Keystone Brainstorming

Aha, point blank was a laz idea? It's hard to keep track of how much stuff of his gets GGGs eye.

Anyway I didn't think a thread like this existed, before now I just had stuff sitting in a notepad document. Here's a few things I've thought up over the past year that I would be good ideas for a possible unique but would instead work better as a keystone:

Iron Nerves (near marauder/templar)
Your armour applies to elemental damage.
You cannot deal elemental damage.

Metaphysicality (near shadow)
Attack speed increases apply to spells as cast speed.
Spells require accuracy to hit.

Mortality Acrobatics (attached to acrobatics improvement #3)
Cannot die unless on low life, removes all armour and energy shield.


There's a few more but... I can't think of good names for them. So I shan't post 'em.

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Kalidor wrote:

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BrotherLaz wrote:

Archon
Health is 0. All incoming damage is subtracted from mana instead. You die when mana hits 0.

Resurrecting some of the BrotherLaz's ideas cause they deserve to be said :)

p.s oh man the Archon keystone needed so bad! :)

I love that idea as well. Finally one could combine chaos inoculation with eldritch battery.

Chaos Specialization
All Elemental Resists Reduced by 45%. All Chaos Damage you deal is increased by 100%.

Stone Cold Glare
Enemies have a 50% chance to flee when chilled.

Blinding Light
Enemies have a 50% chance to go blind when shocked.

Complete Corruption
Corpses of enemies killed by your chaos damage have a 12% chance to become your EXTRA skeletal minion. (extra minions are allowed to exceed your minion cap)

Unique Appetite
Each Unique Item You Consume randomly increases either your Strengh, Intelligence, or Dexterity by 1.

Liking these ones

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BearCares wrote:

Complete Corruption
Corpses of enemies killed by your chaos damage have a 12% chance to become your EXTRA skeletal minion. (extra minions are allowed to exceed your minion cap)

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Wooser69 wrote:

Metaphysicality (near shadow)
Attack speed increases apply to spells as cast speed.
Spells require accuracy to hit.

Adding two more Shadow-oriented suggestions

One Good Stab
For every second spent not attacking you get a stack giving you 50% more melee damage on next attack, up to a maximum of five stacks.

Dance of Shadows
For every second you spend near enemies you get 10% more melee damage, on getting hit* all stacks are lost. Stacks have no limit.

* on block you get hit but it does no damage, so evade and dodge only.

how about put an iron will keystone near mara area, iron grip is there for strength based archers but the casters get no love :(

Mara corner is obvious, away from crit nodes so hard too scale with crit (would be too good) but then also makes sense because of strength bonus etc

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DutchRudder wrote:

how about put an iron will keystone near mara area, iron grip is there for strength based archers but the casters get no love :(

Mara corner is obvious, away from crit nodes so hard too scale with crit (would be too good) but then also makes sense because of strength bonus etc

Honestly it seems so obvious that it's easy to forget that it isn't in the game. Wonder why.

Dont know, if someone came to this idea before, but it would be nice to have keystones like this:

1. Your elemental damage penetrates 30% of enemy's resistance. You cannot inflict elemental status ailments (cannot burn, shock, chill or freeze enemies).

2. Healing from potions applies to energy shield as well. You cannot recharge or recover energy shield (normal ES recharge wont occur, as well as leech via Ghost Reaver).

3. Your potions dont stop recovery when you are on full resourse. Cannot leech.

Hi

I have suggested this keystone before and will suggest it again with a addition. This idea has developed from my belief that IR is a boring keystone and despite the nerf is still being abused by almost every class AND my love for 2h weapon usage on a evasion class character but find more often then not that this is kinda suicidal( This keystone would replace IR.

Keep in mind these are hypothetical numbers/%

Keystone: Parry: Player can block with 2h weapons 30%. Player can only wear ev,ev/es,ev/ar.

Then if player wants to continue there would be a few(2-4) increased block chance nodes 3-5% with 2h weapons(like acrobatics keystone) followed by:

Riposte: For every successful 2h block players next attack will critical.

This would encourage a number of things I am sure and think it is balanced since 2h players tend to not critical or even want to attempt a 2h evasion character. Also evasion characters need to stack there defenses so being able to block with a 2h weapon would be amazing advantage especially if your attempting 2h weapon builds with evasion.

On a side note:
MortalKombat3

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2. Healing from potions applies to energy shield as well. You cannot recharge or recover energy shield (normal ES recharge wont occur, as well as leech via Ghost Reaver).

I really like this idea after using Zealots oath I think this would be a better version of Zealots Oath with a little change though:

''Zealots Oath: Player cannot recharge ES, mana potions do not replenish mana but ES.''


cheers

Hi, guys! I have some ideas for keystones, I'll post them later for sure.

But can you tell me is there any similar "Skill Brainstorming" thread?