I haven't played this game since I was in my early tweens/teens and I'm now 21 so I assume the game has changed a lot. My favorite thing to do in this game is crafting and making money. I've always wanted a large forge home so it's my goal to get one of those. (Never had a home yet. lol) Anyways, I've been reading some random forums and stuff and I've read people say that blacksmithing is useless now? Because everyone's a mage or whatever. I don't know. I'm really clueless as to pvp and combat in this game. Could someone please explain?
Is Blacksmithy Useful?
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BeerJedi
Grandmaster
I'm a Merchant/Blacksmith and they're not useless. BODs allow for smiths to build runic weapons. I sell those and make fairly decent income (beyond the my most recent success with Val... before everyone pipes in on that).
BOD trading can be lucrative, ask those folks i purchased key sBODs from. I see a lot of folks Selling AR Dexxer suites and make a living that way. Poison dexxers will always be looking for weaps. Oh, and not everyone is a mage. They may have magic to supplement, but i die nearly half the time to someeone's big ole axe/maul to the face.
BOD trading can be lucrative, ask those folks i purchased key sBODs from. I see a lot of folks Selling AR Dexxer suites and make a living that way. Poison dexxers will always be looking for weaps. Oh, and not everyone is a mage. They may have magic to supplement, but i die nearly half the time to someeone's big ole axe/maul to the face.
Mango
Grandmaster
Personally I find Crafting to be very fun! ^_^
edw3rdwood
Grandmaster
Well you have to consistently keep your vendor stocked, and make sure it gets good traffic, in order to make money directly off armor suits. Also you have to mine your own ingots or you'll just be spending all your profits buying them from someone else. So the mining + crafting lifestyle has to appeal to you if you want to make a profit. The best thing to do would probably get a mining/crafting/storage house for yourself for cheap, and just lease out a vendor at a great spot instead of worrying about creating that great spot yourself
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BeerJedi
Grandmaster
That is what i do.
halygon
Grandmaster
+1 on money to be had for Blacksmiths. Definitely not useless.
Easy_buddy
Journeyman
Just curious, of the people that have posted on the financial benefits of crafting, how many crafters(I.e. 4 smiths, 6 tailors) do you have, and how long have you had a vendor in your high traffic spots? Or, alternatively, how long has your vendor mall been in the same spot?
IMHO, everything is unbalanced here because of the existance of barbed armor and the lack of dex penalty on chain/ring.
IMHO, everything is unbalanced here because of the existance of barbed armor and the lack of dex penalty on chain/ring.
halygon
Grandmaster
I have one blacksmith/tailor and an additional tailor. I have never used any vendor mall except my own, which I placed right after I started on this shard (lotsa empty plots back then). I didn't turn it into a vendor mall until dec of last year. I have spent more on gating regs than most anyone as I try to gate 24/7 (although there are just sometimes I cant).