an alternative to Ashes of the Stars

with the introduction of Ashes of the Stars a lot of gems with interesting quality bonus started to see some use but now that they are super rare and expensive the viability of those builds has gone down the drain.

so i wanted to suggest alternative options to make quality more accesible.


Dialla's Malefaction
a truly unique item that currently goes for scraps, a big buff to the quality gain on green sockets would be realy helpfull.



pillar of the caged god int mod
after GGG reworked the AOE mechanics this mod has not aged well, 1% increased aoe is simply bad in the current state of the game so i suggest to change it to 1% increased quality of all skill gems every 35 int.

One of the problems that I've run into on occasion is that some uniques will be the only item with multiple special attributes.

Ashes is such a weird item because it has a generic +1 to skills levels mod, that's not a big deal.

It has gem +experience, special but not build enabling.

But it also is an amulet with a large reservation reduction, better than influenced amulets. If you want to max out on auras then this item is mandatory.

And it also is the ONLY source of +quality to all skill gems.

So now a build that just needs a ton of auras is competing with builds that just need + alt quality, and both of those builds are competing with everyone who wants both for whatever reason even if it isn't critical.

The supply is limited and the utility to many players is negligible but it ends up BIS for a few builds and that means almost nobody gets to use it for fun.