Trade Organization work orders are TOTALLY fubar

[Florinda]

I was attempting to do the crafting quests in Ahgram and New Targonor.

In New Targonor, it's not even possible. The New Targonor Trading Company taskmaster offered me a choice of 4 work orders. Three of them can only be done by carpenters. Since the quest requires that you do 3 work orders for this taskmaster, that means a mineralogist can't do the quest. One of the work orders that can only be done by a carpenter is labeled that the skill used is mineralogy. Yet it uses tools I can't use. I lost a lot of faction finding out which work orders I can't do.

In Ahgram, it's not possible at the level you get the quest. Assuming the work orders are labeled correctly (something that isn't true in New Targ), the only work orders doable by a mineralogist are red and purple. Yet an armorsmith the same crafting level I am did the quest easily, saying the work orders were white.

Please fix the taskmasters so that they don't offer you work orders you can't even attempt.

And please make it fair; all crafts should get work orders of the same level. Artificers are significantly harder.

[Venti]

Thats one thing I've been noticing is a lot of the special task masters seem to favor carpentry quests over artificer or minerologist.

[Florinda]

Originally Posted by Venti

Thats one thing I've been noticing is a lot of the special task masters seem to favor carpentry quests over artificer or minerologist.

What I was noticing was that Artificer WOs could only be done by carpenters.

There are also Mineralogy WOs that cannot be done.

Example: Samkara in New Targonor, the Head Researcher for the Arcane Camarilla. She offers a work order called "Colorful Marbles" that is Very Easy to a lvl 25 crafter. On the description of the work order, it says that the skill used is Mineralogy. However, the work order cannot be completed by a mineralogist because it requires a knife, which we cannot equip. It also requires a tool I've never seen called, "Etching Measuring Stick." I actually tried to complete this work order, just to see if it was at all doable; it took 4 clicks of a high progress button on the first leg of the recipe to see 1% progress. To get 5% took half the AP.

My factions are fubar too, by the way. The one that really hurts is the hit to Thestran Artisans. Why they care whether or not a crafter messes with a trade organization is beyond me, but the hit hurts largely because I'm Kojani and I've done the continental style quest so that I can keep up with the tier quests on Thestra. For that I need Thestran Artisans faction.

Notes:

The taskmaster should not offer carpentry work orders to a mineralogist and vice versa.

Artificer work orders should be doable by any artificer, whether mineralogist or carpenter. The ones I investigated required knives and the mysterious "Etching Measuring Stick."

Mineralogy work orders should not require tools that a mineralogist can't equip.

No work order should require a tool that doesn't exist ("Etching Measuring Stick").

There should be equal numbers of work orders for each specialty. There are in some cases 3 times as many carpentry work orders as mineralogy.

Soulbound work order rewards should be equippable by the recipient. I received a soulbound knife for completing a work order for the NTTO. I cannot equip it.

Blacksmiths get easier work orders than artificers do (as in, the blacksmiths are offered work orders that are white to 25, while the artificers are offered work orders that are red and purple to 25). (No data yet on outfitters until Frerra moves her butt out of Southwatch or another 25+ outfitter tries these quests, sorry.) Please be fair and lower the difficulty of the artificer work orders.

That's all for now....

[geckzilla]

Yes, they are FUBAR. On top of offering the wrong type of WOs, certain WOs will also produce items which you cannot use to turn in the WO... I think one was called marbles or somesuch and I produced colored chips with it? Had to abandon. I had luck with The Cabal in Ahgram as a carpenter but that's about it.

I'm just avoiding it for the most part till it's been given some love.