Farmer Profession Improvements

Being a Farmer isn't easy. It takes a special sort of someone: A person with dedication, integrity, patience, and...inventory space? Yes, lots of inventory space!

Well, we've made some changes to the profession to help alleviate the burden of item management, as well as a major adjustment in the process of producing crops that will help all Farmers produce bigger harvests more quickly.

Seed Changes

We've simplified the many different types of seeds used by Farmers. For example, the Expert Farmer recipes for Cauliflower Field and Green Onion Field now both share a common seed ingredient, the Expert Crop Seed.

Simplified crop seeds for Farmers

Most Flower and Pipe-weed Field recipes also share seeds as well. This should help to reduce the variety of recipe ingredients used by Farmers to a more manageable level.

Field Recipe Changes

We've made two significant adjustments to all Farmer field recipes.

First, we've reduced the number of seeds for all field recipes from 5 to 1, which greatly reduces the number of seeds needed to use these recipes. We've adjusted the value of the new seeds to compensate for this change, so seed prices will stay roughly the same as before.

Green Onion Field recipe with new required ingredients

Second, we've changed the output for all field recipes to produce only good crops. Previously, poor crops made by field recipes could be used to produce more seed, leaving the Farmer with another stack of items, as well as consuming additional time to process the crops.

Farmers take note: The recipes for poor crops have been removed from the recipe list as they are no longer used.

Hybrid Pipe-weed Changes

Hybrid pipe-weed field recipes continue to use unique seeds; however the methods for obtaining these seeds have changed. All Apprentice Farmer pipe-weed field recipes now have a chance to produce Journeyman-tier hybrid pipe-weed seeds. Similarly, Journeyman pipe-weed fields have a chance to produce Expert-tier hybrid seeds as well as an increased chance for additional Journeyman-tier hybrid seeds

Wait, There's More?

Cook

• Pet food recipes (Lore-master)

Jeweller

• Talisman recipes (Lore-master)

Metalsmith

• Chisel recipes (Rune-keeper)

Scholar

• New dye recipes
• Battle Tonic recipes (Captain)
• Potion of Fervour recipes (Champion)
• Overpower Tactics recipes (Guardian)
• Potion of Focus recipes (Hunter)
• Sheet Music recipes (Minstrel)

Tailor

• Armaments recipes (Captain)

Weaponsmith

• Throwing Axe recipes (Burglar)
• Serrated Knife recipes (Burglar)

Woodworker

• Blazoned Crest recipes (Captain)
• Infused Parchment recipes (Rune-keeper)
• Hymn recipes (Warden)

We hope you enjoy the changes to crafting in the November 2010 Update! Have fun!