New class of item rarity: Mythical

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Crapzor wrote:

Addition, only 1 exquisite item can be worn on a character at a time.

Exquisite are clearly far better than rares and many uniques. This mechanic may be necessary if not more restricting. Maybe 0 sockets on all Exquisite.

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fsg wrote:

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Crapzor wrote:

Addition, only 1 exquisite item can be worn on a character at a time.

no bullshit like this

Yeah you prefer bullshit like having super rich players walking around with only exquisite items on all gear slots?
Cause that is exactly what will happen and it will be boring as fuck.
you can say that exquisite items are so powerful or imbued with such magic that one cannot wield the power of two such powerful items(something similar can be added as lore into the game).

This is a good idea but after it would make the game easier... but if they had new difficulty or map (like 90-95+ only where we can drop) and like someone said before no ''sockets'' on it.

Thank you all for your feedback! Many interesting ideas.
Hope a DEV stops by and read it.

Other ways of balancing Exquisite items besides 1) No Sockets, 2) Bind on Account or 3) Only 1 Exquisite equippable by character would be:

A) If an Exquisite item rolls a sufix or prefix that it cannot normally roll, force that prefix or sufix to be a maximum 75% of the item's level.


EDIT — Another GREAT idea (I believe, hehe):

Exquisite items that roll a prefix or sufix from outside the normal item's possibilities will also get a seventh (7th) "cursed" trait, like:
- Minus resistances
- Minus Life/ES
- Minus attack/cast/movement speed
- etc.

The "can roll abnormal mods" is silly.
For example, you don't want to roll "increased ES" on a pure AR armor, because it won't do a damn thing.

Also, having a little better chance of rolling close-to-ilevel mods, at the expense of being rarer, is not worth things like account-binding, no sockets or one-of-a-kind.

Aaaand... Is this really needed or just more complexity for the sake of complexity?

The "can roll abnormal mods" can certainly be controlled so "useless" or "meaningless" mods do not spawn on some items.

Then again, ES on Armor could actually be awesome to an Eldritch Battery character.

I agree that no-sockets, account bind or 1-equippable-only are not good drawbacks (I don't think so, anyway).

That's why I suggested:

1) An Exquisite that rolls an "abnormal" mod can only get it at a maximum 75% effectiveness of Item Level.
2) The "cursed" extra mod (a seventh mod) as a drawback to Exquisite items that roll an "abnormal" mod.

"Complexity" is the name of this game. :- D
Still, I don't think this suggestion is just complexity for its sake.

EDIT: the main thing about this item class (Exquisite) is probably getting 4 prefixes + 2 sufixes or 2 prefixes + 4 sufixes. This can be as useless as getting light radius and thorns or an additional very low damage roll or as awesome as one can imagine.

I like the idea. I considered proposing something very similar. I would like it if they dropped only slightly less often then an exalted orb however. I've only found two of those since open beta for crying out loud. I would like to get my hands on one of these occasionally.

I crave the idea of seeing that purple item drop and knowing the item will be good for you or another player. It will indeed add great anticipation and excitement to item drops.

I might suggest that each affix will be in the top 2 brackets and random rolls within those brackets. Some items will be better than others, but they will all be good this way.

That's my two cents.

+1

i give you all of the bouns points i can give plus one.
all joking aside this is a very good idea it is very strong but
same with negative that can spawn.
have you posted this on their reddit?

I think a nice addition would be that all exquisite have a negative effect. This would make them so that you would need to question how badly you wanted to use it. This effect should directly counter something about the item is some way, for example a shield could have amazing stats, but also lower a defensive stat, such as evasion, block chance, or armour. A claw could get you by lowering max health. A mace could get you by lowering your strength.

These are all examples of course, but this could balance them out so that it could discourage you from trying to suit up in all exquisite gear, as I really dislike the idea of bound to player or one at a time.

Also they should be boss unique drops with exceedingly low drop rates on merciless only. Or have them found in special very rare "arena" maps, which would be a mostly empty area full of high level enemies and 2 to 5 "bosses" that can only be found there which you are forced to fight at once. After defeating them you would open a path to an NPC or chest with only a single item inside, which would be a random exquisite. This would make them a challenge to earn.

Collecting a large amount of them would be very time consuming and hard to do so as to discourage the trading of them for anything less than a fortune, and therefore make it harder for a player to just buy them.

Another idea is if they are traded the negative effect is increased by 20% each time, so that it is better to earn them yourself rather than buy them.

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pathofwarcraft wrote:

i give you all of the bouns points i can give plus one.
all joking aside this is a very good idea it is very strong but
same with negative that can spawn.
have you posted this on their reddit?

Thank you! I haven't posted this on their reddit. Never used reddit actually. .-.
If you or someone else can please post it there and link it back here, I'd be glad!

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Tks Tuftronic, great points there too. :- D Hopefully DEVs will read it over here.
Tks squirrel_killer, love those ideas, too! :- D I agree the drawbacks ("cursed" stat for instance) has to be great enough so people won't go around wearing all Exquisite. The rarity itself (plus the additional rarity of getting the exact piece you need — plus you cannot alter an Exquisite) should help there too.