Crafting HQ: Fusing Enhancement

[Viridiana]

Other carpenters have petitioned that they be able to use their surplus crap to make epic gear. It's not going to work at a fundamental level. You have to fix the primary problem: overproduction of crap. This solution, in effect, subsidizes production, which causes even more production. Production is the problem, not the solution. Hence you can't fix things by rewarding it.

It'd be like if the government gave you a tax credit for buying a Hummer because it made more CO2 than a regular car. A mountain of **** is made in the process of making HQ crab bows, probably more than any other weapon. All that crap has no inherent worth. That will never be resolved. To give it inherent worth is to fuel the ridiculous process and make more inherently worthless products.

I dunno, this idea seems less like "Let's make a crapload of bows until I get a +3!" and more like "I'm gonna go make/buy a bow, then buy a ****load of oak branches so I can turn it into a +3." Not that I disagree with your overall point--I'm just not sure it applies to this suggestion. Why would I produce another bow when I could just buy a cheap NQ off the wards and then farm/buy enough oak to make it a +3?