[Suggestion] 2 new cube recipes

General Discussion
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  1. I have played SSF on D2 many years never had problems finding what i needed… The game is made to be this way (hard to find what you want) it makes D2 what it is and why nit has been around so long and why i still play it!!!

2.GRINDING TO THE DEATH IS D2

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Without any further explanation, I’m going to disagree.

I’m not saying the game’s itemisation is perfect though, because it’s far from it.

So I would instead suggest some other changes that would make the existing rerolling recipes less daunting:

  • Remove some (lower) affixes from higher ilvl items to improve the odds of good drops/rolls
  • Make the rerolling rares recipe use only 3 perfect skulls instead of 6 perfect skulls. Not only this instantly halves the resources needed, it will allow rerolling 4x2 rare items
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Well, explanations would be welcomed - the recipe rerolls the item completely, and is biased towards ‘worse’ affixes, that’s why I find it mediocre; at least that is what I’ve observed during grand charm reroll sessions.

Changing the recipe 6xPerfect Skull + rare item to use just 3 skulls is a good idea.

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I would say that’s intended by design and part of the end game. Short of repeatedly killing Nihlathak, rerolling grand charms is the only other way, and a much faster way of getting those high end charms with +45 life.

Even for some items that can be gambled, getting a jeweller’s diadem of speed is more efficient from a market economy perspective by rerolling them instead of gambling for them, and significantly more so if you’re trying to get a 60 defense diadem version.

The suggestion of removing some affixes from higher ilvl items would make a big impact. For example, if you assumed each affix had the same spawn frequency and if you had:

  • 100 prefixes
  • 100 suffixes
  • With a total of 10,000 combinations

Stripping out say 15% of each type of affix will change this to:

  • 85 prefixes
  • 85 suffixes
  • With a total of 7,225 combinations

For rare items, this would be even more impactful:

  • 100 prefixes
  • 99 prefixes
  • 98 prefixes
  • 100 suffixes
  • 99 suffixes
  • 98 suffixes
  • With a total of 941,288,040,000 combinations

Would change to:

  • 85 prefixes
  • 84 prefixes
  • 83 prefixes
  • 85 suffixes
  • 84 suffixes
  • 83 suffixes
  • With a total of 351,198,464,400 combinations

On the topic of rares, you can see from these numbers how needed it is to drop the rerolling rares recipe from 6 perfect skulls to 3 perfect skulls. I would even argue 2 perfect skulls would be justified.

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While in general I agree, too many useless affixes, and rare items rerolling is something completely not related to the original suggestion.

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Let’s expand on the topic of uselessness:

Anya rewards for rescuing her …

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You mean inscribe your name? You can use that to repair an ethereal item^^

By useless affixes I meant something like “Attacker takes 2 damage”, “Light radius”(that had more use in Diablo 1, both high and low value), stamina affixes, knockback on non-missile weapons etc.

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Well blizzard already has the best and smartest solution to rework that useless quest reward

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It looks interesting indeed, however that’s something entirely different to what my suggestion is about.