One thing though, can we possibly get gold amount required to hellforge capped at something reasonable.
The gold we gain per monster is capped at a really low level. The only reason higher levels 'can' gain more gold is due to other upgrades we have bought, like max stam.
If we hunt with the same amount of stamina as a lower level, we don't get 'more' gold than they do...
Bringing over my thoughts on this from the original thread:
I agree something should be done about cost. Considering gold gain per kill is capped only a few hundred levels into the game (and then even goes down later in the way upper levels), it doesn't make sense that forging costs keep increasing to the huge amounts that they do. I stopped forging my gear for this reason, as well as the fact that forging currently gives very little benefit at my level, besides showing off with 5 yellow dots.
How about this: Base the forging cost off the creatures' gold drop rate.
So if the item is level 1000, the forging cost is based off of what the creature's gold drop rate is for a regular level 1000 creature. If the item is level 100, it's based off a regular level 100 creature's drop rate.
Basically, forging cost = n * creature drop rate
Where "n" is some multiplier, and the same one is used for all levels.
This ensures the costs are based on what is actually earned from the creatures of that level, rather than some formula that ends up with the cost going up way higher than our income from normal leveling.
As far as what "n" should be, take a look at how much it currently costs to forge a level 300 item (since that's where gold per creature kill caps out), and base the value of "n" off that.
Current toal gold cost to forge a level 300 item is 1,395,000.
Gold gain per creature kill is about 300.
1,395,000 / 300 = 4,650
So "n" would be about 4,650.
Yes, this means some people have spent many millions of gold more than it will cost after a change; I'm part of that group. However, if nothing changes, people will stop forging altogether, making the feature useless. Therefore, change must happen, and those of us who paid to forge items already... well, we made a choice to do it, and are stuck with it. But we can't let that stand in the way of making things better for the future.
