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×You're supposed to be able to go in without a sword and go back to get one later. That's an intentionally allowed strategy, which I've called "theft" in my own thinking about how the hold works. However, my testing indicated there was never enough stats/HP to actually take everything that requires no sword at any tier, or at least the earlier tiers, if you go in without taking equipment. If I was wrong about that, there's no way to fix it without some very extensive monster balance/item changes, which I don't even feel qualified to figure out, much less implement.
Overall, my feeling is "this is what I built, if I want to do something similar that 'fixes' that I should build a new hold where I handle things differently to 'fix' it from the start". But that doesn't stop anyone from making their own user-challenges to behave as if you can't go back and get/swap equipment later. Or just a "no theft" challenge in general.
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[Last edited by Xindaris at 08-21-2020 10:45 PM]