(I still have to fight the syntax.) Incidentally I just spent four hours questing and my brute went from brutal to somewhat brutal. That's the part that chafes the most. Ask a non grinder how much time it takes to rise one level in brute and then come back here and repeat this is a problem. Huh?

It's not really a binary thing in my mind. I don't want questing to go away or to become meaningless. I'm just not really enjoying the extant system where questing holds progress hostage. I'm not proposing or supporting any specific change at this point. I just want people thinking about it. Maybe s...

(I still have to fight the syntax.)

Incidentally I just spent four hours questing and my brute went from brutal to somewhat brutal.

That's the part that chafes the most.

On the other hand, the epic quests were fun, but the normal ones are sort of meh and the brute reduction is agonizingly slow.

AND WHY CAN'T I FIND THE BLACK HORSE!?

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And then I found him like 2 minutes later.

Going through it at the moment, my brute level does seem sort of like my "now I have to stop having fun and go fight with syntax for a week" level.

I learned a valuable lesson through this experience.

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"This item does not appear to be magical."

My mistake, the 1000pc is for a random enchant. The imbuement forge apparently enchants things for free so long as you have the components.

Melarec wrote:can't investigate because I keep getting attacked by dogs

"Pardon me, friends. I can see that you're quite busy using me as a chew toy, but due to current economic considerations I was wondering if I could trouble you for a few spare coppers..."

Could we get a fix for saddlebags on mounts so that individual items can be put in and taken out? The syntax right now is annoying and seems to only allow fill/empty without put/get.