Downgrade Gear

[Humble_M]

Since quests and crafting only accept standard non-plus variants, it would be nice to have the ability to downgrade a +1/+2 variant. I realize most players may find this counterintuitive, but I'd be willing to pay a small gold price. For all you quest writers, maybe this can be a new quest - complete it and the NPC can then downgrade a +1/+2 item to its base version.

This will make future crafting items and quests (which need non-plus gear) a little easier to complete.

[Nahgus]

This is the best idea I've heard in a long time

This needs to be implemented

[LostKnight]

I realize most players may find this counterintuitive

Yes and I'm one of them.

[Nahgus]

It is very annoying when i spend time to grind an item for a quest and it gives me a +.

It's dumb that having a + disqualifies the item from being able to be used

[LostKnight]

So grind more until you get "item+0" ... grinding is a part of the game.

Same as crafting ever try making a Diamond Sword+1 or +2.

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Craft: 80%: 5xDiamond(267),2xSteel Ingot(268),1xFragarachS(228)

It would be easier to find chickens teeth.

I know one gamer that crafted forever spending B's trying to get a +2, never did. Made a few +1's though
... you used one of those for a while that he was selling for 1b.

OR: Have NPC's that will upgrade any item to a +1 (X gold) or +2 (XX gold) as well.

[Humble_M]

Folks, comments are welcome, but let's stay on topic. The suggestion is the ability to downgrade a + item ... not the difficulties in grinding or crafting a + item

[LostKnight]

Folks, comments are welcome, but let's stay on topic. The suggestion is the ability to downgrade a + item ... not the difficulties in grinding or crafting a + item

My apologies.

Then I disagree.

items+0 are available in the game.

[Humble_M]

your opinion is valid, LK.

my point is that quests and crafting require +0 items. so, if I have a + item, it would be nice to have an option to downgrade it so I can use it for crafting and/or a quest.

more I think about it, no reason to create a quest to gain this ability. Instead, how about adding 2 new "craft" options to any structure that allows crafting:

+1 to +0 : +1 item, 15 gold ingots, 5 steel ingots
+2 to +0 : +2 item, 30 gold ingots, 10 steel ingots

I purposely selected common craft materials. No player really should get penalized for wanting a "less powerful" item!

[Arashiko]

Alternatively alter the quest to accept a +1 or +2 item in lieu of the missing +0 item.

[Humble_M]

Alternatively alter the quest to accept a +1 or +2 item in lieu of the missing +0 item.

if this were implemented, no reason not to make the same change to allow + gear as a craft material