The Blacksmith repairs your broken gear, salvages any useless items for valuable crafting materials and upgrades your gear’s Item Power to increase their stats! You are going to spend a lot of your down-time at the Blacksmith, clearing out your piles of loot while upgrading any new pieces of gear you come across in your adventures. Your gear also takes a Durability hit whenever you die, so coughing up a bit of Gold gets everything back in working order!
Your mighty hero will eventually die. When it happens, your Armor and Weapons lose 10% of their total Durability. Once that value reaches 0, your gear is considered broken and must be repaired. Every 10% Durability increases the Gold cost, which also increases with Item Power.
It town, you can repair and purchase new gear, upgrade your health potion, access the Stash, and much more.
Damaged items can be repaired at the Blacksmith for Gold. Higher-end items will also require crafting materials that can be acquired through salvaging items or found throughout Sanctuary. The item durability system will serve as one of the main gold sinks in the game.
When your character reaches level 10, you receive a Priority Quest objective to go and see Zivek the Blacksmith in Kyovashad. You’re given the task of upgrading a piece of gear, and in return you’re awarded experience.
But the true reward is meeting the NPC you very well may spend the most time with as you progress through the world of Sanctuary. Upgrading your gear and salvaging extra loot for materials are core progression loops.
In addition, with every death you lose 1/10th of your gear’s Durability. Once this hits 0, your item’s bonuses are partly disabled and you are significantly weaker, so keeping them in good condition is important.
After this intro, Blacksmiths can be found all throughout the world in various outposts, towns and cleared Strongholds so you don’t always have to come back to Kyovashad for these tasks.
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