Crafting Importance - Phoenix Freeshard

Given all the items I saw on the stress test I wonder what the importance of crafting will even be here. Like if I were to make a farmer with metalworking is it worth my time to do so, or can I expect to not need to craft and farm gear?

Tue 8 Jan 2019 4:26 AM by Dun_Dulind

Crafting is important when it comes to customizing your equipment the way you want with Spellcrafting and Alchemy. Gear drops are nice and you'll be fine without needing to make your own gear but for those who really want to tweak their template out, and maximize certain skills, stats, and resistances, you will need to work everything out with crafted equipment.

Tue 8 Jan 2019 12:16 PM by Joc

Rog jewelry was very popular from what I remember while leveling here on phoenix. It's much easier to get better templates because of that, but you will still need mostly crafted armor pieces. Once SI epic dungeons start getting done (for credit and feathers both) weapons will mostly come from those I would think. Armor will mostly come from crafting for end game rvr if you want to be competitive though.

A number of the SI and other epic armors can be used, but crafting would be cheaper in many cases, also trying to fill template holes is quite easy with crafted armor.

Tue 8 Jan 2019 12:18 PM by Joc

I cant say if you will be able to make much money or not though via a metal farmer/tinkerer. I dont know if the values are worth it or not on the rog armor drops when it comes to salvage. Maybe someone else can answer that since I'm wondering the same thing.

Tue 8 Jan 2019 12:37 PM by Unda

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Tue 8 Jan 2019 1:02 PM by

Uthred

Im pretty sure salvaging will still be very viable to make some money.

All ROGs of the same level salvage for the same price. So a cloth wearing caster that is farming ROGs doesnt have an disadvantage versus a plate wearing paladin when it comes to the 50% dropchance of a class-specific ROG. It is true, that one ROG doesnt salvage to very much material, but that is intended because every mob has the chance to drop ROGs and because of the high dropchance for a ROG. You have to salvage more often but you will get a nice amount of money out of it. Also keep in mind that salvaging an item only takes 1 sec, no matter what level the item is and no matter what your crafting skill is. That will save you a lot of time.

Another argument for salavaging is DF and seals. All seals salvage to the known, classic values. While farming seals, mobs in DF also drop ROGs. So you can double farm. Read this thread for more infos: https://forum.playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3045

Salvaging on Phoenix is a little different than on original classic, but im 100% sure it is also viable to make money. You dont have only a few spots per realm where "salvage-viable" items drop, but literally every spot can be used to farm. Another aspect is that some ROGs (mainly Jewelery) may be worth a lot when selling via the HZ.

Tue 8 Jan 2019 3:13 PM by Draqolv

Thank you for your replies everyone, I will read those links and look more into it. I didn't know about the salvage time that is very nice.

Wed 9 Jan 2019 3:09 PM by Afuldan

Uthred wrote: ↑
Tue 8 Jan 2019 1:02 PM
Im pretty sure salvaging will still be very viable to make some money.

All ROGs of the same level salvage for the same price. So a cloth wearing caster that is farming ROGs doesnt have an disadvantage versus a plate wearing paladin when it comes to the 50% dropchance of a class-specific ROG. It is true, that one ROG doesnt salvage to very much material, but that is intended because every mob has the chance to drop ROGs and because of the high dropchance for a ROG. You have to salvage more often but you will get a nice amount of money out of it. Also keep in mind that salvaging an item only takes 1 sec, no matter what level the item is and no matter what your crafting skill is. That will save you a lot of time.

Another argument for salavaging is DF and seals. All seals salvage to the known, classic values. While farming seals, mobs in DF also drop ROGs. So you can double farm. Read this thread for more infos: https://forum.playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3045

Salvaging on Phoenix is a little different than on original classic, but im 100% sure it is also viable to make money. You dont have only a few spots per realm where "salvage-viable" items drop, but literally every spot can be used to farm. Another aspect is that some ROGs (mainly Jewelery) may be worth a lot when selling via the HZ.

I forget, do the Diamond seal weapons and armor have procs on them? I know the Emeralds don’t have any, and in comparison to the ROGs that were dropping while I was killing familiars on the stress test, the emerald gear seemed pointless unless you were struggling to fill a specific slot.