Too many iron required for crafting

[DeityofGreed]

You need iron for weaponsmithing, armoring, engineering, arcana, and furnishing.
Need iron for steel, steel for starmetal, starmetal for orichalcum etc.
The deflation of late game metal is comical because of the iron bottleneck.

[Kay]

That's what Im saying, If I chop some iron wood, I should just be able to take that and make it into planks but no, I need to merge it with some lower tier wood that requires lower tier woods to make...

[Rontagosh]

Good way for new players to make money

[Bordric]

Buy it. Gizzilion on market

[La0zix]

Sounds bad, but id rather have it that way.
Imagine everyone farming one type of ore/wood because you wont need that lower stuff anymore. =unable to farm, need to buy everything=everything expensive.

And lower materials are cheap and easy to farm.

[ZeroGiven]

Originally posted by La0zix:

Sounds bad, but id rather have it that way.
Imagine everyone farming one type of ore/wood because you wont need that lower stuff anymore. =unable to farm, need to buy everything=everything expensive.

And lower materials are cheap and easy to farm.

Only problem with that is that currently every one needs all the ores/woods, instead of just one at their tier.

I still don't think they should change it but your argument doesn't really hold up.

[IDreamOfWires]

It seems to keep all the resources relevant. Unlike in ESO where there are whole tiers of mats that are pretty much just used to level crafting.

[IDreamOfWires]

Originally posted by ZeroGiven:

Originally posted by La0zix:

Sounds bad, but id rather have it that way.
Imagine everyone farming one type of ore/wood because you wont need that lower stuff anymore. =unable to farm, need to buy everything=everything expensive.

And lower materials are cheap and easy to farm.

Only problem with that is that currently every one needs all the ores/woods, instead of just one at their tier.

I still don't think they should change it but your argument doesn't really hold up.

That problem should be ameliorated over time though, shouldn't it? The longer the newer servers are up and running the more resources older established players will have stashed and up for sale and they'll be able to farm the lower level mats relatively quickly or just buy them from the newer players. Unless the server population just drops I suppose.

[La0zix]

Originally posted by ZeroGiven:

Originally posted by La0zix:

Sounds bad, but id rather have it that way.
Imagine everyone farming one type of ore/wood because you wont need that lower stuff anymore. =unable to farm, need to buy everything=everything expensive.

And lower materials are cheap and easy to farm.

Only problem with that is that currently every one needs all the ores/woods, instead of just one at their tier.

I still don't think they should change it but your argument doesn't really hold up.

Hu? English is not my first language, so idk if my point was clear enough to understand.

But what you said is exactly what i mean, everyone needs those resources every time at any stage in game.

If you only need orich, for barcrafting everything below would at some point be useless.
and everyone that plays slow(or starts later) cant make money, or buy stuff since noone would be farming that.

[Soulfly205]

Originally posted by La0zix:

Sounds bad, but id rather have it that way.
Imagine everyone farming one type of ore/wood because you wont need that lower stuff anymore. =unable to farm, need to buy everything=everything expensive.

And lower materials are cheap and easy to farm.

really? i can never find any iron.

[Legendairy2]

Best gathering in the genre but crafting is straight booty. The fact we need basic mats all the way up is straight trash

[ZeroGiven]

Originally posted by IDreamOfWires:

Originally posted by ZeroGiven:

Only problem with that is that currently every one needs all the ores/woods, instead of just one at their tier.

I still don't think they should change it but your argument doesn't really hold up.

That problem should be ameliorated over time though, shouldn't it? The longer the newer servers are up and running the more resources older established players will have stashed and up for sale and they'll be able to farm the lower level mats relatively quickly or just buy them from the newer players. Unless the server population just drops I suppose.

That would lessen the impact of either mechanic, though, which was my point. If 1000 65s only need top tier or all tiers, they'll still need just as much top tier. Time will lessen the resource needs under either scenario, as well.

[Sarthius]

Farm it

[Gwizzz]

TIP. Iron doesn't spawn on roads. Instead of following roads or using fast travel shrines to get from A to B, run though the forest. Mine boulders, chop trees, look left and right and check your compass for node markers. You will find them if you look for them.

[~T~D~]

It was balanced around botting, Haven't seen it now 2024 so they def. should adjust drop rates on everything.

[blaes]

Originally posted by ~T~D~:

It was balanced around botting, Haven't seen it now 2024 so they def. should adjust drop rates on everything.

Care to back that claim up ?
it was never 'balanced around botting'.