Saturday, March 31, 2012

Kingdoms of Amalur: Inventory Tips

One of the major issues with Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a bunch of well-known bugs with the in-game inventory. Here are the known issues:

1) Some quest items will get stuck in you character's carry-on inventory, namely... House of Ballads Armor (which takes up 4 precious spots), Shine & Shadow and Helm of Hideous Visage. This happens after you stash them and take them out again. After that, you won't be able to sell, stash or destroy them. That's 6 spots total gone.

Unfortunately, there's no remedy for this if you've already got these stuck. Just be sure to get rid of these items once you get them on your 2nd playthrough. Hopefully they release a patch for this.

2) Placing items in the stash that you've added gems to will make the gems disappear.

Be sure to unsocket them before stashing. The bad thing about this is your item will end up taking more than one slot. When your blacksmithing is high enough, you'll be able to create armor pieces better than the socketed ones. Then you won't have to deal with this issue.

3) Sometimes storing a blacksmithed item will cause it to lose its elemental power.

Just stash it and pull it out again to fix.

4) The game is filled with so many cool items that it becomes a problem to keep them all. You get 120 slots (by the end of the game) to carry and 155 at your home. If you have the PC version, I believe both of these can be hacked in the config files, but if you're on a console, you have to deal with it. Here are a few tips to keep things to a minimum.

- Items like potions are stored in batches of 10. 10 of one kind of potion will take up one slot. So don't store more than 10 of a potion. If your alchemy skill is high enough, don't store the potions you can create.

- If you have a lot of potions, just keep the highest level. If you have 10 greater healing potions... stop storing minor healing ones.

- If you find cool weapons that you won't be using right away, salvage them for parts first. Blacksmithing components don't count against your inventory. Craft the weapons later when you need them. I picked up a lot of prismere items on my quests, but salvaged them all until recently. I crafted a full suit, 2 swords, longbow and faeblades... all very powerful end-game items.

- Don't store anything you won't use. You're going to get a lot of nice armor pieces, but if you have a full warrior, you won't have a need for a mage's robe set. There will be plenty of warrior armor to find and fill up your inventory.

- There's often a high level and low level version of each armor set. If you're deep into the game, don't keep the low level items. They look nice, but you'll never use them.

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