The crafting system needs an overhaul

I believe you're referring to the profession skills that were added during the Chaos update since you mentioned mining although i am unsure on whether its compatible or possible to implement as its quite far ahead from a v62 server

 

Yea profession skills is probably too far off but maker skill would be nice for several reasons. That's probably been suggested before though.

 

I mean it makes sense that the lower level items aren't worth crafting as you can obtain them either through npcs or mob drops. The only things worth crafting are lvl 110+ (dragon, NT, and Reverse/Timeless) as these aren't obtainable unless you kill the bosses. Yeah most ores are pretty worthless and should just be npced.

I seriously doubt that adding the mechanics of mining for professions is possible in this version of Maple. Instead I would like to see something like an npc where you can trade your unwanted ores for ores you do want (might be a broken system tbh) or better yet have it be similar to the exchange quests like in Crimson Wood and Showa Town where you raffle etcs.

 

Maybe making crafting for low level weaps give an slight bonus?

 

They technically do. Any weapon that's not bought from an npc has a watt/matt range varying +/- 5 from the average. Using a stimulator when crafting will give you this range while crafting without it just gives you the average stats. But again it would be easier to just get the equips from drops. Unless you're thinking of another kind of bonus? Even still, I don't feel it would be worth the time investment and in OP's case, the cost of hundreds of thousands of meso.