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I also read in another post that crafting had got worst since release. How bad is it ?
I'm probably the one who said that, so I should probably let you know what I think. Whether or not crafting has gotten worse depends on what you want from it. If you want to focus on tradeskills and play a primarily crafting game things have gotten worse. The term 'dumbing down' is overused so I hesitate to use it myself, but you can definitly make the claim. The social, depth and economic aspect of interdependency was dropped early on. Without interdependency there was really no need for subcombines, so they were dropped later on, removing some depth. Experience was increased so as to make levelling much faster than it used to be. However, the worst thing that's happened is the gear crafters make was nerfed across the board and dropped gear was improved. At high levels the best things a crafter can make are little more than filler gear to be used only until you get your legendary drop, which is pretty easy to come by.
The clincher for me was the new tradeskills. They were advertised and tested all through beta and being for people who had leveled a tradeskill. I thought they were finally going to add something for tradeskills only that would make a pure crafting character more valued and important in game. Shortly after EoF launch they were opened up to anyone using the higher of adventure or tradeskill level, and I was very disappointed. Tinkered items became no trade and tinker only only after beta, which served to justify opening it up to anyone, albeit after the fact.
More personally, Transmuters all get to make weapon adornments that are arguably better than the ones weaponsmiths make. They have to make them to level so the market is flooded with them at far less than cost to make them. and no other tradeskill was saddled with this extra competition.
Tradeskills have become a sideline timesink for adventurers to keep them interested longer. If you're looking to be a crafter first and foremost then tradeskills have gotten worse. Still playable if you're not looking for a lot of depth, but definitely worse. If you want to mainly adventure and craft in your spare time to make yourself some very good low level gear, some decent filler gear later on and maybe make a little money then you'll love it.