Well He aint wrong. Say You want to play an Amazon with a Windforce with a Nef Rune. Good luck getting both of those in the 1st year of playing.
They showed us a concept, the power is determined by tweaking numbers, so I donât think thatâs relevant to talk about balance at this point (no matter I also suspect that theyâll be less powerful).
My gripe is that the only similarity is that âtheyâre socketablesâ but for the rest, the system is completely different. For example, in D3 they wanted to reintroduce the D2 cube, they iterated it, and itâs fine, itâs an evoultion of the previous, no matter whether you prefer the old or the new one (thatâs up of everyoneâs taste). They also figured a completely new system for socketables, they named it âlegendary gemsâ, and itâs also completely fine. But I still donât get why theyâve taken a completely different system and skinned it as runewords. Itâs not a new iteration of the previous one but something that has no relation with it.
So, back on track, D2 ethereals were a very attractive concept which had a lot of flaws, they had a lot of room for improvement, so that was what they could do. For example, ethereal belts or boots were a nonsense, as they couldnât neither be given to mercs (items on mercs didnât lose durability), nor socket a Zod rune, as they werenât able to get sockets (a Zod rune turned an item into indestructible). Horrible merc balance also helped with that, as whatever ethereal item that could be useful for A1, A3 or A5 mercs was irrelevant as the only viable merc was the A2 one. They had a chance to iterate and make a similar system without all those flaws. Example: ethereals canât be repaired, but when the item loses all durability, it turns into a non-eth one, losing the extra power from being eth forever, but being able to be repaired as a regular legendary⌠Or whatever, this is the first dumb idea that crossed my mind, but I believe that it should be something that really makes that to look like a sucessor of the previous system. If It doesnât resemble it, no sense to randomly drop that name.
While I like the ode to D2. IMO this is not what ethereals are or should be. What made these God teir Runewords so valuable is the trading. I donât really want to fish and maybe get lucky or maybe not.
To those who say this doesnât shake up build viability. Maybe wait for PTR and see. We donât even know what the legendary/passive combos are or the base stats - if itâs true to D2 150% base damage on ethereals. That alone can change builds⌠letâs not jump to conclusions on whether or not they are playable.
The big issue here is the implementation atm. No one wants to fish for something they canât keep, this is like Dungeon Mastery 2.0. The devs shouldâve known it wasnât going to be well receivedâŚ
Agree.
Idea: 10/10.
Execution: 0/10
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Iâm a fan of it, Iâll likely be playing S24 just to collect them.
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Just to lose all of them at the end of the season, that will be fun.
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I play Strength in NA, Intelligence in EU and Dexterity in Asia, so the collect them all from 7 classes to keep transmorg is not working for me.
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Well it is honouring D2, thatâs pretty much what happens.
I dunno maybe I can collect enough to get the transmogs, then they get to live in my heart.
For me, anything that goes to standard is sort of lost anyway as I only really pop in for seasonal play.
They already did that itâs called D2R.
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They can do this too, some people might not be interested in D2R but might want that seasonal chase feeling thatâs not really in D3.
Itâs not going to be for everyone but I think the legacy team is pretty small so they can only do a little on D3 these days.
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Sure. I have not played a non seasonal character since seasons started pretty much.
I figured the ethereal items were there to make that pair of shoulders useful or something, at least with emenate. Unfortunately, if they dont make them either normal dura, indestructible or have their own type of repairing, it would effectively make them useless. I think they should have made it to where you needed a cube recipe to repair them. At least that way it works KINDA the same. Perhaps a singular enchantment you can add where it restores 1 durability every 33 seconds or whatever that D2 did.
My first impressions are, that the devs just went full tropic thunder.
And so did youâŚ
Like I said⌠full tropic thunderâŚ
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Since the items disappear at the end of the season, thatâs the âEtherealâ part.
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Let me guess, the first time you watched that movie was yesterday?
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What a joke . So UE Demon Hunter as an example requires Dawn in Cube and the UE bow to work. So if I was to magically change this to an Ethereal Weopon I risk loosing an affix for a ethereal one which could just ruin my build.
I honestly donât think the Devs thought about the impact of this at all. Another Joke Seasonal of get Guardian and leave
no ⌠i assure you, they have no idea what even diablo3 is.
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hahahahahahahahahaha sorry !!! but that is so realistic.
Seem like it be a weapon affix so it can roll dawn affix. In other words u can most likely drop it.
âEach Ethereal has fixed affixes and rolls one random Legendary Weapon power and one random Class Passive Skill.â
If its a amu for DH u can just drop squirt and have free weapon slot in cube. Or if its something else u can use RoRG and drop whatever it is. Also LoD rapid fire.
I know it says weapon-type. But doubt they mean only weapons. We will see though
âPowerful affixesâ
This leads me to think they will be primal stats on steroids, they already know they need to be useful.
Bottom line, the fact that these items can roll so random, and yet be so powerful is really enticing to me.
Out of all season themes, this is the one that they need to perfect and bring into the game. ARPGâs are about loot hunts, hunting for various combinations of items and passives would add a lot of excitement back into the game, I know for certain it would have me wanting to play every class again and put in hundreds of hours getting the right variants for all the builds I want to play.
I am legit excited about this, and I really hope they listen to our feedback, having an additional loot hunt is AMAZING!!!
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