Where to find magical weapons?

[Pewace]

Hi everyone,

In my playthrough, I just got the second gem (trying not to spoil anything) and I am a bit frustrated with the weapons on my physical characters. Basically, in the last dungeon, there were enemies that were resistant to slashing/bludgeoning/piercing damage and I assumed it is because I have non magical weapons.
Now, I am aware that we can craft magical items from primed weapons but so far, I have looted only a few of them and they don’t match what I would like to use on my characters. For example, I have a ranger and I haven’t found any primed short/long bow. For my paladin, I haven’t found any primed two-handed weapon.
I also know that the Arcaneum sell primed weapons but I have already spent my reputation token on the Antiquarians.
My question is: is there still a way I can get some magical weapons any time soon or am I doomed with two out of four characters dealing half damages to some enemies forever?

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts/advices.

[DiceWrangler]

Just keep playing, you will soon have a SURPLUS of magical weapons.

[Kinakin]

the early mid game suffers a tad from rng. Espeially in regards to weapons.

Tough a couple a quests can give you access to magic weapons if you dont turn them in.

[1ttffsse]

Random loot from chests gives you mostly +1 or +2 (very rare) weapons and armor. You can purchase stuff from circle of donatar once you have their rep up a bit. other then that you get crafting ingredients as you progress quests and side quests and loot all the chests in the locations. to craft the magic weapons you get those ingredients for you also find schematics recipes at certain points of the quest but you can also rush them by buying the crafting recipes from a vendor who is not in the main city - but on the map / location where you first find the crown.

[Pewace]

Alright, thank you all for your replies.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

You can purchase stuff from circle of donatar once you have their rep up a bit.

So would you recommend that I get friendly with these guys first?

[1ttffsse]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

You can purchase stuff from circle of donatar once you have their rep up a bit.

So would you recommend that I get friendly with these guys first?

If you want the best heavy armors / plate yes. If you want the best stats/ endgame boosts to attributes atiquarians - those two are best. best weapons come from crafting and random loot. but circle of danotar has vey nice armors.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

Originally posted by Lampros:

So would you recommend that I get friendly with these guys first?

If you want the best heavy armors / plate yes. If you want the best stats/ endgame boosts to attributes atiquarians - those two are best. best weapons come from crafting and random loot. but circle of danotar has vey nice armors.

I heard you can get infinite stat books; is this still the case?

[1ttffsse]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

If you want the best heavy armors / plate yes. If you want the best stats/ endgame boosts to attributes atiquarians - those two are best. best weapons come from crafting and random loot. but circle of danotar has vey nice armors.

I heard you can get infinite stat books; is this still the case?

In 1.18 yes for everything except int and wis. Don"t know about 1.22. but they are expensive like 4000 gold per book so if you do everything and don"t grind maybe you can buy like 4X 5x books by the end.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

Originally posted by Lampros:

I heard you can get infinite stat books; is this still the case?

In 1.18 yes for everything except int and wis. Don"t know about 1.22. but they are expensive like 4000 gold per book so if you do everything and don"t grind maybe you can buy like 4X 5x books by the end.

How do I exactly grind in this game? I thought locations you've visited do not generally have re-spawning monsters?

[1ttffsse]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

In 1.18 yes for everything except int and wis. Don"t know about 1.22. but they are expensive like 4000 gold per book so if you do everything and don"t grind maybe you can buy like 4X 5x books by the end.

How do I exactly grind in this game? I thought locations you've visited do not generally have re-spawning monsters?

Random encounters. travel slow long distances across the map.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

Originally posted by Lampros:

How do I exactly grind in this game? I thought locations you've visited do not generally have re-spawning monsters?

Random encounters. travel slow long distances across the map.

Yikes; and the payoff is enough to off-set rations spent?

[1ttffsse]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

Random encounters. travel slow long distances across the map.

Yikes; and the payoff is enough to off-set rations spent?

yeah generally, but there is a 3RD level ranger and paladin spell that always gives you food i believe...goodberries or whatever.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by 1ttffsse:

Random encounters. travel slow long distances across the map.

Yikes; and the payoff is enough to off-set rations spent?

Depending on party you can cast things like goodberries or create food, there is also a chance of finding food to make rations out of along the way.