Crafting?

jmillerdls

Has anyone heard anything about crafting in this game? 

I've yet to hear anyone mention whether there will be any, and if so...how it will work.

I played Horizons for a little while, almost entirely because of how great the crafting was set up in that game.  Or, at least how much better it is than others. 

After WOW, I'm looking for a game that will actually meet its potential for those of us who enjoy crafting just as much as exploring.

sjona

havent got the most best memory, but i do recall something with crafting will be a good thing to have.
like in WoW, where most crafted was completly suckage, while in WAR all craftable things will be very good to have.
also heard something with craftable seige weapon helping thing.. (not sure)

Volkmar

very little has been said about crafting and what has been said prolly just represent personal opinion of the speaker more than actual crafting devs plans.

Barnett spoke about crafting, very vaguely, maybe hinting at the fact upgrading equipment will be more important than actual making it.

Siege engines have been ruled out, they will be present only in instanced scenarios and already made, built in the terrain. no more backpacks of wood and ta-daaah! insta-trebuchet.

Shaman64

We know very little about the crafting. But Mythic has said  no more making bread and water. You will make items used for teh greater war, materials taken off of bodies. The weapons you can craft can compete with loot also. So you can expect the crafting system to be useful, not mundane or uninteresting.

Distortion0

The Offical FAQ is pretty vague on the subject, but Mythic claims it's going to be revolutionary. I wouldn't put too much on Crafting being an alternitive to Fighting though, even the healers are involved in the fight in this game.

Volkmar, where are you getting your info. I've never heard no seige engines BUT I have heard from people who have played WAR demos that they are in and only one class per race can use them. Which makes sense so far because we have engineers and squig hearders.

gidd

WAR is a game that actualy sticks to the war in there name..anyways unlike other games u wont be making pants or a potion that makes u dance for 5 hours all crafting will go to the WAr effort but as what classes of craafting there are we will wait... cuz ive done enoguh gameplay research..classes research by the way classes AWESOME>....so ya im too tried too look into the crafting..

Volkmar

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Originally posted by Distortion0

The Offical FAQ is pretty vague on the subject, but Mythic claims it's going to be revolutionary. I wouldn't put too much on Crafting being an alternitive to Fighting though, even the healers are involved in the fight in this game.
Volkmar, where are you getting your info. I've never heard no seige engines BUT I have heard from people who have played WAR demos that they are in and only one class per race can use them. Which makes sense so far because we have engineers and squig hearders.

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Well, it was a dev posts. But it said no crafting of them and possible available only in instances. possible they changed their mind on the second point

Let's see if i find it out... ah here it is!

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setview/features/gameID/239/loadFeature/552/page/5/from/

The quote is:

"Siege in the game is focused more on the anti-personnel end of the spectrum, rather than complex fights with walls. Generally, do not expect to drag siege engines around in your backpack. Instead, they'll be part of scenario missions. "

so not a dev post, but a preview of this very site

Shaman64

Makes sense. Your not gonna push a siege ladder across three zones to a castle. I like them preset in sceneario's.

dolearon

Ok the game has dwarfs and you can play and engineer. both are things that require there to some form of crqfting in the game. and again hopefully it wont be like in WOW where you need some of the strangest things to make a rifle. i have very little info on alot of the games inner workings but I still remain confident that there will be some form of macking items within the game of WAR.

Kane

I've gotta say, for the first time in an MMO, I really dont care about the crafting. In every other game, crafting has been a big part of the experience, but in WAR, the PvP/RvR combat has me so interested that crafting is way down on the list of my worries.

Hirata

Don't forget this is Mythic. They revolutionized crafting with DAoC. It was the first game where the crafted items were actually worth using. I am sure they will be doing this again. Crafting has been huge in DAoC to the point where everyone had a legendary crafter of somesort.