The seasonal forgotten altar NMD affix has highlighted the fact that having only 2 boon affixes, gold and experience, are boring and inadequate.
The most obvious boon affix for Blizz to add would be an obducite bonus earn. While I’m at it, the NMD events (cursed shrines, injured adventurer, etc.) should be an obducite-o-rama, but they sadly are not.
The other NMD sigil boon affix that should be added is an awakened glyphstone without a fail chance, with 1 point for each torment level difficulty, so as to take some pressure and monotony off the pit.
PS–bring back the 15% XP well (working) while your at it, Blizz.
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I agree nmds are in a weird spot. Not sure if that would make them interesting, but it is something at least ^^
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I really do hope there’s a plan for these. They went from being both the end game challenge and the way to get better gear and glyph upgrades to being…a place you can go to get obducite if you’re out of compasses and tributes.
They barely feel different than regular dungeons as far as monster difficulty, and I really don’t even notice the banes, to be honest. I only run them if I am trying to do whispers and I have a sigil for a whisper dungeon, which is a pain to check anyway.
It’s like they spread out what made NMDs purposeful to other end game activities and forgot to leave anything of note behind.
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yea. i mean its a huge part of the game in theory, with like what? 180 dungeons? considering how much that is they really dont feel like they got their proper identity in the game loop.
Id even go as far as to say that they shouldnt add other endgame content, and focus on whats there.
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I was doing one the other day and the Butcher spawned and the only thought I had was “oh yeah, this was a thing” and he was basically dead before I finished that thought.
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Additional boon affixes for NMD is a great idea. I like the glyph stone idea too. Maybe some more like:
Gemstone mine: elites drop gem fragments in addition to normal drops.
Hall of the Ancestors: Guaranteed Ancestral upon completion of dungeon. Chances for multiple GA Ancestrals increased.
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The entire system needs to be turned into a more-or-less lifted version of PoE maps, but for some reason they just won’t do it. 
add in tiers for NMD. Let me run a really hard dungeon equal to that of a high level pitt
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I have made this suggestion where NMDs have a higher chance to drop certain equipment types. It seems easy to add and at the same time very attractive to have as numerous new boons.
But I can imagine that the devs will want to be careful about giving them more variety, for fear of players complaining. Some boons will be seen as more valuable and the RNG will make players angry.
However, I think these concerns are nothing to take seriously in this genre. So +1 to OP.
While they could certainly use some tlc and a touch up, I really miss the negative modifiers and the zone effects(lightning Storm etc).
This is one of the rares times I’ll say this: Blizz definitely listened to the wrong folks when they gutted anything remotely threatening from NMDs.
They just feel so hollow and harmless now.
i don’t think anybody uses keys that have the shade or the rock thing chasing you 
those are instant scrap (getting more keys then i would ever use anyways)
so i don’t think that would be much of a concern 
they could just add increased loot/quality, runes, bossmats and other stuff you need to randomly come across. so we have a way to target farm those instead of just farming obdicite
Perhaps blend NMD + Pit together, coz they are very similar and bring back Abattoir of Zir.
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I think AoZ was their initial test run of what became the Pit.
Personally, I always felt it was a live PTR-ish type metric analysis and validation tool.
That being said - the random appearance of Hellborne in NMD and them being bosses of the AoZ was damn cool.
I miss the threat they presented and if anything, I’d like to see the “Us’s” as I call the corrupted or different path versions of our heroes, make a return and actually be difficult and challenging - whatever the environment.
Imo that’s content gold if they do it right.
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I love this idea. If they actually added this one boon, I’d be running a lot more NM dungeons and not just run it occasionally for an active Whisper.
Does finding more forgotten altars (after you unlocked the 4 powers) do anything? Do they help to level up the powers maybe at that point or it’s a total waste?
NMD need an entire rework and tuning.
They are pointless currently.
Wont lie, i forgot boons existed.
You cant make ‘bonus obucite’ the boon because then it will be the only one anyone uses