Which MMORPG has the best crafting system?

SirPaulius

S.U.N you can farm materials easy and sell them expensive

orlac

Originally posted by Djin

I would have to say Star Wars Galaxies hands down has the best crafting system I've seen.

  

Ditto

raistalin69

Originally posted by Cassawren

The only MMORPG I have played is EQ2. I quickly found that I preferred crafting to fighting.The only problem was that it equally as quickly became clear that Sony did not take crafters seriously. I hung on until the expansion and the upgrades, hoping that things would get better, it didn't. If anything it was worse with crafting not really being taken into account bugged beyond belief and just IMO an add on that would be dealt with(maybe) after the REAL stuff i.e fighting was sorted out.

I have left the game in discust and would love to find a fantasy MMORPG that does take crafters seriously. so if anyone is playing a game with a good crafting system, either in beta or on release I would be grateful to hear about it

 fallen earth

jusomdude

Hmmm, talk about necro, this thread is 5 years old lol.

Anyways, I liked Aions crafting, although it's not really profitable.

Artaios

neocron

severius

Hands down the best was Star Wars Galaxies prior to the NGE.  Varying qualities of goods and a shifting resource system, plus the quality of tools in combination with the skill level of the crafter including buffs and skill tapes made for a large variety of goods from cheapo knock offs to best of the best items.  There has been no crafting system that could come close to what SWG had been.

Dragondie

i have played alot of mmorpg over the years and eq2 has the best crafting system you can do every gathering profession.  Crafting goes from 1-80 you get the books from normal trainers and you can find master craft books in the world that also go 1-80 lets say you craft level 5 pants that give you 5 agi and 5 sta. Lets say you craft mastercraft of those same pants you will get like 10 agi 10 sta and a couple of other stats with it and it's the same level 5 item just crafted with a rare gathering item lets say you get leather cloth the rare would be something like fur leather cloth. Another cool thing about gathering is that 1 gathering item like iron would drop iron and some other type of stone thats used for a different crafting profession like trapping you get leather from it and meat so leather is used for leather working and meat for cooking so if you don't use the meat you can sell it on the broker. The best part of the crafting system is is where you go to craft it like in WoW you can craft any where you want click 100 things to craft walk away and come back in eq2 you have to go to a work bench and play this little mini game. You have 6 skills you can click that benefit 2 of the major bars durability and progress so i'll break it down to 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 to make it easier to understand 1 and 2 bring up durability but bring down progress 3 brings up durability with no penalty 4 and 5 bring up progress and bring down durability and 6 brings up progress with no penalty. While your crafting your durability drops so you have to keep it up or you will fail to make the item but the progress bar speeds up the item so you have to use the 1-6 skills to keep the durability up while trying to move the progress bar to finish faster. Threw out the crafting progress you get these counters that come up and if you hit the right key you can get a crit that moves it even more or if you miss it drains your power and health you use power to use the skills so it's alittle game you play if you walk away you'll most likely fail the craft. Last but least 1-6 come in pairs for the counters like 1,4 2,5 and 3,6 have the same icon for the counter not 100% sure but i know they come in pairs of 2 i find Eq2 to have the best pve around people just get turned off from the graphs and lack of addons that wow has but you always have something to do in the game and the mentoring system is great. If i made any mistakes i'm sorry i haven't played in a couple of months but i hope this helps with the best crafting system.

Khalathwyr

SWG (pre-NGE) hands down when factoring from resource gathering to final product and all steps inbetween.

Thillian

1. Vanguard

2. Vanguard without ships

3. Vanguard without housing

4. Vanguard without complications

5. Vanguard without crafting attributes

6. Vanguard without material quality and crafting builds.

7. SWG

8. Vanguard without all of the above

9. Fallen Earth

10. Vanguard without crafting

someforumguy

1. SWG - Offers most variety (armor, weapons, food, buildings, starships, vehicles, droids, beast engineering etc) and has imo best resource gathering system

2. Vanguard - Great crafting and offers great variety on crafted goods ,but uses the node hunting resource gathering.

3. Fallen Earth - A game where crafting really helps you right away during character progress.

These are about the only 3 games where I care about crafting. EQ2 is nice too, but I really dont like the look of crafted items in that game.

Gajari

Originally posted by Cassawren

Thanks to all for your suggestions, I am looking at a game that I think should have the kind of crafting that I want, it's Dark and Light. If you haven't heard about it check it out, they have a "prequel" coming out soon which is free to play called Settlers of Gannareth which will be free for 6 months until the actual game comes out, and the crafting system looks interesting......

www.darkandlight.net

 

You can't be serious..

This POS is still going?

EDIT: I really think you're mistaken. I was looking on the forum, Settlers of Ganareth was the name of it at release for pre-orders and all that crap. The main people from NPCube are apparently off working on another project called "Tales of Kalenor".

I really wouldn't trust this company, though, Cassa - they released a terribly buggy, early version of DnL that barely played, and then blamed it on pressure from the players forcing them to release it.

iZakaroN

Originally posted by Thillian

1. Vanguard

2. Vanguard without ships

3. Vanguard without housing

4. Vanguard without complications

5. Vanguard without crafting attributes

6. Vanguard without material quality and crafting builds.

7. SWG

8. Vanguard without all of the above

9. Fallen Earth

10. Vanguard without crafting

Even you miss Ryzom somewhere your chart is almost correct

Rockgod99

 

 

Eve, Ryzom, Swg, UO

Thorkune

Of all of the games I have played, I would say the best is SWG and the worst is a toss up between WoW and EQ2.

 

 

astoria

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Originally posted by Gajari

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Originally posted by Cassawren
Thanks to all for your suggestions, I am looking at a game that I think should have the kind of crafting that I want, it's Dark and Light. If you haven't heard about it check it out, they have a "prequel" coming out soon which is free to play called Settlers of Gannareth which will be free for 6 months until the actual game comes out, and the crafting system looks interesting......
www.darkandlight.net
 

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You can't be serious..
This POS is still going?
EDIT: I really think you're mistaken. I was looking on the forum, Settlers of Ganareth was the name of it at release for pre-orders and all that crap. The main people from NPCube are apparently off working on another project called "Tales of Kalenor".
I really wouldn't trust this company, though, Cassa - they released a terribly buggy, early version of DnL that barely played, and then blamed it on pressure from the players forcing them to release it.

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Cassawren's post was from October, 2005. In fact, this might be the best thread necro ever.

AcidWave

UO still my fav crafting system...

Feydaway

Originally posted by someforumguy

1. SWG - Offers most variety (armor, weapons, food, buildings, starships, vehicles, droids, beast engineering etc) and has imo best resource gathering system

2. Vanguard - Great crafting and offers great variety on crafted goods ,but uses the node hunting resource gathering.

3. Fallen Earth - A game where crafting really helps you right away during character progress.

These are about the only 3 games where I care about crafting. EQ2 is nice too, but I really dont like the look of crafted items in that game.

 QFT.  Nailed it!  I wouldn't bother with crafting in any other game.

SabbathSMC

i would have to say hands down wurm online has by far the best crafting system, if nothing else because of the teraforming. But you can layout houses and build them 1 board at a time. dig mines that need to be supported with support beams or you can have collapses. then all the normal crafting of every single item you see in the game. Including farming and harvesting of trees where you have to replant trees to make them grow. there is no other  game that offers a crafting system  even close to wurm online. Graphics for this game are worst that you can imagine and animations even worse than that. BUT for crafting its the best.

Second i would have to put SWG and third vanguard or horizons.

The new games coming out that have decent crafting are going to be Xyson with tera forming not as good as wurm yet but still tera forming and a massive crafting system on items. then dawntide where crafting is also very nice. you can craft houses work buildings castles its a massive crafting system on items as well.

Guotie

I would not advise jumping into SWG just to craft. Serious crafters need a long time to collect enought high quality resources and to afford a crafting suit. Many of the crafters in SWG have been doing it for years, and they generally sell things cheap, making buying resources to craft non profitable. Yes it's compicated & time consuming.

 

http://www.swgcraft.org/dev/home.php

 

this website can give you an idea of the complexity of the resources that go into crafting. Notice all the attributes of the resources.

Guotie

Originally posted by astoria

 

Cassawren's post was from October, 2005. In fact, this might be the best thread necro ever.

Great Success?

GTwander

Old SWG - back when resource qualities mattered.

Ryzom - there's a lot you can make and it's all useful.

Wurm - you *must* craft to get what you want, or pay/trade for someone else to, and the system itself is way better than the other two. Activate right hand > use on clay > make bowl > improve with tools > fire in an oven.

olepi

I will say Ryzom too. The best harvesting/crafting system, the harvesting can kill ya!

No set recipes, everyone has their own secret favorite.

And the NPC's don't drop stuff (except crafting mats) and the NPC traders only have junk. Everything good is made by the players. The way it has to be for a good crafting economy.

Krux

Please save yourself the time and money from catering to other failed suggestions on un-populated games mentioned here.  Just alot of folks trying to pull you into their unpopulated environment.

 

Look at the game-list, and choose a new game released from this month onward....most of which will not only have richer crafter capabilities, but a subscription-base that will make the massively-multiplayer environment more appealing for a crafter.

whpsh

Old SWG.

Random resources.

Random results.

Like 3+ sliders on everything you made, each one important (until they took out decay, then the armor/hp ones didn't), and each one letting you choose if you traded weight for power for shots / sec or min/max damage. Was extremely diverse and allowed for the exact same thing to have a range of quality and also a range of price.

Mazin

Originally posted by dragon1su2

i have played alot of mmorpg over the years and eq2 has the best crafting system you can do every gathering profession.  Crafting goes from 1-80 you get the books from normal trainers and you can find master craft books in the world that also go 1-80 lets say you craft level 5 pants that give you 5 agi and 5 sta. Lets say you craft mastercraft of those same pants you will get like 10 agi 10 sta and a couple of other stats with it and it's the same level 5 item just crafted with a rare gathering item lets say you get leather cloth the rare would be something like fur leather cloth. Another cool thing about gathering is that 1 gathering item like iron would drop iron and some other type of stone thats used for a different crafting profession like trapping you get leather from it and meat so leather is used for leather working and meat for cooking so if you don't use the meat you can sell it on the broker. The best part of the crafting system is is where you go to craft it like in WoW you can craft any where you want click 100 things to craft walk away and come back in eq2 you have to go to a work bench and play this little mini game. You have 6 skills you can click that benefit 2 of the major bars durability and progress so i'll break it down to 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 to make it easier to understand 1 and 2 bring up durability but bring down progress 3 brings up durability with no penalty 4 and 5 bring up progress and bring down durability and 6 brings up progress with no penalty. While your crafting your durability drops so you have to keep it up or you will fail to make the item but the progress bar speeds up the item so you have to use the 1-6 skills to keep the durability up while trying to move the progress bar to finish faster. Threw out the crafting progress you get these counters that come up and if you hit the right key you can get a crit that moves it even more or if you miss it drains your power and health you use power to use the skills so it's alittle game you play if you walk away you'll most likely fail the craft. Last but least 1-6 come in pairs for the counters like 1,4 2,5 and 3,6 have the same icon for the counter not 100% sure but i know they come in pairs of 2 i find Eq2 to have the best pve around people just get turned off from the graphs and lack of addons that wow has but you always have something to do in the game and the mentoring system is great. If i made any mistakes i'm sorry i haven't played in a couple of months but i hope this helps with the best crafting system.

Dude WTF, use the ENTER key.

BTW this thread is super old, Dark and Light was mentioned lol