EpiQuest

There is a four step process to forging equipment:

- get a pick axe
- mine for ore
- process the ore
- forge the equipment

So far there are three minerals to mine for. Copper, iron, and steel. Deposites are everywhere, and they replenish themselves after a good amount of time. You need a different level of pick axe to mine for minerals. A copper pick axe can mine for copper, but not iron or steel. A steel pick axe can mine for steel, copper and iron ore.

HOW IS IT FUN?

It becomes a mini game, because you do not just get ore. You find items like potions and pork chops. Yes pork chops, you find them in the wall like Castlevania.

WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE?

Because all enemies are lively in the game and can chase you, the party will need to mine, and get out of there quickly so you cannot wait around for the deposite to replenish. There is also a risk of breaking the pick axe you are using, but it is only a 1 in 50 chance.

There is another catch too. Mining is work! Anyone ever try to mine something? Its taxing on your body, especially before drills! Depending on what you are mining for, your party will take damage. Such as steel ore, your party will take 20 HP and MP damage. But at that point your party will have 400 HP.

2 ORES ROW A BOAT!

They do, but that's oars! Once you have all the ore you can collect, take it to a forge and they can make 2 ores into 1 processed mineral.

FORGING

Once you have processed minerals at the forge, you can have the forge make equipment. All the standard equipment that the shops sell, but later on in the third town of Thedona, they can make you better equipment than the shops. The forges can even restore ugly weapons to their former glory, making them more powerful and useful! They can even combine weapons to make a better new weapon, like combining the chain whip and a mace will make the morning star!

MINING IS STILL NO FUN FOR ME...

For those that do not want to go mining, you can buy processed minerals, but at a higher price of course! Forging your equipment is slightly cheaper depending on what the merchant has it priced at.

BARGAIN HUNTERS

I may have mentioned this, but most every shop has their own prices. The elves have a high markup, meaning their prices are more expensive. Thedona's prices are very expensive for weapons, armor and magic that Aereachi sells. Kind of like they want you to go back and get it elsewhere.

Each shop has its own bargain bin, usually potions or inferior equipment that is sold for cheaper than it would normally be. Like the elves sell copper equipment for cheaper than they do in Eraki Village.