Tempering Updates - Making It Fun

PC General Discussion
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For Season 10, I wanted to share a few suggestions to improve Tempering without requiring a massive update…

  1. As Cellars are underwhelming and often times skipped content, there is an opportunity to tie Cellars to improvements to Tempering. Cellars will now contain searchable bookshelves that have the highest drop rate for Temper Manuals. Seems fitting to find an old manual in a dusty Cellar.
  2. Add a new legendary consumable item “Horadric Malus” (e.g. enchanted smithing hammer from D2), that removes temper durability of one item, thus giving it infinite durability. For this one item, the player has full control over the crafting process and no longer has to worry about bricking the item with failed attempts.
  3. Lastly, add blue-skinned Butcher variant," The Smith" that drops the Horadric Malus.

Cellar Bookshelves

  • New searchable bookshelves in Cellars
  • Highest drop rate for Temper Manuals

Horadric Malus

  • New legendary consumable item (only usable once per item)
  • Removes temper durability of one item (infinite durability)
  • Rare drop from The Smith

The Smith

  • Type: Overlord Demon, Blue-Skinned Butcher Variant
  • Quote: “I shall make weapons from your bones!”
  • Spawns: Nightmare Dungeons, Cellars
  • Sound Cues: According to lore, The Smith uses the Horadric Malus to create weaponry for the minions of Diablo, you will hear the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil when he’s about one and a half screens away.
  • Visuals: Check out the updated visuals of The Smith below!
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OK, that is a way :smiley:

OR, they can simply fix the problem by doing either of these 2 things:

  • Scroll of reroll (rerolls a Tempered value)

Or if even that doesn’t “do the job” then

  • Add a dedicated manual for each individual skill

That way nothing will be “bricked” and we have a mechanic that can give you extra value for few/several attempts and a last or couple last “safe” choices :slight_smile:

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really noticed tempering fails this season, either i am one unlucky sonfa, or they have even further reduced the desirables chances of popping up. Its the one reason i usually stop playing around Paragon 220 or so every season, it becomes about finding 2GA stuff that you can actually get the desired tempers on, and that just aint fun.

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Your luck will change. Mine does all the time - mostly bad :cry:

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Decent idea.

One thing I’d change, though, is to make it so that you can’t just do a bunch of cellar runs and collect a ton of the manuals. You have to actually have a bricked item in your inventory when you run the cellar. You find the manual and you must use it immediately on a bricked item.

This keeps some level of “sting” when you brick you item - you don’t just have 50 manuals in your inventory that you use one of to keep going - you have to actually do a task at that point to “earn” a chance to keep going.

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Why not? :thinking:

This change would give Cellars an actual purpose in the game, instead of being largely skipped or ignored.

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My suggestion doesn’t remove your proposed purpose to cellars; it just means that you have to actually run them when you brick an item.

If you can save the tempering manuals up then it would be quite easy to just spend 30 minutes early in the game running a whole bunch of cellars early in the game, and then be “brick proof” for the whole game and never have to run another cellar. It basically removes the sting of bricking an item entirely.

With my proposal, when you brick an item, you actually have to stop and do a task (run a cellar or two) before you can continue. Plus it keeps cellars active throughout the entire game rather than just something you do a bunch of runs early in the game and then forget about.

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Yeah, I think having a Horadric Malus granting infinite temper durability to your most beloved item would be a really cool addition. Hard to find, but when your lucky to find one would be a great dopamine hit. Plus, a think a blue-skinned Butcher is cool! :rofl:

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I already gave a solution for this, and it would be one more item to pursue. Just create uber manuals with maximum tempering, then you only use it once and it would be consumed. They would be very rare items. Test in 1 season.

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Yeah, but my idea has a blue-skinned Butcher variant! :rofl:

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Cellars are good source for angelbreath, which many players use and need for incenses.