Customized Renaming of Weapons & Armor

I applaud the opportunity & resulting product the diamond supporters have created with their customized uniques & cannot wait to collect them. Recent posts by the Diamonds sparked an idea. What I would LOVE to see is the ability for certain user crafted weapons & armor be renamed.

The idea solidified from crafting an endgame sword custom to my needs. Rolling it was a long process & required considerable resources to create. I have yet to see a 1h sword with higher dmg values (244) personally, however Im sure there are better. I retired the chr using it & no longer use swords. It now just looks pretty in my inventory, inert, collecting dust.

Selling it would be like throwing another nameless item into a pile, its story forgotten. To me it belongs to a museum. A custom name would mark it as something special, an elite item deserving recognition. Over time, our own items would become known, traded & remembered.

To be able to give it a personalized name would further solidify my chr's identity. Marking deserving items would additionally satisfy other lore-related threads I have woven over multiple rpgs. This would strengthen my connection/dedication to the game & all my characters.

I wont pretend to know the functionality or mechanics of items. I dont even know if this is possible. If personalized item names is a possibility, I would love to hear thoughts & suggestions from others.

**Possible Methods**
-An orb. A really expensive orb to ensure a flood of stupid or inappropriate names do not become commonplace. Once used & renamed it cannot be altered.

-A cash shop item/functionality. This would certainly limit frivolous naming. I've payed $10 in other MMOS for much much less.

-A different class of items altogether with a specific color to identify it as user named & created.

Hopefully there are others who find customized item naming as appealing as I do. Please post your thoughts, good & bad.

Thanks for reading :)

I personally wouldn't spent my orbs on a item that writes your name on a item which could be sold or dropped.
I'm sure there are people who would buy it at the cash shop but i wouldn't, i'd rather pick stash space or extra gore.
The last method interests me though, the thought of an item that would turn into a "unique" with your name on it and perhaps even a little personal written text would be pretty cool the names should be generic though like "<your name>'s champion chopper" or "<your name>'s bully basher" and the items should be around the same as a rare item in damage and mods.

I like it, Items which are very rare and powerful should have an option of naming them.

It would give the game more mystery and would enhance the gameplay
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(Legendary Sword which was used to kill 10 players at once in a duel between two most powerful warbands in a game...)

In another game which involved elderly parchment you could craft your weapons & armor. The simple option of giving the sword a title, a name after imbuing it with magical properties gave it an identity. Over time these items would take on characteristics befitting of the title. Content is what you make of it & I thoroughly enjoyed including my own lore into the game.

I don't necessarily even want a character's name attached to the item in PoE. Certain items I use were crafted & handed down by longtime players. Imagine items renown for being special bartered & talked about while keeping the memory of the original crafter alive. Your favorite bow or endgame wand would eventually have a lineage of users.

More feedback & opinions please!

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Omg, I was just thinking about creating an "Alice" character, and I wished there was a way to rename my knife to "Vorpal Blade".

I would totally get this, if it was a shop item. :)

Very nice OP, and I totally concur. Making such a fantastic weapon is a small, personal triumph, and I think a Cash-Shop option to rename (at least)rare equipment would be a great idea. Imagine linking your own, personal "set" items in the forums for other folks to see.

Yeah, I'm in. =^[.]^=

Why not, moar $$$ for GGG. That said for cash shop items I imagine there is a threshold where the desirability of such a thing has to make the development time worth it.

Wouldn't the item actually lose resell value when it is named?

Your suggestion is in line with a kind of trophy room as they had in Guild Wars - Eye of the North expansion, where you can display armor sets, companions, banners and such.

I could see a cash shop item with this and with some clever coding and approval from devs make the item permanent in the world. If sold/dropped/deleted, it would pop up as a random drop somewhere.