1.2 Update Questions

[VoodooSpecter]

Crafting Armor and Weapons
Is it intentional that the cost in days for some items is now 2/5/10 instead of 2/4/8? As far as I can tell this doesn’t make it harder to craft, it just makes it harder to craft OTHER things in your crafting cycle if you build journeyman or masterwork. Food for thought, not sure what the intent is.

Armor and Weapon Specialties
I was under the impression that originally the benefit of the material specialties in these professions were split so that one benefit applied regardless of how many professions you used - specifically ignoring 2 components, and the other alternate option (adding 2 days) was available only if you used that single profession exclusively. This avoids having two specialties that stack to get you 4 days, but also let you still benefit from specialization if you used multiple professions.

Presently the wording indicates that you could take armorer and weaponsmith and use only one material in order to get +4 days. Possible typo, should have clarification.

Gatherer

Possible typo:
Skilled Gathering: Receive 1 randomly selected unusual find (permanent profession component)
Skilled Foraging: Receive 1 randomly selected item (temporary profession component)

I assume both were supposed to say “Unusual Find”, since otherwise the description does not differ from the standard gathering and foraging actions. If the Skilled Foraging version is correct, I’m not actually sure what the benefit of these skills would be. From the Skilled Gathering description it appears that they ware intended to give you guaranteed uncommons with no chance for commons.

Question: Does Keen Eye apply to these skills and reduce the cost in days of using them? If so, I think it should be included in the table. If not, that should be included in the description of Keen Eye, so that players with Keen Eye know that it does not impact their advanced skills.

Question: Are costs for the advanced gatherer skills different for gathering vs. foraging? Currently they appear the same, which is a reversal of previous decisions. Not complaining just confirming.

[Staff_Mike_Blue]

Crafting Armor and Weapons
"harder" is all relative, I guess. Both # of components and # of days limit your output. In this case I want to keep math simple in game knowing that components are useful in powers of 2 for crafters, but days impact rate of production, so they’re still ‘harder’ to produce in the sense that difficulty is about restrictions and required resources. If you see a way to take advantage of that go for it. If it breaks something slightly I will correct it, but usually when I do so people I let people who got their stuff in before the correction keep it. Except in extreme cases.

Armor and Weapon Specialties
I had to read this a couple of times, but yes, you’re correct. One could, according to the way that is written, get 14 total days out of combining armorer and weaponsmith using a single specialization. I’ll run that by Steve and see if he views it as a problem. IMO the payoff is pretty bad for having two professions unless you highly prize versatility, this would not be game unbalancing if it remained in.

Gatherer
Typo is a typo

Keen Eye: I don’t actually have an answer. Systematically you roll on a table and the risk determines how many instances of ‘unusual find’ and ‘danger’ there are. This system bypasses that. It also does not account for the ‘danger’ portion of it, I am now realizing, so I will have to fix that, but I believe I know how. I think there’s no way keen eye could work for this… maybe it could reduce cost by 1 day… will talk to the rest of staff.

Advanced gathering skills: You correct here again. Because you only need one (or maybe two if you’re special) item to make a permanent item permanently extra cool those items are regarded as more valuable. Therefore they’re harder to get, therefore the skill will be more expensive.

[jslowick]

The examples in Armorer no longer mesh with the new 2/5/10 crafting and it reads even more confusing.
For example:

“Components/days cost are listed for these recipes as they scale up. So “Resist Mundane once per Rest”
would cost 2 metal and take 2 days. If you wanted it to function twice per Rest 4 metal and 4 days would
be required.”

Even though that is wrong and should be 4 metal and 5 days.

If you don’t have craft spec, does easily repaired only take wood to make, but changes to 2 metal/wood/fiber after you do, or is the wood in the table a typo?

Now if you want a +2 Armor and Resist Fire armor would it be 9 days and 8 components (4 fiber, 4 metal), according to the chart, or would it be 8/8 according to the master formula above?

I’d add the 2/5/10 to the change list, since its a change.