Do i have to do crafts?

[NathanosATD]

I really don't wanna be crafter. Is it crucial? I have never been a crafter in any mmorpg so idon't wanna be in this one too. I don't have time for it and even if i do i wouldn't do it. So... yep thats the question.

[Kiss My Ax]

No you do not have to and its not required that you do

[Brownstone]

You need to improve crafting a bit. You don't need to put any effort into it, just deconstruct every trash item and you gain crafting xp and they'll be 50 eventually.

Best gear is not crafted gear so you won't have to craft your gear. Why do you need crafting then? Because upgrading gear requires some crafting skills unless you want to spend a fortune.

Upgrading armor from Epic to Legendary improves your stats by around 5% so it's no big deal but upgrading your weapon improves it's stats by almost 20% so at least having Legendary weapons is important. Gear mostly drops in Epic so you'll want to upgrade your weapons.

For example, upgrading a Sword to Legendary requires an upgrade material called Tempering Alloy. Each Tempering Alloy costs around 5k gold currently. You need 24 of them to upgrade. It's really expensive. However, if you have a specific crafting passive maxed, you'll only need 8 of them, which makes upgrading it much, much cheaper.

That's all you need crafting for. Other than that, it's useful for crafting some good gear for your alt characters until you drop better gear for them. But even then, you can just buy it from another crafter, so, no, crafting is not completely necessary.

Oh and also even if you're not interested in crafting, I'd suggest researching item traits. Because you'll want to transmute some gear in the future (For example you dropped an Inferno Staff with Defending trait but you want Infused trait) so you'll have to have that trait researched to be able to transmute. Reearching traits takes no effort anyway.

[hyperion]

I doubt it. 200+ hours and I've never crafted anything, yet.

[Halcyform]

You don't have to, but the crafting in ESO is very simple compared to other MMOs.

Honestly, there's not much reason NOT to do them - especially armor/weapon sets.

When you want better gear, do you really want to have to depend on ESO's haphazard haberdashery that's supposed to pass for a trading system or just make your own?

Additionally, when you are forced to rely on said haberdashery, you are often paying entirely too much.

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Halcyform の投稿を引用：

You don't have to, but the crafting in ESO is very simple compared to other MMOs.

A single character can learn all the crafting types. Much easier than in other games you might have played.

[Wendigo]

i have nearly 3k hours, i only do upgrading on gear, never crafted anything

[Noah]

Yes you have to craft because i said so

[Naravolian]

Certain crafted sets are really good to have (e.g. Julianos or Hundings Rage, depending on your build) but you can always buy them from another crafter (either pay one to make them or find one in guild traders).

The best in slot gear, however, is usually NOT crafted sets, so I wouldn't worry about it. (Although crafted sets are great to have while you make a "proper" build).

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Crafting writs are a quick source of gold as well.