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[Asrayl]

Okay... Here's my beef; "I payed a lot for this, and I don't want to be robbed of it, so you can take this control rod for free, and leave me to my own troubles!"

In the real world, this would never happen. We should've had to go wandering the woods for that guy's mule before he'd give us anything. Even then I'd expect the guy to at least -try- and get some coin out of it, or sell other things he's carrying.

So, Bioware, here's your word for the day: Verisimilitude.

Just because this is a fantasy setting which includes magic and demons doesn't mean we should forget that people don't just give away their valuables.

[Red Viking]

People give away baseball tickets all the time because they'd rather see someone use them then just throw them away.

[Zenon]

My guess in that situation was, that something didn't work out for that vendor. In fact it didn't work indeed. Still, I think one sovereign should have been paid, or a favor to the merchant prior to getting the rod... I figure the favor was to take the rod.



There are quite a lot of collectors of stuff, which has much less material value than the paid price. I actually had a bad feeling about getting this rod in that situation.

[Sorcy73]

The guy does state in his dialogue he's afraid some bandits will mistake it for something valuable.



If I had a piece of trash on me of no use, except to attract mean people with swords to want to 'stop me and not buy one' then I'd be happy to get rid of it too.

[Asrayl]

Right, meanwhile his mule is off in the woods somewhere, and if he's so worried about bandits, would he really just let his best chance of being helped walk off? Nay, I say. NAY. A -real- person would have used that thing as a bartering tool.

[DirkD13]

Yea that bothers me too, whats the freaking point of that encounter. You might as well just stumble across the town and find the rod in the lab or something.

[Vinditater]

Epic fail Bioware. You didn't cater to this one person's view of real life, and we all know you should cater to every single view out there. Boy howdy, your face must be red.

[sonofalich]

when i asked the trader what's the catch...i was sorely disappointed

Modifié par sonofalich, 23 novembre 2009 - 06:20 .

[HoLyEmperor]

lol. The way I interpreted the encounter:



Group of heavily armed, dangerous people walk up to a stuck merchant in the middle of nowhere. Stuck merchant needs to get unstuck, and hopes these four aren't actually bandits (who knows, they look armed and dangerous... and is that blood on the guy in plate?) No no, I don't need your "Help" at all... here... please... just take this and get out of here.



Sure, that might not be how it really went but that's how I experienced it.



To look at how the OP would want it to play out, if my character stumbled on a guy out in the middle of nowhere and he was trying to hawk some gadget that sounds more like a pipe dream than a reality, my character would be suspicious. If the price were as high as a golem is probably worth, I'd be thinking "SCAM!" But then, this is a game and I'd take the deal anyway (can always reload if the deal sucked, right?).

[T-Cell]

I am very disappointed that Shale has only two equip slots, and no skill tree. Makes him a shallow character to use on long quests. Not to mention he is whiny and his CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP in the background is annoying. Next time, they need to try a sprite, or pride demon under the command of the main character, FTW...

[Serogon]

I'm not really sure what's so unbelievable about it. He doesn't want to get robbed by people, doesn't want to just throw it away, so he might as well give it to the group of heavily armed people who might be able to use it. And about the mule thing, didn't he send his assistant after it? Why bother sending more people?

T-Cell wrote...

I am very disappointed that Shale has
only two equip slots, and no skill tree. Makes him a shallow character
to use on long quests. Not to mention he is whiny and his CLOMP CLOMP
CLOMP in the background is annoying. Next time, they need to try a
sprite, or pride demon under the command of the main character,
FTW...

Well, what other types of equipment could he possibly use? And about the "no skill tree" thing... ummm, have you actually played the DLC and used him, or do you just have Alzheimer's or something? Were you high? And if you mean skills instead of talents, I somewhat doubt golems are particularly good at alchemy and pickpocketing.

Modifié par Serogon, 23 novembre 2009 - 06:31 .

[HoLyEmperor]

T-Cell wrote...

I am very disappointed that Shale has only two equip slots, and no skill tree. Makes him a shallow character to use on long quests. Not to mention he is whiny and his CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP in the background is annoying. Next time, they need to try a sprite, or pride demon under the command of the main character, FTW...

I don't know, hot swapping Shale's two slots is very important to making effective use of him.  And it's not like other characters are any "deeper" in terms of items.  Allistair, let's see, does he want the avoidance tanking set, the general spell resist tanking set, or the fire resist tanking set for this fight?  Same end result, but requires far more items in my inventory.  

[Zenon]

Coming to think of it: Who knows if this merchant really paid a lot for this rod in the first place? He might by lying and giving away something entirely worthless for himself.