29-07-2014, 01:01 AM
I have to agree with Midren. While it is an interesting idea I think it would make current craftables a bit pointless. There are plenty of mid-level one handed weapons. Swadian hope, heroes hope, heroes despair, etc. All of these are a bit more expensive than the 800k range but to be honest they are pretty mid range as far as stats go. Compare a steel cutter (in your view an "entry level" weapon) against the Swadian hope (a "high tier" crafted weapon):
As you can see these weapons are the same damage and have a fairly similar speed with the hope being a bit slower. The only real advantage is the length increase while the crafting cost is quite a bit different. I'm a bit lost as to how you would balance a weapon to make it better than something like the steel cutter while keeping it worse than the Swadian Hope while also reducing the crafting cost by over half. As I said, I'm not opposed to new weapons, I'm just a bit lost on how to balance them without making a more expensive item useless.
*edit* After having read some of the comments posted while writing this, I agree that a different category of weapon could be added. A crafted 1h blunt weapon other than the head crusher could be interesting, as well as a craftable pick or other type of pierce weapon (similar to the DWP but worse). My only concern is that this would also make many of the nice crafted 1h's currently available a bit less desirable, kind of like what the DWP does to most of the other legendary (and crafted) 1 handers.
As you can see these weapons are the same damage and have a fairly similar speed with the hope being a bit slower. The only real advantage is the length increase while the crafting cost is quite a bit different. I'm a bit lost as to how you would balance a weapon to make it better than something like the steel cutter while keeping it worse than the Swadian Hope while also reducing the crafting cost by over half. As I said, I'm not opposed to new weapons, I'm just a bit lost on how to balance them without making a more expensive item useless.
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Steel Cutter*edit* After having read some of the comments posted while writing this, I agree that a different category of weapon could be added. A crafted 1h blunt weapon other than the head crusher could be interesting, as well as a craftable pick or other type of pierce weapon (similar to the DWP but worse). My only concern is that this would also make many of the nice crafted 1h's currently available a bit less desirable, kind of like what the DWP does to most of the other legendary (and crafted) 1 handers.