Some predetermined Affixes on some Legendaries should really roll as an extra 5’th Primary Affix, instead of taking away one space of the 4 standard Primary Affixes.
For The Ess of Johan this would mean that it now could roll with…
- %Elemental Damage
- Critical Hit Damage
- Critical Hit Chance
- Socket
… in addition to the predetermined Cooldown Reduction.
I think that would be fair since there still would be much better Legendary Amulets out there and also because The Flavor of Time will be the BiS Amulet for Followers (in most of the content) in the next patch.
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I’ve always used them on my follower. You are right, there will be much better options now with all the new changes to the followers. Not sure the Ess of Johan has a future though. Maybe in group play to pull enemies toward you? Then it wouldn’t matter about the rolls too much.
Nice one. It would be so nice to be able to have elemental% on this too, it’s my favorite amulet and it will be sad to replace it on the follower with the FoT fishing amulet just because it might take me higher
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It is not useless. Its worth 15 souls.
If CDR would always be an extra 5th affix and maybe the Legendary Affix would give you xx% increased damage against enemies while they are slowed by by the effect of the pull from the amulet, it would be a lot nicer, even if it is just 100-150% increased damage during the slow (which doesn’t trigger too often).
I am not sure if that effect should emanate or not, or if also should buff your damage when it triggers from the follower, dunno.
At least it would be nice for some players who might like it.
Squirts still would be much better due to it giving more consistent damage.
I thought it might be interesting to have it a viable amulet fot your character and not just for the Follower.