What do these guys have against the forge! I feel like they balance the entire attribute and perk system around that one item. They made it so expensive in points that it's basically level-capped already. And if you rush the forge by dropping all your points in it you suffer in other ways like having no stamina/health, cant farm, duck at combat, cant gather resources. And that's fine. Thats how it's supposed to work. That's punishment enough for rushing it, no need to add the punishment AND level gates.
Removing level gates was praised by almost everybody, why would you bring back the most hated feature in the game?? You guys are supposed to be the FUN pimps, not actual pimps!
Us: "Hey big daddy, can I have a forge?"
TFP: *SLAP* "you want a forge b****!?, go get out on that corner and grind me some levels!!
But seriously guys, please get rid of these level gates, they are unnecessary. Your just destroying a certain kind of playstyle with nothing good being added by it.