Improve "Equipped Animated Guardian drops item on death"

There are some problems with this master craft.

1. It's overpriced. At 8C, it costs more to craft onto a chest than almost every non-unique unlinked chest is worth. Since the craft is a prefix, we're looking for chests that only have two prefixes. The suffixes aren't a huge deal, since resists are trivially easy to cap between the default resists, incidental jewels, the minion resist node, and all assorted gear.

Here's an example of a 3C chest I found which is just about as good as it gets. You can get chests that are easily good enough to use for next to nothing, though.



The current price would be okay if not for the fact that...

2. The payoff is way too small. If this craft made all the Guardian's items drop, that would be awesome and definitely worth the crafting cost. It would still be an inconvenience to rebuild the Guardian, especially since it presumably dropped next to something that just killed the tankiest minion you're running, but saving the cost and time of buying new gear is hardly gamebreaking. Even people just running the Guardian for a small damage/curse boost are at least giving up some number of gem slots to do so. I don't think this would push the power level of this craft anywhere near Blood Magic or +2 weapon range, but it would easily move it into the usable category.

It seems like the basic idea of this chest is to keep using it over and over again while your Guardian repeatedly dies. You keep the chest and only have to replace every single other item the Guardian was wearing. I don't imagine there are many people running builds with a Guardian that allow the Guardian to die in any but the most extreme circumstances, though.

I like Animate Guardian. I like the idea of a master craft to make it suck a bit less. This one's just not cutting it, though. It's terrible in its current state and could stand to be improved.
Last bumped on Apr 27, 2016, 10:11:01 PM
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