Tool Crafting (Tinker)

I would like to see a new skill for tool crafting, which include tool repair kit and masterworks. There ought to be recipes using different elements which yields special abilities to the tools. Example:

Meteoric Iron increases duration and strength of tool.
Gold returns extra bonus on resources.

Wood type would have special bonus.
Gem socketed tools can also provide special bonus.

Adding Tool Crafting would enhance SOTA experience a lot, especially for advanced players. With mining and foraging, perhaps fishing or other gathering skills, some resources seem to take a long time to obtain. For example, nickel is really difficult to mine and needed for constantan and meteoric ingots. If we can craft a pickax, such as a sorcery white iron pickax with crimson pine handle, I would receive an additional percent return on nickel.

In Ultima Online, the Tinker Skill was the trade for creating specialty tools. I hope someday SOTA will have this feature as well.

 

I sure would like to craft a smith hammer that can improve my chances for obtaining exceptional items, or increase chances for masterwork success.

 

Such a thing already exists:
http://sotawiki.net/sota/Tool_Engraving_Kit_-_Heavy_Iron

True, it's only 3%, but every % adds up.

 

Definitely can do better with more options. 3% is small, even prosperity tools have it. Still doesn’t help with mining more nickel. Perhaps SOTA can provide more options for tool engraving kits just like crafting master works. Example, use 3 kits to compound 3 possible successive 3%s up to a max of 9%. Decrease the probability of success with each attempt on same tool, and decrease its duration just like weapons and armor. Just food for thought. Anything to make crafting and resource gathering more fun.