Last night I completed my first Warhammer Online profession, Cultivating. I could have been done last week. I was sitting at 195 but didn’t bother growing the final five seeds needed to finish it out. I’ve been a bit miffed at being stuck in the 130s in Apothecary due to a lack of the correct level of water. As a result, finishing Cultivating felt rather pointless. The deciding factor to finish it out was that my bank vault is completely full of herbs for Apothecary, so the seeds just had to go. It was either grow them and hope they sprouted something that would add into one of the existing stacks of components, sell them on the AH for a pittance or simply chuck them. I opted to finish it and and be done with it. I feel confident that Mythic will get around to bolstering the deficient aspects of crafting and when they do, I'll already be set.
I was however, surprised not to see a Tome unlock?? I looked through the Tome three times but didn't see any sort of entry related to crafting. I find that odd in a game that marks so many of your milestones including a laundry list of crazy and frivolous notations. It's strange not to have one for the crafting professions.
It does feel good to hit maximum level on something. It’s definitely the first time that I completed crafting before hitting the maximum character level. I’m currently level 31 on my main so hitting the level cap isn’t that far behind. Having completed one profession and near to completing another, I definitely have some thoughts how it could be improved to increase the fun-factor and remove some the grind their design attempted to remove but didn’t quite so much. But I’ve been invited to discuss crafting on the “No Prisoners. No Mercy.” podcast for next week so I’ll save my thoughts for then. I’ll also be on this week’s episode chatting about WAR population concerns. The show usually airs on Thursdays.
Grats!
I've severely let my apothecary lag behind, for no reason except my own laziness. Now with with Heavy Metal starting today, I'm sure that trend will continue for a bit.
I'll have to go to the Auctioneers and get started raising it to 100s soon though... I'm again too lazy to grind the mobs to get the materials I need back in Tier 2. :)
Posted by: JoBildo | November 18, 2008 at 08:18 AM
Heavy Metal - Oh no, not another game biting into you limited playing time. You really need to get that unfaithful and wandering eye of yours under controls! (Joke). hehe
Posted by: Saylah | November 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM
See, it works!
Posted by: JoBildo | November 18, 2008 at 12:43 PM