Crafting Upgrade Affix Overwrite, please

[kcru]

If one can just make multiple versions of the weapons then why not just do so? If doing so would be 'easier and cheaper' than swapping shards than why would swapping shards be desirable?

I am mostly playing devil's advocate here anyway, like I said I like the idea but I don't see it happening because I am pretty sure the devs really don't like the idea of people being able to change the weapon qualities like that.

I do like the idea of 'upgrades' (flame touch to flaming to flaming burst, etc.) tho. The 'shards of potential' show that such would be possible.

Because at level 14 Paralysing weapons may be awesome. At level 18 they may be pointless. Sure, You can basically junk the investment you made earlier, but it's just adding more cost.

Other reasons... maybe I have a striding ring that I made, and later I find striding on boots that I prefer. Replacing striding on the ring with something else as conditions change is preferable to having a ring that's only good for stripping down and wasting resources again.


I certainly would never consider swapping individual effects on an hourly or even daily basis. Too costly by far. In the big picture things can change. This would be one advantage of crafting over immutable greensteel... once Fortitude is on a set of bracers, you're probably never going to aquire a heavy fortitude set of armor, etc. The investment is just too high.

[MrkGrismer]

Because at level 14 Paralysing weapons may be awesome. At level 18 they may be pointless. Sure, You can basically junk the investment you made earlier, but it's just adding more cost.

Other reasons... maybe I have a striding ring that I made, and later I find striding on boots that I prefer. Replacing striding on the ring with something else as conditions change is preferable to having a ring that's only good for stripping down and wasting resources again.

I certainly would never consider swapping individual effects on an hourly or even daily basis. Too costly by far. In the big picture things can change. This would be one advantage of crafting over immutable greensteel... once Fortitude is on a set of bracers, you're probably never going to aquire a heavy fortitude set of armor, etc. The investment is just too high.

While I agree that would be 'super-nice™' again what you are talking about makes it 'super-cheap' (comparitavely) to be able to do that compared to what a person has to do now, which is discard the old piece of equipment (or more likely, bank it) and purchase the new piece of equipment.