It's not useless crap. You go to the fields to find mushrooms to make potions. You combine the potions with arrowheads to make magic arrowheads and you combine those with arrow shafts to make magic arrows. Now you can either use them or sell them and they are quite valuable when you are low levelled.
Cooking also counts as crafting. Cooking is useless?
I can't read your mind to guess how much crafting you think we'll need to do to reach high crafting levels. But if I'm forced to make a lot of stuff I don't want to make before I'm allowed to make the thing I'm actually allowed to, then that is grinding.
And yes cooking was useless in the previous game. Sorry.
No I am not saying grind useless crap I am saying improve upon and make it better or at least believable instead of pounding leather scraps on an anvil make it wood planks and animal hide at least you get some of the actual components to make a boot so it is believable. Or use crafting kits for everything and include crafting recipes from raw materials to make the kits themselves. Like a boot crafting kit would equal wood, animal hide, nails, metal piece, needle and thread, and a knife. Leaving one element out of the kit in order to combine the kit with that item and make a boot.
There's a lot of unrealistic things in the game. It would be a very long list. I've complained about several myself, and generally, people have told me to shut up because they don't care. In that spirit, I honestly do not give a shit about crafting and could care less about crafting realism, especially if it means making a more annoying crafting system.
