What's the deal with weight limitation?

[Larry]

I mean... every 30mins I'm stuck on heavy weight even after distributing stuff to pawns.

I'm a fighter btw and I don't carry a camping kit because that's a massive 7kg and almost my entire weight limit. Is there something I'm supposed to be doing to get my weight limit up on my main character? I've used the beetles, about five or six of 'em...

This is a major drag. majority of the time I'm pretty much encumbered and when you have heavy weight as a fighter you get tossed around left, right and center losing your balance with almost every hit against you. The fact it's so damn rare to find a shop keep or be able to visit an Inn if you've travelled out into the open world exacerbates this issue tenfold. I'm really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sick of not having the weight capacity to go on a single trek.

Another thing that pisses me off is the majority of chests contain ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in them. Like fish... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fish... I've come across one weapon in 13+ hours that I haven't have to buy and two useless scarfs that I only use because they fill a slot. I've killed cyclops, fought some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ undead boss that flies in the air(Bosses that levitate in this game = pain in the ass for melee especially fighters) and gotten sweet ♥♥♥♥ all. All that undead boss gave me was like a scroll of undead or some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Knavenformed]

Fighter gear is very weighty, earlier you might want to just use Vermundian upgrades to make them lighter, and the 4th upgrade halves weight too
Fighter gives you a perk for straight up more carry weight
One of the advanced vocations will have a perk that basically removes weight slow-down, so after that it's not much of a problem

A handful of beetles is nothing though, after you've consumed like 20 it will be better

[River]

The beetles massively add up over time. It doesn't feel like much, but every seven you use gives you another kg of carry weight. By the end of the game, I was able to pick up everything I ran across, and didn't have to think about carry weight at all. I basically stopped thinking about weight as soon as I got a logistician scroll, since that means my pawn just handed my stuff out to everyone else and crafted up things into lighter variants while I was walking around.

As for the rewards, those are based on level. You'll get much better stuff from chests as you level up. Boss rewards, meanwhile, are for upgrading the gear you already have. I know it doesn't feel like much now, but there's a real difference in effectiveness if you have a stash of goodies sitting around to upgrade your stuff as you go, particularly if you pair that with the right upgrade path.

[President Fluffy Tail]

It gets better. For one leveling up will increase your weight limit every few levels. Number 2 enhancing your gear will make it lighter if it’s vernworth or elvish style smithing but you want to use dwarvern style for the knock down stats but that increases weight. The key is to dragon forge when you max enhancement your gear, it’ll cut the weight down by half pretty much. The third thing you can do besides beetles is make yourself bigger. Also augments like thew and rings of course.

I do agree that they were too strict with the limits but it does get better. I noticed people with small pawns that can carry a lot at my level. Hired a thief that robbed every living thing we came across and the highest she got to was average weight after a run from one end of the map to the other.

[KnightNi]

just keep the trash out of your pockets, put all resources/potions in the storage and just bring what you need for your trip, the healing pills only weigh 0.05 while potions weigh 0.10. plus just make your pawns carry everything else

[Larry]

What should I upgrade and when's a bad time to enhance gear? Right now I'm using items I bought from the shops, I'm level 14 and it feels a waste to enchance the gear I've bought because practically every other RPG has special items you get from bosses or at certain intervals and that's where you'd sink all your cash and materials into.

Is this game different? Is it okay to enhance store bought gear like a basic broadsword? Is that what the game wants to push you toward; gear is basic, upgrade it and don't hold out for special armours and weapons?

Thanks for the suggestions and info so far. I'll be keeping it in mind going forward but damn does this suck a fat one...

[Larry]

Originally posted by President Fluffy Tail:

It gets better. For one leveling up will increase your weight limit every few levels. Number 2 enhancing your gear will make it lighter if it’s vernworth or elvish style smithing but you want to use dwarvern style for the knock down stats but that increases weight. The key is to dragon forge when you max enhancement your gear, it’ll cut the weight down by half pretty much. The third thing you can do besides beetles is make yourself bigger. Also augments like thew and rings of course.

I do agree that they were too strict with the limits but it does get better. I noticed people with small pawns that can carry a lot at my level. Hired a thief that robbed every living thing we came across and the highest she got to was average weight after a run from one end of the map to the other.

So, fatter = more carry weight? I made my character quite tall(Being a fighter and all) and just used the stock settings for weight, muscle, etc. Did I shaft myself by not making him a fat ♥♥♥♥? lol...

[burner19]

When you find riftstone in the wild dump all gear on a pawn you hired throw him to water and when he dies auto puts everything he had to stash than hire from that rift stone and go with your adventure again. Only works on hired pawn. Seems harsh but you will save a ton of time.

[Larry]

Originally posted by burner19:

When you find riftstone in the wild dump all gear on a pawn you hired throw him to water and when he dies auto puts everything he had to stash than hire from that rift stone and go with your adventure again. Only works on hired pawn.

Wow, that's a pretty neat work around. I might give it a try. Btw, does it work if I dismiss a hired pawn or does the pawn take the stuff I gave it back with them if you dismiss them?

[burner19]

Didnt tested it with dismissal. Just had a weapon on hired pawn he died and later found that weapon in my stash. Tested on few other things and dying always results in auto put in stash. If you want than go to town and give someting with low value to pawn dissmiss him and check if the item is in stash.

[TheOperator3712]

Originally posted by Larry:

Originally posted by burner19:

When you find riftstone in the wild dump all gear on a pawn you hired throw him to water and when he dies auto puts everything he had to stash than hire from that rift stone and go with your adventure again. Only works on hired pawn.

Wow, that's a pretty neat work around. I might give it a try. Btw, does it work if I dismiss a hired pawn or does the pawn take the stuff I gave it back with them if you dismiss them?

It will send the item to your stash. Pawns don't keep things that are in their inventory when they go home, unless it is equipment that you equipped them with.

[Fatautist]

You can eat the golden bugs you find on trees everywhere to permanently increase carry weight by 0.15. This also increases your own pawns carry weight as well, so really you gaining 0.30

[Drakzen]

Apart from golden bugs there is an augment to increase carry weight and you can get rings that do the same as well.

[River]

Originally posted by Holly Kaust:

You can eat the golden bugs you find on trees everywhere to permanently increase carry weight by 0.15. This also increases your own pawns carry weight as well, so really you gaining 0.30

Wait, it increases both? I thought it just increased you or your pawn, depending on whose inventory it was in when used.

[DaBa]

Unfortunately even with the augment and all the golden bugs it doesn't help all that much. The weight system in this game is definitely too aggressive and in makes inventory management a major pain. Even if they just made everybody be able to carry twice as much it would massively decrease inventory management while still remaining something you need to constantly keep in mind.

[Hanki]

Just keep all crafting ♥♥♥♥ in your storage, you can combine from there and anything in there can be used when upgrading your gear even if you don't have it on you

Also eat the bettles, they increase your carrying capacity

As long as you aren't carrying a million healing items or items/gears you ain't even using you shouldn't have a problem