Item Development - Information

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Evil_Kon wrote:

hi GGG, you rock!!!
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i was wondering what will happen as you said that ice build will get some love, had hope it will be channeled ice skill
(fire has incinerate, lightning - l.tendrils)

had hope it will be some kind of icestorm - channeled around the player and damaging all nearby monsters in circular AoE, working very similiar to d3 skill sleet storm, wchich design i actually really like

but you have added THIS and amazed community again, a lot of brainstorming, wchich we really love comes with act 4 and hopefully we wont wait as long as doomsayers claim....


if you ever want to implement anything around channeled ice skill plz think about some blizzard (weather thing) skill, it would even have nice vaal version - lasts around you for few seconds:)

thx for your hardwork, hope in future i can support you even more:)

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acemcgeezseries wrote:

I fixed the item description.

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Barivius wrote:

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Arcis wrote:

why don't you just make it so the mod says "Grants the Icestorm skill" ?

Yes. Listen to this fellow. Take the level off of it. It isn't relevant anyway.

"Grants Unique Icestorm Skill"

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pneuma wrote:

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TikoXi wrote:

Also: Re all who say "but it locks the item in and that's bad, wah wah wah..."

Go play a summoner and then cry about locked items. You've got 30% of your endgame gear all worn and ready to go by level 33 usually.

Are you implying that you prefer things to stay bad or get worse? That's just contrarianism.

Calling other people 'rabid toxites' and '[Removed by Support]' just further weakens whatever point you're trying to make.

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Vhlad wrote:

I don't see 5% base crit in the image of the icestorm hotkey, but you can calculate it via:
(117+351)/2*.95+(117+351)/2*.05*1.5 = 239.85 (which matches the avg. damage). However, that calculation assumes the character has no added crit chance or crit multiplier. You'd get the same result if the spell had 4% base crit chance on a character with +12% crit multiplier from gear/passives.

And cast time in the image is 0.92 secs. We can only assume it's 1s base if we assume that the character has no added cast speed beyond the +9% given by the staff (1/1.09 = .917).

It's not impossible for the character to have stats off the tree or other gear that we don't see, but going with Occam's Razor here, GGG needed to generate an image and just made a quick purpose-built character to show it off (along with the middle-mouse-bind spoiler).

Also all the talk of it being 'based off of Firestorm' helps the implication, as well.

Overall disagree with just putting everything in a wiki. The data needs to be in the game, especially if GGG is pushing for internationalization (unless they also plan to support international wikis). They can hide it wherever they want and make it go through a bunch of indirection to reduce the initial "information blast" of identifying a tasty unique, but it can't just be nowhere to be found.

For example, if an item says it has "Conduit", at least people can look on their tree and read its description. This proposed staff description is one of the rare and should-be-avoided cases where they plan to simply let the wiki take up all the slack instead of just being a handy compiled resource.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

in this thread: too many people getting upset over absolutely nothing.