by springyb wrote:sabinati wrote:your complaint is about it being required to grind moar, which is not the case.
Except I didn't say that? Nothing in game is required, although a grind IS required if you want similar stats to what was available pre-patch.
It took 10 nettle pants and 6 shirts to produce 4 pieces with stats similar to before the change. That's 56 nettles plus the junk for the gild extra than before.
If you want agility similar to a pre gutted lynx cape you need 160 bones, 16 string, and mats for 8 pieces of gear that I can't be bothered to list out Before you needed 1 lynx cape made from a string and a hide.
If you want strength similar to a pre gutted bear cape you need 8 bear teeth, so you need to kill somewhere between 2 to 8 bears. That's up to 800% more bears than before.
The only example that's arguably requires less of a grind farming since for most people getting feather trinkets is easier than a druid cloak and I'm guessing that's why you chose that as an example. But you immediately after acknowledge how difficult it is to stack int and brush it off with "eat fish and pies" which contradicts your claim of "everybody complaining about this doesn't understand the change".
I originally said grinding multiple sets of gear and RNG based crafting wasn't fun. If you enjoy the change I can respect that but I can't follow your logic when you say there's no grind.
you can make perfectly reasonable sets 1-slot of gear with little effort, in most cases better than before the patch. if you want to grind multiple slots you can. it's not required.
also keep in mind that this isn't the final version of the system.
