Changes to Crafting Costs are well-intentioned but misguided

[Darkrok]

Use 'mystic urns' & 'mystic plants' & the like as 'rare' ingredients instead of raid loot, tomes, shroud ingredients, astral diamonds, etc. Nerf the drop rate of these items dramatically. Problem solved.

Bingo.

They added these to the game for a reason. They're btc or bta (can't remember which) and will serve as a perfectly fine bottleneck to creating shards.

They also need to think about LEVELING crafting and leave some recipes as-is to give a path to leveling.

[Carpone]

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=155

Whooops. We clearly were out of line with several of these ingredients. Including items like Dreamspitter and Chattering Ring is an embarrasing error on our part and was in no way intentional.

Our motivation to add these extra ingredients (which was only made to a subset of recipes that concerned us) was to preserve and not devalue the efforts made by players to obtain many of the existing powerful named items in the game.

We will make changes. Unfortunately, they will not be made in time to alter the upcoming patch. As you know, the system is still in beta and we will effect changes as soon as we can.

Our apologies and thanks for the swift, clear feedback.

[dingal]

There's a fundamental flaw in the change to crafting costs:

This is punitive to players who have less time and who have played less or are otherwise new. By having had access to the cheaper versions of these shards, players who invested time upfront frequently already have access to the shards or already have the items made entirely. We'll be free to continue to use our already-made greater banes, to make more before the update, and even to make and stockpile important greater banes we might someday want to use so that we never have to pay the significantly increased costs.

On the other hand, if you're a new player or have had less time to play or the like, you're screwed: Many of these costs are just hilarious (a chattering ring for one of the least-useful greater bane effects the game's got? really??). I understand the desire to add another cost to these items (which are too cheap once you gain access to them), but this is an extreme change and I don't think it's going to be beneficial to the community at large.

I'm going to create a petition to have the words "Well intentioned" removed from your thread title.

[Vengeance777]

If they want to require completing raids and adventure packs for crafting simply add more Mystical items to the game. Have a mystical item drop in each players name during the raid like trophies in TOD or a chest with a mystical item in it like the dagger in Threnal. Requiring rare named and raid loot not guaranteed to drop from the packs does nothing but make a grind and is insulting to the players. And requiring items made from rare collectibles like Tome Pages is well beyond reasonable.

I think the devs that came up with it should be forced to farm tome pages so they can see what its like, and not with the godmode toons they have on Lamania with all the uber gear.