If there is one thing I detest about this game ...

[Jakobb]

... it's the fact that the rock-destroying ability or gun attachment and the fusioncutter are so dang hard to get hold of, buried deeeeep within side missions I haven't done and cannot find, making it impossible to complete sooooooooooooooooooooo much of this game's other side quests and locations. I've been playing 50 hours so far and I have neither of these things. I stare at iron grates and moss-covered rocks and think, "Why would they make these impossible?"

There. I said it.

[jack_of_tears]

Look in your journal for components. The modifier for the rock-destroying blast is on Toshara, I belive, but you don't get the information telling you that until later, so you have to go back.

The Fusioncutter is picked up in a main story mission, near the end of the game. They want to entice you to go back and do more exploring after you've finished the main story but I had done everything I could by then so there was no reason to go back and just do randomly generated gigs.

I'm on a new playthrough, now, and intend to do most of the main story before doing many of the side missions.

[Land of Shadows]

You find places to use these items early in the game but don't get the items until very late in the game. That's just rude. I do love exploring but going backwards to get things and go over the same ground all over again is so annoying.