- Added Class items for every class and 1 jewel - I feel like Demonshorn edge and claws might be too good and I should tone it down, let me know what you think
Hello, this is my project of rebalancing/changing/improving existing unique items. The reality is that many items in game lack good quality and its basicly not worth using them. I would like to change that so I decide to work on improvements and maybe devs will use some ideas for future patches. (dont laugh).
My idea for changes was not to make every unique item epic, but to make them more usable and also match their power with rarity. Also I was changing various stats which really didnt make sense.
This is part of, first of many, only 6 items now, I plan to post few several items every few days or week. Feedback is appreatiated.
This time its changes for categories: Rings, Amulets, Circlets, Charms, Amazon class items and one claw. No change under some categories means that I didnt change anything from that category and everything stays as it was done by blizzard. If you are curious about some changes and why i made them , just ask
RINGS
Stone of Jordan
1-12 lightning damage changed to 25-50
Carrion Wind
New bonus +15 Dexterity
AMULETS
Atma’s Scarab
New +15-20% Magic find
New +10% all resist
Removed Attacker Takes Damage of 5
Charms
No changes
Circlets
No changes
AMAZON CLASS-SPECIFIC
Stoneraven
New bonus +20% Crushing blow
New bonus Repairs 1 Durability In 3 Seconds
New bonus +20 Increased attack speed
New +25-50 damage
Added 2-3 Sockets
Bloodraven’s Charge
Enhanced damage changed from 180%-230% to 250%-350%
New bonus Slow +10%
New bonus 0-50% deadly strike
New bonus +20-35% magic find
New +50-90 damage
ASSASSIN CLASS-SPECIFIC
Shadow Killer
New bonus +2 Martial arts skills
New bonus +3 Blades of Ice
New +5-15% Cold damage
New 30% chance to not consume Blade of Ice Charges
Jade Talon
New bonus +15% open Wounds
New bonus +15% Ias
New bonus +1 socket
New bonus 30% chance to not comsume Tiger Strike charges
Firelizards Talon
New bonus +2-3 Fist of Fire
New bonus +40% chance to not lose charge ups of fist of fire
New bonus +25% deadly strike
New bonus 2-3 sockets
NECROMANCER CLASS-SPECIFIC
Darkforce Spawn
New bonus +50-80 life
New bonus +25% magic find
New bonus +15-30 all resist
Boneflame
New bonus +2-3 sockets
New bonus +15% increased chance to block
BARBARIAN CLASS-SPECIFIC
Demonhorn’s Edge
Attacker takes damage removed
New bonus Crushing blow based on char level (0,375%)
New bonus +20-30 damage
New bonus Gold find +50-75%
Halaberd’s Reign
Require level changed from 77 to 84
New bonus +1-2 sockets
New bonus strength +0,5 per character level
New bonus +5-10% faster cast rate
DRUID CLASS-SPECIFIC
Cerebus’ Bite
New bonus +15-35 str
New bonus +10-20 increase attack speed
Ravenlore
New bonus +25% MF
Spirit Keeper
New bonus +2 to summoning skills
New bonus Heart of wolverine aura level lvl 5 when eqquiped,
New bonus 25% to cast amplify damage lvl 10 when struck
PALADIN CLASS-SPECIFIC
Alma Negra
New bonus +0-3 sockets
New bonus +3 to holy shield
Dragonscale
Hydra skill gains damage synergy from Holy Fire (20% per invested skill)
New bonus +25-40 all res
New bonus -15% enemy fire res
New bonus +2 paladin skills,
New bonus +3-5 Holy Fire
JEWELS
New Rainbow Facet type +5% magic damage/-5% enemy magic resistance
I like this idea of sharing positive ideas for potential item updates.
Love the Blood Raven’s Charge and Shadow Killer. Let’s not be locked into mosaic, and I like you made it specific to Blade of Ice.
Edit: Not asking for a change, but one thing I always notice when using Atma’s Scarab… is that the amp goes off when I’ve already killed the pack, or at the end of the boss’s life. Not sure if that warrants upping that chance to maybe 10%, but just a thought of mine.
Yeah i think that was really cool idea haha, sadly I cant mod that, its just text, but blizzard surely can do it.
Sure I can probably do that, should not be that extreme increase in power. I will switch pictures tomorrow. I might have set of more items tomorrow too Another 6 or something like that.
This doesn’t really move the needle for me. Highlords for the DS and IAS is so hard to beat, particularly if you’re swinging with something other than something like a phase blade.
My suggestion:
increase amp dmg proc from 5% to 10%
change 20% bonus to AR to flat AR, 300-500 AR would be a first suggestion but i could talked into more or less AR.
Don’t mind the dex but can we remove some of these silly chance to proc skills and put something on there that is useful. I know they might of been more useful prior to synergies but now they don’t add anything. I think at the very least the level of the skill should be increased. In this case twister and poison nova to 20 could be interesting if used on a necro or druid.
I like this and have made similar suggestions in other topics for shadow killer. I’d also like to see this same thought applied to firelizard talons. It could include minus to enemy fire resistances rather than damage.
That being said I don’t like the chance not to consume charge on shadow killer, however if we have to keep this mechanic, I do like how it only applies to blades of lce.
I love this, like a LOT. Would be really really nice for a Dragon Tail build. A nice variable -10% to -20% enemy fire resist would be super nice. A free extra socket would also be welcome. I would love to see some unique items have more sockets since runewords really make most obsolete.
Thx i am glad people like it and it give me reason to continue with this
I wish i could do that.
I was thinking aboit it but soj is already amazing as it is, i just wanted that dmg to make slightly more sense considering its lvl 29.
I wasnt trying to match highlords. Its not about having all amulets on similar power. Its fragile balance and i want to avoid making every item too good. Its fine that its worse amulet than highlords
But yeah i might do this today and improve it like that.
I was thinking about it but when i was searching, i found some people who made use of these in their builds so i wanted to avoid removing it.
Whats your opinion of firelizards? Should i make it exclusive to fire trap assa? Or try to make it also good for MA fist of fire?
I didnt make it to barbarian items yet thx for tip btw.
Mee too.
anyway guys, i am happy to announce that i started working on next set of uniques, if i will have time i will be posting rest of claws and then finish all other class specific category items in next 24 hours
If anyone has some ideas for barb,paladin, sorceress,assasin, necro and druid class items, go for it and i might implement it.
Oh yeah that’s fair enough. I guess my suggestions were more with end game in mind. I agree we need to make sure not everything is on a similar power level but it would be nice for melee builds to have more than one amulet option in the end game.
Ideally I’d like it used for both fire traps and MA however there is this item called mosaic which you may have heard of? It Completely removes any reason for this to be used for a MA sin unfortunately.
Assuming Mosaic is here to stay I would remove the current skills on firelizard and replace with either +3 to traps or +2 assassins skills and +1 traps as well as add minus 10-15% to enemy fire resists (possibly up to minus 20%)
Would need some testing to tweak the skills as necessary but I think the 10-15 enemy fire resistances is a must.
Awesome, look forward to seeing what you come up with. One suggestion I might add to this is when modifying anything relating to AR bonuses I think we should move towards flat AR increases over % increases.
My changes i am posting are basicly parts of bigger concept/project where i bring all my changes from various aspects of game together so for me is problem of mosaic not that hot topic as i will be dealing with it too eventualy.
Any melee class who finds the ring early, on diablo normal for example
Which is an equivalent to completely useless. 99,9% of ring users are in end game. The guys finding it earlier on are probably rushed to hell within 2 hours.
Changes i am making are not just for end game so i do care for both,end game and early game. Not every item need everything on them matching end game power level.
