A smithing problem.

[saittam]

I am one of those who keep stuff. Good to have and so one. But also for battle. In the field i like my polararm and bow. But during siege i like an axe. So i always have one weapon in the inventory. Also save some for potential companions.
So when i do smithing they are in the way. During the smelting.

I played for 200 hours not knowing i could change the gear of my companions so i might have missed something with smithing also.

Locked items should be hidden in the smelting page.

 

[Oltopeteeh]

There are mods that hide things with a lock. There are mods that allow companions to upgrade their equipment themselves. There are mods that save our time, like quick dialogues. Enjoy your collection

 

[Lord Irontoe]

I don't think they should be hidden. The warning when you try to smelt a locked item works well enough for me. Maybe locked items could be highlighted better than the little yellow dot, though. But often I lock an item I want to keep and wind up accumulating 20 more copies of the same thing, so I want to be able to melt of a few of them down if I need to. Otherwise, I'd have to unlock it in the inventory screen to smelt a few of them, which would increase the chance of me forgetting to relock it and accidentally selling or smelting my last one.

I do wish the smelting menu showed the modifiers in the item names. You could have a Masterwork Menavlion and a Rusty Menavlion but they'll both show as "Menavlion" so you have to carefully compare the fine print stats to make sure you're not smelting the good one. Some sorting options in the smelting menu would also be nice. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for the order so its hard to find individual items in the list

 

[VVL99]

Perhaps a new sorting point will solve the problem.

 

[saittam]

I don't think they should be hidden. The warning when you try to smelt a locked item works well enough for me. Maybe locked items could be highlighted better than the little yellow dot, though. But often I lock an item I want to keep and wind up accumulating 20 more copies of the same thing, so I want to be able to melt of a few of them down if I need to. Otherwise, I'd have to unlock it in the inventory screen to smelt a few of them, which would increase the chance of me forgetting to relock it and accidentally selling or smelting my last one.

I do wish the smelting menu showed the modifiers in the item names. You could have a Masterwork Menavlion and a Rusty Menavlion but they'll both show as "Menavlion" so you have to carefully compare the fine print stats to make sure you're not smelting the good one. Some sorting options in the smelting menu would also be nice. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for the order so its hard to find individual items in the list

For me when i have like 5-10 different items to keep and just comes from a battle with another 50-100 weapons to smelt. It´s very time consuming to smelt every solo weapon. It jumps to the top and one of my keepers are always there.

 

[Lord Irontoe]

For me when i have like 5-10 different items to keep and just comes from a battle with another 50-100 weapons to smelt. It´s very time consuming to smelt every solo weapon. It jumps to the top and one of my keepers are always there.

There's definitely a lot they could do to improve the interface. Like the favorited items could be all together at the top or bottom of the list. That way it would be hard to smelt one by mistake.

 

[Agroplode]

They could at least make a selector like the have for the trade window. Where you can select the trade goods. For Smith they could make axe, sword etc and one for favorite or locked weapons. Its time consuming and even for the trade window, the inventory is full of crap with bad prefixes after every battle.