But what you suggest is a quest that promises the player a reward only to tell him at the very end that he isn’t getting anything for his efforts until Chapter 2!
What? No!
you can tell him about the workshop ... and he agrees that he will meet you there and upgrade something for you (for a price) ... after the item is done, bunch of goblins (some kind of patrol or w/e) get inside and you have to fight ...
See? The reward is right there.
The point of that fight after work is to explain why is he willing to craft us single item only.
Since people were not exactly happy about previous suggestion with empowering items.
On top of that, this quest line is pretty restrictive. To get +1 Items the player would need to:
- Discover the forge in the basement of the Blighted Village, which can be easily missed if one doesn’t explore the area thoroughly.
- Having to kill the Goblin Ambushers even if he successfully managed to talk them down, because there’s no way they’re letting the Tiefling smith pass through.
Or that the smith would enter a village full of hostile Goblins in the first place.
- Not siding with the Goblins, because that results in the death of the smith. Meaning that there’s even less reason to take the evil route.
- Not killing the Goblin leaders before solving this quest, because that results in the smith leaving.
Yup ...
But those are consequences of our choices ... i mean, in my very first play i decided to join Zevlor and attack Kagha straight at our first meeting.
I cut myself from conciderable amount of content ... but it was my own choice.
Also, concidering how easy it is to find "some" +1 weapon right now ...
I would say that this is more quest for people who want to create some kind of weapon they see fitting more to their character, than those that are right now offered.
(Again, its based on the fact that by the poll people didnt like the idea of upgrading items via Blacksmith.)
And finaly ...
Nobody say that Larian "cant" add some Bugbear Blacksmith to Goblins who will be able to do the same. :P
After all ... they certainly get their armor from somewhere.
So it would make sence.
I like the idea of visiting an NPC to upgrade weapons and armors.
Me too ...
That was the original idea, but it seems that we are minority here. :-/
But there should be multiple such NPCs in the first chapter so that you don’t screw yourself for simply completing a quest.
This isnt easy to react on ...
While i would probably not mind multiple such NPCs ... i dont quite see the reason, yes you can screw yourself ... but that is the story with consequences.
In my eyes, it would be much better if there would be single NPC ... who in case of death (based on quests, not bcs you simply killed him to loot his corpse
) is replaced with diferent NPC ...
I mean Damon may be dead ... but the forge is still right there.
Alternatively, if there’s only a single NPC who is able to do this, he or she should be a camp follower. Preferably one who’s almost impossible to miss or even joins your camp automatically when take a long rest for the very first time.
Since i totally hate the idea of camp followers ...
Especialy vendoring camp followers ...
And extra especialy vendoring camp follower providing covenient immersion breaking buffs ... wich fully equipped forge that is traveling through space and time would certainly be!
For those reasons ... no, no, no, and thousand more times NO! :-/
I would rather not have option to upgrade my armor, than have my suggestion defiled by such thing.
There can still be a quest that must be completed first, but it should be really hard to miss. Because this is an important feature.
Depends ...
If that would mean for Larian to remove all +1 gear from Vendors ... i would rather see the unlimited (but expensive) upgrades suggestion, than this one. :-/
But if things stay as they are now, this would help you just to get some kind of flavour ... just option to get weapon fiting to your character, but that Vendors dont offer ... like staff for your monk, battleaxe for your Dwarf, or mace for Shadowheart ...
