I like to craft new items, since they tend to be more powerful than what I can find or buy. However, I've yet to find a good location to do my crafting. Ideally this place would have:
- A fast travel waypoint (so I can get in and out quickly)
- A stash (so I can dump unique or set items I've found)
- A blacksmith forge (so I can craft armor and weapons)
- An altar for sagecrafting (so I can craft gems to become part of my items)
I'd also like to have close by:
- A shop (to sell unwanted items)
- An alchemy workbench (for restocking my potions)
At the moment, I'm using the Canneroc area, which has the stash, alchemy bench, and sagecrafting altar in Gossamer End, and the nearby blacksmith forge location has a shopkeeper wandering around nearby. However, it's a bit inconvenient to zone two or three times to swap between the areas, and the sagecrafting altar is way down in the basement of the house.
Are there any areas that meet these qualifications? If I need to run a quest line to unlock/upgrade a house, that's fine, but please make note of it.
Best Answer
To meet all of the criteria you listed, sadly, Canneroc was the best I found (once you get and upgrade your house). Most of the other stashes require too much running from the fast travel point to make them useful.
However, what I found while playing is that there were some locations that were good to go to if you wanted a smaller subset of actions (i.e., if you didn't need to hit your stash).
Of the maps I'm showing, the fast-travel spawn point is circled in green. Stashes (if any) are in red and the crafting stations and shopkeepers are in orange. The "load screen" count includes warping in to the town in the first place.
Canneroc (best for stash + all crafting)
Didenhil (best for all crafting + sales, but no stash)
Mel Senshir (best load time if you don't need stash or Alchemy)
I can't say that there's absolutely nothing better out there, but through the 40+ hours I played, these were the ones that seemed the least painful to me. Basically, I ignored Alchemy as a waste of time, used Canneroc to hit my stash, and use Mel Senshir for everything else. Before I had access to Mel Senshir I used Didenhil instead.