The final craft for the weekly tradeskill mission has been made significantly more difficult.

I only got to the transitor level in university. That didn't go well. Hand me a set of microchips and I can make and program something.

so I guess lvl 95 rush orders should take 10x the duration of a lvl 20 writ then? maybe T10 harvesting should take 10x as long as T1? Afterall, the rewards are better.

Technically the higher level recipes are much harder than the lower level ones, you're just better at crafting

Ignoring the smiley...

All the common recipes take exactly 1000 progress to complete (maybe tier1 is less, I haven't checked recently), so while they're "harder" as in "requires a higher crafting skill to succeed", they do not take longer, so your reply is orthogonal to Pauly's point. (They take less time since your reaction arts are better, actually. Less time for greater reward.)

You're making the same mistake as the devs did with this quest, actually: "harder to do" has nothing to do with "takes more time".

Exactly this. It has now gone from easy to the other side of ridiculous! God forbid we should have something too easy when it still takes me two weeks to get enough etyma for a single green gem with 4 tradeskillers at max.

By which time I will probably have raid gear anyways so why bother eh?

Same old, same old. I love this game but the continued artificial ways they make us grind really does take the shine off it

Except when you are crafting for Etyma then you are worse than level 1

Precisely! And a reasonably geared group could do the weekly heroic double pretty quickly. Can you imagine the outcry if they multiplied the boss mob's HP by a factor of 1000 to make the 'effort required reflect the rewards'?

What shine? You stand at a table and hit 6 buttons to make something thousands of times over. What difference does it make if one thing takes a few minutes more?

Agreed. Honestly this cannot be someone's chosen hill to die on. It's a change but not a huge one worthy of this level of angst.

Perhaps you are happy to mindlessly waste your time because SOE wants to string out your aquisition of Etyma for a year That's entirely up to you. But it takes the shine off it for me.

Don't sweat the small stuff.*

*It's all small stuff.

LOL now we are no longer at the it's not that big a deal to ,,, it's not a huge deal... the increments are growing.....

Those who are so upset about the changes really need to note what Calthine said. The alternative is they nerf the reward hard. I'll gladly deal with a longer combine now that I've discovered this gem of easy etymas for my characters.

Those guys are simply amzingly stup..

What do they offer to crafter in TOV ? NOTHING.

I cannot craft any taylor item but a useless harvesting GI. The GI is totally useless because it is usable
only by level 95 toons.

And ? Why would we harvest since there is nothing to craft ?

Till now at least we got a smal amount of etymas here and there, nice to hear that they removed this little bonus.

I'd agree if it wasn't for the fact that Etyma are very easy to get. Adventuring, collections ect..
How much of a time sink is buying 3 collections and turning them in for the same reward? I can say as a pure soloer that 50 Etyma per day is very easy to get. 10 on a weekly ts quest isn't something special and it shouldn't have 'special' hoops to jump through.

Perhaps ALL rare recipes should have a combine like the new weekly ts combine!! After all, greater reward is worth the extra time.
Or we could quit being fanboys for 1 minutes and agree this change sucks.

While it's not anything to get myself worked up over, I think the new "difficulty" of the weekly final combine is just ludicrous. I tried to count up how many rounds of crafting it took but I lost count somewhere past 30. Next toon I'm going to count it. Next one after that I'm using a Potion of Innovation to see how many rounds of that it will take. I'm betting the Potion will expire before it's even done.

I'm all for making this weekly quest harder but "harder" does not mean "pointless time sink". Make the quest more complicated than talking to 4 NPCs less than 50 meters away from the quest giver, writing the weekly TPS Report, complete with proper cover page then delivering it to another zone but don't think that spending 10 minutes on a single item is in any way satisfying.

I'm a freakin' crafter, not a secretary!

This is a Weekly quest with an expected reward. The recipes are expensive to buy. To spend weeks and weeks to get the etyma to buy what should have all been in one recipe book is a cruel trick to begin with, now adding the practical joke of this combine in the middle of the quest does seem in keeping with the game I have been playing.

It does not have to be finished in 3 ticks, but in 40 is just plain stupid.There have been people fall asleep in the middle of this, others have seen their babies come to school.

I've done the weekly twice this morning. First one, no potion, took 6 minutes. Second one, potion of progress, took 2 minutes. Definite improvement, but still, 2 minutes with potion of progress?!!

This! I could have also done with an additional step of somesort instead... something that actually has you actively doing rather than staring blankly at your progress bar. If we need more of a time sink, fine. Just make it interesting, please!