Blacksmith upgrades not working? Bug?

[Heroes44]

So I upgraded the blacksmith and it turns out it doesnt do anything. :D
I can only upgrade everything with +1 only... Am I missing something or is this the most useless building to upgrade in the game? Without buying any upgrades I can +1 everything and upgrading doesnt add any +stat over that basic +1.

How is this oversight still not fixed? I tried it with every armor and weapon type/rarity as well. I remember it was bugged in Knights Tale as well when it came out...

[oeregharcos]

Did you do the first upgrade so far, and that's what isn't adding to your armour? Or have you already done both of that kind, and the second isn't adding?

[Heroes44]

Originally posted by oeregharcos:

Did you do the first upgrade so far, and that's what isn't adding to your armour? Or have you already done both of that kind, and the second isn't adding?

I tried it in every possible way honestly. :D

First I bought the upgrades in the building, then I put in the weapon with no upgrades and it gave me +1 stat. I tried putting the same weapon in again, didnt even let me do it because it is already upgraded. Then I reloaded bought 1 upgrade (this time I tried with armors) upgraded it bought the 2nd upgrade same thing: doesnt let me upgrade it because its already upgraded. Buying the buildings first and using non-upgraded weapon, armor that should give +2 stats still gave me +1 only.

So all in all, non upgraded "clean" equipment gives me only +1 stat when I have every building upgrade in blacksmith, and the already upgraded things dont give anymore because, well its upgraded already and it cant be put into that upgrade slot and I guess thats the normal way of how that should work in that case.

[Avallach]

I hadn't paid attention before, but it works - just differently to how we both thought.

You're thinking that the building upgrades buff the equipment upgrade action.

I was thinking that the building upgrades universally buff equipment.

In fact the building upgrades directly buff your heroes. I just tried taking Mento's armour off, and his armour rating was 0. I then bought the +1 Heavy armour upgrade and looking at the character sheet his armour rating had changed to 1.

It makes sense that way, as it's how the other buffs (skill points (obviously) and resistances) work. Just the wording of it is misleading.

[drusca]

awesome! too bad I waited until the end game because I wanted to modify weapons for end game not knowing this. But it's good to know for future playthroughs.

[Heroes44]

OMG! I would have never thought that it just works like that. I thought you have to upgrade items in order to get bonuses from blacksmith upgrades. That makes more sense to me, but at the end of the day if it works it works. Thank you!

[Avallach]

You're welcome!