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To be clear, I love the systems in 2e and think the game as a whole is nicely balanced while allowing for a bunch of customization, I'm just trying to understand the full picture and make sure I'm not missing something. Also, I'm not trying to munchkinize, but I am looking at what it would mean if a player did try to do such and how much it could/couldn't impact the game.

I've looked through a lot of crafting question posts and I still feel crafting is a bit lackluster. Please review my below understanding and let me know if I'm missing something. Also, please let me know if anyone has any alternate rules that they prefer/that changes things for the better.

I can only craft an item at my level or below
I have to have the formula for an item to craft it, which costs up to 3.5k gp
If I want to craft something, it takes 4days+
I pay 1/2 up front in materials, I either pay the remaining 1/2 after 4 days, or spend the remaining days reducing the cost based on the 'Income Earned' table
I have a chance to fail and waste the time, or crit fail and waste the time as well as 10% materials

Based on the above, crafting would be worth it in the below instances...

I need something really basic while adventuring
I'm in a town which has materials for basic items, but not enough of the basic items
I want an item which I somehow got a recipe for, but no NPC is able to make (I'd assume I could hand the recipe to a NPC crafter to make if needed)
I am crafting an item at exactly my max level

...because otherwise it'd seem a better spend of time to just 'Earn Income', since I'd earn the same amount + 4 days of income or so. I realize it could be the case that there's no jobs of a high level in an area, but by the same logic, I'd assume there'd be no facilities to craft high level items there either.

I'm seeing crafting as just flavor at this point, not as a needed/worthwhile skill (with the exception of basic crafting such as arrows, shield repair, and low level items while adventuring), so I'd likely be better off focusing on Social skills and trying to get discounts on items/being better at the other RP aspects of the game.

Please let me know your thoughts, thank you!

I've been looking in to creating a Barbarian and the potential of using Titan Mauler, then mixing it with Rogue to get Gang Up seems interesting, but Gang Up requires a Racket. I don't see in the Rogue Archetype it called out that you pick a Racket, but for every other Archetype based on a class, they specifically call out picking a 'sub-class', even if you don't get any related abilities when initially created. Thoughts on if a Rogue Archetype would/should get a Racket, allowing for the skills which have a Racket prerequisite?