139039-the-thought-process-of-someone-crafting-their-first-epic-item

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Making this because I fee; that while working on tradeskills, Carbine got really messed up / convoluted at some point and needs an outside reaction on why their crafting systems are seriously in trouble (because based on lack of response from Carbine I'm pretty sure they're just fully ignorant).
 
So about a day ago I decided to craft the tailoring master's epic ilvl 72 shoulders to replace my green ones (they were on the list to replace for a while at this point, and I didn't know when/where I would get an upgrade. Previously I protested the cost but I recently got a handful of plat and the prices for tailor mats has drastically gone down this past week). I however, despise crafting. I am a fully experienced tailor, but I have never actually used a piece of crafting gear to help me, and 9 times out of 10 it was a gold sink. 
 
i check the AH to see if I can get a better, less risky version for a good cost. 8 plat for the pretty bad samples on AH tell me I'm not that lucky.
I buy the schematic, thankful that I have a lot of unspent crafting vouchers since I've seen the new dailies and they are not worth it.
I buy the complexity matrix off AH. Same with the epic/rare cloth I don't have enough of, because at this point it's fairly cheap.
I stop and look at my talent tree, knowing I'm one talent point away from rank three and question if fire sockets would be a good thing to get rid of.
Decide to get rid of fire sockets, because while that increases the chance of me getting something bad like logic, it also increases the chance of me getting something good like air.
Spend like 15 minutes comparing/contrasting trying to see which talent point would be the least PitA to level. 
Eventually settle on an expert tailoring point.
Buy some whimfiber thread to make my whimfiber gear out of whimfiber cloth.
Can't craft, realize I need acrillia thread.
Coincidentally the low level gear that needs the whimfiber thread needs the acrillia cloth.
Begin questioning my decision to make a legendary with this convoluted profession I'm pretty sure you guys say "okay, whimfiber matches with whimfiber and acrillia matches with acrillia? Great now switch them because screw players we need to be edgy".
Buy 6 acrillia thread for 6 pieces of gear, realize I need 3 thread per gear. Okay I was asking for that one.
Made the six pieces of gear, look to see how much they vendor for to see if I can recoup any money back.
The thread that costed 25 silver each, 75s total, made gear that costed around 21 silver. I repeat, the vendor item requirement alone was more than the gear vendored for. Screw the core, the fiber, etc.
Laugh as I salvage my useless gold sink.
Get the t3 talent point, contempalte going for t4. Realize it would probably cost me around 3 plat, much more time, and much more convolution.
Decide to finally craft the epic.
Can't craft. See the materials actually have a scroll down bar. I'm missing complexity trasducers.
Googling reveals no results on where to get this item.
AH/CX reveal no results on where to get this item.
Check tradeskill vendor because why not
Buy my transducers, all the while wondering why this is even an item. Like after the matrix, the power core, and the three types of cloth you guys were like "you know what we need? Another resource requirement! Because screw players we need to be edgy".
Click craft.
Have no idea what power core to use. I know that there are purple ilvl 72 powercores, but I don't have one, and I don't know what the diff is between a purple ilvl 72 powercore and a blue ilvl 72 powercore. Decide screw it by now and use the blue one.
Get focus, crti sev, and intensity as my stats. Decide to put all my points in focus, since it's the one stat I really need. Also decide to lessen crit sev, because while not bad it's certainly not a priority
Decide I may as well take out the intensity (since I'm so low geared I don't have good focus regen). Put in multihit.
As I'm retuning I realize that the "focus" stat change from 0-->100% is not only really low (only 4), it also doesn't change between overcharges at various intervals. AKA I can overcharge my piece by 4%, and gain 0 focus. Consequently this I could save 4% overcharge for a different stat by lowering the focus charge while keeping the same amount of focus. Because you guys need to be edgy right?
Decide to put focus at the lowest, because even at 12 focus it still has a lot of focus for its ilvl, and the multihit is really low due to the innate overcharge of switching a socket element. 
Not sure whether I should take the risk of overcharging, because of how crazy all this has been.
Decide I don't want a failed craft on 1% and me having to repeat this mess, craft it with like 9% undercharge so it definitely makes.
 
As you can see, I then got my piece of epic gear. Runecrafting was another headache, but one I won't get into (let's just says I wound up using omnibits to get service tokens...). Now, after all that, I want to illustrate how I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
 
Go to store, buy peanut butter, jelly, and bread (and knives if for some reason I don't have silverwear).
Lay out knife, peanut butter, jelly, and bread (four ingredients. Your recipe costed me five). 
No need to make anything before hand to make sure I can make this. 
There's no luck with how this comes out, I don't combine the ingredients and then complain how this one has lettuce on it while I wanted peanut butter and have to reduce the overall quality to make it right, unlike crafting where I want to make healer gear and could get something where the options are crit sev or resilience.
Put peanut butter on both sides of the bread, jelly in the middle (we can argue the best way to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, let's just say I'm not a fan of soggy bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxjcXQjJoU)
Enjoy.
 
Noticeably shorter, easier, and more reliable to make a simple thing in real life than it is to even glance at your crafting system. It's about as intuitive as rocket science to a chipmunk. I get it, this has been a rough couple of weeks. And you need to produce more content and the Halloween update. But get some fresh eyes to look at your crafting, because it needs a rework after just receiving one less than 2 weeks ago. 	
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			I will just say a few words but devs have to listen to this. I am a returning player and the crafting system before was easier to understand and to get things you actually wanted in the end and not leaving you ruined. This new crafting system is messy and chaotic and just overcomplicated to learn. We need tons of mats etc and it ends up taking almost all your gold. Architect is still broken it seems aswell. I know a lot of players find the new system good etc, but I also know a ton of people who finds it..just overcomplicated, in the end it feels like it's not worth it to craft and that takes a way atleast a little bit of my happy gaming experience.	
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			Welcome to tailoring, Bérnakastel. Now apply the same thing to someone crafting epic master crafting items ;) and see the chaotic state this profession is in... I've been complaining for a while... Doubt anyone in Carbine will care much, unfortunately.	
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Welcome to tailoring, Bérnakastel. Now apply the same thing to someone crafting epic master crafting items ;) and see the chaotic state this profession is in... I've been complaining for a while... Doubt anyone in Carbine will care much, unfortunately.
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