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You made a +2 Sword?!??? Awesome!

I did! I promptly left town and found a group of ogres to try it out on. While I was feeling pretty good about things, I wasn't feeling brave enough to try it out on all of them at once. So I used my bow to thin them down a bit. When there was just the lone Ogre Warrior standing there, I pulled out my sword and shield, challenged him, and woke up and a shrine a short time later... But at least my sword was still shiny

...but during the, what, hour it took to craft the +2 ingot you could run around and do other things?

I think that you're supposed to be able to do that. I tried it once and logged out while it was in queue. The items vanished from queue and the original materials were gone as well. Tried another time with not logging out and just running around. Lost them again. Someone said if you died you lost them, but I don't recall if I died or not. So I did it the painstakingly slow way and sat by the craft facility while the items were made.

When I started the sword and it showed 12 hours to finish I just left myself logged in over night and hopped for the best.

I played around with the crafting a fair amount. At first it was a bit daunting, not having any idea what things were for. After the first few days of Alpha I had a better Idea of what I needed to do on the second weekend and concentrated my characters training more to what I needed, or hoped I needed. In the end, I did manage to craft a Long Sword+2. I never was able to figure out which skill I needed for weak varnish to try and make bows, battle axes, or a spear. Just needed some more time and XP to buy higher skill levels.

Crafting is currently pretty time consuming. It's not like other games where you get the stuff and just suddenly have a new item after pressing a button. It was around 15 hours total time to craft the sword. That's not counting gathering time for the materials needed to do it either.