Desiderius
Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard
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Well, the problems with Kingmaker is that if you're a martial and try to spec into a weapon. You may get fucked later in the game. For example, dueling swords have an even enough progression throughout the entire game. You're bound to come across a dueling sword at any one point of the game. Through the early game, mid game, late game, you will find a dueling sword. Where else if say someone were to spec into an estoc, they may get burned real hard. As estocs do not have an even progression. You my find one or two in the early game, maybe one in the mid game, if you're lucky, and maybe another in the late game. It was a disaster on release day. The enhanced edition attempted to fix it, but by not enough. I asked the developers if they have any plans to improve weapon progression in the sequel, and they said they're working on it.Crafting is a plague on a games itemization. They should just add a better variety of weapons or make less weapon types and give each one they leave in some love. Finding unique items through quests or exploration is ruined if you can just craft a better one.
I guess the developer would have to look at what type of itemization they want and add a crafting system or not depending on what they choose but I much prefer finding out buying equipment purposefully placed in the game. Random drops and crafting don't appeal to me
The reason why this is such a big deal. Is because martials usually pick a weapon, and then spend most of their feats being good at that weapon. All of that goes out the window when you're stuck with a +1 long sword through out the entire game.
Turns out with a couple exceptions all you're losing is the +1 AB from Weapon Focus you have to get early as a prereq if you just use best available, and it turns out once you get all the artisans rolling there are more than enough good options for almost every weapon type.
The original question is Bows and there are so many great ones that I make my casters (and Jub) archers to use them.