Runes of Magic US / AU

Hello

Caution, this is a rant, but IMHO, a much-needed one.

/Rant

Ok, in an effort to move toward lvl 70 in crafting (finally made 67), I crafted 233 white items (lvl 66) and got a whopping ~50% towards a level. Of those items, 3 had 2 slots, all low-dura white items; 5 were blue (2 OD, 101 and 102), 24 green items (did not count the OD, not worth putting in AH ), and the rest were white items (also not worth anything but selling to a vendor, bind-on-equip for whites, sheesh).

Now, at this level, I have to buy all my mats, ore sand and wood timber, because I cannot make them anymore. I can still gather the basic ore and wood with pots, but that is time-consuming and pretty useless without someone else to do turn them into useful things.

NOW, all the items I make sell to a vender for less than the cost of making them, I lose about 600gp on each item, too. (about 4M gold to get the mats, about another 140K lost to vendoring, and 50% increase in my crafting skill, joy joy joy!!!).


Major Problems with the crafting system now (specifically carpentry, but some applies to all crafts except cooking and alchemy):

1. White items (including upgrades): bind on equip

2. Missing Green Recipes: can not make blue items (also no greens upgraded to purple, or blue to purple or orange: the items most likely to sell at this level).

3. Lower chances of upgraded items (I remember greens from whites being ~1 in 10, blues from whites ~1 in 20), looks like blue is now ~1 in 50. (I thought it was gonna be worse, my first blue came at about 120 items)

4. Lower chances of 2 slots? not sure about this one, but I do remember getting them more often, maybe I am just unlucky

5. Crafted items are considerably less powerful than equal-level, same-rarity-color items, even ones that drop from regular mobs.

6. Stats (at least on white items) are few and very low compared to equal-level, same-rarity-color items. Most white items drop from mobs with a XII or higher on it; crafters have to hope for a IX. So can't even count on selling the item for its stat

/End Rant

Ciao,

Dave

Short update. Was able to sell most of the blue items and recap ~500k of my investment. Wow, now I can try to make it to lvl 68 carpenter with all that gold seeing as I am only 3.75M in the hole for half a level.

My big problem with planting is that I am at level 20 and can not get a green dew drop to drop for me. My house is full and I have no money for expansion, so I only plant one pot at a time (most of my space is taken up by storage that is full).

I also have five housekeepers and do not see getting a 6th one anytime in the near future. So working with the one space I can create, I have planted 12 times so far (which equates to too much work), harvested always at 100% health, always use seeds of lower level like it suggests to increase my chances of getting special drops, and still no green dew drop.

I did get one +15% color chance improvement pot, whoop-de-do, wanted to trade it for the dew drop. Any suggestions on getting past lvl 20? And I think 40 and 60 will be worse.

I thank you for your suggestion, and wish it would work for me (still trying, but getting frustrated).