Pyros
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Thorns is a secondary, guaranteeing it doesn't affect the quality of the item. On top of that when it guarantees an affix, it tends to roll higher so those items are specifically better for the builds that rely on the stat. You might not value thorns but a crusader using the thorns weapon and thorns passive might.
If every legendary weapon that dropped had a socket, then it wouldn't matter either and you'd ask for every weapon to drop with attack speed because weapons without attackspeed are worthless in comparison and so on until every weapons drops with the same stats and the only thing that differs is the legendary proc. Legendaries will drop with shit stats, same as every other items. You can try to fix them with the enchanter or if they're not worth it, then they're not worth it and that's all, ARPGs are mostly about looting insane amount of worthless shit to find one good item. And the whole "oh but this item is so bad no one would ever use it" is retarded. People with worse items would use it. They'd use it until they find something better. That's the whole concept. Yes the thorns item isn't very good but being a legendary it can roll higher main stats than a rare, so if you have a standard rare, then it's an upgrade. Doesn't matter that it only has high thorns as its special effect, an upgrade's an upgrade. It means you'll probably find a better item faster than if it was a perfect drop, but if you were getting perfect drops every legendary, you would be fully geared in 3days.
I do agree on the amount of affixes being low though, but at the same time there's a fairly limited amount of stats so you can't have too many affixes slots otherwise it becomes very easy to just get everything all the time. They'd need more stats, and especially with smart loot giving you mostly your main stat it'd be a problem.
If every legendary weapon that dropped had a socket, then it wouldn't matter either and you'd ask for every weapon to drop with attack speed because weapons without attackspeed are worthless in comparison and so on until every weapons drops with the same stats and the only thing that differs is the legendary proc. Legendaries will drop with shit stats, same as every other items. You can try to fix them with the enchanter or if they're not worth it, then they're not worth it and that's all, ARPGs are mostly about looting insane amount of worthless shit to find one good item. And the whole "oh but this item is so bad no one would ever use it" is retarded. People with worse items would use it. They'd use it until they find something better. That's the whole concept. Yes the thorns item isn't very good but being a legendary it can roll higher main stats than a rare, so if you have a standard rare, then it's an upgrade. Doesn't matter that it only has high thorns as its special effect, an upgrade's an upgrade. It means you'll probably find a better item faster than if it was a perfect drop, but if you were getting perfect drops every legendary, you would be fully geared in 3days.
I do agree on the amount of affixes being low though, but at the same time there's a fairly limited amount of stats so you can't have too many affixes slots otherwise it becomes very easy to just get everything all the time. They'd need more stats, and especially with smart loot giving you mostly your main stat it'd be a problem.