter who'll do it for a nominal fee. That, or buy what you want off the AH.
Leveling crafting in Rift is pretty easy, especially if you pick complementary crafts, so there's really not much reason not to. Getting endgame patterns is (or, at least, was) a PITA, mostly depends on your tolerance for dailies and RNG. The top end items you can make are pretty nice, and Trion has seen fit to add new higher tier crafting items as time goes on. Overall I'd say it's worth it, but I tend to be obsessive about having crafts maxed in games.
Ultimately its not much different than WoW. There are some nice things you can make for 50s, but its more time efficient to just do the currency grind for gear than to level up a craft yourself.
I would only work on crafting in Rift if you LIKE crafting. You can make hardly any money from craftables at max level as the rare ingredients cost a large amount of plat from a vendor to craft. If your familiar with WoW crafting, its similar to it in leveling up, but its nothing like it when its maxed out, no direct crafting bonuses basically.
I think the best part of crafting in Rift is being able to get the crafting Rift lures, so that you can get some free mats to sell basically, but even then, nothing to go out of your way for, imo.