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Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play
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Posted: Jun 16th 2009 6:52PM Joystiq Login Bugs SUCK said
With the game's new direction of gear gating the ONLY armour left to own in the game when you hit level 60 is the Radiance gear. Generic cookie cutter armour, one set per class that has specs so overpowered that armour crafting was killed.
As for weapons, the Legendary system has completely obliterated the market in crafted weapons. Who would want a 140dps weapon when you can get a 150dps weapon with buffs for free?
Jewelery? The same. The drops in the hard mode instances are so wanted, so good, and so prolific (due to the sheer number of times htey are farmed/ground for radiance coins) that there is pretty much no call for any crafted jewelery (apart from 2 items)
Crafting after level 50? Waste of effort, waste of time.
Turbine doesn't like crafters.
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 7:59PM Boruk said
Crafting is going to get a chance to make Legendary and Radiance gear. Just like before where crafted gear was on par with some of the best boss drops...it will happen again.
Also, crafting guilds were added to help improve the usefulness of crafting and it has. Ask anyone on the Lotro forums about crafting and they will say it works. Might not be the greatest thing ever, but it sure beats the WoW system you so prefer where the best crafting recipes come from raids...where you are getting drops anyways and the crafted gear doesn't even come close.
Posted: Jun 17th 2009 4:02AM Joystiq Login Bugs SUCK said
There is no change to crafting that will let you make legendaries, there is no change to crafting that will let you make radiance.
The crafting changes are (1) Stacks of 100 (2) The redoing of critmats so they make more sense (3) a minor redistribution to the statistics of the Marchwarden set... no where near radiance tho. (4) a few minor changes.
So, you were saying?
(Oh BTW... I have SM and kindred Tailor, Woodworker, Cook, Jeweller and soon Metalsmith so I've ground this junk system out - EQ2 it isn't!)