Been over a year since I last played much. I have been doing lots of Frostfell crafting, doing the Frostfell Decoration quest. And my characters have been taking a lot of damage when I fail to click the buttons in time. When did this start?
Pretty much, back in the day, before stats became inflated, my newb Illy would get damaged by the woodworking table. That thing could kick like a mule. It helped keep crafting interesting that's for sure.
Most of the damage from crafting was removed around LU 25? 31? Fairly early in EQ2's history. Domino brought it back for "special" crafting, which included some frostfell crafting. There is also "lethal" reaction arts for some quest crafting. As the name implies, missing a lethal reaction will kill the crafter. Make sure you take quest crafting very seriously, especially when you're working on major tradeskill quests.
Its been in since launch as far as I know. I died to that darn forge I do not know how many times. Cyrrena
I remember gleeful snickers as the bodies (usually naked, because of how the power regen was calculated) piled up around the homicidal forge, while I stood at the stove and just watched my bars move and hoped for the best - since the provie reaction arts weren't 'plugged in' for a while at the beginning. Over the years max health/power, health/power regen along with ever increasing food buffs have made the damage from crafting stations negligible except for special circumstances - or when a recipe is much higher level than your crafter level. Were the characters in question crafting red recipes?
A long, long time ago, crafting could kill you if you messed up. Used to be one of the best entertaining reasons for being in the tradeskill instances
It's been there since launch, though most combines do minimal damage these days since the update described above. You'll only encounter real damage on certain combines.
A long, long time ago the first time the devs released stats the Forge was the mob with the most kills. Exquisite Chest was number 2.
I loved those days and that is when you had to retrieve your corpse or lose your stuff. Seems the AFK macroers never got the message as you would watch them stand there and die to the forge and then their corpse would disappear because they weren't there to retrieve it. Good times were had by all. Cyrrena
So, (newbie here though level 25), I died once trying to craft my first Frostfell item. (Couldn't really play EQ over Christmas break much so yeah just got to Wonderland Village a day ago). Anyway, does this mean a level 25 can't craft any of those Frostfell items (they all seem to be level 70 crafting). I don't mind not doing them, I'm a very casual player, just curious! TIA
You absolutely can, it just takes careful monitoring of your crafting progress. Missing multiple counters, especially on a lower-level character, can be deadly. Take your time, and make sure you're reacting correctly during the crafting stages.
