It would be interesting to add some sort of Heirloom or Legacy mechanic to have a weapon scale with your levels, in a similar way that you have that weapon broken down. Or some sort of upgrade mechanic, with intensive crafting and gold. It would just have to cost sheets of gold for the offline game.
Kind of like uniques in diablo 2 if anybody has played the online version u should know what i mean... Some were perfect lets say 400 damage as the same item another person has is only 350 damage this also effected prices of items ofcourse as i can see it would in FT as well maybe we can do something like this in FT too because i like the idea of upgrading. like say with craft able items..-1 steel plate is +115 armor and +20 str as to a +1 steel plate maybe could have +130 arm/+30 str, perhaps have another crafting table that is strictly for these kind of upgrades with ingredients like mithril plate +5 bars of mthril for say 75% +1 and the other 25% would represent you making it -1 instead of completely failing and losing the item you get stuck with a weaker version
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