AionInsider.com Article: Crafting: Gathering 101

[DoranM]

Crafting within Aion goes well beyond what can be found in a typical MMORPG; both in the aspects of gathering and crafting. That being the case, it would take a book to explain it all at once. For this article, I’ll go over the methods of gathering materials and how the related skill ranks [...]

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[McReady]

I'm so glad that crafting is going to be a big deal in-game. It gives meaning to private shops because you can create your own recipes and make some pretty awesome stuff once you lvl your crafts high enough. Coming from SoR myself gives me the backbone to understanding what I hope will be a very extensive crafting system.

[Valendir]

One (the only?) thing I liked about Star Wars Galaxies was the complexity of resources. Basically, all resources were divided in a tree of categories and subcategories. Recipes would sometimes need a particular resource (say Iron) or maybe just a ferrous metal or maybe even just a metal. So you could choose which of your resources you would use to fulfill a particular requirement of a recipe. Also, the rarity/value of the resource chosen might affect the success rate.

[McReady]

Yes! It looks about as complex as any good crafting system. Can't wait to explore, prospect, and dig, dig, dig!

[Firael]

It might just be me, but half the guide is basically unreadable do to the text color.

First time looking it looked extremely short and incomplete : / then I outlined some of the text and noticed that there was a bit more as the page scrolled down.

Anyways, This offered a lot of answers about gathering.. thx for that. Now I have endless questions concerning actual crafting, guide coming soon?

[kayser]

Good article, i've learned some things i didn't know before.

But like Firael said, i had to outlined some of the text
for it to be readable.

A guide on crafting would be of great help,
we'd be so grateful

[Magius]

I hope a crafting guide comes out soon. Also do we have any information on how creative we can get with crafting. I have always enjoyed crafting and gathering and I am excited to hear more.

[Valorguy]

I tried to do some crafting in the last Closed Beta - I didn't have the time to fully get into it, but it looks VERY promising.

[Disgriminator]

Hi has anybody noticed that if you gather an item as soon as you have finished the last gather sequence, that sometimes it fails instantly???? (it annoys the hell outta me..lol Jumping everytime b4 clicking again). And is it a major enough bug to get fixed or is it staying to give chars a chance to fight over a node.... just askin cos i noticed it a lot in the chinese beta / release, and also in the closed EU betas

[Jueki]

Originally Posted by Disgriminator

Hi has anybody noticed that if you gather an item as soon as you have finished the last gather sequence, that sometimes it fails instantly???? (it annoys the hell outta me..lol Jumping everytime b4 clicking again). And is it a major enough bug to get fixed or is it staying to give chars a chance to fight over a node.... just askin cos i noticed it a lot in the chinese beta / release, and also in the closed EU betas

Same thing happened to me. I'm not sure if this is intended or a bug, but it shouldn't be too hard to get used to waiting a second after each gathering attempt (unless some nyerk runs up to jack your stuff..).

[PewPewLaz0r]

Nice guide =P

I don't see what you guys mean by the hard to see text .. i saw everything fine =X

WTB a crafting guide xD

[shava23]

I had no issues with the color of text on Firefox. Nice guide!

Shava

[Maffyx]

Thanks for this, its a pretty good explanation on how the gathering system works, it was pretty insightful to me.

[commiedic]

Originally Posted by McReady

Yes! It looks about as complex as any good crafting system. Can't wait to explore, prospect, and dig, dig, dig!

OMG who let the care bears out?

J/K

I will be doing much PvP, but I also love marketing and business competition.

[Karunama]

Originally Posted by Jueki

Same thing happened to me. I'm not sure if this is intended or a bug, but it shouldn't be too hard to get used to waiting a second after each gathering attempt (unless some nyerk runs up to jack your stuff..).

As far as I can tell, the reason for this is that inputting ANY command while in the middle of something, like gathering, cancels the current action. So, when you're already gathering from your first click and you click it again cuz the box hasn't popped up yet or whatever... Also, what the article failed to mention is that every resource node seems to have a random number of gather attempts available to it. From what I observed on the OBT the number doesn't appear to be set, and failures do indeed count against that number as well