Honestly.....I'm finding the drops to be reminiscent of Diablo. 75% of the time I would find crap that wasn't better than any of the weapons/armor that I was rolling with currently. I wouldn't find better stuff until I moved up another "stage" in the story.

I guess the one thing that I don't like about this game is that the shops merchandise doesn't randomize. If you go back to the first shop....they still have the same shit they had in the beginning of the game.

yep, you would think the devs would realize that the shops should have a christmas morning aspect to them. It adds to the fun of the game when you can run across a random shop guy hidden in some small town and find some unique item.

i'm going max blacksmith, max sagecraft

i'm not high enough level to get to blacksmith unique items yet but i will.

Figuring out the blacksmith stuff is adding to the game for me. I don't buy or sell anything much anymore.

I salvage and build everything.

My poison attack level is getting pretty awesome

I need to start salvaging all of the white items that I find. I keep throwing them in my junk pile and then selling them when it gets full.

Another thing that I wish they had was "backpack upgrades". FFS.....70 items is killing me. I don't carry any potions other than health and mana potions.

I have found two bad ass items so far though. I have a necklace that gives me +1 to all finesse abilities and I have a pair of boots that does the same.

Apparently there are backpack upgrades. This is from Youtube....

I think now that I'm at over 200,000 gold.....I'm going to reset my character tonight and not put any points in alchemy. That will at least save me time from chasing every stupid plant that is out there.

I don't any points in alchemy at all


What do you use it for?

I started out using it to create health potions because I thought it was going to be like every other RPG and have it be cheaper/easier to create your own potions instead of buying them. After a couple of hours in.....I figured out that it wasn't worth shit. I'm well over 200k and nothing to spend it on. Shit...I just bought 10 prismere lockpicks just to have them.

I think I'm just going to reset my character and max out blacksmithing and sage craft first. I'll just make sure that every piece of my armor has health regen on it. Then I shouldn't have to worry about keeping around health potions.

This is an interesting video.....if you can get past his lisp and stuttering problem.

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Last night I finally got my smithing and sagecraft up to the point where I could create stuff with pristine gems. Created a sword that more than doubled the damage output of my old one. That's pretty badass.

It took me a bit to get into this game, but I'm really hooked now.

I've maxed my smithing and sagecraft and can't create jack !#(@$#@ at lvl 23. My highest lvl item is like 14. I'm coming back to this game, after I finish Syndicate. ;)

This.

There's a backpack upgrade in the very first town silly!

So with max blacksmith, can you make purple items?

I must not have had the money for it back then. Looks like I'm going back there tonight.