This game is grindy AF, IMO as a Wurm player.

I find the thought of continuing to work on my crafting skills to be dreadful.

I'm not going to say it needs to be done one way or another but it could be better, much better.

You, literally need to chop down 15 trees to make a bow. Don't pretend it has to be this way. You, literally need to mine dozens of veins of ore to make a basic piece of armour. This just isn't ridiculous it is not fun.

This game's crafting system has some great ideas on display but the overall experience is very off putting.

There is entirely too much emphasis on excessive investment of time required to craft.

Time investment shouldn't be the only limiting factor and there are countless other ways to promote value and scarcity of crafted items.

 

I had mining time for three days, and made 1.3kk EXP in producer pool(by the plan I need to make 10 before next patch ). Than i calculate that if i will mine as many hours as i was, i need ~100 years of everyday mining to made one skill=200

 

Once your mining skills are at 40-50 you can lock them and watch how fast your XP pool increases.

 

Of course all was locked... Not sure that with 50 MC you will get 200 in reasonable time too.

 

In 5 skull zones you get 500 per succesfull dig/skin

 

I remember i gm-ed blacksmithing in Ultima Online back in the day it was "cool". Now some refer to it as an achievement, personally i get the shivers everytime someone says "kryss"

 

No Kryss but Katana....Shiver...

 

That's nice, but next time try getting a silver vanquishing one!

 

This was for pvp. As you can see in the bags, I smeared deadly poison on its blade. Lethal!