Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33185350-20180114154622/@comment-32013442-20180322191812

Faelvindil wrote: Here’s an idea. The more reputation you have with the faction that the weapon/tool is made by, the more “training/expertise” you have, assisting in the chance to get better modifiers. For example, say I have a Blue Dwarven Mattock I want to repair. If I have over, say, 1000 reputation with the Blue Dwarves, I would have an increased chance to get better modifiers when I reforge my mattock.

This would incorporate your hard earned 1000+ reputation with a faction into the forging. That is a nice idea Faelvindil, but a bit inrealistic. Simply having a high alignment/reputation with a faction would never give you an automatic "knowledge" of a faction's ways of crafting, reforging, etc. A more practical approach would be to have a player log that keeps track of the number of times you have reforged/created/smithed a faction's weapons and armor, providing said player with statistically accurate benefits depending on their knowledge/practiced hand at working with a faction's particular gear. For example, if I have smithed dwarven mattocks 5000 times, I should receive a statistically higher chance of getting good modifiers when I have smithed said mattocks using Lazuli's "White hot forging" method, than another player who has forged a measly 50 mattocks in comparison to my 5000.

A fantastic way to implement your idea of having a better chance at making good gear with higher alignment Fael, would be to say that the smiths of different factions could, "improve" your skills in crafting by "teaching" you their ways, for a modest fee of course, and strictly for those they deem worthy. Aka, those who have a high alignment with the smith's faction. Think of it as a "train" button in a smith's inventory along with talk, smith, and trade, that only lights up once a player has for example, 1000 alignment with the smith's faction.