Mages should be aloud to enchant items.

When I say enchant I mean imbue items with powers. like you cast a spell and it adds 1-“5/Magic level” fire damage to the weapon, then making the weapon due an additional 1-20 FD at magic level 100.

 

They should add it as another type of schematic ; if you take a magic ingredient and mix it with a specific spell they allow you to add an ability to your weapon. Like a ground ruby and the spell of Fire Wall, and it adds fire damage to your weapon.

 

and the more IN and WP u have u should make greater weapons but this should cost a lot of mana and perhaps exp

 

I think the ability to create magical items should be a school of magic. Most likely called enchanting. The first level in it would be the ability to create scrolls. I think it should work very similarly to the skill of making tech objects. Learning to make magic items should be available through scrolls and require knoledge in the apropiate school of magic.
A parallel school of magic would be alchemy that would involved creating potions and the like.

 

Yes! I am totally with enchanting items!

this could also be a use for all the useless gems and gem encrusted stuff you find - you mix purity of water with a sapphire neckalce to increase your beauty

Although having said that, I think there should be some random enchanting manuals that you never find again - that way there will be more variety.

 

The scrolls should be cheaper.
And yeah, there should be enchantment as a school of magic.

 

My favorite part of games is making items/characters/etc for it. Being able to enchant items even low end items is preferrable to nothing at all. But I must say a wider variety of items to discover is a must. If you have only 10 items and 2 are powerful enemy crushing items then it unbalances the game. A wider variety of items for a wider variety of character types is more desirable.

 

why are you people REPEATEDLY gravedigging this thread? Jesus christ...

Anyway, technology is already weaker than magic, giving magic something that is reserved for tech would require tech to be given far more to compensate. Although, you could combine them into something akin to alchemy, where the creation of magic items requires both tech and magic abilities.