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** Crafting to create your own custom balls is a cool idea, but like Jeweling gets ruined by a bunch of asinine restrictions. First just like how you can only make Grass Rings at first, you can only make Poke Balls until your Crafting level reaches 4, with each Poke Ball requiring specifically an Orange Apricorn. This wouldn't have been so bad if there was an easy source to obtain Apricorns from, but it's even worse than grinding out the evolutionary stones, as you can only get Apricorns from Apricorn trees in Rijon, which only drop one Apricorn each real world day, and you're going to specifically need 17 Orange Apricorns before you can even start making any better balls, while there is only one tree available for each Apricorn. So for over two real world weeks, you can only make a single Poke Ball each day, and then just like with Jeweling, the level gap between each new ball you can make and the requirement to level up your Crafting steadily increases as you go up in level, while there's only a handful of Apricorns available each day, thus it's going to take months of real world time before you're able to craft every type of ball unless you just cheat yourself a ton of Apricorns to speed up the process. Did we also mention that you don't get to access Crafting until the postgame, in a town well out of the way? So you can't even utilize this mechanic and build up your Crafting level for most of the game, and by the time you can even access it you could have already caught all the difficult-to-catch pokemon that you would want these custom balls for. Plus there are no Apricorn trees in Naijo, so no stockpiling up a ton of Apricorns in the main game to later use in the postgame.
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*** Ability to create your own custom balls is a cool idea, but like Jeweling gets ruined by a bunch of asinine restrictions. First just like how you can only make Grass Rings at first, you can only make Poke Balls until your Crafting level reaches 4, with each Poke Ball requiring specifically an Orange Apricorn. This wouldn't have been so bad if there was an easy source to obtain Apricorns from, but it's even worse than grinding out the evolutionary stones, as you can only get Apricorns from Apricorn trees in Rijon, which only drop one Apricorn each real world day, and you're going to specifically need 17 Orange Apricorns before you can even start making any better balls, while there is only one tree available for each Apricorn. So for over two real world weeks, you can only make a single Poke Ball each day, and then just like with Jeweling, the level gap between each new ball you can make and the requirement to level up your Crafting steadily increases as you go up in level, while there's only a handful of Apricorns available each day, thus it's going to take months of real world time before you're able to craft every type of ball unless you just cheat yourself a ton of Apricorns to speed up the process. Did we also mention that you don't get to access Crafting until the postgame, in a town well out of the way? So you can't even utilize this mechanic and build up your Crafting level for most of the game, and by the time you can even access it you could have already caught all the difficult-to-catch pokemon that you would want these custom balls for. Plus there are no Apricorn trees in Naijo, so no stockpiling up a ton of Apricorns in the main game to later use in the postgame.
*** Ability to create your own custom balls is a cool idea, but like Jeweling gets ruined by a bunch of asinine restrictions. First just like how you can only make Grass Rings at first, you can only make Poke Balls until your Crafting level reaches 4, with each Poke Ball requiring specifically an Orange Apricorn. This wouldn't have been so bad if there was an easy source to obtain Apricorns from, but it's even worse than grinding out the evolutionary stones, as you can only get Apricorns from Apricorn trees in Rijon, which only drop one Apricorn each real world day, and you're going to specifically need 17 Orange Apricorns before you can even start making any better balls, while there is only one tree available for each Apricorn. So for over two real world weeks, you can only make a single Poke Ball each day, and then just like with Jeweling, the level gap between each new ball you can make and the requirement to level up your Crafting steadily increases as you go up in level, while there's only a handful of Apricorns available each day, thus it's going to take months of real world time before you're able to craft every type of ball unless you just cheat yourself a ton of Apricorns to speed up the process. Did we also mention that you don't get to access Crafting until the postgame, in a town well out of the way? So you can't even utilize this mechanic and build up your Crafting level for most of the game, and by the time you can even access it you could have already caught all the difficult-to-catch pokemon that you would want these custom balls for. Plus there are no Apricorn trees in Naijo, so no stockpiling up a ton of Apricorns in the main game to later use in the postgame.
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** Crafting to create your own custom balls is a cool idea, but like Jeweling gets ruined by a bunch of asinine restrictions. First just like how you can only make Grass Rings at first, you can only make Poke Balls until your Crafting level reaches 4, with each Poke Ball requiring specifically an Orange Apricorn. This wouldn't have been so bad if there was an easy source to obtain Apricorns from, but it's even worse than grinding out the evolutionary stones, as you can only get Apricorns from Apricorn trees in Rijon, which only drop one Apricorn each real world day, and you're going to specifically need 17 Orange Apricorns before you can even start making any better balls. So for a real world week or more, you can only make a Poke Ball or two each day, and then just like with Jeweling, the level gap between each new ball you can make and the requirement to level up your Crafting steadily increases as you go up in level, while there's only a handful of Apricorns available each day, thus it's going to take months of real world time before you're able to craft every type of ball. Did we also mention that you don't get to access Crafting until the postgame, in a town well out of the way? So you can't even utilize this mechanic and build up your Crafting level for most of the game, and by the time you can even access it you could have already caught all the difficult-to-catch pokemon that you would want these custom balls for. Plus there are no Apricorn trees in Naijo, so no stockpiling up a ton of Apricorns in the main game to later use in the postgame.
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** Crafting to create your own custom balls is a cool idea, but like Jeweling gets ruined by a bunch of asinine restrictions. First just like how you can only make Grass Rings at first, you can only make Poke Balls until your Crafting level reaches 4, with each Poke Ball requiring specifically an Orange Apricorn. This wouldn't have been so bad if there was an easy source to obtain Apricorns from, but it's even worse than grinding out the evolutionary stones, as you can only get Apricorns from Apricorn trees in Rijon, which only drop one Apricorn each real world day, and you're going to specifically need 17 Orange Apricorns before you can even start making any better balls. balls, while there is only one tree available for each Apricorn. So for a over two real world week or more, weeks, you can only make a single Poke Ball or two each day, and then just like with Jeweling, the level gap between each new ball you can make and the requirement to level up your Crafting steadily increases as you go up in level, while there's only a handful of Apricorns available each day, thus it's going to take months of real world time before you're able to craft every type of ball.ball unless you just cheat yourself a ton of Apricorns to speed up the process. Did we also mention that you don't get to access Crafting until the postgame, in a town well out of the way? So you can't even utilize this mechanic and build up your Crafting level for most of the game, and by the time you can even access it you could have already caught all the difficult-to-catch pokemon that you would want these custom balls for. Plus there are no Apricorn trees in Naijo, so no stockpiling up a ton of Apricorns in the main game to later use in the postgame.postgame.
*** Also with Crafting, when crafting Master Balls and Shiny Balls, there is a high chance of failure while still costing you the Apricorn used, even if you get your Crafting level into the 90s (which practically requires cheating to do). It is especially painful with Shiny Balls, as there is no guaranteed renewable source of them (they only have a very rare chance to drop from any Apricorn tree in place of the usual Apricorn) and so very likely will only have the one you got given as a gift much earlier in the game, wasting it unless you SaveScum until you successfully craft a Shiny Ball.
*** Also with Crafting, when crafting Master Balls and Shiny Balls, there is a high chance of failure while still costing you the Apricorn used, even if you get your Crafting level into the 90s (which practically requires cheating to do). It is especially painful with Shiny Balls, as there is no guaranteed renewable source of them (they only have a very rare chance to drop from any Apricorn tree in place of the usual Apricorn) and so very likely will only have the one you got given as a gift much earlier in the game, wasting it unless you SaveScum until you successfully craft a Shiny Ball.
