And There Goes the Carrot...

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A few things I have noticed so far...

Some Shards are no longer there, namely vampirism and the absorbtion items; there are probably more but it's 1am. I'm not really surprised by this. Why even mention this? Well, Vampirism was an intergral part of leveling my crafting. I'm curious, what took its place? At that particular level and cost?

The absorbtion items are less of an issue to me because they were higher up. It is kind of annoying to see something and then have it removed. I'm sure they'll add it to the 76-100 phase, maybe...

I'm sure there's a couple of more but I'm too tired atm.

Skimming through the patch notes I see nothing of the changes.

While crafting is in this 'beta' form, it would be nice to have the changes that are being implemented notated in the patch notes. Other changes were mentioned there (such as raising the ml). I don't think having these changes mentioned is too much of a request, especially when they had 8 additional hours to mention them.

The process now really seems much more trouble than what it's worth. Personally, between the ml increases and the crafting level required to obtain certain items I'm better off sticking to GS on characters that haven't completed their epic weapons yet.

Crafting seems as if it has been totally removed from the new player. You cannot use anything until level 5 and even then what is there that you cannot find better via rng?