Baking

[Matbar]

Yes, baking! Please oh please can you guys (and girl) consider doing something to implement more baking? If it's a huge task to run it all the way up to 250, even some recipes bumping it up a bit would be appreciated. I'm a tradeskill junkie and I love baking and brewing, plus there are so many neat things you can do for stats via food & drink. Direct HPs are awesome, and if I'm really getting my wish list, I bet food with an AC boost (if this is possible) would go over big.

I do appreciate all you folks do, and yes fletching needed work. Arrows are a lot more useful than pies, but I think more than just myself would enjoy some additions to baking. Every time I say something in game I get a few tells from people who are also interested. I'll try to get some of them over here to comment.

 

[Tarutao]

There's plenty of things with tradeskills that need to be done. I could name a lot that you probably are entirely unaware of. For that matter, I can name a few things I've fixed that probably nobody except me knew were broken.

The Fletching Revamp has been priority one for a long time for a number of reasons including but not limited to the fact that 3 Fletching Revamps had been planned before, and none of them happened. There were promises of a Fletching Revamp "soon" in 2005.... five RL years ago. Priority One right now is finishing the Fletching Revamp.

Past that, there's things that need to be done with Alchemy, Baking, Brewing, Fishing, Mining, Pottery, and Smithing (and maybe someday Poisonmaking and Tinkering). Some of them are more involved than others. Some of them are going to go largely unnoticed. All of them are important, but not all of them are "should be done next".

You'll just have to trust that I know and care so much about SoD tradeskills that I'll do what's right for the tradeskills. TradeskillERs too, i guess.

 

[Matbar]

I know you're supposed to be one of the original "all tradeskills" folks, so as a junkie myself, I'm pretty happy about that. I understand and please don't think I was griping. There are so many things I do like about Shards, and a lot of them have to do with tradeskills. Such as thank you VERY much for making sure smithing does have a useful niche. I freely admit I know nothing about coding or what constitutes difficult to implement, I just know that there are lots of meats and other drops already in game. Besides, if I don't ask, who knows...maybe you guys will think nobody cares about baking.

As to fishing, I heard a GM or Admin say recently in game (it may have even been you) that they are going to consider implementing some spots that will make fishing from 130-170 a little easier. Will there be an opinion thread on that at some point as there have been with other possible revamps? Because honestly you can't fling a dead cat without hitting 10 map sellers as it is, I'm sorta thinking this one should be way down the list.

Anyways, thanks for the game and thanks for this forum where we can make requests, and where our opinions are occasionally asked for. I can't tell you how much more fun I'm having on Shards than I ever did on "that" game.