Excellent points, all.

/seconded and /signed.  

Nice ones!

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THATS "HEALTH" BAR DERP! Spelling and grammer, who needs it... I DO!

I understand (don't necessarily agree with, but understand) why weapons, etc., are suddenly only worth 10% of their value rather than 50% of their value. But why bother to say that wolf pelts, etc., are worth a certain value when all you can get is 10% of that?

The 10% value is good. Just make them cost more if we need more Gildar from them.

My point is, you can't buy (or use) wolf pelts, spider silk, demon horns, etc., so there's never a point where the 'full value' actually means anything. If a demon horn can only be sold for 16 gildar -- and never can be bought for 160 gildar or somehow exchanged for something else worth 160 gildar -- then it's misleading to ever claim that its value is 160 gildar. Its value is 16 gildar, period.

I assumed this worked the same way (at 50%) in 0.86; I just didn't pay attention to it because it was frankly so much more profitable to find and sell weapons. But the 90% discount makes the discrepancy rather jarring when you're told that a dragon horn is worth 160 gildar, but it never, ever is. ..bruce..

Webster, maybe a little microeconomics study would help you understand? All items have a price that it will be sold at and a price it will be purchased at. All other items use the exact same system. It would make no sense to have some items only have a selling value, as most people would assume that is the purchase price. For future updates when we see alchemy using these items to make potions and the Apothecary improvement selling these items, it will be even more important. Can't think of a valid reason to change it.

My short list:

1. Show units which have moves left in the left-hand UI panel.
2. Make monsters actually guard their loot. You can still steal from them easily by luring them away. It is just not fun this way.
3. Loot is too random. You can get killer items from unguarded loot, and then get something lame from heavily guarded loot. This destroys the feeling of achievement, especially combined with item 2. I hope this is just a balance issue, but still this annoys me... Why bother building up and attacking that Death Daemon when you can get better items without fighting?

Otherwise the game feels a lot better.

I guess I would like the idea of resident guardians + wandering spawns, too. Although all wandering monsters do not need to be from spawns. Some monsters could be carrying their loot with them and minding their own business otherwise. Some could be like now, except if you steal their loot they will relentlessly try to follow & kill you to get their precious items back. For example elementals or demons could be like this.

But the main point is: you should not get powerful items early game by cheating monsters you have no hope to fight against. It is not fun, and breaks the balance. I hope (and believe) this is just something the devs have not had time to fix yet.