Crafting is one of the aspects I enjoy the most. I don’t mind working hard for a rare component, or traveling to the end of the world to see a trainer, or unlock recipes by reputations… But I think crafting in DF is just unnecessarily complicated.
Especially with no option to reset, it’s just way too easy to go down the wrong branch and waste hard-earned knowledge points. E.g. in tailoring nothing tells you that the Azureweave and Chronocloth branches are exclusive, yet all items are soulbound and you can only equip two of them so there’s not much point in going down both branches.
Also in Enchanting, having a separate branch for every type of enchant, and you have to unlock the special reagent for all of them separately… that’s really over the top imo.
Idk if I’m just behind (I stopped playing until recently) and you’re supposed to have everything unlocked by now, or if others feel the same way… I feel like I benefited very little from professions in DF, despite all the work and gold that went into them.
Might as well just buy everything on AH and get the few items I’m wearing crafted via the order system…