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Really long time to unlock your creation tools. Be ready for some grinding first.
So I decided to try this game while waiting for ESO and EQ Next to come out.
I'm already 16 hours into solid mining and chopping trees, and I have only unlocked half of the stuff needed to create stuff fully.
Theres 3 tiers you have to go through to unlock or build crafting stations needed to create more designs.
I find myself really Grinding on these mining nodes and chopping trees at this point in Tier 2, I've so far only now gotten Smoothing tool, which allows you to smooth your creations.
for the most part, I think if you buy Alpha, be ready to expect a grind on mining nodes and chopping of trees before your able to actually unlock the designer tools and crafting stations to fully make what you want.
So far I have nothing better to do and so this should burn off a couple months easy.
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dont craft work stations, use others players work stations. save some materials tis way:)
i got 2 day ago legendary (Yes legendary!) pickaxe. one nice player gave it to free me becouse he had better legendary pickaxe:) dint even asked to give...
Burlen wood is pain in ass to get but equip some discovery rings and they drop more offen.
Never thought to do that, I have my place in Tier 1 area, so the thought never cross my mind. I'm going to go to Tier 3 areas and do that right now.
I seem to build on my claim for a couple days, then mine and craft for a couple. I'm pretty pleased that it takes time to get tools and picks. If it was all given the first day, I would log off after all my creative juice were spent.
I'm personally one tier from the last pickaxe and it's only been about 8-10 hrs of playtime.
So I dunno what you're up to exactly.
Like others said, I use other peoples crafting tools. Also, if you're neglecting your jewelry, you're doing yourself a disservice. It ups the rate of finding a bunch of those rare specimen you'll need.
I will second the other persons suggestion, get the stuff to craft you the ring for your level that helps you get more rare items when you harvest. MY burled wood jumped up big time, mine has a 3 rating, and my wife's has a 4. I have gotten over 60 burled at times from 1 big tree with it. I usually get 30-40 on average with it and a very nice copper axe...Had bad luck with gold axes, but the copper axe will do for now, till they mess with tree tiers more and plant/flora stuff is coming.
We made all the top stations on my wife's plot, but you don't really need to make any, I think Landmark is the type of game that their will always be people happy to let you use their stuff, be social, and probably want to show off their building.
u been able craft better then green golden axe?crafted 10 golden axe and no blue or better:/ my blue copper axe stats; 110 speed. 75 damage.
Axes are borked right now, I have blue gold axe that is worse then your copper, 105/77 I think.
I did craft 20 gold axes, 3 blue, none were better then my legend copper that had 99/99 and 4 discovery.
Does not look like copper can go above 100 and gold can, but not by much.
Did not really matter as my legend axe was just gone when I logged in the other day, using the blue from above now, but I do not chop much wood these days, have what I need, and hopefully what I need for the next tier of workbenches as well.
Unless they switch to striped wood for the next, ooohh the QQ on the forums then!
Reminds I need to buy popcorn.
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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If everyone does this, there won't be any work stations anywhere.
I personally suggest that players in an area team up to make the workstation on a single claim and share it. It's the fastest way of doing it.
I agree with the OP, the grind to get enough resources and tools to build is too hard in the beginning of the game at the moment, people will quit early if its this tough when it goes live. It will be good when salvaging of some of the materials from old tools are in an as Picard said, group harvesting and similar things. At the moment the grind to actually build something is not that fun.
We are using the advanced crafting stations from neighbors too, we have a close one that has everything as top level, handy.
The game still has a VERY good chance of being a great game.
Chi puo dir com'egli arde é in picciol fuoco.
He who can describe the flame does not burn.
Petrarch
Gaming guild I belong to has posted screen shots of a pretty impressive mountain top fortress they've managed to build, maybe cooperating with others is the best way to go?
Revolutionary approach for a MMO to take I know.
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Yes indeed, it is not hard at the moment it is just an enormous timesink, several (I read 6 - 10 on the Alpha forums) hours of harvesting for each step in for the high end Picks is not good and the need to make several of every pick to get a good one is a somewhat gamey was of solving things. Caves and different layouts could make a difference. We are just figuring out the system and what to do and not but interestingly enough there where less people in game this weekend than last weekend (when it was down for quite some time), well see.
These systems has to be updated and as I understand it they will be.
Chi puo dir com'egli arde é in picciol fuoco.
He who can describe the flame does not burn.
Petrarch
The "tools" are convenience items, and you can build anything you want without those shortcuts.
Going out and harvesting what you want to build something with what you can gather is/was fun. I didn't even know there were additional tools I could make. I made them, and was pleased that there were shortcuts to some of the things that I wanted to do, but honestly, with the selection tool (first one you have to craft), that was all I ever needed. Copy/paste and boom, huge time saver.
TL;DR version, since answered on official boards as well:
If you want to build and ONLY build without doing anything else, EQNL is the wrong game for you. It is an MMO with fighting, collecting, harvesting, hunting, searching, exploring, crafting AND building. There are plenty of free tools on the web that allow you to build whatever you want, without any kind of MMO stuff attached.
To go deeper and answer some points:
MMOs finally replaced social interaction, forced grouping and standing in a line while talking to eachother.
Now we have forced soloing, forced questing and everyone is the hero, without ever having to talk to anyone else. The evolution of multiplayer is here! We won,... right?
First couple weeks were rough with limited claim options and resets everyday that had a lot of folks losing their crafting stations. So during the time I was leveling up my skills and gathering, I never saw another crafting station I could use. Now that things are stable, there a lots of crafting stations around. Some of the bigger and more built-up claims have multiple stations as well.
I tend to mix up my time in Landmark between gathering and slowly building up my claim out in the boonies.
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