go away with your terrible ideas. Remaster can have changes.
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Choice of recipe for unsocketing: Keep the Hel recipe that discards the runes/jewels and keeps the items, but new recipe that has a chance (25% per?) to preserve the runes/jewels at the cost of breaking the item they were in (at least down to low quality, if not destroyed)
Agree and also… the launch was the remaster, further updates are remake
So one doesn’t exclude the other
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While I agree to improve upon existing items before adding news ones. I am not sold on your last line part that is quoted below.
So the only way to make all other quality of items compete is to be able to transform them into rune words. I don’t think that players would love that idea of using rune words to make those qualities usable. Because you would still have a rune word in those slots.
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We are talking about a very marginal quantity of Unique items that have enough sockets to have runewords
But also, this system remove the competition between runewords and Unique/rare/magic… it makes them complementary
It’s makes those items way more interesting since they now can be used, they aren’t in competition with an op runeword
It’s not a OR anymore it’s AND
What I’m tired of is people who obviously do not like D2R, constantly making new posts everyday about how the game should change into something it was never meant to be, instead of just picking a different game to play that is more about what they like. OP has made so many posts for changes at this point if he got his way the game would be nothing like current D2.
I really feel that some players should just learn the game a little more, try different builds, and you will see that almost all of the items are very useful in different situations and setups.
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That’s what people like you don’t have the mental capacity to comprehend
It’s not because you want to improve something that you don’t like it
I love Diablo 1 but Diablo 2 is a major improvement … so does that mean that I in fact dislike Diablo 1?
Why would I play completely different game when what I want is to play Diablo 2 with improvements
Why would I dump a girlfriend I love with my soul just because she has bad breath when I can express my interest and help her improving that situation and becoming a better person as a whole just because some creep likes this flaw of hers
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Diablo 1, 2, and 3 are all from the past, so by your example its not a current girlfriend but an old girlfriend who has moved on and is now with someone else. You want the new girlfriend (Diablo 4) which will have a lot of new things along with old things and changes to existing things. What you are trying to accomplish is getting that old girlfriend to change how she is because you want to date her again , but you fail to realize she has moved on and the guy she currently is dating loves her the way she is.
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I agree that almost every unique item and most sets could use some minor tweaking to make them compete with other items.
- Little more hard to swallow for purists, Allow ruenwords to be made in all Item rarity but at a greatly reduced efficacy. White=100%,Magic= 70%, Rare =50%, unique/set= 30%(always rounding down). That way original runewords stay super strong, but runewords dont invalidate magic/rare/unique/set items anymore, ie: Make a Lore in your Alder helm, Make a Fury in your Eth Hone Sundan Yari, make a Leaf in a magic +3 tree+3skill staff
How exactly do you reduce the effectiveness of +1 Teleport by 70%, 50%, etc? How do you reduce the effectiveness of +All Skills? These are just a few examples of why this idea wouldn’t work. Also, only a few Unique and Set Items can have more than 1 socket.
However, I do think the Unique Ettin Axe called Rune Master should have allowed rune words to be made in it…
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Again to make the other quality items usable they must be a rune word. Don’t you see how that goes against what we would want. Why change the name of an item to a rune word just to make it usable. That doesn’t make sense. There are no doubt better ways of making them usable without needing to turn them into the rune words that would help them to be usable. Besides what about using some rares and blues as bases for eth Zod items. I am sure that with the right jewels you might have a really powerful item.
But these suggestions are going further than that. You are wanting us to do the equivalent of dumping the GF we have in order to get a new one. You just cannot see what those changes would do.
Are you serious, trolling or just dumb?
Enigma
+2 To All Skills
+45% Faster Run/Walk
+1 To Teleport
+750-775
+(0.75 Per Character Level) +0-74 To Strength
Increase Maximum [Life] 5%
Damage Reduced By 8%
+14 Life After Each Kill
15% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+(1 Per Character Level) +1-99% Better Chance of Getting [Magic Items (Based On Character Level)
Enigma in a Griswold plate(*0.3)
+1 To All Skills
+0 to teleport
+14% Faster Run/Walk
+225-233
+(0.225) Per Character Level) +0-22 To Strength
Increase Maximum [Life] 2%
Damage Reduced By 2%
+4 Life After Each Kill
5 Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+(0.3Per Character Level) +1-33%Better Chance of Getting [Magic Items (Based On Character Level)
+150 Defense
Requirements -12%
+6 to Strength
+1 to Defensive Auras (Paladin Only)
Socketed (3)
Are you serious, trolling or just dumb?
So, you’re suggesting that the +1 Teleport, the reason why people want this rune word more than anything else on it, would not be affected by this 70/50/30 rule?
Hard Pass!
Why wouldn’t it be affected?
Where did I say it’s not affected by it?
1*0,3=0,3… therefor 0
If you aren’t happy that your Set item doesn’t get teleport from enigma, just make it in a rare/magic/white item
Why wouldn’t it be affected?
1*0,3=0,3… therefor 0
It doesn’t really matter because nobody would make it in Griswald’s Heart, or Black Hades anyway… besides magical items, these would be the only two items it could be made in since Rare Items cannot have 3 sockets, and no other Unique/Set armor comes with 3 sockets. So…really…what is the point of this suggestion?
Where did I say that this suggestion is limited to armors?
Where did I say this suggestion is gonna make ALL unique/set better?
It’s a situational perk… oh this unique/set has sockets, congrats you can make a runeword in it, it’s flavour man
Are griswold armor and black hades used… pretty much not, does the ability of making runewords in them increase the odds of them being used… most likely yes… so it’s an improvement
How often do you see somebody using a magical weapon? Pretty much never. Would the odds of seeing it increase if people can craft a Oath in it… pretty likely yes
Damn people are degenerates sometimes
It’s a situational perk… oh this unique/set has sockets, congrats you can make a runeword in it, it’s flavour man
But, if you just make it in a White item, it will be better, even with the unique item’s properties. The white item’s version will be better. Same with Griswald set. Even if the set gave +1 Teleport, using the top-tier gear will be better.
Are griswold armor and black hades used… pretty much not, does the ability of making runewords in them increase the odds of them being used… most likely yes… so it’s an improvement
No. It would not increase the odds of people using them. People who have the wealth to make Enigma wouldn’t be doing it for a 30% Enigma in Griswald Armor.
How often do you see somebody using a magical weapon? Pretty much never. Would the odds of seeing it increase if people can craft a Oath in it… pretty likely yes
Rarely, because good ones are rarer than the rarest runes. Like, the best Lightning Sorc weapon in the game is a Powered [Orb] of the Magus with +3 Chain Lightning, +3 Lightning, and +3 Lightning Mastery with 2 Sockets and 2 Lightning Facets. Similar for a Trapsin, but because these things are rare, you will most likely never see a normal player using them.
And what Magic Armor would you make Enigma in? Artisan’s [Armor] of What? What Suffix would be worth losing 30% of Enigma’s stats for?
Damn people are degenerates sometimes
Just because I would rather see things that make sense instead of quirky stuff that doesn’t make any sense, makes me a degenerate? 
Lol when you exception to magical weapons aren’t really weapon but actually just stat sticks haha
Also, more options if people want to build a runeword in a white item and get 100% of its effect or build it with reduced effect. Who are you to decided that a mechanic shouldn’t exist because it doesn’t fit with your narrative of what is optimal?
Pretty sure people would be happy to wear full griswold set
- weapon: oath
- shield: sanctuary
- armor: duress
- helm: Lore
Also why are you so obsessed with enigma
There are tons of runewords that would happily benefit from being made in a magic/rare/Unique/set item beside your crappy enigma
It’s not because you are limited in what your brain can conceive that it’s true for the concept
Also why are you so obsessed with enigma
I used it as an example. You’re the one who ran with it. LOL!
There are tons of runewords that would happily benefit from being made in a magic/rare/Unique/set item beside your crappy enigma
Name one. Give an example.
Nobody would make this item. Though Runewords in magical items/uniques/sets would be interesting, but honestly probably too powerful. It would have to be limited in some way, but 1/3 stats doesn’t work.
Perhaps just uniques and sets.
EDIT: Black Hades Enigma isn’t too bad, but Rune Master Grief? YIKES! 
Beast runemaster
Leaf in a +6 staff
Lore in a crown of ages
Dream in a headhunter glory
Strength in a rare Eth fool CB
Duress in a black hades
Phoenix in a Jmod
Fortitude in a jeweller archon plate of the whale
You might want to have a word with IIell because he’s against the mechanic because he’s claiming the opposite of you lol he’s saying that nobody would use this mechanic because runeword in a white item is always better