Ethereal, Sanctified Items, and Soul Shards into core?

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Hey everyone,

I have an idea to enhance the core gameplay by incorporating Ethereal items, Sanctified items, and Soul Shards as rare drops in specific areas. Here’s how it could work:

  1. Ethereal Items: These could drop exclusively in the Visions of Enmity, adding a unique challenge (maybe special boss on the end of the vision, instead of this goblin…) and rewarding those who explore this area.

  2. Sanctified Items: These items could be obtained from the Echoing Nightmare, providing a reason to engage with this content more frequently.

  3. Soul Shards: These could be extremely rare drops from act bosses during bounties, giving players an exciting incentive to complete bounties and hunt bosses.

This approach not only keeps these powerful items in the game but also adds variety and purpose to different activities. What do you all think?

Additionally, could the developers add a Ruthless Mode? This mode would feature -90% experience, -90% magic find, and Haedrig’s Gift would give nothing. The aim is to stretch the gameplay so that it takes two weeks to drop a full set instead of just two hours.

I realize the game is in maintenance mode and new content is unlikely. However, with minimal effort, we could achieve significant changes and improvements.

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I think you answered your own question right there.

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there is always a chance :>

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You guys really want to destroy the little balance there’s left in the game?

This is a very bad idea in so many levels.

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Why don’t you just play the game? Looking at your Europe profile it doesn’t look like you play much. Not that you have to of course. But there is lots of stuff to enjoy every season… or maybe you just don’t want to play season?

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i don’t know what you’re talking about. I was playing since release in 2012, and played a lot in s1-s4. Now 1 week per year + occasionally challenges like torment 6 from fresh start in campaign etc.

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yeah but multipliers have to go down in all sets and items

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Game is shelved like two or three Seasons ago. All of these overpowered Season themes interacting with each other going to cause problems and more power creep than intended. Any “ideas” about how you can “choose your own theme” in a complex scheme in a deliberately awkward explanation doesn’t matter. None of this matter when resulted power creep could make group play become leagues better than solo. Why would they crumble Solo Self Found just a few Seasons after its debut?

All of this aside, each of these Season theme implementation still need to call additional loot tables, also different flags AND functions to be added to the character file thus bloating the data size that need to be stored. That mean server maintenance costs will increase for an unmonetized game and I can’t see Blizzard doing that any time soon.
Lastly; in case any of you claim that Blizzard coders are very sloppy and you could fit entire character save file per player in a one kilobyte long script with every loot table recall, stash size, stored items and functions; I’d encourage you to apply for a job at Blizzard or Microsoft. You are wasting your talent on forums.

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One week per year and only in campaign. Doesn’t look like you play much. I wasn’t trying to say that you’re doing something wrong. Just that you don’t play much and not in recent seasons.
And this is just from looking at your profile. maybe it shows incorrectly?

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Last updated on Feb 24, 2023 1:23 AM PST

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Unsurprisingly this thread was made by someone who barely ever plays and now thinks what would be “cool”. As if this hasn’t been seen before.

Want to experience what the Ethereals, Sanctified items and Soul Shards are like? Play seasons when they are an active theme. The Ethereals are live now.

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They won’t even add the altar or fissures to the core game. Bugger all chance for any of the other themes.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see them permanently in the game too but not be able to be used with each other so the power creep is restrained but it ain’t gonna happen.

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I suspect …

Last season I reached a plateau around p600 with all of my characters - set complete, some ancients, gems, comfy build. Did a bunch of GRs to reach my limits, hardly any upgrade found, so I casually lost motivation. All good.

I suspect the OP has reached their limits in a similar fashion and now looking to spice things up. Like the threads last season about opening up further GRs and adding more power creep, because… sense of progression I guess. It’s asking for creep fairly openly.

The one thing I’m not fond of is locking anything behind Echoing Nightmare. I still regard that one softcore-only. But the visions are also mobility-ranged-trivial-only.