Tiamat rebuke[Exceptional]:
+140-200 % Enhanced Defense
Adds 27-53 Cold Damage - 6 Second Duration
Adds 35-95 Fire Damage
Adds 1-120 Lightning Damage
3% Chance To Cast Level 6 Hydra When Struck
5% Chance To Cast Level 7 Nova When Struck
5% Chance To Cast Level 9 Frost Nova When Struck
All Resistances +25-35 %
Tiamat rebuke[Elite]:
+140-200 % Enhanced Defense
Adds 108-212 Cold Damage - 6 Second Duration
Adds 140-380 Fire Damage
Adds 1-480 Lightning Damage
12% Chance To Cast Level 24 Hydra When Struck
20% Chance To Cast Level 28 Nova When Struck
20% Chance To Cast Level 36 Frost Nova When Struck
All Resistances +25-35 %
If you want a certain Unique to be reworked through the upgrade system, please share which one, it’ll be fun to thinker on how to make it more interesting and endgame viable
Recap on what the Unique upgrade rework is:
Lore wise, there is no such thing as norm/nm/hell as much as normal/exceptional/elite. Everything is on the same tier, so it makes sense that if there is an elite version of Death web there is an elite version of Ice blink with hell capabilities
and set that can be upgrade now have alternate versions
Meaning a Normal Unique now has a Exceptional and elite version
Tldr: Hell is the real difficulty, norm and NM are tuned down difficulty to train and progress. Your character when you first spawn in hell A1 is the start of the real story. Meaning all previous tiers, norm& exceptional, are tuned down. Upgrade recipe allows them to gain back their true nature
Your version is too OP imo, skill levels are too high. Make it level 13 hydra, 20 nova, and 27 frost nova, and okay. Already is a good shield as it is, then you buff the elemental damages which is fine, then you buff the chance to cast which is fine, but having the skills so high on top of all that is too much imo.
I don’t think they are too high
Why?
Because they don’t have synergies
Most ctc are garbage because they are unsynergize and too low of a level to compensate their lack of synergies
Meaning that a lvl 13 hydra does 95-113… which is nothing
Which is the equivalent of a lvl 6 synergized hydra
Lvl24 Hydra is pretty much your lvl13 but synergized
Then comes the point where it can be used by a sorc that has the synergies to go with those higher skill lvl triggers… they are “on struck” which isn’t a natural position for a sorc to abuse
If somebody want to maximize them, all merits to them for making a “hit me” sorc build
Yes, I realize they wont have synergies.
They are still too high. Especially at that CTC%. And the buffed elemental damages. The shield is already good now and used as a weapon swap option along with something like Gimmershred to deal with physical immunes on a physical zealot for example. You would make it far too powerful with your proposed changes. That’s why I’m here to rein your ideas in to a more realistic and more balanced value.
I respect your opinion but you are bringing it through the bias of a Fanatic of the game, which is all to your credit
Somebody that see good in everything the game has to offer
This isn’t the reality for the majority
Tiamat is a meh shield
You ask to the playerbase if they’d use it as an endgame shield and pretty sure 99.99% of people would say not
Being decent for a very fringe bad build doesn’t excuse it for being bad for the rest of the build selection
That’s the goal of this unique upgrade rework system, upgrade them to have a little touch of something interesting to make them usable endgame for more than 1 memebuild
Well one thing that should be considered is base stats upgrading with base item. Upgrading to elite should upgrade the base stats imo especially for set upgrades.
Tiamats is actually pretty decent. Usually my go to shield on a zealer until a hoz. And as mentioned, is good on swap for dealing with physical immunity
Yeah. upgrade recipe has been useless for 90% of items if not more because it only upgrade the base item while the affixes get stuck in norm