Gaming Calculator

Mortal Online 2 makes it so that you frequently end up with the materials for a single worthwhile sword but instead make three weak swords. That’s because the game doesn’t reward your gut instinct. Instead, it penalizes it by punishing you if skill levels doesn’t align with difficulty of recipe and heaviness of the materials. … Read more

In Pax Dei, it’s not just button-clicks; it’s a matter of supply chains. When crafting, you try to remember your supplies in your head until you have a chance to write them down. You stand by the forge and wait while animations play out, praying that everything goes right. Clan projects can be derailed by … Read more

It’s frustrating to come back from a risky mission in ARC Raiders only to find you have barely enough scrap to go out again. Because crafting is a logistical problem, it becomes an exercise in grinding. Trying to make advanced weapon modifications or prototype something new mean accounting for material shortages, squad coordination, station levels … Read more

When you’re facing down a top-level commission order in Ashes of Creation and you look at your inventory and feel a little short, well there’s a particular type of panicked feeling that settles over you. You’ve got the skill points, you’ve got the guild board slot, but your materials is spread out over nodes. Half … Read more

With a pile of tier three materials that you paid a small fortune for sitting in your safety zone, you stare blankly at the crafting menu as if it will give in before you do. Your heart begins to race and your cursor hovers over the confirm button because you know precisely how many precious … Read more

There you stand, in a room full of pickups. Coins you picked up off the ground, red heart pickups. And there’s a bag here that can hold eight items. When you fill that bag to the brim with one more pickup, the machine kicks into action and spits out a result. That result might make … Read more

So now you’re standing in front of the Blender. Those damn Star Jellies are what you want. What about gear upgrades? Sure, maybe, but when you look down at your inventory, what you see isn’t prep so much as panic. There is some Pineapples over here. Oh yeah, a few Royal Jellies over there. The … Read more

In Eco, you look at a stack of logs and say “I want to make a wall out of those, but I’m going to need three different kinds of processed materials.” You’ve got wood…now you’ve got to see if you have calories, labor, etc. Are they raw timber? Do you have boards? Time for some … Read more

This tool is good for planning crafts in Pathfinder Second Edition. In Pathfinder, there’s a cost of both downtime days and gold when crafting something. There’s also time cost vs. Materials. You want to find the balance between the time your skills take to reduce costs and the cost of materials. It’s about improving resource … Read more

Path of Exile’s cluster jewels are the result of arm wrestling with a fickle deity. Your cursor lingers over craft bench as you contemplate the empty canvas before you. An eight passive node awaits your touch; a cluster of nodes waiting for you to make them sing. Is this notable combo a diamond in the … Read more

The game of crafting in Path of Exile are more about managing variance then it is about gambling. There’s the mod and then there’s a base item. But there is thousands of others. The calculator give us an expected number of attempts and a weighted hit chance. This take away the emotion of blindly spamming … Read more

Then there’s the issue of dragging a caravan full of timber and ore back into town, only to discover that your station isn’t high enough level to make those specific recipes. You stare as your junk sits in your bag, gaining useless value as you debate processing it now or waiting until the next milestone. … Read more