Game lacks crafting

[DELAMAIN]

Why not make simple ( not complicated) craft just to lets say upgrade armors and stuff you like.
For example i like poison spider robe abd i want poison plague necro but i am not allowed to collect geqr with poison synergy qnd upgrade it legendary etc....sad
Would be tonn more builds

[Mike Garrison]

I don't think that is a thing in standard D&D, but I could be wrong.

In BG1 there were no upgradable items. There was one set of armor that the player could order crafted for them by a smith.

In BG2 there were some items that could be crafted or upgraded, again by a particular smith rather than the player. For instance, you could loot some dragon scales and get an armor made out of it. Or you could find a unique bowstring and a unique bow, and the smith could put them together and give you a special bow. Etc. There was also the Flail Of The Ages, for which you could find new flail heads and add them to the flail, increasing its damage.

But these were rare. And they were not subject to player choice. It wasn't like, for example, Skyrim, where you could go to a crafting table and put any enchantment you wanted onto any weapon you had available.

[Enigma]

I also think that more crafting doesn't fit in BG3

[Chaosolous]

I don't think that's how DnD works. This is a DnD game before it's a video game. It's just married exceptionally well.

[victorvnv]

Crafting can’t work in this game because there are no random encounters with random loot so that people can try farm it.

You can craft elixirs as well as some gear like the Susser sword/ dagger or the grymforge items etc.

But fully crafting system without farming tools would just be cheese - people will look online where to buy what and just rush there and craft their gear so may as well just put it as fully crafted vendor items like they already do…

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by DELAMAIN:

Game lacks crafting
Why not make simple ( not complicated) craft just to lets say upgrade armors and stuff you like.
For example i like poison spider robe abd i want poison plague necro but i am not allowed to collect geqr with poison synergy qnd upgrade it legendary etc....sad
Would be tonn more builds

The game has crafting, and the majority of players are not even using that what is available. Not a good basis to demand more crafting for the game.

[FuNb0Y86]

The game actually does have crafting. There are several special weapons you have to find parts for. Google: Mourning Frost Staff. You have to find three pieces and combine them.

There is also a sort of forge in Act 3 which allows you to upgrade weapons with bars of metal.

[Kafik]

"Hey this evil god's army is going to destroy Baldur's Gate AND you're going to turn into a mindflayer at any minute! We need to hurry!!"
"HANG ON I'm not finished weaving my basket yet!!"

[Kael_Bot]

There’s a wonderful crafting framework mod that provides the tools for multi-tier crafting, presented naturally within the game. There are also a growing number of excellent mods that take advantage of this framework to create crafting that actually makes sense within the world. If you desire crafting, head there, because as other have said, Larian’s not going to do it.

[šþØÕk¥]

Coming from Divinity OS 2 i expected crafting akin to that, as well, but they left most of it out. It's a cool system but my inv is cluttered enough as it is... that's all i need is to be hoarding every spoon and piece of scrap paper i come across.

I am surprised they even took out making potions with bottles and arrows/arrow heads though. Pretty sure i've found all 3 of those in game at some point.

[seeker1]

You can craft a handful of weapons and armor, and the major crafting system is alchemy, where I admit even now I still don't get what the differences between suspensions, solutions, salts, and dinguses are, but all I know is you can make some potions, elixirs, grenades, and poisons. Pick up every ingredient you find, make every intermediate ingredient you can, then make any final product, you can, use or profit.

In the case of grenades, none of the best ones, which I really find the most disappointing, but anyway. If I could make smokepowder grenades or orthonic bombs with alchemy, I'd be getting busy with it all the time. If I could make runepowder bombs, I'm pretty sure I'd end up killing myself first, but that's the risks of science, "LOL".

[Maraxus]

Wasn't crafting expanded in DOS2 after release? Maybe they will do the same for BG3 eventually... there's already all the necessary materials..

[Xenomorph Kitty]

iirc, crafting was going to be in the game. Hence the random things still left in the loot table like rope and various tongs, hammers and such. But they removed it, either through WoTC telling them to, or it just became one of those things that ended up on the cutting room floor with the remainder that's left behind becoming junk you can sell for gold.

It has the potential to be added in, either through patches or a definitive edition. But I wouldn't hold my breath for it. I don't think it'd really fit. Alchemy is fine though.

[Certified Lawyer Boy]

Originally posted by DELAMAIN:

Why not make simple ( not complicated) craft just to lets say upgrade armors and stuff you like.
For example i like poison spider robe abd i want poison plague necro but i am not allowed to collect geqr with poison synergy qnd upgrade it legendary etc....sad
Would be tonn more builds

Crafting was planned, but was cut.

There is actual proof of this in the form of a crafting keybind in the options that did nothing, they removed the useless keybind in patch 3 or 4.

[Scheneighnay]

Personally I'd just like to see more options in the lesser-used weapon types first.

War picks, light hammers, pikes, etc.
A patch a while back made them less rare than they were previously, but ones worth getting are still hard to come by.

[Heart of Storm]

Ugh no, stop asking developers to shoehorn every damn mechanic into every darn game.

Go play Ubisofts most recent identikit game for that sort of nonsense