I saw a few legendaries with really cool and creative effects, effects that are so extrem that they completely change the gameplay. And I like that a lot
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Sinzar
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I think secondary stats need to change. I swear 3/4 of my 2.0 items have +monster experience on them. The other half probably have increase pickup radius. Is there only a pool of like 3 secondary stats to choose from? They always make me feel like it's wasted potential on an item, even though I know it's supposed to be the "extra" stat budget that doesn't change the item power.
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Where did I ever compare to another game? That was you, not me. The argument that most of the legendaries are bad and/or bland stands on its own, because the vast majority of them are. How many have you looted since the patch? How many have you actually used?
Xevy
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As a monk if it doesn't have dex/vit/AR or PR as 3 rolls, there's a much MUCH slimmer chance I'm going to want it. So that leaves 3 rolls left which i usually hope for skilldmg/elementaldmg/critchance for most things. The 'your character' stat (dex/str/int) shouldn't count as a roll since it's always fucking there.
I like how hes comparing items in d3 to items like enigma or windforce. Do you know how rare it was to actually find jah and ber runes to make an enigma? We were all spoiled by the dupers and people running MF bots making those items extremely easy to get. I played LoD for years and I only found a few high end runes. Never found a CoA either.
I'll take the d3 loot system over d2 loot system any day.
I'll take the d3 loot system over d2 loot system any day.
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You do know we can go back and read your previous posts?
How many? I'm not sure, but I'm going to guess I've used a quarter of them. For how many I've gotten, I'd say that's a pretty good usage rate. And I have a fair amount just sitting there for "if I spec this", or "if I get this other item". Easily over half of my legendaries become usable with a reroll of one affix.
As I said earlier, they can either be mostly really good and drop sparingly, or have some lesser quality ones and drop more often. You cannot judge the items in a vacuum, context is important, and you're ignoring it completely. That is why your argument fails.
Twilering
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I was thinking back to whyD2 mod Median XL itemswere so interesting. It's because each weapon and almost every armor piece had an on attack/kill/strike proc effect. Another interesting affix were Reanimates that summon minions for you after killing enemies. And then there was crushing blow, +elemental damage, -enemy elemental resists, +skills, uncapped +movement speed, oskills(cast-able skills you gain only when wearing this item). When you have this many affixes, it's a lot more fun to mix and match armor sets with skills.
Adding area damage, reduced cooldown, reduced resource cost in 2.0 helps, but there's still too many legendaries that are just so boring. Maybe when the 2nd expansion adds another 3-4 affixes, the items will reach a point where they're complicated enough to be interesting.
Adding area damage, reduced cooldown, reduced resource cost in 2.0 helps, but there's still too many legendaries that are just so boring. Maybe when the 2nd expansion adds another 3-4 affixes, the items will reach a point where they're complicated enough to be interesting.
Zaphid
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I think the problem with unique items is that you have to create a whole new graphic, and item effects for them, with the latter needing a lot of testing, especially the more unique effects. It's easier to just piece together existing effects so you have a pretty good idea of the item's power.
Does anyone have any idea why do we even have so inflated stats in the first place ? I was trying to figure that one out and the only idea that seems sane is that they are leftovers from when they were allowing people to assign stat points so they made them really powerful just so we don't end up with another "str for gear, dex for block, rest vit" ala D2 and never went back on that.
That graphic's creator needs to shot, it would be only worse if it was written in comic sans. The game is pretty playable, maybe in 6 months when we have stashes full of legendaries we will be complaining about imba shit, but that simply doesn't apply right now.
Median XL absolutely nailed it, I loved it but I question the ability of an average player to understand an item with more lines than McDonald's menu.
Not only it's always the same secondary stats, but also the numbers are super low.. +80 exp. per monster ? wtf...
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You're grasping at major straws here. Because I agree that items are bland and bad doesn't mean I'm comparing to D2 with some nostalgia and oh my god games where so much better. No, items are just bad.
Most of the legendaries just aren't even usable, they don't even meet a baseline for usability. Half of them don't even have unique effects. We could start making them usable by having some mandatory stats. Like a socket on weapon, crit chance on hat/bracers. We could get rid of half the 2h's. That's just to start in an easy way that actually makes the tag mean something.
The most frustrating part of D3 itemization currently is how useless most weapons are unless they roll a socket.
Mahes
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The sockets I believe come with the expansion. Players can augment items in the expansion, so that will help a little bit. I do agree though that at the moment only sets and certain drops feel legendary. Most of the regular legendaries are shard bait. Bracers have crit chance. I just crafted some nice ones actually. In fact, crafting makes things to simple.
To be fair the problem I am having in this game is that there is no incentive to play more difficult modes. I can get the exact same items on torment 1 as I can on Torment 6. Why do I care about paragon levels if my character already stomps through the content that rewards me the best? ROS I imagine with the different play modes will solve some of that problem, but it would be great to have unique and powerful drops come off named mobs on Torment 5-6 that gives incentive and a reason to play beyond a certain point. Certain extremely powerful items should only drop off extremely challenging play modes. I hope ROS does this or this game will be worse than it was before 2.0.
T1/2/3 farming depends on your DPS. IIRC legendaries remain the same, but the chance drop increases with difficulty in Torment.