111611-eldan-data-fragments-and-crafting-dailys

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Hello my ign is eXcelax on the server CareTaker (PvE).
 
 
I am level 50 and I have been for almost 2 months. I have been a expert  weapon smith and armorer for 1 month now. 
 
- 1 Eldan Data Fragment per day.  ( 1EDF x 1 )
 
- Around 48,000 Crafting vouchers per day with BOTH expert armorer and weapon smith. ( 48,000 x 1 )
 
- I pay $14.99 + Tax a month to play this game.   ($14.99 x 1 )
 
- I buy about 8 C.R.E.D.D a month. ( $200.00 x1 )
 
 
So the point I am getting at is;
 
Within 30 days, I get 30 EDF. Pay  almost 250 dollars, and I still can not craft a good armor or weapons yet? 
 
Going from cw-1, to 3W-2 to 3W-3, you do not even receive that many within that month. and saving up your crafting vouchers to buy a bag to see if you can receive a Special Hybrid Power Core is almost impossible.
 
 
I just think the Development team should retrace their steps and put more ideas into the crafting daily system.
 
 
Example. Completing ALL daily crafting vouchers, you receive A Expert Crate Of Crafting Surplus. In this crate you have a chance to win 1 - 5 Eldan Data Fragment OR a less percentage of what is on this list for the "Crate of Crafting Surplus" 
Source: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/40266-feedbacktesting-crate-of-surplus-crafting-goods/
 
Example. Spending 50,000 crafting vouchers, you receive a Expert Crate Of Crafting Surplus or a Jackpot voucher, good to be redeemed towards a chance to win something in the line of crafting. ( Such as a Special Blue Print, etc.) 
 
 
 
Any thoughts or comments? I know this had been said millions of times, but when are they ever going to actually do something about this? OR are they just trying to get the player to keep playing for 8 to 16 months and spend thousands of dollars to keep them to make expert crafting supplies... Thanks for reading.	
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Crafting endgame takes time.... *shock*
 
my 2 cents. The time isnt bad; but maybe vary the eldan data quest a bit.	
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I'll just comment that I don't see hoiw much money you choose to spend on the game has any impact whatsoever on getting EDFs.
 
The only change to EDFs I would make right now is if you have two actual crafting professions (I'm Tailor and Technologist), I should be able to get two bites at the apple every day, since I will have two research trees to feed.	
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I don't see how much money you choose to spend on the game has any impact 
 
 
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Not the point I was getting at here. I am just saying with crafting daily's they cost about 3 - 4 plat just to craft items for the daily craft's.
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 two actual crafting professions (I'm Tailor and Technologist)
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Aren't the quests for them already seperate for different paths? Can you really not get the quest from the tech quest giver and the tailor quest giver on the same day? 
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Mine cost nothing... because I collect my own mats...
 
 
Aren't the quests for them already seperate for different paths? Can you really not get the quest from the tech quest giver and the tailor quest giver on the same day? 
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			My problem is that after you gathered all the datafragments to learn to craft something -> You need *cupcake*ing minimal mats from gathering professions to craft shit. 7 *cupcake*ing Galactium to craft the CW-4 sword? Instead you need a bunch of vendor items and lots of sign of X - Eldan. For the best possible crafted weapon atm. Why isnt it like 200 Galactium? 7 Galactium is gained by mining 2 nodes.	
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			I collected like 50 data fragments and out of those 50 ONE time i got a x5 chest and the rest have all been x1. They need to up the chances to get more then 1 data fragment from the daily.	
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			Time sink into crafting is worthwhile.  As it stands, theres nothing thats an upgrade to actualy craft, so you not being able to complete your sets due to a time constraint is of no issue except your OCD.	
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My problem is that after you gathered all the datafragments to learn to craft something -> You need *cupcake*ing minimal mats from gathering professions to craft shit. 7 *cupcake*ing Galactium to craft the CW-4 sword? Instead you need a bunch of vendor items and lots of sign of X - Eldan. For the best possible crafted weapon atm. Why isnt it like 200 Galactium? 7 Galactium is gained by mining 2 nodes.
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			Out of curiosity, why are you spending $200 / month in CREDD???	
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Buying CREDD has no impact on endgame crafting. Its just used for dramatic effect. Also it shouldn't cost 3-4 plat a day to do dailies, even buying all the mats of the CE. 
 
I totally agree about the rate of getting Data fragments though. As it stands right now, most BiS crafted gear is in the Epochos tree, and going down into Adventus doesn't net any upgrades. With the change to runes on crafted gear, there really needs to be a rework of the  Adventus crafted gear to reflect the amount of time it takes to move through the research tree. I'm all for the time sink it takes to go through and complete adventus research if the crafted gear is worth it. 	
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I collected like 50 data fragments and out of those 50 ONE time i got a x5 chest and the rest have all been x1. They need to up the chances to get more then 1 data fragment from the daily.
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There would be a point to gating end game crafting, if it was worth crafting.
 
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Well first off, your contributions to the game, monetarily speaking, have no impact whatsoever on anything period.
 
Secondly, once you craft a piece of gear with the Data Fragments don't they unlock and you no longer need to use data fragments to craft? Just ridiculously expensive materials.
 
Thirdly, this gate seems to channel you into specific items. With my meager 40ish data fragments, I was able to unlock all the patterns that benefited my character in just under a week. If I wanted to make a profit on things that other people were going to use, it would take me much longer to get full completionist on my Armorsmith tree. 	
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Secondly, once you craft a piece of gear with the Data Fragments don't they unlock and you no longer need to use data fragments to craft? Just ridiculously expensive materials.
 
 
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I have 2 level 50 expert crafter, weaponsmith, outfitter, and I can get a data fragment for each toon, each day.  You have to be level 50!  This prevents one toon, from farming/buying all the crap to have a bunch of noob toons expert research crafting.  Makes sense to me.
 
Elden fragments only needed once per recipe to unlock it.  Then you no longer need all the extra expensive items.	
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			Aside from the Adventus CW-3 / 4   weapons I cant think of anything past the 1x ED fragment patterns that are worth crafting out of your professions. The Adventus armor smith patterns are almost exclusively worse than the Epochos gear. 	
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been doing crafting dailies literally every day since launch, today i can finally confirm 5x EDF do exist :
 
 	
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			I would love to see more of a variety daily quests. Wilder is lovely, but day after day to the same snippy torine is becoming too much like my commute to work.	
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1x Eldan Data Fragment is just depressingly tedious.
 
Like, I thought Pay2Play was the method to get rid of unnecessary time-gating and low RNG.	
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