New Unique Gloves: Stubborn Grip

"STUBBORN GRIP" (Titan Gauntlets):
Requires level 69 and 98 strength

(Base armour: 210)

+2% to maximum block chance
5% block chance
10% of block chance applied to spells

+(50 to 75) energy shield gained when you block
10% chance to remove all curses on you when you block*

Your total armour can never exceed 1000**

*[EDIT: used to be 25% in the original post]
**[EDIT: used to be "Curses on you have infinite duration" in the original post]

Interesting idea you have here. I like it, but let me just point out some things.


+2% to maximum block chance - there are already a few +% maximum block chance items. with this one, the maximum block chance just keeps getting higher. not saying it's bad, but it might be a no-go for the sake of balance.

+(50 to 75) energy shield gained when you block - this is nearly 1% energy shield per block if you have 5k energy shield, maybe tone it down a bit?

25% chance to remove all curses on you when you block - you're going to be a blocking machine, as long as there are things to fight, you'll never have a curse active more more than a split second, i suggest drastically lowering the chance. 10% sounds much better.


Still an interesting idea though. I like to see other people's Unique Gear ideas.

As far as I know there is only The Anvil giving +3% maximum block chance, so the maximum you could get is 80% which is really nice but not an immense difference with the standard 75%. On top of this, The Anvil and Stubborn Grip don't combine their +life/+energy shield on block well, because very few builds are hybrid life/ES.

The Anvil gives +30-40 life which is not overpowered as I have tested in the past. +50-75 energy shield seems acceptable, because ES based characters have much more ES then life characters have life, which is necessary because ES characters lack armour/evasion/dodge. So relatively speaking, 50-75 energy shield is on the same level as 30-40 life. They both correspond to around 1%.

I can agree with your last point though. A blocking character blocks a lot so 25% chance to remove curses will almost equal immunity to curses. Let's make it your 10%!

I do appreciate your effort of argumented critique!

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aleksandros wrote:

+(50 to 75) energy shield gained when you block - this is nearly 1% energy shield per block if you have 5k energy shield, maybe tone it down a bit?

aegis aurora

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fsg wrote:

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aleksandros wrote:

+(50 to 75) energy shield gained when you block - this is nearly 1% energy shield per block if you have 5k energy shield, maybe tone it down a bit?

aegis aurora

that was my point. they would stack together, providing quite a bit of Energy Shield recharge from blocking.

I forgot about stacking this with the aegis aurora, and you're right now I think about it: the two combined make for an overpowered combo: insane block with insane ES regeneration.

So I changed the drawback of curses lasting forever to limiting armour to 1000 maximum. The curse drawback was not big enough anyway, because you can remove any curse with a potion always, but the restriction on armour makes the aegis aurora lose a lot of its value for this build, hence they will not be used in conjunction with eachother.

Keep on commenting, the result will be an interesting well-balanced item for us block-lovers!