About the legendary consumable (D4)

[Lolli42-2538]

yea i think it would be a good idea to actually limit the number of effects to like 3 or 5
we still also got the mythic item

[Pyrocaine-6834]

@Garland-1186

I don’t really like it? Yeah, I know they are trying to “help” rares become as good (or with luck better) than legendaries, but I don’t really like the idea that to fix a rare you basically transform it into a legendary, I feel like that kills the difference between the types…

I still think the better solution would be to have legendaries as the better items for specific situations while rares are the more generic options, for example:

We have the same helmet in two rarities, legendary and rare, they happen to roll the same modifiers:

• Increased life;
• All resistances;
• Increased Mana recovery;

Except that while the legendary one has:

• Killing frozen enemies causes them to shatter dealing X cold damage to an area.

The rare one has:

• Faster cast rate.

It’s not clear which one is best, I might not be playing a cold based sorcerer, or maybe my choice of skills doesn’t freeze enemies enough, or maybe I’m against a boss that doesn’t have adds meaning that the effect won’t be used during the fight.

I feel like that would be sufficient to add value to rares without reducing the difference between the types.

I think your observation and suggestion is spot on. When Mr. Kim first introduced the idea in the blog it seemed awesome but what you pointed out shows that it can be problematic.

Taking a 2nd look, the legendary consumable ability somehow feels like a stand in for the kanai’s cube where you could use special abilities of legs that you find, which opened up a lot of possibilities for builds. Maybe the consumable could be relegated to a similar role so that it doesn’t overlap with the effort to find a system that keeps rares and magicals relevant ,

Maybe, in addition to what you mentioned about how rares could roll, we could also have an incremental upgrade to affixes on rares and magicals via crafting as one endgame activity. Something that isn’t easy to do, but still a worthwhile endeavor for our favorite rare items.

Maybe, we could see the return of the charms system, modified a bit so that it can support legendary ability extraction in a form of separate small inventory to place extracted legendary abilities and regular charms of old (a limited space for charms that can be carried). A hybrid of kanai’s cube and charms which could be a welcome and deep customization system.