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So I'm new to the game and reading up on crafting. It seems that people on the forums say that crafting is dead and not worth the investment. Is that true or can you recommend a profession?

Party buffs alone don't make Lancer better. If you fuck up a lot your overall contribution to the party is worse.

It's impossible to fuck up Brawler. You go retard mode DPS for the entirety of any given fight and ignore everything that doesn't kill you.

its actually hard to fuck up on lancer too, the only things lancers can do that can fuck up their contribution to the party is the same as brawlers, basically aggro and positioning issues, as long as you keep aggro, position, enrage/buff at the right times and know the basic rotations its better, and doing that much isnt hard at all
Just saying its impossible to fuck up brawler is wrong though, many people are actually trash at brawler

Anyone who is that bad at Brawler is going to be even worse at Lancer and probably drop their stacks constantly and be completely clueless about when to enrage or AR or any of the other finer points.

A bad player is a bad player and drastically increasing the performance gap between you and the rest of your party(who may be substantially better) is the last thing you want as a tank. At that point the boss start flipping out and spinning around and chaos ensues. Lancer is for people who actually know what they're doing. Brawler is for those who want to pretend to be DPS because that's basically how they play.

thats the point, you'd have to be a literal retard to be so bad at lancer that brawler is better

The recent gear patch gave crafting a purpose. Weapon crafting is the most lucrative and the one you will need the most because of golden talents and plates. Pretty much everyone is forced to be a crafter now or they must buy things off of the broker.

Oh that's cool. Thanks! Weapon crafting seems interesting. Are any profs more useful if you want to pvp a lot?

Since gear is the same for pve and pvp everything is the same.
Weapon crafting for refining golden talents, armour crafting for silver telnts (jewelry, only for endgame min maxing), alchemy for gems, mainly for creating emeralds which you need to enchant gear along with golden darics/plates.

All right think I'll go for weapon crafting then.

definitely do
darics and plates are the only things you absolutely can't drop anywhere and they're expensive as shit