I am soooo thumping meself on the forehead!

Making a certain choice has sent me to a place in Act II that sells no runes or recipes for them.

I really don't want to go back and replay that much content to reach the vendor in Flotsam I SHOULD have freakin bought the recipe from. (I have the save, but it is a good hour's worth the way I compulsively loot.)

Anyone have a give command yet or a mod to spruce up a certain slackerish assistant qartermaster's shop?

I also stumbled on this problem, but combat kept getting easier and easier at this point that it didn't really matter (on Hard) and I got my weapons runed right at the start of Chapter III. So unless you're playing on Insane, you needn't worry about it.

That said, I do think it'd be a good thing overall for them to be more available in Chapter II.

I agree that they become less of a necessity. I just like the incineration effect, for example. LOL

I also appreciate that the camp is sparse, being an army on campaign.

Still...I wouldn't turn up my nose at a mod if somebody more skilled than I were willing and able.

Knowing how to upgrade weapons, attach runes and generally having a full understanding of a lot of the systems in place are making my hard playthrough a real breeze.

At the middle of Act 1, my 2 swords are nearly at 30 damage (with the +7% damage and +8% bleeding rune attached) and I'm chewing through enemies.

They can make a big difference - especially as once you've splashed out the 500 oren needed for that particular rune, it's so easy to craft that I can pretty much guarantee that I'll always have one on every new sword I get.

Dwarves do rune crafting you joined the non human haters.


I was also confused by this my first play through though. The other side has several very nice rune crafters I found on my second play through.

Yes, it makes perfect sense.

I had the luxury of dwarven crafters on my first go too.

Just don't want to go back over 2 hours just to pick up a recipe I diligently collected mats for. Should have been more diligent, huh? ;P

New there was a way to overcome my stupidity.

Thanks to some people missing Militele's Heart from prologue, a mod exists with all the shops and contents.

Copied and pasted into the dwarf trap maker in Henselt's camp! (He sells them on the sly.)

I ran into this problem as well, almost went back 2-3 hours in my game just to buy them, but decided against it. Once you've quested awhile in Chapter 2 a new vendor shows up named the "Mystery Merchant". He doesn't sell rune diagrams but he does sell runes. So there's that at least. They cost about 100-200 orens a piece depending on the type. Where did you find that mod? I might do that just so I have the diagrams.

There is a sticky at top of first page of this forum. :)

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher_2/full_list_of_mods/page1