00:01Peggy 16
00:12Hi, I'm Paul Sage, I'm the Creative Director
00:15I'm Nick Conkle, I'm the Lead Gameplay Designer
00:17I'm Chris Strauss, I'm the Lead UX Designer
00:19So today we're going to be talking about something that's kind of near and dear to my heart
00:23which is crafting
00:23Having a failed attempt at shop class in high school
00:28This is one of the areas where I feel like, hey, this is my fantasy
00:31It's something where I can really stand out and make things for other players and for myself
00:37All right, so here we are looking in the world and you know
00:39I think it's pretty necessary to upgrade my armor at this point
00:43One of the nice things I think about this spot is, I mean, not only is it visible on the
00:46horizon here
00:47But if you see in your compass there, this is what we call a crafting locale
00:52That, you know, allows me to create special set items
00:57And to make set items, you're definitely going to want to collect a variety of ingredients
01:00So you can see you can just pick them up in the world, no big deal
01:03If you happen to come across them
01:05But sometimes they're a little hard to find
01:07And that's where, if you've leveled up enough in crafting
01:11These skill points in Keen Eye are really valuable
01:14And there's a Keen Eye for every type of material you might find in the world
01:17And you can see the background there
01:18From a certain distance, those special crafting materials will light up
01:22Such that they're easier to find and harvest
01:23Again, it doesn't matter if you are a particular type of profession
01:27Anybody can gather any kind of resource in the world
01:31Which I think just makes it more fun
01:32Yeah, I really like that we try to make it so that as you're exploring
01:36It's just kind of around every nook and cranny
01:39Anybody can go out and they can collect wood or they can collect these ingredients
01:42But only the crafters who actually spend points on these things
01:45Could see them highlighted in the world like that
01:47You think you've seen them all
01:48But then you look at an area with Keen Eye
01:49And you're like, oh man, there are a lot of flowers here to pick up
01:53Alright, this is one of the locations where you craft set pieces in the world
01:57And you can only find it through exploring
01:58So rather than just going to a city or a town to craft your gear
02:02You come to these special places and it's guarded by tigers
02:04This is sweet cat on cat combat
02:07Kill cats
02:08Oh wow, I didn't even think about that
02:10Like, why would you hurt your brother?
02:17But yeah, in addition to just, you know, running around and finding different things you can use for crafting
02:22There's leather you'll come across on different creatures
02:24Different ingredients that you can use depending on what you're trying to craft
02:29And now that we've dispatched our kind of distant relatives
02:32It looks like we are going to go into an alien ruin here to craft these special set pieces
02:40So you can see that unlike a normal crafting station that you might find in the city or whatever
02:43Any items that you create here have the opportunity to create the Magnus's gift set bonus
02:48And there's lots of these all throughout the world
02:49You kind of have to explore and find them
02:51And in this case items that you create have the opportunity to get this special unique set bonus
02:55In addition to whatever normal customization you want to put on them
02:58Which we're sort of looking at here
03:00This research is actually one of the things I really like about this system
03:03We have traits which are the innate properties of an item
03:05Traits are things like it's sturdy and whatnot
03:07And here to actually learn to put a trait on an item
03:10You have to destroy that item that already has that trait
03:13And then over time you learn how to do that
03:15So you become one of the crafters who can really start to specialize
03:19Say you know all the traits on a sword
03:21Well then people are going to naturally try to seek you out
03:24And buy swords from you
03:25In this case right here
03:26There's lots of opportunities in crafting to deconstruct
03:29Or extract the valuable materials from anything you come across in the world
03:33Whether it be something that another player traded to you
03:35Or that you found via loot or in a treasure chest
03:37Or something along those lines
03:39Everything you find is going to be useful to you in some way in crafting
03:41If only to just advance your skill more
03:44So the entire world is really integrated into that system
03:48The idea is really to give you a high level of control
03:50So you're controlling not only the material it's made out of
03:53The level it's made out of
03:54With the look of it
03:55And then of course the innate properties of all the items here
03:58You can really kind of create some cool stuff here
04:00In this case you can choose to make a Khajiit armor
04:03That looks like the Khajiit style
04:04Versus whichever else you might want
04:06In this case you can make Khajiit because you are a cad
04:09And I think again just the thing to emphasize here is
04:13You're creating this very custom piece of gear
04:15And in this case maybe it's a simple one
04:18That's just a chess piece
04:20Oh night switch there
04:21Yeah that was good
04:22But as you play the game longer and longer
04:24You might find the opportunity to use different styles
04:27And the mechanisms that's accomplished through
04:30Is via these racial motifs that you find all throughout the world
04:33That will teach you a different style of gear that you can make
04:36So really it's just like school where they told you that everything you actually need to learn
04:40And you can learn in a book
04:41Exactly
04:41Yeah
04:42But here you'll actually use what you've learned
04:44Oh come on now
04:45Oh no
04:46You know I think it's worth mentioning that
04:47You don't find this set in the world
04:50It doesn't drop
04:51Only crafters can craft this particular set piece in this particular location in the world
04:55It really ties the crafting system in with exploration in the world
04:58And there's social elements there too
05:00Like oh man I found this one ruin you can go to
05:03And there's kind of a legendary station there that lets you make the Magnus's gift set bonus
05:07Which is pretty good
05:08And it's a set bonus that's completely unique to crafting
05:11So if you really want a 5% chance to negate the cost of spell
05:14You've got to find a crafter who's willing to go there and make it for you
05:16Yeah
05:17When you want to improve an item
05:18So when you first create an item
05:20You know it's going to start out at this quality level
05:22At the lowest quality level which is white here
05:24And then you'll raise it up to the next quality level which is fine or green
05:28And to do that you have to have tempers in the case of blacksmithing
05:32So here we have a Honing Stone temper
05:33There's a little bit of a gambling game here
05:35The more tempers you add the better chance you have to get to the next quality level
05:38But if you don't have those tempers
05:39100%
05:40That's not much of a gamble though
05:41It's not a big risk though
05:42Yeah
05:42That's not much of a gamble at 100%
05:44I invested heavily in Magnus's Curious here
05:48I don't think it's Curious
05:49Curious
05:50Whatever
05:50I think it's much more fun when you take a little bit of a risk
05:53And this is really the gambling portion part of the game
05:56This is where you're deciding if you want to try to improve the quality of that item
06:00Although I do not
06:02And by fun you mean I'm never ever going at something like say 45% here
06:08Which is the only
06:09Oh geez
06:10So we're out of Dwarven Oil
06:12We only have a 45% chance to do it
06:14This is totally a pressure luck moment here
06:16This is the big money no whammy
06:18Big money no whammy
06:20Yeah
06:21Got it in one
06:22Nice
06:22Okay come on
06:23Yeah
06:24Did not think that was going to go through
06:28That was risky but it was worth it
06:30I live for the buzz
06:32Look how much cooler that looks
06:33So much more stylish
06:34Right
06:35But look at this
06:36Compliment your name
06:36There we go
06:37Now it's all matching
06:38Yeah so I mean you know I think the thing to end with is that you know
06:41Crafters are super valuable
06:43They can take the best items in the world to make them better
06:46And they can also make the best gear
06:47Plus that armor just really makes your eyes pop
06:49Yeah
06:50And cats
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