[Diablo III] How necessary is crafting?

[theredviola]

Having played a few hours, going in random dungeons, exploring all the nooks and cranies that I've come across thus far... I seem to find enough good quality loot in them, or from vendors. So, how necessary is crafting? Is it only really needed for the harder modes in the game? Because with the "sell v disenchant" dilemma I have when I pick up blues... I'd rather sell them for some gold opposed to d/e'ing them for mats to craft weapons.

[BestPriestWorld]

Seems useless, feels like saving money and buying items of AH is far more worth it.

[bufferunderrun]

Seems useless, feels like saving money and buying items of AH is far more worth it.

i agree, so far i've crafted alot of piece and only got some half good one, better saving the money and seek some good one on th AH the crafting is too based on luck to be good.

[Archimand]

crafting is only good for set and yellow items
you better off with ah items and jc for gems

[maquiladora]

i constantly spent my spare cash on blacksmithing during normal mode, and the gear you can build is actually really nice.
the prices in the AH are mostly quite ridiculous, so imho its the cheaper alternative.

[Mormolyce]

Gear does seem a little weak, by the time I'm high enough level to craft it I've generally found drops at least as good. Same problem as WoW low level crafting :P

Oh well it'll probably improve as I level up.

[Deleted]

it's actually getting worse. at least for me. the further my level advanced the more money did i have to spend (repair bills/pots/jc gems for 20k+) and the further i lost track of bs. jc is way more important and also better for alts.

the prices in the AH are mostly quite ridiculous, so imho its the cheaper alternative.

items are not soulbound not even boe. you can always relist good gear.

[mvaliz]

Yeah, right now Professions look to be just like WoW - some gear that you can craft for yourself after you sink thousands of gold into it.

I think when I play D3 finally I'm going to do exactly what I did in WoW - and give professions a total skip until I'm level-capped.

[mafao]

Well, at least in Act I the crafted items are often better than the one you find. You can almost always find something nice on the AH though.

[Xerra]

I am thinking it would be worth way more if the BS could add sockets or sharpen your weapons or something. I sorta miss the early beta I was in and most the gear was vitality + 1-2 other stats. Playing the lottery the current way sorta makes me rather look for rares in the world.

[moff]

I can imagine, in endgame. when game money is useless, you will be crafting a lot to sell the items for real money. because you will have no other use for ingame gold and crappy items. but until then, its not worth at all, I guesss blizzard themselves didnt imagine how easy and cheap it would be to get great gear for leveling from the auction house.

[ddsad2212]

2 good items so far, but i have put all my gold into it, i cant really comment until 60, only 20 atm

[fruitypebble]

My biggest use for blacksmith so far is for gearing out low level chars. I've got my blacksmith maxed out, and I made a level 9/10 set for my newly made Witch Doctor.

With that gear, I literally roflstomped everything through the entirety of Act 1. Nothing that dropped was even close to an upgrade, and i was 3 shotting champion enemies with poison dart (basically auto attacking, for those that don't know Witch Doctor). The damage output jump the moment I started equipping those items was immediately outrageous. I expect I'll see similar results as I reach higher tiers of gear as I level up.

Beyond that, I haven't found much help out of it. I had the occasional upgrade, but few and far between. I don't have the upgrades that require those schematics though, so I have no idea how good that gear is yet.

[Stormgnoef]

I got lots yellow and blue gear for my dh with crafting.Each with +40 dex for lvl 30.

[Deleted]

should we bother with this at all until lvl cap ?
and even then ? surely no loot will be better than hard modes

[Deleted]

godda agree here ...

two friends and i decided that we'd only need one crafter ... so we put together all our coin to raise my crafter to max ...
well ... i'm stuck at lvl whatsoever because i now need Tomes of Secrets to unlock further levels, those didn't drop so far.

but long story short ... we build alot of items which were all quite expansive to create and we only needed about 5-10% of them ... at higher levels when crafting an items costs about 10k gold and the additional mats and you have to build that item about 10 times to get something useful you have wastet about 90k gold and 50 mats ...
better sell the mats in the AH and go for good items there as well.

The Jewelcrafter, though, is quite useful

[Flaks]

I've dumped most of my gold on it so far and I do regret it. It hasn't come in handy a single time so far because I keep getting drops that are lower level but better itemized/higher damage that I can send to my other characters. Then again I'm only level 16.

[Ranluka]

From what I can tell, atm it's not worth salvaging anything. Rather, just vender your blues. AH your yellows. Then buy the mats off the AH for anything you want to craft. (unlike Wow, you don't have to make useless crap to lvl your black smith. Just pay the gold/papers/tomes)

[Maelstrom51]

Don't bother with crafting unless you have a recipe for legendary gear.

[Thoragar]

Like others have said, smithing gear is good for normal (1-30ish). After that its just too expensive to craft, when you could spend the same 10k gold on something on the AH with far superior stats. I can't really speak for 50+, but levels 30-50 smithing is a waste of gold.