I just became a Full Forger Blacksmith on Classic Loki. I felt really cheated when I looked at the item prices to forge level 1 weapons and the amount of items to expend forging then. Not to count the % failure chances!
It's insane all the hard work you have to go to become a Blacksmith just to discover that...
A Knife [3] costs 50z in the NPC store, but if you want to forge the very same knife with no slots, you will expend:
1* Iron Hammer - 1000z
1* Iron - 50z (to sell on NPC stores)
10* Jellopies - 3z each (to sell on NPC stores)
Then, you will expend a total of 1160z to forge the very same 50z Knife with no slots, if and only IF the forge attempt doesn't fail. I could buy over 200 Knife [3] with this money, and with the Discount Skill even more!
Even if I decide to put elemental stones or Star Crumbs on this Knife, I can achieve much better effects putting 3 cards and enchanting the 50z Knife[3] from the NPC store!
The same goes for every other weapon from any level! The production costs for each is absurdly ilogic!! It's supposed to be cheaper to forge your own equipment than buying it in NPC stores.
Selling them to make some profit then is simply impossible. I can make much more money selling all my ores, anvils, hammers, furnaces and all the stuff required to forge on NPC stores, to buy NPC weapons with card slots, than selling my own forged weapons.
The Iron Hammers should be something like 10z. And even so, buying a weapon from the NPC shop still would be more cheap than forging.
The forge attempts should be always 100% success rate for any weapon level, even if adding an elemental stone. Even so, there are better options out there.
Forged weapons, since they are slotless, should always be stronger (much more stronger) than NPC weapons. It could be based on job level maybe, and be permanent (unlike the current blacksmith raking system). If each job level added +1 Atk on any forged weapon would be a big start. Then, adding Star Crumbs and elemental stones would be worth as a bonus on these weapons.
The skills, instead of adding more success rate, should add more Atk bonus on the weapons as well.
It's really that hard to change some values in the next updates? Or maybe to ask Gravity to consider these changes?
If not doing anything about it is because you are afraid to break the P2W formula... Adding Kafra items for forgers (like Special boxes with elemental stones and Star Crumbs) could do the trick. Then let all the farming to poor players. It still would make things balanced for both sides.
Edited by CleanWaterDev, 26 April 2017 - 09:46 AM.
