Originally posted by jonnin:

I tried this, by making a new guy and providing the new toys.
Its not well balanced; all the bosses fell easily, never died, low risk until at least the mountains. I even limited myself a lot (eg only frost staff and raw mushroom food until mountains) and it was still OP. ...

Thank you for this Jonnnin. I was wondering how OP having say a single staff early on (Say found in a crypt in the black Forest as an uber rare drop) In my scenario Eityr food would also be hyper rare and there would be no means to repair said staff till you got to Mistlands.
How did your test do that? You said you took only the lowest Eityr food which was fair enough, thought more than I was thinking personally, but did you replace staves when they broke or did you actually have a repair station as well?

Magic needs to be retconed into the game at some point far earlier (as I say Black forest or Swamp levels I suggest) But how to do so without making it utterly OP is the question.

If its too powerful as is do we need a "Weak staff of Fire or Frost" with reduced stats to be introduced you think? Or reduce the base ones stats, but sharply up them when we can increase quality on the staves? IE make current T1 = T3 and have T1 &2 Lower so they can be used in BF and Mountain levels perhaps? (This assumes eventually we can get T4 or 5)

Thoughts?