Upcoming Master Crafting - AMA from Discord

Hello Paxians,

Thank you for your participation in the AMA thread on our Discord server. We received quite a lot of questions, and have decided to split the answers into two parts so as not overwhelm you with information.
The first part will focus on Master Crafting, and the second part, which will be published early next week, will be about Crafting XP changes.
Let’s dive in!

Mastercrafting - Mechanics & chances

What exactly qualifies as a Master Crafted item? Required skill level? Must the recipe be trivial/mastered?

To answer all of that, an item will become Master Crafted if you roll a 95% success or higher when making the item. This means you have a chance to make an item Master Crafted regardless of your skill level. Still, the probability of Master Crafting an item is heavily dependent on the difference between your skill level and the recipe difficulty level. For a recipe that’s considered Mastered, you have about 45% chance of making a Master Crafted item based on the craft RNG roll. For more difficult items, the chance gets slimmer and slimmer, but there’s always the sliver of chance to get this even for the very hard crafts.

Is Mastercrafting a fixed bonus or variable?

Currently, the Master Crafting only affects items with Item Power. For these items, you get a fixed +50 bonus to the Item Power of the item. We have ideas for expanding the effect of Master Crafting in future releases.

Is Mastercrafting a one-off system or something that will expand over time?

We have plans to expand this later. As noted, this update only affects items with Item Power. We have ideas for how to integrate this into crafting the products into stackable items and make the buffs more interesting.

Mastercrafted item stats & effects

Does Mastercrafting increase: Durability? Lifetime? Tool effectiveness?

Tool effectiveness is based on the Item Power, so yes. Durability and lifetime are not affected, but we might change this in a future release.

Will higher-level master crafters produce stronger mastercrafted items?

No, but a higher skill level will expand the range of items you can Master Craft.

Will Mastercrafted items ever have additional effects beyond item power (e.g. fire, speed, specialization perks)?

Never say never! But not today.

Will Mastercrafted jewelry receive benefits as well?

Jewelcrafting is a very underserved crafting skill right now, and we really want to integrate Master Crafting to that profession as well, but this will happen in a future update.

Customization & recognition

Will Mastercrafted items have a distinct visual appearance?

Currently, the in-world item is not affected by Master Crafting.

Will the crafter’s name: Be visible on the item? Be visible on the market listing? Be optional for anonymity?

The Master Crafted items will feature a new design element in their item icons. The item stats panel will show the Master Crafting Item Power bonus in the Item Power calculation and the name of the crafter under it. The crafter's name is not optional.

Thanks for reading. Please note that things may change based on feedback received during testing of the feature on Arcadia.

Stay tuned for the second part!

Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team