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Lasai · 07-26-2007, 07:13 AM

a1will wrote:

I have many crafters one of each type, a tinkerer and transmuter, and 10 adv classes ranging from lvl 70 to lvl 32. With the addition of EOF areas, you have made crafting goods obsolete. There are a few that are decent, but as far as weapons, armor, or jewelry, your better off with treasured items from eof than mastercrafted items. Why lvl up a crafter then? My only answer is I have been bringing my crafters to 65 and stopping. The items arent worth anything but at least I can make adornments rather than spending 7p for an item i can make for 3p. How about adding resists to mastercrafted gear. Making mastercrafted weapons and jewelry comparable to weapons and jewelry as eof drops. Maybe even a quest to get a recipe to make gear for higher lvls like Deathfist citadel gear. Maybe gear sets like that or even make fabled drops like the YEW before that was used to make lvl 40 fabled gear. Rares arent worth a dam unless you can make an adept 3 spell or stuff for the house. Maybe arrows, but if you can do deathtoll and grab the bows from in there, you can make arrows useless as well. How about mastercrafted arrows again??
The whole statement in this thread is to make crafters useful again.

Your observations may be valid for the Post level 62 game, but to that point Mastercrafted has a solid niche in the game, and is far better than some of the utter garbage given as quest rewards and general loot drops.

I am seeing lots of quest and drop loots, I have 2 locked down chars providing materials for my Transmuter, and they only get to level when she does. I'm just not seeing the rumored "plethora" of treasured gear that is supposedly so much better than the MC these toons are wearing. Legendary, sure, and Ive looted fabled also that IS better, but treasured, in the main, fails to live up to the hype.

I don't have a clue why you even mentioned EoF. Up to T4 the named drops and quest rewards I've gotten have been transmute junk, and the only really outstanding quest reward I can think of is the Nybright Bracelet.

I have no problem selling Bags, Arrows, ammo, totems etc, and I dont play the undercut market, I sell at a decent profit margin. Today I sold 5k of those useless arrows btw.

I've come to realize that statements like "Mastercrafted is no good" rank right in there with "assassins can't solo", "sks cant tank" and all of the other wonderful and woefully misguided advice that is flung about like simian poo.

07-26-2007, 07:13 AM	#10
Lasai Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: my own basement Posts: 1,295	a1will wrote: I have many crafters one of each type, a tinkerer and transmuter, and 10 adv classes ranging from lvl 70 to lvl 32. With the addition of EOF areas, you have made crafting goods obsolete. There are a few that are decent, but as far as weapons, armor, or jewelry, your better off with treasured items from eof than mastercrafted items. Why lvl up a crafter then? My only answer is I have been bringing my crafters to 65 and stopping. The items arent worth anything but at least I can make adornments rather than spending 7p for an item i can make for 3p. How about adding resists to mastercrafted gear. Making mastercrafted weapons and jewelry comparable to weapons and jewelry as eof drops. Maybe even a quest to get a recipe to make gear for higher lvls like Deathfist citadel gear. Maybe gear sets like that or even make fabled drops like the YEW before that was used to make lvl 40 fabled gear. Rares arent worth a dam unless you can make an adept 3 spell or stuff for the house. Maybe arrows, but if you can do deathtoll and grab the bows from in there, you can make arrows useless as well. How about mastercrafted arrows again?? The whole statement in this thread is to make crafters useful again. Your observations may be valid for the Post level 62 game, but to that point Mastercrafted has a solid niche in the game, and is far better than some of the utter garbage given as quest rewards and general loot drops. I am seeing lots of quest and drop loots, I have 2 locked down chars providing materials for my Transmuter, and they only get to level when she does. I'm just not seeing the rumored "plethora" of treasured gear that is supposedly so much better than the MC these toons are wearing. Legendary, sure, and Ive looted fabled also that IS better, but treasured, in the main, fails to live up to the hype. I don't have a clue why you even mentioned EoF. Up to T4 the named drops and quest rewards I've gotten have been transmute junk, and the only really outstanding quest reward I can think of is the Nybright Bracelet. I have no problem selling Bags, Arrows, ammo, totems etc, and I dont play the undercut market, I sell at a decent profit margin. Today I sold 5k of those useless arrows btw. I've come to realize that statements like "Mastercrafted is no good" rank right in there with "assassins can't solo", "sks cant tank" and all of the other wonderful and woefully misguided advice that is flung about like simian poo. __________________ Never try to teach a pig to whistle. It only frustrates you and annoys the pig.