It also involves trying various things to see what happens.

Eventually, you and a few dozen guildmates can build an honest-to-goodness entire boat.Ĭrafting is one of Guild Wars 2's most conservative features, but it reminds me a bit of Vanguard for how it involves a sense of poking and prodding and fitting component together. Don't even think about grade-A table legs until your woodworking attribute is higher and you've spent more points on finishing. If you lathed, sanded, and lacquered a plank just right, you could get a grade-B table leg. The last time I encountered crafting that departed from the usual formula was in Vanguard, where crafting is an elaborate series of steps to create components of varying quality, involving raw materials, tools, critical hits and misses, work orders, and a whole set of skills and attributes for each step of the way. Crafting in MMOs is a mostly established thing without much variation from game to game. The last time I encountered crafting that departed from the usual formula was in Vanguard.

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