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https://i.ibb.co/7bv8ScR/exalted-items-4.png
Summary: Any skill can now deal damage at high level, solely based on itemization.
Bonus
- New item type: Exalted (violet).
- Exalted items roll very powerful affixes (Ex: +400% damage to all skills and +1000% to rune X).
- Equipped with 13 Exalted items, an Exalted aura increases all your damage by 0.1% per Parangon Level.
Malus (Reset Balance)
- Equipped with any Exalted item, any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage.
- Equipped with any Exalted item, any set power or non-emanated legendary power is inactive.
Also
- Your first Seasonal Challenge Rift opened grants you an Exalted item (per Class).
- Your first Seasonal Greater Rift Level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 grants you an Exalted item (per Class).
- Your first Seasonal Greater Rift Level 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 grants you an Ancient Exalted item (per Class).
- Your first Seasonal Greater Rift Level 110, 120, 130, 140, 150 grants you a Primal Exalted item (per Class).
- Exalted items are account bound and can only be dropped by monsters, chests, and destructibles, but do not require your character to be level 70 to drop.
- Exalted items cannot be acquired through Kanai’s Cube, the Blacksmith or from Kadala.
- Exalted items rarity drop rate is set between Ancient and Primal items.
- Exalted items are dyed in violet and have violet visual effects.
- Exalted items transmogrifications are unavailable from the Mystic.
- Exalted items can be Augmented, Transmogrified, Dyed.
- Exalted items cannot be Enchanted, Reforged, Traded, or pierced through Ramaladni’s Gift.
- Exalted items can be equipped at level 1 and are always identified.
- Exalted items can be equipped by followers (“all skills” empowers followers. They have their own aura).
- Exalted items do not emanate.
- Exalted items always roll [1 - 3] empty sockets if they are weapons or off-hands.
- Exalted items always ignore durability loss.
- Exalted items always roll [2% - 7%] Damage reduction.
- Exalted items always roll a Tiers 1 Damage increase.
- Exalted items always roll a Tiers 2 Damage increase (different type from Tiers 1).
- Exalted items can roll a Passive Class Skill if they rolled any class specific affix.
- Exalted items can roll a second Passive Class Skill if they are a two-handed weapon.
- Exalted items bonuses and passive skills are summarized in your character sheet.
- Exalted items can be shared among classes if they roll non-class specific affixes.
- Exalted items have their own leaderboard.
- Exalted items only drop in Seasonal play.
- Exalted items will transfer to your non-seasonal character when the season ends.
Inspiration
- D3 S24 Etherals, but without class legendary powers, without Ethereal power
- Last Epoch T6-T7 Exalted items :
https://tinyurl.com/zt38jfe5
(No legendary power)
Aura concepts
- Without Exalted Aura:
https://i.ibb.co/MCQzZz1/without-exalted-aura.png
- With Exalted Aura (Triune of Love) :
https://i.ibb.co/zFD2p6Z/with-exalted-aura.png
- With Exalted Aura (SSJ Light Violet) :
https://i.ibb.co/dgvkKv7/with-exalted-aura-2.png
- With Exalted Aura (SSJ Dark Violet) :
https://i.ibb.co/R7VN80p/with-exalted-aura-3.png
Rolled Skill Damage
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| + XXX % Damage to | Tiers 1 | Tiers 2 | Rarity |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Thorns | [100% - 200%] | [50% - 100%] | Rare |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| All skills | [200% - 400%] | [100% - 200%] | Very Frequent |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Wizard / Barbarian / ... skills | [200% - 400%] | [100% - 200%] | Frequent |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Primary / Secondary / ... skills | [400% - 600%] | [200% - 300%] | Frequent |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Skill X | [600% - 800%] | [300% - 400%] | Rare |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Rune X | [800% - 1000%] | [400% - 500%] | Very Rare |
+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
- These numbers are designed for Ancien items.
- Normal and Primal quality will affect these numbers.
- These numbers are doubled for two-handed weapons.
- Any skill doing damage is now viable at high level, solely depending on your loot.
FAQ
Q: Can I mix legendary items with Exalted items ?
A: Yes, but:
- Any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage
- Any non-emanated legendary power is inactive
- Any equipped legendary item deactivates the Exalted Aura
Q: Can I mix Legacy of Nightmare or Legacy of Dreams with Exalted items ?
A: Yes, but:
- Any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage
- Any non-emanated legendary power is inactive
- Any equipped legendary item deactivates the Exalted Aura
- Any equipped Exalted item substracts 750% Damage from LoN / LoD (Exalted items have no legendary power, so they do not qualify for LoN / LoD)
Q: Can I mix Set items with Exalted items ?
A: Yes, but:
- Any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage
- Any set power is inactive
- Any equipped set item deactivates the Exalted Aura
Q: Why do you allow mixing LoN / LoD with Exalted items ?
A: LoN / LoD have a consistant and granular power increase. It can be balanced with minimal adaptations. You cannot get the Exalted aura if you equip any Legendary item, and any equipped Exalted items results in a loss of 750% Damage from the LoN / LoD perspective (Exalted items have no legendary power, so they do not qualify for LoN / LoD), and any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage. It is fair and balanced.
Q: Why equipping Exalted items makes Sets powers inactive ?
A: Sets are very different from to another. For example, Shadow’s Mantle 2p increases your damage by 6000% (with only 2 pieces !), while Inarius 6p increases your damage by 10,000%. There is currently no solution to balance these differences. This is why Set powers are deactivated. In addition, the objective of this proposal is to free players from manually, pre-conceived builds like Sets.
Q: Why equipping Exalted items makes Legendary powers inactive ?
A: For the same reason that equipping Exalted items makes Sets powers inactive. See answer above.
Q: Why skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage ?
A: Your skill damage multiplier, runed or not, increases your weapon damage. The goal of this proposal is to make any skill usable in end-game with Exalted items. As a prerequisite, we need to flatten all the skill damage multipliers, so all skills are more or less equal in terms of raw damage output (but the side effects will remain). This is why, equipped with any Exalted item, any skill damage multiplier is now 100% weapon damage. Of course, damage multipliers from other sources like Exalted items still apply on skills and buff them. For more information on skill damage, feel free to read https://maxroll.gg/resources/damage-multipliers-thorns-explained#skill-damage
https://tinyurl.com/hrf45ym7
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NB: In early iterations ( https://i.ibb.co/cC387kk/exalted-items.png
), Exalted items were rolling class legendary powers, but after exchanging with the community, it appears that orientation does not meet the goal to liberate players from pre-conceived builds. In order to free creativity and improve build diversity, we had to remove legendary powers, limit the skill damage multiplier to 100% weapon damage, so any skill and rune is now somehow equal to another, and only itemization you loot will decide which is the strongest. To compensate, rolled skill damage on Exalted items has been greatly increased, up to 1000% if rolled on a rune, and you can now roll Tiers 1 and Tiers 2 Damage increase affixes. These powerful modifications make Exalted items carry immense power on their own. The Exalted Aura has also been adapted to gradually increase your power by 0.1% per Parangon Level (Ex: Parangon 300 gives you 30% increased damage, Parangon 500 gives you 50% increased damage).