How Important is Crafting?

[UCanResetIfUWannoo]

TL;DR Will I miss out if I only collect bottles and oil?

Collecting all of these items is overwhelming for me to keep track of and to manage my encumbrance. I don't think it is fun to do so. As I play this game, I see that I have a good time just fighting and exploring with the pawns.

[Senki]

You need some of those items to upgrade your weapons and armor so they are pretty important. A lot of curatives are useful later on too for status effects/buffs.

[UCanResetIfUWannoo]

Originally posted by Senki:

You need some of those items to upgrade your weapons and armor so they are pretty important. A lot of curatives are useful later on too for status effects/buffs.

Alright. I guess I will continue to collect and dump all of it into storage. Maybe I can make sense of it down the road. Thanks your your response.

[Razer]

Some items can be combined into more useful or rarer items. As stated by Senki, a lot of the materials are used to upgrade weapons. My advice is to have always at least 1 of each item. Items can be duplicated at Mountebank in Gran Soren. Some items are very rare or hard to come by.

[Arcade Bumstead]

Get the augments sinew and leg strength. Make your pawns carry stuff. Wear lighter gear.
Get an idea of what you want/need and learn what you can ignore. You pretty much never need skulls, for example, but you can make skeleton keys with shackles somehow.

[Razer]

+1 on sinew. It's from the Fighter Vocation.

[Migromul]

If you don't like picking up items much, just rent a pawn with the aquisitor-inclination. Not a small one, and one with the sinew-attribute. Fighters work quite well, but striders/Rangers or even Sorcerers might also do. Although, they tend to have other inclinations and don't have the sinew-attribute on a regular basis. And striders tend to have a smaller stature, so they can't carry very much, especially without sinew.

Warriors are a worse choice, because, they have heavy equipement. You don't want that, if your goal is grind. .

I just rented a pawn, named "Schnitzel". He was mid-40 at that time. A fighter with sinew and aquisitor. He collected so much, this was a real comfort. And the combat wasn't bad either. Sadly, I forgot to make him one of my favorites. But perhaps I find him again anyway.

[Asphe]

Sinew affects smaller/lighter character more. Total effect is still less than on a big/heavy character but you shouldn't discount the small fry ^_^.

There is also Leg Strength (helps big guys more) plus certain armor sets have the 'leg armor' with a bonus enhancement "Increases maximum item-carrying capacity".

My main pawn has both Sinew & the bonus enhancement. She carries more than most 'big' pawns I've met. Being small and light, she can go through that 'tunnel' and moves around a lot better while on large bosses (i.e. griffin, cyclops). Get all three augments on a linebacker pawn and you only need to visit the Inn once a week ^_^.

Acquisitor... hmm. If it gets high enough, they might give in to their greed at inconvenient moments. Mine has Utilitarian/Challenger/Scather but give her a pick and she'll grab all the ores she sees, without stopping to pick up trash.