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Massively reviews crafting

Discussion in 'Guild Wars 2: General Discussion' started by Delvie, Feb 22, 2012.

  1. Delvie

    Delvie Well-Known Member

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    Elisabeth over at Massively reviews crafting along with a video:

    http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/0...nicles-extra-guild-wars-2-crafting-explained/

    Most coherent presentation on crafting I've seen. She actually makes and puts on some armor and weapons.

    Lot's of folks appear to find the process boring and basic at least from the little chatter there is about it. I find it intriguing because you can discover new recipes by combining ingredients - you don't have to buy every recipe in advance. There again I'm also heavily into crafting. In most games it's my main activity with questing being my break from the grind.
     
    #1 Delvie, Feb 22, 2012
  2. Xerran

    Xerran Senior Member

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    ooo, nice find. I guess since everything in GW2 is revolutionary and amazing, they expect everything to be :rolleyes:. Sometimes you shouldn't fix whats not borken, imo.

    -edit after reading and watching-

    Fantastic, I love it! I love how it speeds up if you're making multiples of the same thing. I also like how you can control what you put on a particular item.
     
    #2 Xerran, Feb 22, 2012
  3. Tak

    Tak Well-Known Member

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    This may be the only average aspect of the game. I still long for the star wars galaxy system that was so comprehensive.
     
    #3 Tak, Feb 22, 2012
  4. Persian

    Persian Well-Known Member

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    well what about vanguard?
     
    #4 Persian, Feb 23, 2012
  5. Unknown

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    Pretty interesting, he said that cooking would be a lot harder discipline

    "Cooking, for example, seems to require a lot more patience and a greater diversity of materials that can be a lot harder to hunt down. "

    that's usually the easiest but what the exact reason behind making it more difficult over the others is my question.
     
    #5 Unknown, Feb 23, 2012
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    Wow! I find their crafting rather interesting. Let's see how it feels ingame. :)
     
    #6 Zsolaith, Feb 23, 2012
  7. Orien

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    Crafting looks very cool.

    It's almost a throw back to when crafting was all about discovery in mmo's. These days you go and purchase all recipes from crafting trainer vendors, then you have a list of what you can make. With the GW2 system you get a limited list and then have a huge possiblity for discovery from trial and error type of experimenting.

    I really prefer this sort of set up. It makes it feel more exciting instead of just setting your character to turn 100 copper nuggets into 50 copper bars and afk'ing for 20 minutes while the game burns through the animation of it all.

    Discovering that recipe that requires you to then seek out that hard to find ingredient or buy it from someone so that you can make that extra cool HQ sword and look extra stylish is always where the fun with crafting came from for me.

    These pre-bought lists that are trained from a vendor is a watered down crafting system that has been the norm for quite a while now. But what we are seeing with GW2 is the return of discovery and experimenting with crafting.

    Now maybe we wont farm just enough to grind out those last few points to get to the next crafting tier but rather be grabbing everything so next time we get to a crafting bench we can mess around and see what we get from combining all sorts of different things.
     
    #7 Orien, Feb 23, 2012
  8. Delvie

    Delvie Well-Known Member

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    I would guess that someone has taken into account that fancier dishes require more ingredients or at least more steps in real life. I'm hoping that the temp combat buffs (per Anet blog that's what cooked items give you http://www.arena.net/blog/andrew-mcleod-talks-crafting-in-gw2) can be meaningful if you are willing to hunt down a variety of ingredients.

    For example, maybe a final dish requires several components each made with their own herb that only grows via random spawns out in the wild - as this type of dish is more complicated maybe it gives a longer combat buff. Then of course maybe you get to make burnt Apple Pie that only gives a very mild buff. I wonder if brewing is in game and included in cooking - cause then you could make negative buffs:)
     
    #8 Delvie, Feb 23, 2012
  9. gragath

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    ...great find! :)
     
    #9 gragath, Feb 24, 2012
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    i just cant get enough of GW2 Press beta news! :cool:
     
    #10 DonQuitto, Feb 24, 2012
  11. Brains

    Brains Well-Known Member

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    I'm happy with the crafting system GW2 is offering, it's enough for me. Nothing too special.
     
    #11 Brains, Feb 24, 2012
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