Firebrand makes me not want to play the game

[bojackson]

Seriously the firebrand mechanic makes me not want to play the game. Several times now I can't get a fire lit after 2-3 tries I just log out. Please fix or make it less annoying. It doesn't add anything to the game except frustration.

If anything it should at least be included in the "convenience time" or whatever for verified and subbed accounts (so it goes faster).

If it at least didn't take so damn long each try I wouldn't mind a fail or 2 once and a while.

[Ysh]

Seriously the firebrand mechanic makes me not want to play the game. Several times now I can't get a fire lit after 2-3 tries I just log out. Please fix or make it less annoying. It doesn't add anything to the game except frustration.

If anything it should at least be included in the "convenience time" or whatever for verified and subbed accounts (so it goes faster).

If it at least didn't take so damn long each try I wouldn't mind a fail or 2 once and a while.

Use magic spell to light fire if you are bother so much.

[sMartins]

Come on man...even early game you need to light it once a day, when full you can light branches, when hot you re-light it without firebrand.....later you will have matches and steel and flint.....there are torches,etc... lot of stuff you can do.

[Audiosmurf]

You can have a torch within hours of starting. There's barely a reason to ever use firebrands at all.

[Burinn]

I think firebrands are definitely part of the Haven experience.

[Asgaroth22]

Srsly, if firebrands cause you problems, the game really isn't for you. I think convenience actually counts towards crafting the firebrand

[Aceb]

Seriously the firebrand mechanic makes me not want to play the game. Several times now I can't get a fire lit after 2-3 tries I just log out. Please fix or make it less annoying. It doesn't add anything to the game except frustration.

If anything it should at least be included in the "convenience time" or whatever for verified and subbed accounts (so it goes faster).

If it at least didn't take so damn long each try I wouldn't mind a fail or 2 once and a while.

Man, I remember W9 I was a lot have to try 6-7 times and I wasn't that much disappointment. I GUESS YOU CAN'T JUST PRAY TO RNG GOD!


... or jorb.

[azrid]

Just make matches.

[VDZ]

Seriously the firebrand mechanic makes me not want to play the game. Several times now I can't get a fire lit after 2-3 tries I just log out. Please fix or make it less annoying. It doesn't add anything to the game except frustration.

If anything it should at least be included in the "convenience time" or whatever for verified and subbed accounts (so it goes faster).

If it at least didn't take so damn long each try I wouldn't mind a fail or 2 once and a while.

Use magic spell to light fire if you are bother so much.

It's 500 XP. For comparison, for just 1500 I can halve the study time on a curio, or for 1000 I can greatly improve my fishing catch rates and get extra fishing speed. At 100 XP I'd gladly do it, but I'm not going to spend 500 XP every time I need to light a fire.

You can have a torch within hours of starting. There's barely a reason to ever use firebrands at all.

Except, you know, to start that initial fire every session, because without a fire in your base torches do nothing.

Just make matches.

They cost 3 brimstone to make. Each node this world spawned with only a single brimstone, and brimstone decays so you can't slowly gather them over time. In other words, you need to find 3 unharvested geysers before one of them decays in order to create matches early in the game. It's just not happening.

[Audiosmurf]

You can have a torch within hours of starting. There's barely a reason to ever use firebrands at all.

Except, you know, to start that initial fire every session, because without a fire in your base torches do nothing.

That was implicit.

If having to make 1-2 firebrands once at the start of a play session is someone's largest gripe with the game, I have no idea how they'd handle all the other (arguably more,) tedious day to day tasks.