Chef Archive

I've thought about that as well after speaking to some friends about how much more important resources will be now. I wonder if this is a patch for the rich to become richer and the poor to become poorer? If 12 points is the norm to craft any decent food along with resources that are in the 900's, I don't see many new crafters becoming great anytime soon :/

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Meplorium wrote:

The whole crafting nerf is just stupid and being done for the right reasons but the wrong way to do it.

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I'm not sure I fully understand it but I enjoyed it

In their full combat rebalance I think they are doing the nerfing. The real problem is someone there gets paid a lot of money for game design. They saw a few problems, some people complained about crafting crit fails and experimentation crit fails. So some guy decides to do his job. The game designer has no clue about crafting, making a video game is probably much like food service, even though you work there, you never want to eat there. So none of them really play or understand the game they are working on, yet are paid to make the game 'better'. So they come up with some new way to fix crafting and address all the complaints, do much self back patting and expect everyone to rejoice. Unfortunetly they have no idea what they are doing. You give these guys too much credit thinking they did this as a stealth nerf. I don't see them understanding their game or their customers well. Why they put this forward and why no one bought it.

I think the change is good. It will create a larger and more needed divide between the chefs that love what they do and try to do it as best as possible by only gathering the best resources and collecting tapes, versus those who have little enthusiasm and gather whatever resource happened to spawn right outside there house.

In general if you are a dedicated crafter resources and tapes should have been priority 1 from the start, not an after thought.

Not sure about your server, but there are so many chefs on my server that you need 12 points to complete. After the patch forget it. Chef is one of the professions that is greatly helped by 12 points, I would say more so than weaponsmith. It makes a huge difference in the final product, believe it or not. 20% extra experimentation goes a lot longer than what most may think off hand.

The whole crafting nerf is just stupid and being done for the right reasons but the wrong way to do it.

I'm not sure I understand what the change was supposed to do completelybut ifthey did decide to do that (cancel the change) I can only praise them. Its a remarkable quality to discontinue something you have worked on because the opinions of others are against it. Good sign from the developers.