Runes of Magic’s crafting is pretty traditional — if you’ve played World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online you’ll be quite familiar.

Starting off as always is gathering resources. The big difference in RoM is the ability to gain all crafting professions and gathering professions, so don’t worry about having to choose or have alts/others to depend on.

Resource Gathering

The nodes will have icons that appear on the mini-map that will allow for quick and easy locating. Once there simply click to begin harvesting and repeat till the node is empty.

After gathering up a bag full of resources it’s time to take em back to town where the crafting stations are.

Smelting

This is the crafting window. Up under ‘Recipes’ you can see a few drop-down filters that allow access to your other crafting skills. The process for both is pretty much the same — have resources, hit craft.

Blacksmithing

Annnnnnd… it’s done!

While a simple and traditional crafting system, it is quite nice when you consider it’s the same used in several paid MMOs — while RoM is free to play. Having access too all the professions is wonderful as well, though it does kind of break down some social aspects that crafting typically creates. Also of note: you can purchase crafting stations for use in your house, similar to Everquest 2 or City of Heroes. (probably closer to CoH since I think the stations require power in the form of diamonds, the RMT in-game currency)