ME A Crafting: What do you expect? What do you want?

Yeah I kind of just went mostly with what I could find and do. They could have done better with that part. And often by the time I got to an area where I could get enough materials for a real boost, I was outgrowing it already. That's my fault, I think. I tend to neglect crafting for leveling until I got to DA:I. Then I had a hard time changing my methods.

Yeah by the looks of the last trailer that looks like how they've approached it.A lot of Crafting things in RPG's can be quite complicated whereas DAI's was quite straight forward I feel so as long as it's relatively straightforward in that you pick up a schematic either buying or looting and have enough materials to make it then yes keep that system but I'm not cvertain it works that way exactly but I'm not suer they'll give us too many details before the game comes out.

If true there goes the 'waste time collecting stuff' argument.  Of course I imagine if you decide to collect the materials on your own you can do so faster, more efficiently, but this would be great. 

i want the crafting system as simple as it can be, enough money or enogough generic raw material and done
nothing like DA:I crafting, it takes lot of time to walk across huge maps to get materials and repeat forever the boring process

I'm not opposed to making stuff, but I didn't really enjoy crafting in DAI -- any of it (except plaidweave, of course).

1) Collecting raw materials was repetitive and slow due to the animation. Also, in some areas you couldn't walk 5 steps without finding some rock to pick up, so it broke up the flow of the game. I actually loved the Hissing Wastes because there was very little to pick up there. I also didn't know what I needed, so I picked everything up only to see later that the stats of rock X that I spent 30 minutes collecting were inferior to something else I already had.

2) Finding/buying schematics was frustrating because I never seemed to find the ones I wanted, and I was never sure if it would build something better than what I already had. Is scoundrel armor level 5 better than badass coat level 3?

3) Making the stuff was kind of disappointing because the materials with the stats I wanted made armor I didn't like the look of (I think this was fixed later but I was no longer playing at this point). Also, the "iconic style" of the characters meant the armors looked too similar. My rogue just had endless leather trench coats no matter what I made the stuff out of.

4) Seeing what the companions had, building something new and then equipping it on them took too many clicks (you had to cycle through them instead of selecting the one you wanted, etc.). Also, if I wanted to make a new weapon and armor for someone I had to walk between two workbenches and then start the whole clicking process again. Why?

I would like something more streamlined and explicit.

1) Finding a few big lumps of eezo rather than a zillion tiny scraps. Having collection automated or take very little real time (no more 4 second crouching animations). Having only a few different types of stuff (classic iridium, eezo, platinum and palladium) rather than 20.

2) Knowing ahead of time what a schematic will make, what materials it needs, and being able to compare schematics to others in the shop/ones we already have.

3) Being able to tint or change the style of armors independently.

4) Making it easier to choose a companion, compare what he has to what is going to be made, make it and equip him with as few clicks as possible. Have all of this crafting available in one spot.

5) Having schematics carryover between playthroughs.

P.S. I actually really liked planet scanning in ME2.

A lot of that DA I did, or did later on after they patched the game. They patched in much faster animations, and the schematics always told you how much it would take to craft each thing and it gave you an idea of what it would modify in those games. Though I do agree on the aestetics. It would have been really nice to know what stuff looked like before you crafted it, and about the faster equipping. Granted the other thing that did anny me about DA Is crafting is you could never check a crafted piece of gear to see what materials you used in their construction. That was....really...really...annoying.

And they patched in a way for your schematics to carry over from one game to another called the Golden Nug.

Well, that's good, so they probably won't make those mistakes again, at least. Progress!

Sexy armor templates for my ManRyder

Crafting itself was good enough in DA:I, so porting the system as is, adapting it to ME's setting obviously, is what I want and expect. What worries me isn't crafting as much as the gathering of materials. I'm not as negative about how it was done in DA:I as most, but it still was both boring and kinda silly that the head of the Inquisition was him/herself collecting elfroot and iron when there was a big organization behind. I know the Ai isn't the Inquisition, and the Pathfinder isn't so high (I guess?) in the hierarchy as the Inky, but I would have wanted me to find big deposits where I could send mining teams to deplete and gradually send me materials for my/the Ai's stuff. Of course the VGA trailer crushed my hopes, and now I'd settle for materials to be collected faster (the trailer did show us collecting 49 units of lithium in one go, so here's hoping), so this little annoyance is a bit less annoying.

What do I want in the way of crafting?  The ability to get away with doing as little of it as possible.  I hate systems that encourage a lot of grinding in a game.

As I said, I don't it's confirmed at this point. It'd be a nice addition though. 
And yeah, those two things are likely a reaction to the feedback on DAI's resource gathering. I think they'll already help a lot in making gathering, and exploring, less tedious.

I never much cared for crafting in DAI. I hardly ever did it. However, going to a new world, I can see how it might be necessary.