EpiQuest 2

So far, Epiquest 2 already has around 200 pieces of equipment. 160 of those pieces are your standard tier equitable (level 1 sword, level 2 sword, level 3 sword). There are 130 weapons in three tiers and more items than you could ever find. Now you can make it all yourself with the Brewing, Blessing and Forging.

Let’s start with brewing potions, it’s your typical buy an empty bottle and combine some jellies and herbs to make a potion. Blessing things is where you visit the local church and have the priest bless weapons and armor to give them holy powers. You can also make harmful holy water there too.

The forging is as it was in the last game. You find ore, you process the ore cheaply and easily, and then from there you make weapons and armor with it. It’s cheaper to make weapons and armor than it is to buy it. The only catch is finding the ore.

This calls for a mining system as well, which the last game had. There is magical forging as well, where you combine magical orbs with weapons and armor which will give you weapons which enable you to have better abilities. Take a Fire 2 Orb and add it with a staff to make a Fire Staff that will give you a skill to protect your party from fire skills. Combine an Ice 2 Orb with a wand to make an Ice wand that will give you a skill to ice all of your enemies. Basically, it will make you work for cooler spells.

The whole brewing, blessing, forging system should be considered a bonus for accumulated items. You find a lot of random stuff on the map in shinnies that draw your attention. You also get random loot from enemies. Some of it doesn’t do much, which is why you use it to make things with. Like bonus points that you buy things with, only you’re making it.

You can brew power potions to temporarily improve your attack power in battle, or you can mix five power potions together to make pills that will permanently raise a member’s attack power. There will be different things to brew, bless and forge at different shopkeepers in the game. Almost every shop keeper can help you create something.

Considering one of the main characters is an alchemist, I thought this would be a pertinent step. The brewing, blessing and forging system is the same from Epiquest 1, but now it’s greatly improved with more fun.

The weapons, equipment and items also have a better flow of upgrades from the last game. With the first Epiquest, the weapons and gear seemed almost unnecessary when compared to the stats of the player characters. Also by the end of the first game, your gold deposits were huge, and I was forced to come up with things for the player to waste gold on. Epiquest 2 will have you chasing for enough gold to buy the latest upgrade. The game is about choices and making you chose what you want vs your gold will keep things interesting.

Then on top of that are the equipment points. Just because you finally get your uber equipment, doesn’t mean you’ll be able to equip it all at once. You’d need to choose if you want your battle axe or full plate armor. Unless of course you uber up your character to equip both. The higher your level, the more you can equip.