THAT is what I think the game needs. Don't make a big deal out of a weapon and give it a special cutscene and then just make it a sword + 1. I should be able to buy a sword + 1 eventually from vendors as the game progresses. Adventure loot you find in chests and in special places, that is when you should be finding the really special weapons and equipment with special abilities and such.
I so much disagree with this !
+1 weapons are a great reward. Or at least, they're supposed to be.
But there are so much OP items in the game that +1 weapons look uninterresting... But they aren't (+5% to hit, + 1 damage)
Don't you have enough "special" items in the game ? You know, items completely OP, items completely broken, items you'll never use because the trade off is ridiculous....
It's really cool to find some "special" items, but a +1 weapon should be something cool.
Personaly I'm happier when I find a +1 longsword than when it is a shattered flail or a broken item that makes magic missile a level 1 spell that deal 6D4+3 damages (never miss...) or another that gives +2D4 poison damage to my dualwielding rogue when I'm using a bonus action to heal...
On top of that, if a weapon that deals more damage to drow (we only fight drow ONCE in act 1) is a "better item" than a +1 item... Really, I cannot agree with you on this thread.
In my humble opinion +1 weapons should be perfectly fine as our rewards ...
But in that case they should not be offered by every single vendor in game. :-/ That makes them feel cheap and common ... and find some feels not so awesome then. :-/
Agree with Ragna' on this one. Definitely.
