Any reasons for the recipe levels that you know?Follow

I have been trying to study different crafting recipes and trying to figure out what is the best way to steadily level crafting for any DoH class, and I notice an universal trend about recipe levels that always makes me scratch my head and said, "wth were they thinking when they decided the level for each recipes?"

Maybe somebody can shed light on my head.

My question is: Why would you need something in higher levels to synthesize something in lower levels? For example, you can make a lot of things with Hempen cloth 9 levels before you can make Hempen Cloth; same thing goes for cotton and canvas.

I have been trying to figure out a reason to why this is even arranged this way? Is it because SE doesn't want any crafters to have a logical progression? Or they are trying to give higher crafters a little advantage by having the chance to sell higher level items that all lower level crafters need?

I am sure this is laid out the way it is for a reason, because it is everywhere in all DoH recipes. I am just not getting "WHY"

Can somebody tell me why?

I understand the concepts of leveling on yarns before the cloth is somewhat logical, but for example:

hempen yarn is level 1 synth, while using hempen yarn to make hempen cloth is level 9.

There are literally hundreds of recipes from level 1 to level 9 requiring hempen cloth; now, for crafters lower than level 7, where are they going to get their hempen cloth to level or make products they need?

Same thing goes for cotton yarn (11) ---> cotton cloth (19), 8 levels in between, and pretty much everything before cotton cloth requires cotton cloth.

Isn't it odd? yes, crafter may just need to suck it up and buy cotton cltoh somewhere, do leve to level, or find some really odd synth to level, but the resulting products are useless. I have made hundreds of hempen halftops, and crow fly only because I think those are pretty much the most economical things to level on. (discounting the time to manage going to retainer, set up bazzar in right place, sell only 10, and prey that anybody buys this stuff)

that's why it makes me wonder, how come hempen yarn --> hempen cloth is NOT only 3 levels different; how come cotton yarn --> cotton cloth is NOT only 3 levels different. Having them spread so far while everything in between requires the farthest item to make is rather odd.

I guess crafters just need to suck it up for now....



Edited, Nov 5th 2010 12:33pm by triangold

I admire your courage to take on cotton cloth at rank 13, Ravashack.

I tried to delay cotton cloth as much as possible, because cotton yarn requires a lightning crystal, which I had only 17 when I started making cotton yarn at weaver 15, granted, I could only make it 17 times.

But I can not afford to botch, because not only Lightning crystals are hard to drop, it's hard to buy as well. A botched synthesis may mean 6-9k loss in material, and average 15 minutes loss of time (time to find crystal for sale)

It's still possible to level of course, I heard there are rank 50 weavers already.

I am just curious why the recipe levels are arranged the way it is now. It sure doesn't make sense to me, and I think maybe somebody can make some sense out of it to satisfy curiousity. :P

Regarding the price:

1 Buffalo Hide > 4 Buffalo Leather > 24 Leather Spetch

Ingredient isn't really more expensive den the finished product

Regarding the OP question, i couldn't give a good answer to it but; if the equipment was at a higher lvl den the cloth, and ppl start "Skill Up" on making equips, we will have a markert flooded with unused equipments.