epeli
Arcane
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2014
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In the end the only reason to get crafting is to minmax your equipment stats. If you don't care about the difference between 52 and 59 quality you might as well save yourself the frustration, just get all your gear from vendor and enjoy the free skill points and feats you have to put on things that can actually make your character more fun and versatile.
Crafting is for minmaxing equipment stats? That's just not true.
You don't really care whether your crafted energy shield has X or X*1.1 capacity when the closest equivalent from shops might have half of that and wrong modulator(s). You don't really care whether your weapon has one point of extra damage (excluding OCD cases), as long as it's the correct type and has all the upgrades you want. You can't even buy all craftable weapon types. And so forth.
Another major use of crafting is keeping supplied on the field with relative ease, but that applies only to some builds. Mainly special crossbow bolts, throwing knives and traps, but also grenades. Of course, most characters don't need any of that and can work just fine without crafting and get plenty of extra stat and/or skillpoints by skipping it.
Try playing a character without any crafting and compare that to similar character who has small investment in all crafting skills; just enough to recycle junk loot, make repair kits, process some plant and animal matter. You might find the latter more fun and versatile thanks to the extra loot management options and better self-sustainability, before even considering the equipment and consumable crafting.
More like I've already had some discussions so many times over the years I've been here, I feel like it's not worth going the enxtra length to convince another two or three people they are wrong on some specific subject they know little about. I even already replied to Aenra about alternative systems on the other thread.You didn't respond because a "ZING" one-liner is the best you'll ever hope to accomplish. Backing up your convictions with actual arguments requires an attention span you simply don't have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been carefully following the entire cooldown discussion from the sidelines, waiting for someone to come up with something good. I had to assume you're just trolling since you started the whole thing and so far all you've done is throw those "lol no ur wrong" oneliners to provoke easy reactions.
Seriously, if you think you've got something good, please share. I'll be lurking in Underrail threads for feedback and so are the devs. I know coming up with improvements or alternatives for an entire core system is a daunting task, especially for someone who's not intimately familiar with the game and its design philosophy, but your bloated ego seems up to the challenge.
tl;dr: Put up or shut up.