Time to get Crafty!
So who here crafted? I mean anything; be it alchemical potions, armor, enhancements, bombs, traps, etc... To me, there has always been a disconnect between buying goods and crafting them. Traditionally I think that it should be cheaper to craft items than to just out and out buy them, and in order to prevent an economic issue, the amount an item sells for has to be somewhat proportional to the buying cost (or the cumulative effort of the crafting process)
But I always found crafting to be too costly. It was very time-intensive, expensive, and yielded objects that really didn't feel that worthwhile to be crafted. Orens were so hard to come by in the first place, it made them doubly valuable.
For example, a costly item, such as a Fire Run, might be 1500 orens, and you might need 3 of them. That's an amazing amount of money for that, but if you look at what items it takes to craft it, you'll find that it MORE effort to go that route. So rather than scout and scrounge for stuff, especially when it seemed like you were restricted to HAVING to find something in the wild, or it was impossible to find more of it because the monster type that drops it is no longer in the chapter you're playing, you just end up feeling like the easier route is always to just buy it.
Same deal with low-cost items. A Samum bomb, for 30 orens, didn't have the oomph in battle to warrant my time to craft the item. The collection process, time taken for getting all the ingredients needed, just didn't seem worthwhile when you saw its use in battle. I don't know, maybe it was just me, but I felt disconnected.
With TW3 being open-ended, and allowing me to travel to areas where certain resources when I want to and need to, all they need to do in order to make crafting seem worth while is : (a) make the item's effect in battle commensurate with the complete cost of crafting (including time taken) and (b) Make the truly powerful and useful items have a particular rarity or difficulty in obtaining them.
What are your inputs on crafting? Do you do it? Is it not worth your time? Do you find that you can make do with no need from potions, upgrades, etc?
So who here crafted? I mean anything; be it alchemical potions, armor, enhancements, bombs, traps, etc... To me, there has always been a disconnect between buying goods and crafting them. Traditionally I think that it should be cheaper to craft items than to just out and out buy them, and in order to prevent an economic issue, the amount an item sells for has to be somewhat proportional to the buying cost (or the cumulative effort of the crafting process)
But I always found crafting to be too costly. It was very time-intensive, expensive, and yielded objects that really didn't feel that worthwhile to be crafted. Orens were so hard to come by in the first place, it made them doubly valuable.
For example, a costly item, such as a Fire Run, might be 1500 orens, and you might need 3 of them. That's an amazing amount of money for that, but if you look at what items it takes to craft it, you'll find that it MORE effort to go that route. So rather than scout and scrounge for stuff, especially when it seemed like you were restricted to HAVING to find something in the wild, or it was impossible to find more of it because the monster type that drops it is no longer in the chapter you're playing, you just end up feeling like the easier route is always to just buy it.
Same deal with low-cost items. A Samum bomb, for 30 orens, didn't have the oomph in battle to warrant my time to craft the item. The collection process, time taken for getting all the ingredients needed, just didn't seem worthwhile when you saw its use in battle. I don't know, maybe it was just me, but I felt disconnected.
With TW3 being open-ended, and allowing me to travel to areas where certain resources when I want to and need to, all they need to do in order to make crafting seem worth while is : (a) make the item's effect in battle commensurate with the complete cost of crafting (including time taken) and (b) Make the truly powerful and useful items have a particular rarity or difficulty in obtaining them.
What are your inputs on crafting? Do you do it? Is it not worth your time? Do you find that you can make do with no need from potions, upgrades, etc?