Crafting

psdood69

My wife was away at E3, and I was home with the kids. No, I wasn't eating myself alive with envy, though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous. It was fun spending more time than I usually do with the kids.

Anyway, after they went to bed each night, I wanted to play, but I didn't want to get too far ahead of my wife's character. So I took crafting tasks of the "collect 35 bronze bars and bring them to me" variety. I've done that over a hundred times so far, getting 2 Imperial Lore Tokens each time. In the process, I've gathered copper and tin ore on each of the training islands, and like doing that material best on New Brommel or New Koraelia, because of where its located compared to the dragon trainers. For sandstone I like New Brommel best, again because of its location. Its really a matter of personal preference though.

With the lore tokens I've earned so far I've been able to purchase every beginner formula (Tier I and II) for spells usable by dragons, gotten all the beginner formulas for dragon scales for the chest, and 3 of the beginner formulas for dragon scales for the wings. So when my wife created her dragon today, I was able to craft her one of every Tier I spell and give her a dragon scale to equip. Pretty nice for playing just a couple hours a night while she was gone.

I also joined Keir Chet k'Eilerten, the dragon-only roleplay guild I mentioned in my last blog. Glit'sita nien!

Today, I was approached to see if I'd be willing to help out a naka-duskael (biped--human in this case) by filling her silo with 2500 sandstone bricks, and get paid for the work rather handsomely. Of course I took the job. Of course, from my dragon's point of view its completely perplexing why a human wants to build a structure just to compeletely fill it in with bricks, but the naka-duskael (bipeds) are all little strange anyway.

snickel

Yep, crafting is very useful, not only because its rewarding in itself, but also because you can create stuff for others.

Don't forget the quartermasters -- the ones in mahagra, south tazoon, dalimond for example give crafting tasks that you can do (bring me 50 sandstone slabs, bronze bars) and they give you special tokens that you can use to buy techs from them -- you will find that your crafting will get much easier, once you have made yourself scales with the appropriate crafting techs applied.

What you can also do without the risk to get too far ahead in adventuring is to explore the world.

Have fun, hatchling!

snickel wigglsniff, gnomish crafter on Unity server

Trus

This is probably way too late to help keep you close to your wifes level back in MAY:)... but there are two more VERY productive things you can do... one is to make a new character and play that while alone and two is to collect little mob trophies used to level characters, having say... 50 Malachite Golem Gemstone trophies and 50 other trophies and you gained a few levels doing it you could hand them to your wife when she returns and she'll get 2-3 levels to catch up to you:)