Crafting System

And as a guild crafter of 6 years, I sure as hell hope there isn't a minigame to increase stats on gear, because it won't be an option for guild crafters - you'll have to craft everything through the minigame to maximize benefit. And when you're crafting hundreds of things a week, it gets not only tiring but tedious to constantly repeat the same minigame.

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Even when they're rare, I'm talking about scale. L2 had super rare top lvl gear and it had the same "every material tier matters" idea. So you had to craft a ton of smaller things that you combined into bigger and better things, so that you can then use those in the final craft of the gear piece itself. And if AoC's crafting will be as in-depth and as controllable as they claim they want it to be - that will be such a fucking pain in the ass to craft.

Each and every craftable material will have to be crafted through a minigame in order to maximize its stats that flow upwards (if that'll be the case). And then you have 8 fucking pieces per person, per potential 300 people in a guild. And any semi-smart guild will be pulling all the materials into one crafter, to maximize their crafting lvl and get it to max asap. Which means that you'll be going through literal thousands of crafts on a single character, each of them having a god damn minigame. I definitely do not want that.

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Different people, different preferences.

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Yeah, smth like this could work. Even "craft several things at once through a minigame" could work, though I think that might bring up its own design issues. As long as it's not "spend 5+ secs per craft" I'd personally be fine. I could maybe see a "skill check" quest pop up from time to time, where you have some particular activities testing your crafting skill.

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I guess that wouldn't be too bad.