Hi Zalmute! Thank you so much for checking the game out. Crafting is in the game, it's not overly complex in how it's implemented my inspirations for it kinda came from Monster Hunter and I've not played any Atelier games although they're on my list as a few of my friends love them. From what I do know of those characters A Light Mage very much leans into their support roles, and you'd want to invest skill ranks into a mixture of Herablism and suprisingly Gunsmith the former being used for making healing and support alchemical consumables while the latter gets used for damage dealing items like grenades and the like.