Crafting doesn't make sense!

[mijorious]

Wife and I have waited for years for this game and some things are good, but other are REALLY bad, like crafting! Unless I'm missing something, nobody I know that's playing can figure it out. We are all stuck with green gear with a few pieces of blue that we got from questing. NOW, we want to make new gear but can't.

What we understand is that we have to make "blank" Lithographs. THEN, we have to "imprint" them with the armor we want to make, right? So if we already have the armor to imprint with, WHY do we have to make the Lithograph to make the same piece of armor?

We are all crafters and can't figure this out since launch. We're level 50 in low level gear still.

What's up with this? Is crafting that hard in this game? Can't figure it out and have watched dozens of videos in it.

[󠀡󠀡]

you get some blue weapon/armors and epic chest from the codex and you can also craft some blues from lithographs you get from the free battlepass and then you do dungeons

[mijorious]

We got a few blues but need to craft the rest plus our jewelry. Then we need purple gear. Point I'm making is that, as we understand it, we need the armor to imprint the Lithographs of the gear we want to craft. If we already have the armor then we don't need the Lithographs! So HOW do we get the purple gear?

And none of us are too keen on Dungeons. We always play together and pretty much quest and craft. But can't figure out the crafting.

[[LZ]Icy]

Same here , we cannot figure it out , we already half in full epics... And havent been able to craft a single piece... (all from random drops , dungeons and the abyss...)

[Death of Doggy Poo Lives]

no you can't craft any of that nor are you supposed to. You get purple gear from dungeons and bosses mostly. Making lithographs is so you can sell your armor in the auction house. Then other people can buy that lithograph and craft it. This is not a game where you can just be a crafter

[Rhomilo]

you need 2nd piece of the same gear only
when you want to add new trait
but already opened traits can be lvld with the extracted traits from other gear,
im not sure of all the details of it tho.

you can make the blank lithograph and then imprint the item which already have open trait you do not need/want
and take a chance to reroll wanted/needed trait by crafting it.

and another reason is to craft the recipe to have 20% chance for superior success, gaining a item that is ready to sell as full item on auction house, rather than selling lithographs.

[SilberzeroX]

I think you might missunderstand this game a little bit. Throne and Liberty is almost 100% PvE/PvP/Events and NPC-grinding. Thats where you get all your gear (if you dont buy it at the market).
The purpose of crafting gear is making the gear you have better or sell the secondary stats at the market to get some luzent.
This is not a game for just beeing a crafter.

[ExplorerNMS]

Originally posted by SilberzeroX:

I think you might missunderstand this game a little bit. Throne and Liberty is almost 100% PvE/PvP/Events and NPC-grinding. Thats where you get all your gear (if you dont buy it at the market).
The purpose of crafting gear is making the gear you have better or sell the secondary stats at the market to get some luzent.
This is not a game for just beeing a crafter.

Sorry, I have to inject a little philosophy.

An Explanation and Sense are two entirely different things.
Statement 1) "The Crafting system doesn't make sense."
Statement 2) "The crafting system is for selling secondary stats."
The explanation of the Crafting system does NOT make or mean the crafting system makes sense.
Crafting systems are normally, usually, traditionally, used to create a higher level piece of gear.
Crafting systems have NOT been used to EXTRACT affixes, traits, or improve existing, already acquired pieces of gear.

I have to stop here, and I can't explain this point any further, because I don't understand the crafting system and it doesn't make any sense to me either.

[holdem]

It's Korean sense, turn game in a big cash shop.
Why would any one want to craft or find gear when you can simply buy it on market?
Sorry these free to play nonsense games need to die.

[Boink]

There are better alternatives and it drops often in Abyssal dungeons.

[OneNineDeepSilence]

Because it's not a real crafting system, it's there just so they can say that crafting is one of the features, but it's mostly to combine time gated stuff.
You don't have crafting level either, it's all done by the NPC, you just order the NPC to make that item if you bring the materials.

There is no real crafting system here, just a combine items system.

Cooking is the only one that is close to crafting, but even there you can craft it in a few seconds and be done with, if you already gathered the mostly time gated materials. That's very similar to a combine items system, it's just further locked behind cooking levels.

[mijorious]

Originally posted by Death of Doggy Poo Lives:

no you can't craft any of that nor are you supposed to. You get purple gear from dungeons and bosses mostly. Making lithographs is so you can sell your armor in the auction house. Then other people can buy that lithograph and craft it. This is not a game where you can just be a crafter

WOW! We all thought it was. We all love crafting. So we wasted almost 2 years waiting for this. Totally misleading! Oh well, guess we'll all move on. Hmmmm. SO disappointed!