MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

I enjoyed MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith, especially the 4 Pillars arc. The mix of crafting, action, and world-building kept me hooked!

Summary of what you need to know: This novel has a cool setting and great potential. Unfortunately the main character is not a ‘god-smith’, but rather ‘god-awful’. I’m ranting hard and have rewritten this rating a bunch out of sheer disappointment with this one so I just need to end this: In short, if you are a critical reader at all, this novel is not for you. Cool setting and concept but insufferable characters. The MC is terrible, fully reliant on plot armor while repeatedly making nonsensical choices. If you are a big skimmer and just want to pass the time then I can see why this novel is liked, the concept is cool after all. Sadly the actual quality of the work is abysmal; it only gets by because it’s not abysmal translations, but abysmal design. Not worth your time, go read legendary mechanic again, or Runesmith if you want some blacksmithing. ‎ ‎ ‎ Here is a larger break down: They are a regressor, having died in a desperate battle as one of the last hopes of humanity they now go back in time as an NPC before the beta even begins to seize all the opportunities and use their knowledge to become the best! EXCEPT: 1) They have 0 desperation. They plan to become a relatively mediocre class compared to what others have, they have no personal motivation/desperation to seize opportunities, no mental barriers/struggle, hell, no personality at all. 2) They are oblivious. Not the harem ‘didn’t realize she was into me’ type oblivious, but the, ‘every time I say my name people freak out, I have a bloodline skill? Ehh it’s all probably nothing, I’ll keep introducing myself with this name to anyone who will listen, and I won’t research or ask what’s up with it because it’s just a name~’ 3) They illogically obsess about hiding their power. ‎’Yay I finally get to craft stuff, should I craft good and useful stuff so I can snowball my progression and get more opportunities asap? Nah. I’ll forge this dagger like a master to get started in my blacksmithing journey… until it’s 99% done, then I’ll bash it a few times so the blacksmith who is watching me doesn’t realize I know what I’m doing’ and then I’ll only ever craft things poorly so he never learns I’m actually capable, but then again it won’t matter since I won’t ever sneak off to make myself good equipment anyways!’ Before getting first class: *crafts common+ weapon in front of teacher* After getting a class so high rank their teacher can’t appraise them: ‘I shouldn’t craft anything above common+ or else my teacher may get… suSpICiOs~’ 4) MC/characters are legitimately just dumb… They brag for days about how strong they will be after visiting the alchemist. They promise the others they will tell them what they went there for afterwards. They go and have the alchemist make elixirs which over double their stats, and afterwords they show everyone how strong they are… but nobody realizes it has to do with the alchemist, they never fulfill their promise of telling the others why they went there, and nobody ever asks/follows up. Just afterwords the entire village has an upcoming monster wave, they have weeks to prepare but there is significant danger… wouldn’t it be nice if MC let them know that they have an abundant supply of materials to create elixirs to increase the power of all of their guard significantly and give them hidden skills? Nahhhhh, and the alchemist won’t either, even while they are stressed about whether people will be injured, or sad afterwords about people dying… because the secret of the elixirs isn’t theirs to tell, besides the fact that they already knew the recipe before MC came to them…‎ 5) Plot armor, the BAD kind. Author uses plot armor HEAVILY. MC should have knowledge from regression which should allow them to seize opportunities right? No, they stay in the first random village they come across, work with the random guard captain, blacksmith and alchemist they have never heard of before, and make no efforts to go to the ideal spot or find the ideal mentor… lucky for them they have an ‘instinct’ (that they completely lacked in their first life btw, this ain’t some inherent talent they’ve had) to work with these people, and woah did that random guy I stayed close with use a hidden top tier skill? Did this random novice alchemist brew something wha beyond their level with high success rate? How coincidental~. Author literally has regression setting to justify MC gains, yet they use BS plot armor reasons anyways. 6) Generally bad regression knowledge/logic. I already mentioned the lack of knowing the significance of their name, and finding opportunities, but it’s just terribly done. For example: ‘I managed to get my bread and butter skill! Woah, this skill actually seems pretty useful!’ Like they didn’t choose that skill specifically due to it being high tier/good and required for their plans. ‘Woah I’m surprised I have so much exp stocked up!’ Like they didn’t supposedly fight monsters for hours in end, killing over 280 in a row a couple weeks ago and just haven’t looked at/used their do since then. 7) On the side of the author the setting/statuses are horribly described. Oh ‘they didn’t know what was going on until it was too late’? Cool, so uhh what did go on? Who are the bad guys? Who rallied against them? How did MC die? Who was MC before they died? Very little explanation of status page, and from what I heard its appearances only get more rare while author expects you to have memorized everything briefly mentioned on it before.

One of the most anticipated list of novels that I've read so far. Although, there's some kind of similarity with the "Legendary Mechanic" novel but all in all?, it is good. Sooo for the real author of this novel, keep up the good work. Don't mind what others talk or complain about your works, just be you and let your imagination go wild. 👍🏼😁👌

It is heavily inspired by The Lengendary Mechanic in pretty much all world building aspects, and even power progression. That said, it is easy to read and I really enjoy some of the character interactions. It also seems like it has really good potential to grow because as the Author writes more and more you can tell that their writing is improving.

You might like it if you're bored as hell or if you haven't read legendary mechanic yet. But if you're a veteran reader, you're definitely gonna hate the way its written.

VERY underrated. i don’t know why the other reviews are so bad, because this is genuinely one of the best novels i’ve ever read. great progression, deep intriguing plot, unique plot as well(not like the other guy who called it a rip off). overall great pacing and holds a great veil of mystery over a large part of the plot while being able to keep attention(which is commendable). i binged like 400 chapters in one night

It's ok. If you're looking for something very good, this ain't it. If you just want something to read, give it a try. Keep in mind, the story is somewhat similar to Overgeared and Legendary Mechanic, though I would argue a bit worse. The main character does not lose, even when he should. He's not very clever either and has very little introspection. Hes a bit too overpowered. All in all, an average webnovel. Truthfully, I would give it a 3. 5 but thats not possible here

It is a very good novel for light reader. It has a lot of plot twist. And a hint of comedy. I strongly recommend this for people who like to read system novel.

The author rips off many of the aspects from other novels makes them mediocre. Uninspired characters and environments, almost empty dialogues and plots, smirks at every other sentence, long but empty paragraphs. It is a waste of time. So if you have time to waste read it at your own discretion.