Daily Unique upgrade rework #4: ice blink armor

General Discussion
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Once again improving the Unique based on it current stats and the Spirit of it, it’s perceived lore

From

Iceblink [Normal]

+70-80% Enhanced Defense

Freezes Target

Cold Resist +30%

Magic Damage Reduced By 1

+4 To Light Radius

To

Iceblink [Exceptional]

+150-200% Enhanced Defense

+2 cold skills

Freezes Target

Cold Resist +40%

Magic Damage Reduced By 40

+4 To Light Radius

To

Iceblink [Elite]

+200-250% Enhanced Defense

+3 cold skills

Freezes Target

Cold Resist +50%

5% chance to cast level 21 shiver Armor when struck

+4 To Light Radius

This would buff its cold thematic and give perks that interest A variety of builds

+3 cold is Unique in its kind. Cold Sorc, wind Druid bowa, claw sin would be interested

Freeze target makes it interesting for melee build

And the shiver armor makes it interesting for melee but also any other builds, it’s nice buff to have, especially for sorc that wouldn’t have to spend 3 pts to get it

As always, values# are there for demonstration purpose, it’s the affixes, mechanics & themes that are the topic

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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

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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

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Iceblink was originaly the best armor in game because it mmade you immune to cold years ago. Leave it alone!

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Ah yes… don’t buff something because it was indirectly nerfed by removing a mechanic the item was designed for

Even if it was a good armor… it’s not anymore

And it’s not like the Normal version doesn’t exist anymore, use that crappy one and don’t upgrade it if you are so adamant on it

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I wanted to do this in past and lost it in batch for all helms,allarmors but didnt have time for it.

Since you do one per day, can i post my own suggestion in your topics ?

Also i guess you want to keep doing this, why dont you go by item types? Whydo you jump from one item type into different one? Do you have some list or oder you follow and could share what will be next few?

I can post my ideas but idk if you expect that or you just want people to comment yours.

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I try to do a gear slot rotation

Shield - gloves-weapon-armor-helm-jewellery-boots

So it’s not stale and just focused on one thing

I don’t have a list, I actually do it in the morning while I feed the baby

If you want to share I have no issue, maybe ask for a specific item next and I’ll do it next day and we’ll compare within a same topic

What would you wanna see tomorrow?

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Lets start from the lowest then :slight_smile: Greyform

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Excellent, let’s think about it and come with our ideas tomorrow for the Greyform upgrade rework

Already have ideas in mind to make it truly unique haha

But in the meantime, feel free to give your ideas on Iceblink, the current topic

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Actually, while I won’t comment on this particular example, I think the idea of upgrading normal uniques all the way into Elites causing them to gain new properties is an interesting one, to say the least.

I think they could add an upping option to uniques that are already elite bases that would grant them special abilities, possibly to even match some of these runewords.

Thanks,
Floopay

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Oh yes and no

As I said in my main Upgrade suggestion post

The New upgrade recipe would be perfect to target the norm and exceptional uniques

But the drawback being that it doesn’t affect elite uniques

But they could just then Rework those

Having norm an exceptional addressed means that an already big chunk has doesn’t need direct rework

They have only 1/3 left to direct buff… more like 1/4 since a part of elite is decent

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I wouldn’t mind them giving new auras to certain armors, that are completely unique to that armor.

For Iceblink how about a party wide immunity to being frozen?

Something unique and helpful that isn’t broken and adds some flavor. Auras are nice if balanced because item charges are stupid expensive and rarely scaled to the current difficulty.

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I feel like if they are to mass rework Unique, it has to be done through the easiest means

Creating new auras for a single item, while cool, requires extra work

It could just be repurposed monsters affix that acts like an aura

For example:

Stormchaser shield with a new affix “lightning enchanted aura when equipped”

Lightning enchanted which is a monster affix that does

  • adds extra physical damage as lightning damage
  • chance to double hit
  • casts plvl charged bolt when hit
  • lightning resist
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Greyform shall increase rune drops 500% for starters.

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Here is my suggestion :slight_smile:

Iceblink Splint Mail current version
Iceblick is already good but i improved it slightly to make it better for Holy freeze paladin and also ACT Holy Freeze mercenary. Difference is new +10-20 cold damage and +2 Holy freeze aura.

Iceblink Splint Mail

  • +70-80% Enhaced Defense
  • Freezes Target
  • Cold resist 30%
  • Magic Damage reduced by 1
  • +4 Light radius
  • +2 Holy freeze
  • +10-20 Cold damage

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Iceblink Russet Armor

  • +100-120% Enhaced Defense
  • Freezes Target
  • Cold resist 50%
  • Magic Damage reduced by 3
  • +5 Light radius
  • +4 Holy freeze
  • +50-100 Cold damage

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Iceblink Balrog Skin
+120-180% Enhaced Defense
Freezes Target
Cold resist 80%
Magic Damage reduced by 6
+6 Light radius
+7 Holy freeze
Cannot be Frozen
+150-300 Cold damage

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NOTE:
Ice blink is amazing armor for normal for melee characters and mercenaries and it is still usable for Nightmare but fall off big time on Hell. So I made some improvements and I want to make Ice blink a lot more interesting and new good choice for holy freeze paladin and Holy freeze mercenary. Ice blink will have now in base version additional 10-20 Cold damage and +2 Holy freeze aura(only paladin or ACT II merc). Exceptional version will have improved stats and boost to cold damage with 50-100 and stronger Holy freeze. Elite version will have again improved stats and bigger bonus to cold damage with 150-300 cold damage and +7 Holy Freeze.