Cannith Crafting More Info + Recap

[Aelonwy]

Everyone is crying about what this system can't do.

I swear I'm listening to some old geezers whining about how peanut butter with bacon mixed in is no longer sold in stores. Or how baked potatoes are better than microwaved potatoes.

I haven't seen seen so many people looking at the glass half-empty when just a second ago it was actually empty.

Some people can't live without 100% + fort. It's their security blanket. Seriously, you can add insightful Fort to Fort, if you really need to have your high fort at low levels. I don't have stockpiles of heavy fort items. If I really find the need for it, I get a blue gem. Otherwise, i just wait till I get higher level.

Blood knuckle's 25% fortification is seriously worthless.

"Ghostbane, Disruption, Banishing, Smiting"

Seriously?! I have more vorpal than I can carry, and you're complaining about these? Ghostbane use to not even exist.

"enchantments not displaying on item's name" Now you're arguing semantics.

When was the last time you actually talked to a new player except to tell them to look up what BYOH means?

Most of us are not arguing, or whining, or crying, or any other negative appellation with which you choose to characterize our opinions. As far as I was concerned we were having a reasonable, calm discourse about our ideas/opinions on the New Random loot and Cannith Crafting going forward.

And for your information I am a casual player in a family-mostly small guild, I have never once told anyone to BYOH or look it up. I have always explained to newer players whatever I can to help them including guiding them on tours to show them where the houses are located, where to buy bags and quivers, explaining patrons and favor rewards etc. and yes directing them to the wiki as the best source of information. Quite the opposite of being glass-half-empty I have enough hope that this game will continue for sometime to come that I have been purchasing content for my son to play on his account and hope to do the same for my daughter when I feel she's old enough to play.

[Hilltrot]

Most of us are not arguing, or whining, or crying, or any other negative appellation with which you choose to characterize our opinions. As far as I was concerned we were having a reasonable, calm discourse about our ideas/opinions on the New Random loot and Cannith Crafting going forward.

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You are really KILLING one of the FUNDAMENTAL BEST THINGS about Cannith Crafting........FLEXIBILITY.

If the new random loot was coded in a way that doesn't allow you to make CC have flexible shards.......that is ANOTHER HUGE FAIL of the new loot.

If the coding for the new random loot does allow flexible shards, it is a HUGE FAIL for the design of cannith crafting.

Either way......fail.

looks calm to me.

HA HA you are going to base cannith crafting on random loot. O well then it going to be useless just like most of the random loot is. The only random loot items i use are those with states, all weapons are next to useless because it has caster stuff on it. All this hard work you are doing to make a system even more useless then it was before. Very very disappointed.

Reasonable - nothing but ideas how to move Cannith Crafting forward.

It is not just Flexible Shards, it is the fundamental way the Design of the New Loot System was implemented in the first place, to remove flexibility of more variety in the way Abilities and Skills could be found across the wider range of random loots. Cart vs horse issue, and the horse is New Loot System, and many of us find that horse to be "broken" regardless the semantics on whether it's WAI or not. The New Loot System is not agreed upon by the Player Community, and - arguments like yours are a bit skewed because many of us are "thinking about our gear" more than you realize (which in your test, would make it "good" instead). In fact, we're thinking so much about our gear that we come in here to see yet another post by a Dev without acknowledging this issue (while fielding softball questions otherwise), and that is something players like you should actually categorize as "bad." I highly suggest you stop worrying about the "thinking level" of the Player Community, as there's no XP for you in that.

Yep, nothing but ideas on how to move things forward.

ffs, people complain and whine for a change to the crafting system, and when they finally get something it's not good enough.

Judging from the whiny baby complaints in this thread, I'm surprised that any of the devs even take the time to say anything at all.

Oops, I wasn't the first to notice this trend.

I'm sorry if I misunderstood your position and what you were trying to do. Looking back on it, my response to you about BYOH was in error.

However, I do contend that Fort is something only semi-experienced players start to worry about and for them there is still plenty of fort around.