Crafting elemental properties into armor and weapons

[frogofpeace]

To snap one's finger and instant have top end gear is boooooring to me.

I'm not sure if it's boring to me or not. Could you just GIVE me a bunch of high-end gear, and I'll let you know? We can work out the finger-snapping thing later.

[Korr]

Im sure she will . . . give you her lvl 60 required items

[MadUkranian]

The trap components are just an example I threw out there since they cover about all the elemental properties found on items already in the realm. I was also trying to offer a way to add a certain level of control since the MA would have to scrounge up enough of the right component before they could use it in their craft. Maybe a fighter/bard/weapon master build or fighter/rogue/weapon master (with a high enough use magic score) would be the requirement since a pure fighter does not have access to magic... I'm sure if the developers and DMs decided to take another look at the crafted weapons and armor they would come up with a much better system than the example I offered. This subject has come up a few times while chatting in-game, and the search I did on the forums didn't find anything, so I figured I'd post something to get a conversation started. I'm glad some of you were interested enough in the topic to read and add your thoughts to this thread.