Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Suggestions and Feedback Unidentified items vendor

This is taking inspiration from Gheed in diablo 2. A vendor that sells unidentified items of appropriate level that have a chance to be any rarity, the percenatage chance for each rarity obviously changing with player level.

Why I think this is a good idea is that one of the most common complaints is that you so quickly outlevel your gear in this game and it's a very fair complaint. Sometimes you'll have gear that's a few levels behind and you really want to update it but you just can not find anything to fill the slot. This is especially problematic with spears. A spear finesse warfare build may sound interesting until you realize your spear is almost ALWAYS underleveled because you just can't find spears anywhere.

This vendor could be present in every node such as fort joy, amadia's sanctuary, driftwood, etc.

This might work in Diablo but hardly in D:OS. Diablo has unlimited grind, you enter a game and there will be new enemies to kill for money. D:OS has a fixed amount of money, so there is not that much of a unlimited supply of money.

Also at current state equipment attributes are far to random, you would get more useless stuff than good stuff.

Also why do you expect such a vendor would be more likely to offer spears? They would we as unlikely there as everywhere else, would be my guess.

I'm suggesting that they offer one of each item slot type of each level and one of each weapon. Their inventory would replenish as usual. No shit that you don't have unlimited money, i'm not suggesting that you would go buy entirely new sets of gear every level or even buy a new weapon in this way every level. You buy something when you really need it, just like you do with every other item being sold by every other vendor currently in the game.

The difference with this is that you'll always have an item of that slot available to gamble on if you choose to. Spears are the best example of the hardest to find item and you'll almost never be using a spear of appropriate level without something like this. We've all had times when we had gloves or boots or whatever that were 5 levels behind and you become more inclined to buy mundane white equipment to replace them just for the armor.

Ultimately i'm proposing a gamble. I'm not proposing a way to get the best gear that will reliably be good all the time. Like it or not, you don't have to choose to do buy anything from the vendor.