Blacksmith and forging... (in General)

i had always wondered this....so ill post my idea.

if you have forged a weapon 90%, then the blacksmith still charged you the full amount to forge it the rest of the way.

i say, if you have forged an item some, the the blacksmith should knock that much off of his cost to upgrade. that way you could forge a bit, and then pay the rest of it if you wanted to.

it just seems like since he has to do "less work" he shouldnt get as much...just my opinion. u would still have to factor in forging fees. make those 20% of the forging that you had done...

for example:

an item costs 10k to upgrade. i forge it to 80%

it should now cost me 2k to upgrade it the rest of the way, plus 20% (forging fees) of the value that i forged into it. in this example, 20% of 8k. so the total cost would come to 3.6k

full blacksmith cost would be 10k
full forging cost would be 2k
cost of doing both would be 3.6k in this example...it would always be in the middle, and just makes more since.

Maybe the Blacksmith uses an entirely different method of upgrading, and has to start out fresh anyway?

The blacksmith is a master at his craft, he can do forge a point in four minutes, regardless of the "forge" price.

I doubt he'd want to bother with %'s of completion ;)

also it costs BA to forge yourself, meaning it costs that amount of BA multiplied by the average fighting reward you get per BA.

By paying the blacksmith you get the job done quickly and you don't have to deal with the forge dwarf. Bargain!!!!

The dreaded forge dwarf. 99% done, and you make a mistake and he comes over and makes you start again

kilobot, the dwarf only makes you forge another cycle on it then, not make you start from 0% on again...