question about DM drop items for crafting

[blue wolfy]

Changes to a few high level crafting recipes , they now require a DM drop item.

Is it still going to be possible for someone to reach master/finish a craft without these drops? I can understand why with the avlis craft system adding DM drops for crafts as there you get exp every time you successfully make somenthing, but on Hala I've noticed its almost random when your class skill goes up a point while crafting, theres been times i tries to two - three days to improveand nothing, then one day suddenly shoot up four point in one crafting session. I havnt tried the harder crafts like weaposmithing to much yet, but ive heard others talking about how hard it is to get materaials as is. aka having to get a group of freineds together just to get to the metal, and then not really much in it for the others so that doesnt get to happen often. Isn't the addition of dropitems going to make the Hala system even harder to improve skills now?

[silverdragonams]

For the most part DM drops for crafting on Avlis is done to keep the world from being flooded with items that are usually reserved for DM rewards. This is done on Hala for the same reason. These are not items you would be crafting to level up your skill; rather, you will have to have pretty much be a master already before making these items.

[blue wolfy]

ok thanks for the quick response