Zanchief wrote:As long as it's difficult to level up your trades. That is one thing I hated about Wow, the tradeskills where so easy to bring up. In EQ it was insane to get smithing to max lvl. There were only a handful of people who could actually max their tradeskills and almost all of them had no lives.
I don't know how EQII works, but as long as tradeskilling is difficult I think the rewards should be good.
It's just as time consuming to get to 80 in tradeskilling as it is to get to 80 in adventuring in EQ2. I think it's a pretty balanced system atm, honestly.
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But, Mar - the tradeskill system isn't designed to make you rich - or at least it shouldn't be. If it's wealth you want - make a prov or an alchemist.
Again, this is just my opinion - but you should be able to make your armor that's good enough to help you level and complete quests - not so you can turn your tune in a coin machine. /shrug
It's hard trying to get people to do quests - all they want to do is freaking craft shit OR harvest so they sell the rares.
Like I said - we can agree to disagree. I love the game, but I don't care for the tradeskilling.
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Zanchief wrote: In EQ it was insane to get smithing to max lvl.
that was pre-luclin
luclin added a ton of recipes that were easy to lvl on, and in fact, every raider had to get their smithing to 175+ to make ssra bane weapons. tons ended up just continuing with tradeskills
then PoP came out and tradeskills became trivial
Well that sure changed. Years ago during OoW they made a lot of epic 1.5 and 2.0 quest parts based around some trade skill that you couldn't MQ. And even still, Elegant armor is some of the best you can get if you have the time to make all of the augments (pieces drop from raid targets) for them. Less and less actual armor drops nowadays. It's more like weapons, rings, augment, or pieces of the combine for a sweet augment... and then the main armor slots are left to the smithing/tailoring ppl. It's a good balance because there's at least 10% of your guild that does shit like that and now they have something to do. You can buy some Dwerium armor and get like 25ac 450hp/mn 25save all rings/ears for a grand total of something like 6k..... tradeskills help get higher lvl chars started and serve a huge purpose now
lol@ the excuse to be all matter-of-fact with the "i know asian because i live in malaysia" stuff
positively brilliant
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