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Hope you're not claustrophobic, cos you've got no rooms to talk. Some of us trained blacksmith to R1(and dan1-2-3) before Training Pots/Seals were even invented, especially when now, there's 2x events, 2x life skill potion, heck, there's even a reforge for it. And though I agree the rates for these new items are horrid, and can be improved, we should all just be glad that they aren't in some cash-grabbing Gachas (yet).
This is pretty close to the truth, but the reason blacksmith isn't so useful is both that AND that blacksmith craft grades aren't particularly great. Between not being able to get S+/X grade blacksmithed items except in gachas, and those particular bonuses being a measly 4 or 5 points here and there, it deflates the purpose of smithing gear instead of just picking up a slightly less potent piece off the street.
Even with those boosts, you can rank blacksmithing a little faster, but for what? Only to make celtic weapons for a few mil every once and a while? To brag that you ranked a super grindy skill to your friends? To be honest with you, those who ranked it a long time a go to Rank 1 should feel the most betrayed out of this. They knew a time when blacksmithing was useful and when blacksmithing was profitable, but now those days are left in the dust due to gachapons, and the only reason I can see people still rank it is for the hope they can make CRKs people can buy to make a quick buck. And for stats, I guess. They deserve more manuals to make that Mabinogi, hopefully, won't put into a gachapon and put them out of business.
It feels like people are getting the impression that I hate grindy skills and I'm scared of breaking my nails over blacksmithing. Grindy skills like Ninja and Mining at Hillwen were pretty bad, but the reason I made a thread about blacksmithing and not THOSE skills is because, again, the benefit for having rank 1 blacksmithing is less and less rewarding. All the gold spent for manuals, all the time grinding monsters for manuals, gatherting leather, getting cobwebs for thin threads to make braids with thick threads, all to pretty much be able to make a bunch of junk and yell out to the world "look at what I did"! At least with the other skills I didn't feel like I was wasting a bunch of gold for nothing.
Lastly; If people keep saying Blacksmithing shouldn't be fixed only because they already have it R1 and they feel they won't get anything out of it, even though if it does get fixed one day there will be loads of new stuff we can make, I feel it'll only kill the motivation in people to rank blacksmithing even more because not only is the reward for blacksmith smaller than what it was hyped to be, but the minute they tell someone who ranked it the old fashion way they think it's way more arduous than it should be, they get some pretty negative feed back. They get talked down and told they should just suck it up and do it instead of encouragement and "look at all the great things you can do with a high ranked blacksmithing"!
As much as I love life skills, the minute a skill feels more like a chore without any fun in it, it's time to stop and do something else.
(And I should probably say this before anyone gets angry; Regardless of your opinions I respect everyone in this thread for contributing.