Example:. You open a chest in the goblin lair behind Ragzlin's throne.
Longsword of Sharpness
Very Rare...Tier 3 magic item. Definitely not suitable for a tier 1 party.
Instead of crafting a whole new weapon for Minthara, they could have simply given her a Mace of Terror:
Rare...Tier 2 magic item. Also not suitable for a tier 1 party.
Ugh. Technical much?
The point is that there are plenty of cool items to choose from already. They don't have to waste time, money, and so forth creating EVERY magic item in the game... Oh wait. Sorry...it's not EVERY... MANY... LOTS of...
I like to create homebrew items. It's fun. But having SO many homebrew is, again, too much.
That's my thing with Larian right now. Too much. Too much homebrew all the way around. They're home brewing classes, spells, potions, scrolls, weapons, rules, monsters, feats, PRETTY much everything instead of using a system that already has a ton of stuff worked out for them.
Thus, they create tons of extra work for themselves having to rework and rework things so that they are balanced and don't ruin the game.
If they'd just use what's there, add a few really cool homebrew peppered throughout, it'd work well. Instead, we're having this conversation.
So, for example, Dragon's Grasp. It originally set someone on fire when you hit. OP. Loved this weapon originally, but OP. So they made it so you just do 2d4 extra damage IF your target is burning.
Now I never use it because I don't go around sending enemies on fire. Very rarely are they on fire if I don't. So unless I start going around playing the creating fiery surfaces game, enemies are not on fire in the weapon is pretty much boring and dumb.
Instead of creating this item and giving it to us so early, to be purchased almost immediately from a vendor, why not keep the item the way it was and make it so that we find it later on in the game as a really cool treasure? Reduce the chance of setting on fire to a Dex Save DC 13 or something. Then it'd be a pretty good magic item more appropriate in the game.
At merchants, use premade items like +1 stuff, and if they do have cool stuff, make it more expensive so you have to really work and save for them.
Like I said, right now, too much too soon.
