Are we getting this at some point? Makes no sense to be a blacksmiths son and not be able to build stuff. The grind wheel is already in, they just need to have weapon crafting and armor.
I doubt it. How would you craft this gear - with what… that would be a lot of work. They’d have to implement ways to get these rare materials and ores. Think of skyrim, they’d have to add nodes and such, and to think that these nodes regenerate more material is highly unrealistic.
They have mines in the game already and could break down old gear. Animals for leather, tanners are in game. It seems like they wanted to do it but ran out of time. You literally build a sword in the beginning, so animations are basically there.