Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones should be buyable or at least farmable..not limited items

[A Son of a Shepard]

because I find it really dumb we have to get a unique stone for a +1 upgrade that's in vastly limited qualities, Id prefer it to be buyable after finding a bell bearing that would require you to do something elaborate, it would have been more memorable.

[psheue]

Yeah, we all feel your pain.

[Donte]

yeah but is +10 really that vastly different from 9+? I saw scalling go from A to S in one case but damage wasn't that much better tbh.

[Mccoone]

as should larval tears imo

[A Son of a Shepard]

Originally posted by Donte:

yeah but is +10 really that vastly different from 9+? I saw scalling go from A to S in one case but damage wasn't that better tbh.

yea theres no real diff tbh and even so its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bugged too your damage can actually go down like with colossal weapons

[Climhazzard]

I remember you could farm the top smithing stone in other Souls games. I'm kind of disappointed that there's no way to farm them in Elden ring. Luckily for me I didn't need more than you get in a single run.

Several of the Somber ancient dragon smithing stones come from NPC questline rewards.

[K2-smoking bum]

There's a lot of design decisions I don't agree with in souls games, but this one I'm fine with. There's no real need that we should be able to buy them. Think carefully before you use them and make sure it's a weapon you'll continue to get mileage out of.

[Pedro]

How about the spirit upgrades? there are like 10 in total for both types....

[MKCrushes]

I agree the dragon smithing stones should be buy able

[Nohiro]

I go agree i dont want to do 10 runs or more to upgrade everything... i'm on journey 5 right now and i'm getting tired :/ Hopefully in some DLC maybe ? if there is any actually.

[BurlsoL]

Sure, but how many different weapons do you really need to +10 on a single run? Only a handful of the unique weapons have endgame viable abilities after all the nerfing that happened. Those that are left are either so late game there isn't much point to raising them except for NG+, or don't see a meaningful enough increase between +9 and +10 to matter in the long run.

Originally posted by Mccoone:

as should larval tears imo

Larval tears can be traded. If you're really needing more than the 7 or so you readily pick up during a single run, you could likely make some friends who can backup their saves, drop a few for you, and revert their save.

[ɸ It That Dwells ɸ]

Strongly agreed, but I'm not against the reasoning for why they might not want this.
I just savescum trade with a friend to get around this limitation.

[psheue]

Some of you are truly blessed. You don't know how it feels to have a +9 weapon staring at you, repeating:

"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."
"I'm not fully upgraded."

[paladin181]

DLC will address this, I hope.

[IdL3 H@Nd$]

Yeah, that seems like a no brainer... If you beat the game, and want to try out other weapons that you'd like to level up and try in NG+... then it shouldn't be a hindrance.

I'm sure they had some logic for it, but I'm not entirely sure what that would be?

[Qubert]

Originally posted by IdL3 H@Nd$:

Yeah, that seems like a no brainer... If you beat the game, and want to try out other weapons that you'd like to level up and try in NG+... then it shouldn't be a hindrance.

I'm sure they had some logic for it, but I'm not entirely sure what that would be?

I'm all for it, would prefer a shared bank for all characters long before this but whatever.

We can dream