If you need me to explain to you the concept that the rarest items in the game should be among if not the most powerful and valuable, I don’t really know if it’s worth the effort.
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you may be right in theory. I suppose I even agree. the problem is, when was the last version of diablo 2 where the rarest items were the most powerful and valuable? that ship sailed a longggg time ago dude. the game is way more complicated now. if you were developing a game from scratch i suppose you could build it that way as you say. but you’re just not being practical, not seeing the big picture, when you’re trying to force feed this “rarest item must be most powerful” idea. anyway i’m out of this debate lol.
Let’s make this a quest reward, or a rare consumable. Don’t try a zod toggle. Thar’ll cause so much grief.
And that increases Zod’s value… How exactly?
The only thing required to increase the value of Zod/Cham (and any other HRs) is to utilize them in powerful runewords. That’s it. Obsession isn’t that runeword. It’s a toss-up between Obsession and double Spirit, let alone god-tier mainhands with a Spirit shield.
The only thing increasing Ber’s value to the point of absurdity is the fact that there are BiS items utilizing it. Enigma and Infinity alone have 3 Bers between them, and every (non-Paladin) elemental build chases an Infinity, while the vast majority of builds chase Enigma. Sprinkle in the fact that CoH and Beast are both still used and require Ber, it’s a recipe for exactly what we see now: Ber being roughly equal to 3-4 Zods.
If we got new runewords (that don’t suck) requiring Zod and Cham, we’d see their value increase. All we got in 2.4 were mediocre stats requiring the two rarest runes in the game. It’s honestly incredibly simple, and only requires a few runewords that’ll compete for BiS.
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