In my opinion dragonica has a good crafting, im enjoying colleting items on its dungeon specially on peak hours when players all want the same item, loved the roulette system for distributing items.

Lineage2 had the best crafting sys

I miss the clang, gurgle, saw zip and poison scratch of UO. Good times.

1. ATITD (A tale in the desert)

2. WURM

3. Vanguard

4. Istaria

5. Ryzom

ATITD and WURM are very unique. ATITD has no fighting (other than political) and Wurm is an amazing game with a really difficult interface to use. But they should both be the standard at which developers look at when creating new crafting games.

Wurm is great.  I never felt so apart of a game like I did here.  I just wish the graphics, combat....everything else was great also.  Wish I could find a game like this.

Originally posted by Astrina

1. ATITD (A tale in the desert)

2. WURM

3. Vanguard

4. Istaria

5. Ryzom

ATITD and WURM are very unique. ATITD has no fighting (other than political) and Wurm is an amazing game with a really difficult interface to use. But they should both be the standard at which developers look at when creating new crafting games.

dont necro ancient threads tool.

Originally posted by Deleted User
Hmm... Ryzom has a better system than half of those games. Oh well other than that it's a good list.

      Im guessing they weren't factoring in the gathering aspect of it.......Now if you include that then Ryzom certainly jumps way above most of those games.

Final fantasy XIV is worthy of a mention too. It's not just click a button from a recipe and wait nor is gathering just right clicking and waiting.

anarchy online, istaria, uncharted water online, final fantasy series?

Talk about mainstream

Istaria is still number 1.. or should be in the top 3... this list is Ryzom should be here too

Originally posted by cosy
i was expecting ATITD on the list

 

I agree.

When it comes to crafting... SWG is so far beyond any other MMO that it's in a league of it's own. If you really want to make a Top Crafting MMO list, all you need is SWG.

FE no2 is a bit of a joke tbh,all it is is get mats,click a button and wait (insert 10 seconds - 2 days time period).No skill or fun to it at all.

Vanguard was boring as heck and conusing.

You were given little direction on how to get started, where to go or what you could do.

The quests were endless and lacked reason.

The graphics no better then what I suggest below.

And I'm tired of seeing it listed as a good crafting game.

Ashen Empires, while old has better crafting then 1/3 in that list and a better overall game.

I notice Wurm Online is not listed, shameless given it has 136 skills 90% of which are crafting.

IMO, pre CU SWG should take the top of this list.  I can not think of another game that was able to produce super-star players based off of their crafts alone.

However, I'm surprised that I haven't seen Mortal Online mentioned.  This game has a very in-depth and secretive crafting system which surely deserves a place on this list.

This thread is 2 years old now... but I'm CPR certified  =)

SWG - hands down the greatest crafting system to date. It may not have been 10/10 in every category when compared to some of the other honorable mentions on this stunted list, but wins overall in my opinion.

In/Famous Quote:

"MMO Crafting is a lost art."

- me

This is a good list but there is another crafting system that deserves a look.

Puzzle Pirates had crafting where each trade had its own mini-game that skill to master.

Example:

Blacksmithing mini-game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSThWVbFSFI

Weaving mini-game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNi28yShO4Q

Now if only this crafting system was built into a modern MMO.