Seeing as I am sick and tired of this kind of thing I'm going to use this example. If the players were playing a ruler and we had to decide who got the very best personal gear between a researcher who was rarely ever going to use it or the best soldier around who would be constantly using it I'm 99.999 percent sure that everyone would have voted to give to the guy that would be constantly using it. Because you miss the thing about making epic gear that appeals to many of us, that is that it's actually out there used by the greatest heroes outright wrecking shit and making it's own legends with us being proud for having made it.
Otherwise having our best stuff lying around the bad majority of the time doing nothing is pretty wasteful. Heck, I remember playing a crafting quest where players were outright happy to make epic level gear not to keep for ourselves but to give to others. Especially since the PC for said quest wouldn't be anywhere near as capable as the top tier warrirors. Basically the point is that we don't actually need top level gear and it seems like there would be a more practical argument for giving it out to people who would get more use out of it.
On top of that the thing I can't comprehend is why people get so upset that not everyone is interested in getting absolute top level gear for ourselves considering that we can still make top gear for ourselves. Seriously, our second best personal gear would still be pretty fucking amazing and something the absolute best heroes would love to have as anyone who has played warriors in Warhammer quests would tell you.
I would argue that a lot of the appeal for the epic gear we craft is to see Snorri, the player character, actually use the weapons. We are not playing a ruler, we are playing a crafter/priest. If we
were playing a ruler that would involve commissioning the craftsman to make the thing. No one is ever going to commission us to use Kholek's brain specifically.
Our use of Barak Azamar and Zharrgal is not wasteful. We use them to create better Runes and weapons. Now, with the cloak you have an argument, but a poor one. Snorri is
very capable at fighting, and improving that is not wasteful in the least.
Do not get me wrong, I understand the sentiment, but I still consider the foundation of the argument to be flawed. Countering your arguments does not mean I cannot comprehend how you came to that conclusion. We already have five hundred favor with Kraka Drakk, which at this rate we will never spend because the only option we really would use with any degree of certainty was taken last turn with the breakthrough on the frozen stone. All your ideas will result in is yet more indebting of Kraka Drakk to ourselves. (Incidentally this is a large part of why I am so opposed to the retainer expansions)
Yes I am sure that a lot of heroes would love to have our gear. Don't you think that there are Dwarfs that could do more with Rik Hunken than Gimli? There would have been Dwarfs that could do more with Trollslayer than Otrek.
There is no point at which your argument ends without indulging in hypocrisy and hubris.
