1 ▸ Unfortunately, trinkets will never be craftable, but for good reason. These are exclusive items that given by the staff that give cool exclusive stats. Now these stats may be copied in some sort of way on other crafted pieces, but the exclusivity keeps them refreshing and cool to earn. If you could craft your own, you wouldn't concern yourself with getting them. When it comes to styling, armor crafting allows you to craft an outfit head-to-toe with whatever appearance you're after.

2 ▸ Again I'm raining on the parade and using you as an example. I'm so sorry. Just as mentioned above, armor crafting allows you to make anything that you can wear but as a set or outfit! Want to run around and deflect bullets with a school girl outfit? Feel free. Maybe you just want to craft something to wear for roleplay purposes. All of these tools exist in your hands already, just through another outlet. You may need to craft different outfits for each day of the week instead of mixing and matching, but it keeps things clean for everyone, including staff.

3 ▸ Pets and mounts can already do this kind of stuff as is. You can roleplay it how you wish. They're just like animals. The only thing they can't do is engage in combat, unless stated otherwise in their description. Keeps things balanced. Pets never give bonuses to combat because that's not what they were intended for (originally we never intended for them to have any stats, so most of them won't). If you want to apply stats to them when crafting, you're free to do so. Just remember each item gets checked for balance based on the item's rating when going through acceptance. And pets shouldn't have stats boosts for combat.

4 ▸ Stay tuned. We've got some nice shortcuts and other things coming for you guys.

5 ▸ Equipment upgrades is a cool idea, but only in the right places. I've personally looked at the idea before, and I want to make sure we juggle it in a way that doesn't make other loot look unimportant. We want you guys to engage in events or other activities and loot or coin is how we do it. If we give you a reason to never want loot again, we kill that drive. So we have to be careful. That being said, this is a cool idea and it might come as a future update to professions to encourage people to craft things with cash. Probably with a couple other buffs as well.

6 ▸ Inventory checks are hard, and we do want to make sure no one has anything they're not supposed to. However, the five staff members on site do a great job of keeping track of mostly everything that's going on. We miss a few things here and there we eventually find, but we're usually quick and on top of it. It shouldn't be hard for any single player to tend to their own single inventory. Sometimes mix-ups happen and we're usually very understanding, but we also want it fixed as fast as possible.

We probably won't make changes to the system we have now because we want to put trust into the playerbase. If you use or craft an item, make sure you get rid of it. We're usually good about deleting the items from your inventory after you craft with them but sometimes that doesn't always happen (call this beta). I suggest doing all sorts of little things to keep track of your own inventory so you don't get screwed up. The trust lies in you guys.

7 ▸ This is something we're still tinkering with, but it seems to be weighing in the direction of no change. We do want to make more reasons to go in the dungeon, but we want to make sure we don't go too crazy with it. Currently hard mode offers tons of rares and epics with pretty low chances of death (besides deception op) and with the same posting requirements of a quest. Posting also rack up easy cash just for the sake of roleplaying in a cool dungeon. Easy mode in its current state is meant to be punishing, as we want you to do hard mode, but you can still receive some nice tiers of loot from it. I think in its current state the dungeons do well for what we meant for them: a replacement for raids for smaller groups when a raid isn't up. A hybrid of quests and raids I suppose.

8 ▸ Cool idea, but bounties have a certain specific place just as all the other thread types. They act as event-based quests that's focused on combat with a single unit. A way to fight bosses on a smaller, but longer, scale when compared to raids. They come with cool exclusive rewards for people who don't want to try out hard mode. So these probably won't change from that. BUT! The concept you mentioned isn't something we haven't heard before and it isn't something we haven't discussed in other avenues. Again, stay tuned. We have a lot planned for you guys very soon!

Totally turned you into an example here, but I think it makes well for our positions on certain things for some future list. Everything you mentioned was a good idea in some kind of way, but a lot of it is stuff we've either thought about before or heard already. This is our position on it so we keep things clean and easy for you guys and the staff. The other stuff might be coming sooner than you think!

Oh, okay! I see what you're after now. I'd say minor things like that already exist as options in current modern-day mmorpgs, so it would and should on BWO. You shouldn't need to add it to the item description, as long as it's minor removals such as the helmet or a cloak. But, if you'd like, you can still add it to the description if that's your thing. So go buck wild.

On top of this and what I mentioned previously, I think we'll be releasing an item guideline so you know what kind of things you should be shooting for when crafting. I think the skill guidelines did a lot of good in some places, so we'll probably see that again.

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