To my fellow crafters/gatherers!

A few Questions on topic:
Which Artisan class are you planning on specializing? Why?

How in depth are you planning to get, and how much time are you willing to devote daily/weekly to your crafts and goods?

Also hey!

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Damokles

juwelcrafting and mining. I will make the most beautifull trinkets!

Steven Sharif

Underwater Basket Weaving

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Damokles

juwelcrafting and mining. I will make the most beautifull trinkets!

Steven Sharif

Underwater Basket Weaving

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Azryil

Steven Sharif wrote: »

Underwater Basket Weaving

Not sandal crafting?

HandOfUnity

Breeding and Taming for sure - Need to get them Yatas

anthracite

I was thinking of focusing on some magic-related kind of crafting, like alchemy, or possibly scribing if they decide to include it. It fits with the kind of character I want to play and there will probably be request for these articles, so I guess it's good.

Morashtak

Steven Sharif wrote: »

Underwater Basket Weaving

Dammit, Steven! How can there be TWO Master Artisan Underwater Basket Weavers on one realm?! The servers can't handle it, captain!

YeOldeSmith

Skafftaruss wrote: »

Lumber processor. I'm in the middle of the crafting chain. I will be relevant. I plan to research hemp and rope. I will promote 6 hours per week to processing. Lumber and rope, I think, are necessary for ship building, to wood based weapons, to siege engines, and more.

This is interesting; make sure your guild knows what specialty you want to provide!

YeOldeSmith

Steven Sharif wrote: »

Underwater Basket Weaving

Ah, a man of fine taste, and a scholar.

lukesimzy

Farming

Azryil

Not really sure yet, probably a gathering profession based on what's needed to craft armor for whatever class I decide to play.

YeOldeSmith

Skafftaruss wrote: »

So underwater basket weaving answered the question? Interesting.

Not fair really xD

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Ceivent

Cooking, maybe farming.

YeOldeSmith

@Skafftaruss
It was a somber decision, friend.

trojo

Herbalism, perhaps. If not that, then another gathering profession.

It is pretty common in games with a highly interdependent crafting system that the demand for raw materials far outweighs the demand for finished products. This is because people making the finished products have to make tons and tons of items in order to skill up, and then they inevitably turn around and dump their products on the market at or near cost (or even below cost, if the economy is unbalanced enough).

The gatherers are also dumping tons of their stuff on the market as well, of course. But there are two key differences. One is that gathering has little or no overhead (compared to the overhead of finished-product crafters needing to buy raw materials). The other is that there is much more likely to be a market for, let's say, the ten chunks of iron ore you gathered in order to raise your mining skill than there is for the ten iron helmets you made to raise your blacksmithing skill. That is to say, the market for gathered raw materials tends to be broad, whereas the market for finished goods tends to be more specific.

raisler

I'm interested in being a Herb Gatherer/Alchemist(focusing on Alchemy as the main profession). My big question in this situation is, when when will I need to stop putting points(?) into Gathering so that I can keep learning more about Alchemy. I guess as an example, could I be a max level Alchemist with Gathering at level 20?

Nagash

Can I own a tea plantation and have my undead work on it ?

YeOldeSmith

@trojo Yes I have thought about this and while I really want to specialize into axe smithing I do sometimes wonder whether or not my time would be better spent and more profitable if I just gathered for the guild and what it might need in a broader sense.

I do see the breaking down of the components to be something that will help crafters not feel as though if they make those 10 helmets and only 6 of them sell the other 4 can be broken down to either the original parts or at least a comparable amount of them.