@Tuoni That's a very good point and something I hope won't happen. I was only trying to show what the Q&A said about the crafting.
We'll just have to wait and see how they plan on implementing it. I think I'll be waiting a bit longer until we get more details about it.
@Tuoni on the crafting Q&A it says that you can learn all recipes. Some of them are rare and harder to find, some will only be available on certain worlds, and others can only be learned through relics. So it sounds like there will be some difficulty in finding the highest tier recipes, and probably not worth it to those that want to focus on pvp unless they want a very specific item.
https://forum.fracturedmmo.com/topic/5608/summary-of-the-crafting-building-q-a-livestream/2
Recipes:
You can learn all crafting recipes. There are no specializations. No limits on the number of crafting professions you can have.
Some recipes can only be learned on specific planets.
Some recipes (and abilities) are learned through ancient knowledge and relics.
Some recipes will be rare, but no recipe will be limited to a set amount of players.
There are no special secret dev-controlled crafting recipes.
You cannot share your recipes. You can just give someone else a completed item to let them study it anyway.
@Tuoni This does make it sound very much like a self sufficient sort of system versus catering to dedicated crafters. If anything it sounds like there could be dedicated crafting if it takes a long time to make certain items.
It seems like what @Nekrage said might be a more sensible idea, at least for now. Crafting and then enchanting could be a dedicated play style since it seems crafting will be fairly straight forward.
We'll see how it goes. I think I'm going to wait just a bit more before pledging to see how crafting and enchanting get fleshed out.
I'm looking to get back into an mmo to be a dedicated crafting class and I'm trying to decide if Fractured can do that for me. On the home page it talks about how every item is crafted by players and it'll be very dangerous to get certain materials. I read the Newbie Guide and it was fairly light about crafting so I'm hoping there's some other information I haven't found.
Regarding the future of crafting, has there been more details regarding what the system will look like? Will it be possible for dedicated crafters to live in Fractured?