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Like the improvements to the broker system. Much more functional, plus I get to use my vault space in my room for actual storage rather than selling.

As a ranger I have heard nothing but gloom and doom on how LU #24 was the final slap in the face for the class. Frankly I didn't see much of a problem at all.

I haven't checked out Fallen Dynasty yet mainly cause I am lvl 46 and probably too low for the content.

I didnt get to check out too much except for the broker system. As soon as I figured it out, I was in heaven. Sooo much easier to find things, and I cut my time in half when putting things up for sale. One thing I noticed was when putting items up for sale in your house, Sony has given each item an estimated price, like WoW does for the AH. I noticed if you put your item up for more than the est price, the yes tag turns white. If you underprice it, its red. It doesnt do much, but I was content I actually figured that out.

The other thing I loved was when searching for other items up for sale, you just highlight the item in your bank and click one of the tabs to search. Instead of having to write in the item, it automatically looks it up for you. Big time saver right there.


My monk got fear last night, and because the broker system is so new as well as a bunch of monks now getting this, Ill most likely be stuck with App 2 for awhile. But I did try it out and it worked on a lvl 68 heroic mob with an App1 so yay.

Havent gotten the adv pack yet, but I plan on it this weekend. Cant wait to check out the new areas. Overall Im pleased with what Ive seen so far.

I did some harvesting for my alts in Ant and TS. I like the new speed.

Common crafted gear items were always mainly vendor fodder, with the possible exception of imbued versions. They are even more so now.

I also see rares are much less rare now - and to compensate some of them aren't as good as they used to be. Cobalt armor got a severe nerf, not just on the rarity issue but because it was too close in quality to raid drops from T5 (yes, the previous tier.) Raiders cannot abide the common people running around in gear as nice as theirs, and even worse do not want to be "forced" to purchase it to have the best item in each slot. Heresy. /rolls eyes

Some lower tier weapons I've seen actually got better, but dropped and quested weapons have always squashed the desirability of weaponsmith made items and still will. This is the worst in T7, but lower levels are approaching T7 in that regard. The gear they're adding as quested and drops as they revamp the lower zones (CL and Nek this time) totally blow away anything we can make. It doesn't look good. The only thing that gives me hope is the adornments system they're planning for EoF.

Ultimately, the price on rare items will go down quite a bit. They will be nothing special, just someting you might use to get by with a small upgrade until you can get that drop you really want.



That's actually the amount an NPC merchant will give you for the item. Unless you're feeling generous there's no reason to sell it on the broker for less. ;)

Well I finally got around to putting up my items for sale at lunch and I found my biggest pet pieve with the new changes so far.

I can not search for drink by level. Searching for drinks 40+ turned up nothing. So I thought I was only person to have them up at the time. Of course that couldnt be right so I just searched for drinks periond and all the level ranges are up there there is no way other then paging through all the pages to figure out what prices are on the specific level range you are selling or buying.

Perhaps a good idea for another update would be to increase the stacks for harvested items. Getting a stack of 50 is pretty easy now, with a bit of luck you can have that in 10 harvests.

The broker system is much better than it used to be, especially if you want to sell something. Although some people don't really get it I suppose, after all, selling an item for less than what the system itself says isn't smart. But I've seen items sell for slightly less.

Maybe they thought that they would definitely sell their item then, they most likely aren't wrong though but still.

I'm wondering which NPC price this is based on. The crafting house vendor and harbormaster at QH give higher prices than the merchants in city villages. Must check this out.

Been doing Tier 7 crafting for a while now and it's definately a lot easier but more just a mechanical process now. Not quite as interesting without the *logical* subcombines. However the trade off is we can make a lot more items in the time.

When I first read about the new selling system, it seemed you had to set it up at the broker so I was pleased to discover you can do it right in your room. Some folks were trying to drag the boxes straight from vault to the selling slots, but you have to place everything in inventory first.

All seems good to me so far

Overall, I like the changes, with the exception of them tinkering with summoners. The one thing I did notice about the changes to the armor, are that, while they dropped the mitigation on them, especially cobalt, they also added better stats to each piece. Each piece now has str,agi, and sta. Where as before, they had mixed stats, some with int, and so on.

Overall changes are ok.
I like the new broker system to put your stuff up for sale. Only thing I find annoying though is when looking up items to see for how much they sell to give you an idea, window shows the price of the item INCLUDING the broker fee, which means that to stay competitive you have to basically take off 20% of the price of said item all the time.

AP is good. There is stuff for everyone. Solo, group, group instances, epicX2 zone and epicX4 zone. The solo instances you can do in the tower are ok I guess - timed run (a templar's worse nightmare). Once again SOE privileges classes that can actually do damage. In fact, for some classes, we found out it was much easier to do those trials in groups in the heroic version. They are much easier and give more tokens (that can be used to buy titles).

The instance found at the bottom of Forsaken city is extremely challenging. It is also a zone needed to unlock the higher raiding zone of the AP and my guess is you practically need a perfect set up group to be able to go through that zone.

Fairly neat so far. AP is much better than the 1st one was, and seems about as good as splitpaw was. I prefer the quests in this new one though.

It's the highest price you can possibly get from an NPC, like the innkeeper in your home town or the wholesaler in your tradeskill instance.

In case you don't know what wer're concerned about here: Some merchants give less for items than others. NPC's anywhere outside your city walls will give you the least coin for your stuff. I avoid selling to them unless I really need to free up space. In places you had to earn faction to get into, like Splitpaw or a Maj'Dul court, the NPC's will be more generous.

The thing with the whole raid vs crafted gear I think they could have handled better... instead of giving an outright nerf to crafted gear why not just change the stats on the raid gear to buff them up? I'm sure they could make it so if they wanted to the stats on the "old" raid items would update to whatever they set the "new" items too. Oh well

Actually Woodworkers make wooden weapons (clubs, staves and pikes), totems (i.e. potions), wands, bows, ammo (arrows and thrown), shields and instruments (which have no use in game ATM). They make the new harvesting tools now as well, since LU24.

As a crafter I would like to feel needed. I don't want to make tons of money, I just want to be able to make things that people want. When DoF came out with it's really nice Cobalt gear and imbued weapons were introduced we were in our heyday. Then certain raiding people whined and we've been nerfed to a position worse than we were in before.

It appears the devs want to make crafting less an integral part of the game and a source of good gear and more of a sideline hobby to while away a few hours of solo time. Having played since launch and leveled to 70 mostly when it was truly long, slow road to hoe, it feels like a betrayal. Especially as it was the devs position at launch that crafters would produce some of the best weapons in the game.

There are many ways they can save weaponsmiths (and to a slightly lesser extent, armorers).

Allow us to customize weapons

Let us make ultra rare weapons out of all rare raws that are of Fabled or near Fabled quality.

Let us make fabled weapons out of raid dropped items like dragon teeth.

Give us a consumable like the sharpening stones they have in WoW. (Really burns me that they made thrown weapons attractive to make and use then gave them to Woodworkers. Wooden shuriken... right.)

Let us specialize in a certain weapon type, or a cultural weapon via a long, involved quest.

Many ways. However we hear nothing at all from the devs in response to "The Weaponsmiths' Lament" Not even a "we're looking into it". I still really like this game and IMHO it's the best MMO out there now, but I'm getting discouraged about my place as a weaponsmith.

Frankly, the devs have stated nothing at all about the direction they're going with crafting in general. In the face of all the simplification and nerfage that has happened steadily since launch, it's hard to be optimistic without any input from them. The June Producers Letter from Scott Hartsman spoke at length about their LU24 changes to summoners and crowd control abilities, and the future direction for EQ2 developemnt, but did not mention tradeskills even once. As big a part of LU24 as they were, his silence speaks volumes, to me at least.

Thanks for listening to my diatribe. Now go kill something! Preferably with a crafted weapon. :)