Craft Update

Good day, dear administration team,

I am a new player on your Aion server.
I really enjoy your leveling system in the game - it feels like a breath of fresh air and reminds me of my experience from 12 years ago, which I remember with great warmth.

I especially want to highlight the way you designed the system of giving different coins (Bronze/Silver/Gold, etc.) as the level increases. This is a very cool idea that makes the gameplay even more engaging, and the character’s progress feels much more rewarding. I truly enjoy leveling my characters up to level 65.

Dear administration, I would like to ask you to make some changes to the crafting system in order to make all professions more relevant, not just Alchemy and Cooking:

1. Simplify obtaining Balaur recipes - specifically, increase the drop rate of all hearts.
   At the moment, hearts drop one by one from monsters, which makes acquiring recipes quite difficult and very monotonous, especially for players who are interested in crafting.
   
   
2. Increase the amount of Balaur ingredients of all grades.
   This is especially important for appearance items. Acquiring recipes and materials for Balaur recipes is also problematic since they currently drop only one at a time.
   

Suggestion: Increase the drop to x5 from a single monster, so that when killing them, players receive 5 Balaur ingredients at once.

This will simplify recipe acquisition for crafters and make other professions more attractive for a wider range of players.

Personally, I really enjoy crafting, and I would like to level up all professions and collect all recipes, just as I did many years ago, since it brings me a lot of joy. Unfortunately, the issue with obtaining hearts and ingredients exists on all servers.

On your server, Gathering already have a x6 rate and start at 250+ (for which I give you special thanks).
This is already a great foundation for crafting, and the improvements I am suggesting would make the rest of the crafting system more appealing for other players as well.

I believe these changes could also attract new players who enjoy the crafting aspect of the game.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.

Thank you for your attention.
Your new player - and as you may have guessed already - a crafting enthusiast

 

I like your suggestion, and also think that animas that are used for crafting potions and scrolls could be dropped on an equal rate as gathering. Not so much the ones used for ceramium morphins necessarily? or yes!

 

Great idea with the animation, and thank you for agreeing with my thoughts.

 

Hello! Welcome to the server, I'm also a crafting lover. We are few in this server but we do exist.
I can assure you that isn't so difficult to grind balaur hearts, I've crafted few skins and always had to grind all kind of hearts to be able to buy the designs I wanted, it's actually pretty easy if you have vip account but your suggestion isn't bad, it would just make crafting easier, which is good since the main focus from this server is pvp.

 

Just to add, Lower the cooldowns for some craft-table components, and purchasable npc components....
White, Red and Blue Helos...

 

This deserves a "thumbs up".

 

Your opinion is also viable as an alternative if it’s easier to implement.
From my point of view, farming Balaur components would also solve the issue of earning Kinah, and at the same time it would increase the chances of encounters with the opposing faction, which would add more dynamics to the game

 

Thank you for your kind words

 

I’ve started exploring crafting, and the creation of items is indeed accelerated, just like gathering, which is really great to see.
Crafting only takes a long time when the recipe level and the current crafting level differ by less than 10.

 

You know what would be really nice? If they could add a npc with all designs, elyos and asmo designs, there's few elyos weapon skins with better look than asmo ones. Wise Dragon skins, for example. Someone already asked it once but sadly I don't think crafting is something in their priority list.

 

Please improve the proc rate as well especially for crafting weapons. The current proc rate makes it not worth to gather and farm mats.