Forge/Crafting & Item Drops

Pure Miriam, you make perfect sense... I love customized items, or at least have more powerful forged items then found items (save for the ultra rare unique item/armor/weapon drops). I love making items from those MMORPG's but I understand what you mean about those weapons being convoluted... (Though I personally don't want the color to be effected, we should be able to dye items ourselves).

but again this type of system is a wish, I would be fine if the forging mechanic is not so in depth... as long as we have enough weapons/armor/items to keep us busy... and I would never want it mandatory... just something for us to do in the game...

Talking about things to do in the game what if we have cooking in the game.... alchemy was born in the kitchen right?

the thing is, food has been part of iga-vanias more and more... he added parfaits, cakes, crossest, spaghetti... they don't even heal much, but iga loves putting them in the game (well I don't know if he likes putting them in the game but it ends up in his games a lot).

and as I said Alchemy started in the kitchen... it would make less sense for it not to be in the game... (but with or without a cooking system I am fine ether way). because "food" has been a staple in iga-vanias from the beginning... I believe it will be in the game this time too... but it would be nice if we can cook them and add different/stronger buffs to the food... the system doesn't even have to be a kitchen, it can still be an alchemy lab.

 I totally agree with you regarding food and i EXPECT food to be there in the game. I just think that cooking may be a bit off. Or maybe, adding too much things in the game? I don't know. If the game has it, it will be okay, i think, but i don't really know.

Okay, I think I see what you mean now. You don't want the game to require you to get a recipe to make the thing, and rather be able to make the thing by just having the things to make it in your inventory. I would agree with that, for the most part. In essence, it would be like trying to do Alucard's SotN spells without buying the scrolls to see how to do them. You -can- cast those spells, granted you have the MP. It would be lame if it all required lists, since that just makes it a glorified linear quest system.

If it's all completely open and no recipe lists are required to craft (or crafting skills/levels/upgrades), to avoid a potential downside they'd just have to be careful of ingredient placement so as to avoid people finding out all the recipes on the internet and making things way sooner than they're normally supposed to. Were that to happen, the game would very soon end up being for most people: "grind x drops from enemy early in the game, make overpowered weapon, ignore the crafting system for 70% of the game because you got that, make stuff end game if you feel like it, beat the game".

We don't want that - hopefully crafting stays a balanced and paced experience, while also giving the occasional burst of what might seem a little like a sequence break in power increase, but not in truth. Otherwise we would end up with the same or worse situation as SotN where everybody has Crissaegrims, except earlier lol.

I think that perhaps instead of required recipes, a "crafting level" or NPC training might be a thing, or maybe you need something like a philosopher's stone or the Loagaeth book to make higher and higher tiered items.

As for cooking, it seems a waste for crafting/alchemy to be a focus with food not having its own crafting system, which would be cooking. Food has always been a part of these games' legacy so it just makes sense to me. It would be a much simpler process, I imagine - no fancy requirements, levels etc.