They could just introduce a map editor so we could make custom rifts or even pvp maps, and have a new option in the menu to browse customs.
Obviously those wouldn't award any loot/xp ofc. one can only imagine what new fun ways to play ppl would come up with.
Yes. In arpg, loot should be the endgame, not just experience/pl farming.
Still, i believe that instead of the Best in Slot, it should be trying new builds.
Not simply that must-have cookiecutter build with that item everybody is looking for, and obviously the rarest one with high costs, low rates or mandatory crafting.
A bit like poe, with easy, expensive or so-and-so builds.
i think the a good solution is to put especific not randon dungeons in every patch, something like wow style, for things like achievements and cosmetic loot
Bit of a bump. Clearly a custom rift idea won't happen in 2.4, but hopefully in the future maybe something similar. The static rifts proposed to occur in 2.4 are at least a step in the right direction for a more healthy 'competitive' scene, and hopefully the devs are just 'testing the water' to see if people will enjoy some type of static rift.
The only problem is that players will quickly find the most efficient set-up and then that will become the only way anyone does Grifts and they will all pretty much be the same thing over and over.
There would be no loot rewards so there's no incentive/need to find the 'most efficient' set up. The rifts would be as difficult/easy as the player wants them to be.
I could see Blizzard adding custom rifts that they create (automatically) and then people being able to run them, with loot and XP. It may be feasible to do static maps too then...but maybe not.
Yes, it looks like there's a possibility that we may be getting at least some kind of Static Rift system next patch. *crosses fingers*
Whats the point in doing them then? I guess the way of the industry today has really warped my thinking of games. Today theres no point in playing a game just for the sake of fun. We play for gains, gear, currency, etc. I imagine the people who play for the leader boards are an extreme minority.
I think the billions of gamers world-wide who play 'real-life' sports and esports and many other games purely for the fun of competing with each other would have to disagree. "gear, currency, etc." are not fun in themselves; they're merely a means to having fun. As is competition.
You are suggestion an indepth idea that would require a lot of coding
This is possibly true, but also very possibly not. Almost all of the functionality suggested in this idea already has to exist in the game (there's clearly switches for turning on-and-off Pylons/Shrines/Gold/etc. as Grifts and Rifts differ in these options). All they would have to do is create a GUI for these switches. Is it a large amount of work? Well, probably, but so is adding anything to the game, which is something they clearly have to do to keep people playing.
Regarding the "no XP/loot" idea - it is true that there needs to be some limitation or drawback in this system, otherwise everyone would just make GR80 "gg riffs" with Hamelin as RG and farm 1 trillion XP per hour. *That* would make D3 really boring, it would almost feel like Crypt runs ;-)
Yes, I think it's critical for it working that it must have no 'rewards' beyond the intrinsic rewards of the fun in competing with friends and other members of the community, and in creating interesting rifts.
A side step of this idea would be to use the Kanai's Cube for generating a 'custom' rift. Filling it with magic and rare items only and using the Cube's power will create a rift with monsters and their abilities generated from the item types and their properties.
That's an interesting idea, and one I'd be happy with seeing implemented as well. In fact I imagine that idea is probably more likely to happen than any Custom Rift idea, in that the Devs probably have plans for making Kanai's Cube do something related to customising rifts.
Add a paragon option as well like max 800 and no paragon etc...
Under 'Player Options', it's the first option
Paragon Points (default, unselected): Set a cap for the number of paragon points that can be allocated before
entering the custom rift, to make paragon grinding not the be-all and end-all.
But you're right, it is one of the most important options, IMO, and I hope at the very least they simply place a limit on Paragon Points that can be used in Greater Rifts next season.
Would also be cool if we could have "themed" seasons. Sorta like Tavern Brawls or some of the LoL game modes, where a season gets a special rule set that you can do crazy stuff, but it only lasts 2-4 weeks.
Absolutely. If a custom Rift system didn't happen (and it almost certainly won't) I'd settle for just a few Blizzard-approved 'theme' Rifts each season that mix up the meta, like a no-sets Rift or something.
Not that I am against this idea, but doesn't it sort of remove the RNG from an RNG game? I mean, as you've stated, there is no loot/xp for doing these, so unless they cap paragons, aside from competing with your buddies (which you can already do on your 'friends' leaderboard) this really doesn't do anything for character advancement. All it does is give you a cookie cut rift in order to challenge your friends, in which 'highest paragon/best class' wins. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great, but that's alot of work for no gain, not exactly blizzard's style, if ya know what I mean.
(Double Edit:) If they cap paragons, this would be an amazing addition. If they cap time played availability, this would be the worst addition.
Ideally a system like this would completely replace GRifts for Leaderboards. Most people who are trying to push Leaderboards are sick and tired of the layer-upon-layer of RNG and the endless open-close-open-close GRift fishing.
I love this idea, because I think it will give people something to do once they're bored of speed GRs or have given up on the leaderboards and completed all conquests, season journey, and whatever achievable goals there are for the average Joe. It reminds me of Wudijo's "rares only" GR challenge - wouldn't it be fun if you could have that as a game mode? It's very much like the Conquests, but there are so few of them per season. It would also address something that is lacking in Diablo 3 that ensures replayability for many people in other games: modding. Sure, you don't have the modding freedom of WC3/SC2 or other games, but you could think of certain exotic custom games that are so unique that it almost feels like a different game mode. Think about it - one of the most popular game genre these days (mobas) was entirely based on a player creation!
An idea like this would be a middle way - Blizzard doesn't want to allow modding in Diablo 3, but at least players would have some freedom in creating their own environment and rules.
What would promote this game mode is that after a fixed time (i.e., once per week) a ranking of the most popular custom games is published and for each of those the top times (i.e., a list of the top 3 custom games and the top 10 or 100 people for each of those).
I think there's a lot of potential in this idea!
Yes, I enjoyed Wudijo's video very much! I love the idea of an All Yellow Challenge, or a non-set challenge, but in a more organised/official environment rather than having to record your runs etc. which is often tedious/difficult and ultimately makes me not bother.
And I love the suggestion for the publishing of the most popular at the end of a week or so! That's a great idea, and solves the issues with the potential messiness of the Leaderboards that I was thinking might happen with my suggested system. Perhaps a fortnight/month would be a decent amount of time, to let a variety of theories develop on how to best complete a particular Custom Rift. They could even have different lengths of time, some for a week, some for a month - it could be Blizzard's twist on PoE's weekly races. Hmmmm.
Mob Types (default, all selected): Select which mobs will be present in the rift, based on which act they originate from. Tired of wasps? Remove Act 2 mobs.
Mob Density (default, 3): Select from preset mob density values e.g. 1 = minimum density, 6 = maximum density.
Elite Types (default, all selected): Remove Yellow or Blue packs.
Elite Affixes (default, all selected): Remove certain elite affixes.
Timer (default, selected, 15 mins): change the duration of the timer, or remove the timer completely.
Deaths Allowed (default, unselected): unselected means infinite number of deaths allowed, as per usual in Softcore mode. But if selected, then only a certain amount of deaths would be allowed before the Rift was automatically failed.
Mob CC Resistance (default, selected, 95%): This is for mob CC resistance cap. Currently in patch 2.3 it has been increased to 95%, up from 65% of the previous patch. This value wouldn’t change the inherent CC resistance gain and decay stats of patch 2.3: 10% increased resistance per 1 second under CC, and the decay of 5% resistance per second while out of CC e.g. if this value was set at 0%, then mobs would have no resistance at all to CC effects and could easily be perma-stunned. If set to 100% then mobs would increase their CC resistance by 10% per second of CC, up to 100% and then be immune to all CC effects, until their resistance decayed. 65% would be similarish CC-effects of patch 2.2.
Misc. Opts: Remove health/nephalem globes entirely if desired. Allow gold drops and clickables to make use of items like http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/goldwrap, http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/harrington-waistguard, and other interesting items that cannot be used in GRifts simply because gold drops and clickables have been removed from them. (To prevent people cheesing and farming gold you could make it so that any gold picked up in the GRift doesn’t go to the player’s account).
Remove all sources of healing, from abilities or item stats etc., so that you only have a starting health pool and that’s all you have to work with.
Item Options
Item Types (default, all selected): Disallow Ancient items or Legendary items. Disallow sets, or restrict the amount of set items (per set) you can equip e.g. so you can only equip 2 set items per set. Or change the amount of sets you can equip, e.g. only 2-pieces from a set, and only 1 set allowed. Can remove Legendary gems, or just restrict the level the gem can be, to avoid group-leveled gems from dominating.
Item Slots (default, all selected): Want to remove jewelry? Want to force builds that don’t have pants? Go nuts.
Map Options
Maps (default, all selected): Select which map types you want in the pool. It may be impractical to list all the individual maps, so maybe just a selection from Act I, II, III etc.
Rift Guardian (default, 1, all selected): Select which RGs you want to be available to spawn. Or remove the RG entirely. Or maybe you’re insane and want more than 1 RG to make the end of a GRift more like the Uber battles.
Pylons (default, all Pylons selected, no Shrines selected): Select which Pylons/Shrines you want to be able to spawn.
Difficulty Level Range (default, 1 – 100): Set which GRift level range the GRift starts at and maxes out at, to allow a range of difficulties, or you may just want to set it at one difficulty. Maybe you want to set the Grift at, say, level 60 and just see how fast people can complete that difficulty level.
Rift Level Range (default, 1 – 10): This is the number of map levels in the actual Rift, I believe 10 is currently the max. Maybe you want the rift to only have 1 single map level so you put the max at 1. There may be some technical difficulties here with the interaction between Mob Density meter to make one level have sufficient mobs for 100% progress, so maybe this option isn't viable.
Player Options
Paragon Points (default, unselected): Set a cap for the number of paragon points that can be allocated before entering the custom rift, to make paragon grinding not the be-all and end-all.
Stat Caps (default, none selected): Set caps for particular character stats. Leave unselected to leave uncapped, as per normal. This particular example has crit chance and crit damage capped at the inherent bases of 5 and 50, and Elemental damage capped at 0% and Attack speed capped at 1 APS. This would only affect unbuffed sheet stats from gear and passive effects, but would obviously not include dynamic/active buffs.
Classes and Team Size (default, all selected): Allows the setting of what classes and number of players could partake in the custom rift. Maybe the monk community wants to create a rift to see how monks perform on that particular rift, or maybe the Demon Hunters want to see what kind of 4-player DH groups can do against each other. Or maybe force a mixture of Monk + Crusader teams, etc.
Followers (default, 1, Multiplayer off, all other selected): Restrict access to only particular followers, or allow more than 1 follower to be used, or allow followers in multiplayer.
Creating your Custom Rift
Once you’ve chosen all your settings, now you Create the Custom Rift. First you name it, select whether it is open to public or not, and whether it is a Static Rift.
STATIC RIFTS (this is an important option, and deserves a separate discussion to itself)
A non-Static rift would simply operate as regular Rifts and Grifts currently do i.e. whenever you enter a new rift it randomizes (from the set criteria) the rift. So, even if you select only 1 map-type etc. for your Custom Rift, but do not set it as Static, it will still randomly create a rift based on that one map type and the other criteria every time someone attempts that rift. A Static Rift, however, will only create one single rift when the creator/designer of the Custom Rift initially creates the Custom Rift, and from then on all subsequent openings of that rift, by anyone, will all be exactly the same, from the map layout to the monsters’ spawn location and type, pylon location etc. Everything is identical for every player who opens that Custom Rift (excluding RG spawn location, obviously).
PROS of a Static Rift
reduces the advantage of things like THUD (everybody already knows the full map and pylon location etc.)
removes the need for GRift fishing
reduces overall balance issues such as mob types, mob affixes, map types, pylons etc. If the Rift is identical for everyone, it doesn’t really matter if Ghosts or Conduits are OP or not, because everyone has to fight/use them (this also allows us to bring the fun dense maps back to Greater Rifts, so we’re not stuck with shitty Cave maps 75% of time)
boring? (not for people who enjoy the competition)
If you’re still unconvinced by Custom Rifts, well, simple: there’s no need to play these Custom Rifts at all if you have no interest in them. You miss out on nothing by not playing them. It’s just like how some people will never play Hardcore-mode and they don’t miss out on anything by not. Which brings me to my next important point.
NO LOOT
Custom Rifts would have no loot. None at all (not even from the Rift Guardian). And no experience gained. This is partly so that people couldn’t cheese and create some easy farming rift, but more so because Custom Rifts would be purely about the fun of the competition, just like those countless other games we play because people enjoy competing against each other – that’s what drives (in part) communities. We can see this where D3 communities are already (and have been for a long time) creating their own friendly competitions/challenges in order to keep themselves entertained when there’s little else in the game for them to do, and GRift-fishing becomes too tedious. For examples see the old T6 speed-clearing competition ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14609681171#1 ), the HC No Set Challenge (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/18000139876?page=1 ), the Reddit Challenge ( https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo/wiki/weeklychallenge_s1 ), and I’m sure there’s many more.
Searching for a Custom Rift
Lastly, just to touch on the some of the logistics of a potential Custom Rift system.
‘How would you search for or join a Custom Rift?’
The search system currently used for Communities could be duplicated to provide a search system for Custom Rifts. You could filter the search via words in the title or description - it would likely be too difficult to filter the search by every possible criteria that the Custom Rift could vary by, but one important criteria that should be filterable is Static or non-Static Rifts. This must be a filter option.
The search would return all the Custom Rifts that satisfy the criteria, ordered by most populated at the top, similar to the Community search feature. Clicking on a particular Custom Rift would provide a short description of the Custom Rift made by the creator, and list a few of the more prominent categories, highlighting those that are altered from the default (which you could further explore by looking at the details of the Custom Rift). Clicking Join Custom Rift will add that Custom Rift to your list of ‘My Custom Rifts’.
Entering a Custom Rift
Open a game and go to the Rift Pylon, as per usual when entering a rift. The Custom drop-down lists all of ‘My Custom Rifts’ i.e. all those Custom Rifts that I have ‘joined’, by searching for them as you would search for and join a Community. Once a specific Custom Rift is selected it checks your current gear setup against the criteria of that Custom Rift to see if they are satisfied. If no, an error message is displayed. If yes, then another drop-down for the level of Custom Rift would appear for you to select the level (as currently happens with Greater Rifts). Entering a Custom Rift does not require any kind of ‘key’– you can enter as many times as you want for ‘free’. This is allowable because Custom Rifts don’t provide you with any loot/xp/gold/etc. and so cannot be ‘farmed’.
Leaderboards
This suggestion of Leaderboards has Custom Rifts as a separate category to Greater Rift Leaderboards. However, Greater Rift Leaderboards could potentially just be removed, if Custom Rifts become the prime place where players can compete against each other for Leaderboard positions, and Greater Rifts can just be another place to farm LGems/xp/loot etc.
As you can see in the pic there is an added drop-down list for selecting which Custom Rift Leaderboard you wish to peruse. This drop-down automatically lists the 10 most populous Custom Rifts, and then below this is the list of ‘my’ Custom Rifts that I've personally joined (if they’re not in the top 10 most populous list already). This example assumes that the separate class communities have split off into their own specific Rifts. However, that won't necessarily happen, and the D3 community as a whole may decide on one type of Custom Rift that is good for all class-types.
Thanks for taking the time to read! Any feedback/suggestions would be great. Do you think some type of Custom Rift system would be viable??
Some suggestions for all of those Legendary items that aren't legendary, and some tweaks to those legendaries that are subpar.
Note 1: Not going to claim that all the values used here are balanced. Numbers should be adjusted to that end. However, I have tried to base these numbers on the already existing ‘OP’ items, such as 50% multiplicative damage boost of Focus/Restraint, 50% damage reduction from Unity, etc. Also even the fairly useless items that have large damage procs, such as Rimeheart and Nagelring, that both deal 10,000% weapon damage.
Note 2: The damage buff numbers to follow assume separate multiplicative damage boosts, unless otherwise stated.
Note 3: ‘Defensive skills’ refers to the category of skills labelled ‘Defensive’ that all classes have.
[These immunity amulets could make you and your allies immune to these elements (and heal you and your allies), allowing them to be useful on your supports and followers.]
When receiving fatal damage, you explode for 20,000% weapon damage in a 30 yard radius, and are also restored to 100% maximum Life and resources and become immune to damage for 2 seconds. This effect may occur once every 120 seconds.
[This item should be obtainable in both HC and SC, and not be consumed when proc’d but instead just have a cooldown.]
Hitting an enemy within 15 yards reduces your damage taken by 20% for 5 seconds, and has a chance to ward you with shards of Arcane energy that explode when enemies get close, dealing 1000% weapon damage as Arcane to enemies within 15 yards.
Wearing this amulet creates a 20 yard Friend Zone around you. Other wearers of this item that are within your Friend Zone take 10% reduced damage for every other wearer of the item within the combined Friend Zones. Other wearers of this item that are outside the combined Friend Zone do 30% increased damage to enemies in the combined Friend Zone for every wearer of this item within the combined Friend Zone.
[The damage reduction and damage increase is additive with itself. So, if 2 players are wearing this amulet and are within 20 yards of each other, they each gain 10% damage reduction. If a 3rd wearer of this item is also within 20 yards of the 2 other wearers, all 3 of them gain 20% damage reduction. If the 3rd wearer is outside the combined duo-Zone, then this player does 60% (30 + 30) increased damage to the mobs inside the duo-Friend Zones. This should also work with Followers.]
Hitting an enemy with a Primary skill spawns a skeleton at the target location. Hitting an enemy with a Secondary skill explodes all the skeletons for 1000% weapon damage each. A maximum of 5 skeletons can be summoned at any time.
[Increase the chance of the charm, and the damage buff should work with any charm e.g. from Skull of Resonance, The Tormentor, enchantress charm if she has the amulet on, etc.]
Hitting an enemy with any skill labels them with a mark of the Viper, increasing any further damage you do to that target by 1% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up 50 times.
[Primarily a ramp-up single-target item. Excludes DoT damage.]
Summons shadow clones to your aid for 30 seconds when you Stun an enemy. This effect may occur once every 30 seconds.
[This amulet is cool, but the clones need to benefit from all your buffs, including ability damage increase rolls on your items (which they currently don’t benefit from), and they need to last for 30 seconds effectively allowing 100% uptime if you’re timing your stuns appropriately. Also it would be very cool if this item worked on your follower, so your follower could produce clones of themselves (if they stun) which then cast their abilities.]
You can no longer heal past 20% of your Maximum Health. Increase your Hit Points by 100%. You take 25% less damage. Increase Healing from all sources by 50%.
[Can make use of items that benefit from less than 100% health.]
Each time you pick up gold or a Health Globe, increase your Gold and Health Pickup radius by 1 yard for 10 seconds, stacking up to 30 times. The range of your passives and item effects is extended by your Gold and Health Pickup radius.
[Your passives skills, item and gem effects that have conditions dependent on ‘mobs within X yards’ are increased by your Gold and Health Pickup radius, similar to how WitchDoctor passives work.]
Enemies within 25 yards of you are Jailed for 3 seconds. You do 100% more damage to jailed enemies. This effect can occur on an enemy once every 9 seconds.
[The jailing effect should stop mobs that ‘launch’ themselves at you, such as charging bulls and leaping winged assassins.]
Absorb the souls of your enemies around you, reducing your damage taken by 2.5% per enemy within 20 yards, and these enemies within 20 yards take 2.5% increased damage from all sources per enemy within 20 yards of you. Capped at 16 enemies.
[40% damage reduction and 40% increased damage from all sources at cap. Effect lasts as long as there are enemies within range.]
Lightning pulses constantly between all other wearers of this item within 50 yards, dealing between 1000% and 10,000% weapon damage per second, depending on the distance between the wearers. The damage increases the further the distance between the wearers, up to the maximum of 10,000% at 50 yards.
[Moving too far away would break the link (with some leeway). The damage of the pulses per second should be based on the person with the highest DPS wearing the ring.]
Increase your Life per Second by up to 75–100% and damage reduction by up to 40% based on your missing Life.
[The damage reduction would work similar to the regen increase i.e. you gain the maximum 40% damage reduction only at 0 Health, and 20% damage reduction while at 50% Maximum Health, etc.]
[Increase the heal cap from the current 1% Max Health to, say, 6% Max Health per second, and the damage cap could probably be increased from 2000% to 3000% damage per second (based on monster current health).]
Haunt a nearby target enemy for 10 seconds, doing 5000% weapon damage per second, increasing by 1000% each second. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
[i.e. does 5000% weapon damage per second for the first second, then 6000% for the next second, then 7000%,and finally 15,000% on the 10th second. Then the DoT falls off and a new one starts at 5000%.]
Wearers of this item take 50% reduced damage while there is another Unity wearer within 100 yards.
[A slight rework to Unity to maybe make it useful in teamplay, as it was actually originally intended. Has the exact same effect for single player as before (except now the Invulnerable Follower token is not mandatory, which is an issue in itself), but also now works in multiplayer.]
[Both ring and amulet could give you a bonus passive, and allow the use of both of them, for 2 extra passives. Also they might need some sort of generic 10% increased damage and damage mitigation buff to keep up with the other Jewelry (and the current existing Jewelry)]
Enemies hit by your Nephalem Glory explosions are additionally seared by Holy light for 3 seconds. During these 3 seconds 50% of all damage dealt to these enemies is further dealt as a Damage Over Time effect on these enemies over 5 seconds.
[So, 50% of the accrued damage dealt to these mobs during the 3 second period is then dealt again as a DoT over 5 seconds. Also see suggested rework of Nephalem Glory at the end of the post.]
Picking up a Health Globe gives you a Chaing stack, up to a maximum of 100 stacks. Taking fatal damage instead restores you to 100% Maximum Life and Resources, renders you immune to damage for 2 seconds, and you spew out 10 Health Globes and three Nephalem Glory globes. This effect consumes 50 Chaing stacks.
[The stacks should have no duration, and there shouldn’t be any internal cooldown on the effect – all you require is at least 50 Chaing stacks.]
Gain up to 100% bonus increased Critical Hit Chance based on your missing Life.
[Similar mechanic to Rogar’s Huge Stone, where you would get +0% CHC when you are at 100% Health, and it would ramp up as you lose life until you would theoretically have +100% CHC at 0% Life.]
Killing a Demon increases your movement speed by 3% and attack speed by 3% for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Slain Demons explode for 1000% weapon damage as Holy.
Increase the power of your non-set item buff effects by 10%.
[e.g. the 50% damage reduction from Unity would now be 55% damage reduction, the 50% damage increase from each of FnR would be 55%, etc. This wouldn’t apply to set buffs, passive/active skill buffs, gem buffs, or item buffs that you gain from your party, but only buffs from those items that you have equipped. This also wouldn’t affect the duration of buffs, or the damage of damage procs. ]
5% chance to spawn a Nephalem Glory globe when you CC an enemy. Increase your max stacks of Nephalem Glory to 6.
[(see Nephalem Glory rework at end of post). The increase in stack size to 6 would effectively double the power of the NG effects and synergise with other items that make use of NG.]
Reduces damage from ranged attacks by 20% for you and your allies, and increases the damage of ranged attacks by 15% for you and your allies.]
[I’m not entirely sure what player attacks are considered Ranged or Melee, but Stalgard’s Decimator already references ‘Melee’ attacks, so I assume all attacks are classified as one or the other.]
Your Defensive skills no longer perform their normal function but instead give you and your allies a 5% damage increase for 6 seconds. This effect can stack up to 6 times.
[Your Defensive skills no longer do anything except proc this damage buff, stacking to a 30% party damage buff.]
Double the damage of your non-set item damage effects.
[Doubles the damage of the item proc effects that do damage e.g. Odyn Son lightning effect etc. Does not include any effects from Set bonuses, and doesn’t increase the effects of damaging buffs e.g. doesn’t increase the damage buff from FnR, Hexing Pants etc.]
Chance on hit to create a chaos field that pulls mobs to its center and Blinds and Slows enemies inside for 3–4 seconds and enemies within the chaos field take 10% increased damage from all sources.
When receiving fatal damage you are instead restored to 25% of maximum Life, become immune to damage for 2 seconds, and cause nearby enemies to flee in fear. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
When you are hit there is a 25 - 35% chance to explode in a fan of knives for 750-950% weapon damage, and have your thorns damage increased by 50% for 5 seconds.
When receiving fatal damage, you are instead restored to 20% Max Health and enter the nether realm for 10 seconds. While in the nether realm you are immune to damage and CC effects and can move through mobs, gain 15% increased damage and 100% increased resource regeneration, and do not heal from any source. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
When 3 or more enemies are within 20 yards of you, you release a vile stench that deals Poison damage every second for 5 seconds. The poison cloud deals 500% weapon damage per second per enemy within 20 yards, capped at 20 enemies. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.]
Enemies you poison take 20% increased damage from all sources, and explode on death for 1000% weapon damage as Poison. You are immune to Poison damage.
+50% chance to dodge. When you dodge an attack you gain the HammerTime buff for 10 seconds. The HammerTime buff gives you +25% increased movement speed, +15% increased attack speed, the ability to walk through mobs, and your attacks have a 50% chance on-hit to Breakdown the enemy. A Breakdown hit deals up to 100% increased damage based on the missing health of the enemy.
[The ‘Breakdown’ hit would increase the damage you dealt to that mob by 100% if they that mob was on 0% health, 50% increased damage if they were on half health, etc. ]
You can no longer equip weapons, but instead can equip two non-weapon off-hand items. You gain +1737-1912 Damage.
[These pants inherently provide +1737-1912 damage as orange text (the base damage range for a 2H Mace), and would additionally have a regular damage roll stat like weapons do, with the Ancient range if the pants themselves are Ancient.]
Your movement speed is capped at +25%. Moving 20 yards increases the damage of your next Secondary attack by 10%. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
[Moving 20 yards would give you a 10% damage buff for your next Secondary skill. Moving another 20 yards (without spending the buff) would increase to 20%, up to a max of 50%. Casting a Secondary ability would spend the stacked buff, and they would have to be built up from zero again.]
When equipped summons a Fallen Champion that reduces damage taken of allies by 25%. The Fallen Champion casts a warcry that taunts surrounding enemies for 4 seconds and causes taunted enemies to take 20% increased damage from all sources.
[Most of these summon weapons should have the creature permanently summoned, rather than have a duration. Or at least allow for 100% uptime.]
25-35% chance to Smite enemies for 600-750% weapon damage as Lightning when you hit them. If the Smitten enemy is more than 20 yards away from any other enemy, the Smite deals 8,000% weapon damage as Lightning.
[This should at the very least be a 50% damage reduction, as opposed to the 35% damage reduction it currently provides. In addition, why not just make it actually be the Ignore Pain skill and inherit the Ignore Pain rune you have selected (if you’re a Barb).]
Hitting an enemy inflicts them with a grievous wound causing them to bleed for 500% weapon damage per second for 10 seconds while the enemy remains stationary. If the enemy moves, the bleed damage increases up to 10,000% per second depending on the movement speed of the enemy.
[The faster the movement speed of the monster, the higher the damage. So only the fastest moving mobs would be hit for the 10,000% weapon damage per second, with slower moving mobs being hit for less. Perhaps the lowest movement-damage could be 1000% per second.]
[Inherits the properties of the Arcane Orb rune you have selected (if Wizard), and it would proc on every attack like Sash of Knives and Stalgard’s. These orbs would also benefit from any +% Arcane Orb stats on your gear and items like Triumvirate.]
[Allow the kills made by the explosion itself to count towards the next explosion. Could get some really fun trash-killing chain-reaction explosions going. And the damage could be boosted as well.]
When you hit an enemy you place a charge on that enemy based on the element type you hit it with. Hitting that enemy with a different element from any source stacks another charge. The charges detonate after 3 seconds dealing 5000% weapon damage per element-stack on the enemy.
[A maximum of 7 charge-stacks is obtainable, one for each of the 7 elements in the game, and this would result in 35,000% weapon damage per 3 seconds. And the explosion damage should be based off the wielder of Telranden’s, and off their highest damaging element.]
Enemies hit by your thorns are taunted, attack 50% faster, and deal 50% less damage for 5 seconds. This effect can occur on an enemy once every 10 seconds.
Hitting an enemy with the same ability in succession increases the damage done to that enemy by that ability by 10%, stacking 10 times. Damage dealt to that enemy from any other source clears all stacks on that enemy.
[Even incidental damage done to that enemy, through area damage, proc effects, pets, reflect damage, follower damage, Ally damage etc. would clear all stacks]
Randomly marks a nearby enemy for 10 seconds. This enemy takes 20% increased damage from all sources. Killing the marked enemy gives players 20% additional damage against subsequently marked enemies for 30 seconds. This effect can stack up to 4 times.
[So, with 4 stacks this would equal 100% increased damage against a marked target. The mark would last for 10 seconds, or until the enemy is killed, at which time a new enemy would be marked.]
Killing an enemy creates a whirling storm of bones around you that reduces damage taken by 1% for you and any allies standing in the bonestorm. The bonestorm also deals 100% weapon damage per second to enemies caught in the storm. The effect lasts for 5 seconds, and stacks up to 25 times.
[So, at full stacks the bone storm would reduce incoming damage by 25%, and do 2500% weapon damage per second, within a radius of about 20 yards.]
[This should bypass proc-coefficients, or have a dramatically increase chance to proc, or both. This item has been useless for the longest time now, and with new CC changes it’s harder than ever to make this thing proc. Make us excited for finding this weapon once more.]
50% Chance on kill to go into a rage for 10 seconds. While enraged you have 30% increased damage, 20% increased attack speed, and 50% increased Life on Hit and Life on Kill.
Picking up a health globe gives you a Schmidt buff for 20 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Using a Primary skill consumes all Schmidt stacks, and increases the damage of your next Secondary skill by 20% per Schmidt stack consumed.
Creates an Aura Of The Living around you. Undead enemies within this aura take +25% increased damage from all sources, and heal players for 10% of their missing Life when killed.
On kill summon a skeleton, up to a maximum of 10 skeletons. When receiving fatal damage the skeletons explode dealing 1000% weapon damage each, and you are resummoned to 100% Health and become immune to damage for 2 seconds. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
50% chance to sunder the ground your enemies walk on when you attack, dealing 1000% weapon damage per second to enemies standing on sundered ground. Allies standing on sundered ground gain 25% increased Fire damage.
50% chance on kill to spawn a Ghost that lasts for 60 seconds. Each Ghost deals 200% weapon damage for every Ghost that is active. A maximum of 5 Ghosts can be active at a time.
[These would be the same Ghost mobs we’ve all come to hate. With 1 Ghost active the Ghost deals 200% weapon damage. With 5 Ghosts active each one deals 1000% weapon damage per hit.]
When equipped summons a herd of murderous cows. Using a Defensive skill sacrifices the cows making each release two Health Globes and a Nephalem Globe. After 10 s the cows are resummoned.
[The cows can drop those delightful chop-like health globes ]
On attack create a whirling sandstorm around you. You and your allies within the storm gain 40% chance to dodge, and enemies within the storm take 25% increased damage from all sources.
[Very cool concept, very useless item. Once again, it’s another item that is crippled by pre-emptive nerfing with ICDs. Perhaps if the chance to summon on kill was increased, and if the Holy burn could hit more than 1 target at a time, it might be more useful.]
Generic Sets
The following set bonuses would not stack with multiple people in the party wearing the same set.
You gain 5% damage reduction and 5% increased damage for every pet you have active. Capped at 20 pets.
[The damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with itself, like Ancient Parthan Defenders, but the damage bonus would stack additively with itself. So the 20 pet cap would result in a damage reduction of ~64% and a damage increase of 100%.]
Bracers: Immune to all CC effects (including Knockback)
Belt: Gain 25% run speed. This effect is lost for 1 second after taking damage.
(2) Set: 50% damage reduction.
[These sets with their own orange text are very interesting, but this particular set is currently pretty lack-lustre. Taking a two-piece set needs to be worth it.]
(2) Set: Increase Healing from all sources for you and your allies by 20%.
(3) Set: Incoming attacks to you or your allies that would deal more than 40% maximum Life are reduced to deal 40% maximum Life instead. The amount absorbed cannot exceed 100% maximum Life.
Offhand: Gain up to 60% damage reduction up based on your missing primary Resource.
(2) Set: You and your allies gain +100 to All Resistance and +1000 to Armor.
[It might be nice if this set has the off-hands for each of the classes, rather than just a shield (especially because the Shield auto-rolls +%Holy damage, which is useless to most classes. The offhand damage reduction affix would be like Rogar’s Huge Stone mechanic.]
Class-Specific Items
Class specific items provide good opportunities to buff specific class abilities. But I am not familiar enough with every class to make suggestions along those lines. However, there are a couple of items that would seem to allow for some pretty simple buffs:
Blocking an attack heals you and your allies for 3% of their maximum health.
[Please make this not a Crusader-only shield – it doesn’t have a Crusader-specific affix, and it could be a useful shield for your Templar.]
Potions
Legendary potions are cool. But, IMHO, they’re not all that ‘legendary’; they’re a little lacklustre. Also, often you want to use your potion primarily to prevent you from dying i.e. to heal yourself, as we expect potions to normally be used. However, this is not always the same time when we want to activate some special buff from the potion (also you can’t use potions at full health). This puts a limit on how cool the potion affixes can be, because if they gave you a damage boost, for example, then you don’t always want to increase your damage at the same time you want to use your potion. An alternative system is to simply make each potion give you a permanent buff while it is equipped.
This potion does not heal, but instead when activated you become one with the Gods for 6 seconds. During this state you are reduced to 20% Health and 20% Resources, become immune to all damage and CC effects, have 100% Resource Cost reduction, and do not heal from any source.
[Just another random potion idea. Could make use of all those item affixes that give you buffs at low health/resource levels. This potion would have no passive effect.]
Some of the preceding items make use of NH stacks. Thanks to apo’s guide we can see what NG globes currently do: they do effectively nothing. Which is a shame, because they’re kind of a cool idea. So, at the very least some basic buffs could be given to NG.
Each stack provides +5% movement speed, 2% damage reduction, 2% damage increase
3 Stacks: +15% movement speed, 6% damage reduction and 6% damage increase
At full stacks, picking up another NG globe creates a 30 yard radius explosion for 10,000% weapon damage.
Also it could be made that picking up Health Globes does not extend the duration, thereby putting more emphasis on having to build towards proccing NG globes if you want to benefit from them.
A good place to start is to start reading build guides. Often they have a good explanation for why you are picking one skill/item over another. Also start visiting the official D3 forums for your class, often there is some interesting theorycrafting going on there. ALso check out the subreddits for your class, and also for all the classes in general. e.g. the barbarian subreddit has a very good wiki that explains a lot of the basic mechanics of D3.
This is a long shot, but I’ll put it out there anyway – does anyone still have any blue rings from pre-RoS that have +X to minimum damage, and that they’d be willing to part with? I’m testing legendary affix damage ranges and these would be really helpful.
If so, drop me a line. In-game tag is prvtpile#1225 on US servers
Yeah, have to agree. The whole paragon system is kind of a train wreck aswell. Hopefully in the expansion it'll be completely overhauled, but until then it would be really nice to see some sort of temporary tweak to it.
sidenote: I like how they added 2 new pairs of gloves without legendary powers.
lol, right? Anyone know what this is about? After all the work they're doing adding powers to the legendaries that don't have them, surely they haven't added more legendaries with no power? Maybe these will get some added later?
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http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/137158-idea-custom-rifts
This is why something like Custom Rifts (http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/137158-idea-custom-rifts) would be amazing, where the community can design Static Rifts that force players to play different. Has potentially endless replayability.
Exactly, static Custom Rifts would allow exactly for these things you guys are suggesting!
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/137158-idea-custom-rifts
Bit of a bump. Clearly a custom rift idea won't happen in 2.4, but hopefully in the future maybe something similar. The static rifts proposed to occur in 2.4 are at least a step in the right direction for a more healthy 'competitive' scene, and hopefully the devs are just 'testing the water' to see if people will enjoy some type of static rift.
Yes, it looks like there's a possibility that we may be getting at least some kind of Static Rift system next patch. *crosses fingers*
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3rek28/all_new_setdungeons_and_stash_space/
I think the billions of gamers world-wide who play 'real-life' sports and esports and many other games purely for the fun of competing with each other would have to disagree. "gear, currency, etc." are not fun in themselves; they're merely a means to having fun. As is competition.
This is possibly true, but also very possibly not. Almost all of the functionality suggested in this idea already has to exist in the game (there's clearly switches for turning on-and-off Pylons/Shrines/Gold/etc. as Grifts and Rifts differ in these options). All they would have to do is create a GUI for these switches. Is it a large amount of work? Well, probably, but so is adding anything to the game, which is something they clearly have to do to keep people playing.
Yes, these are both interesting ideas that would be cool to see in the game.
Yes, I think it's critical for it working that it must have no 'rewards' beyond the intrinsic rewards of the fun in competing with friends and other members of the community, and in creating interesting rifts.
That's an interesting idea, and one I'd be happy with seeing implemented as well. In fact I imagine that idea is probably more likely to happen than any Custom Rift idea, in that the Devs probably have plans for making Kanai's Cube do something related to customising rifts.
Under 'Player Options', it's the first option
But you're right, it is one of the most important options, IMO, and I hope at the very least they simply place a limit on Paragon Points that can be used in Greater Rifts next season.Ideally a system like this would completely replace GRifts for Leaderboards. Most people who are trying to push Leaderboards are sick and tired of the layer-upon-layer of RNG and the endless open-close-open-close GRift fishing.
Yes, I enjoyed Wudijo's video very much! I love the idea of an All Yellow Challenge, or a non-set challenge, but in a more organised/official environment rather than having to record your runs etc. which is often tedious/difficult and ultimately makes me not bother.
And I love the suggestion for the publishing of the most popular at the end of a week or so! That's a great idea, and solves the issues with the potential messiness of the Leaderboards that I was thinking might happen with my suggested system. Perhaps a fortnight/month would be a decent amount of time, to let a variety of theories develop on how to best complete a particular Custom Rift. They could even have different lengths of time, some for a week, some for a month - it could be Blizzard's twist on PoE's weekly races. Hmmmm.
A possible way to implement something that has been suggested by many people before (with pics!).
Custom Rifts
[TL;DR: Inspired by Community-created 'challenges' such as: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3r3y0z/season_3_rdiablo_billions_of_misfortunate_builds/ Custom rifts would allow the creation of specific Rifts to support and facilitate such Community-created events to provide an alternative end-game than GRift Fishing.]
Custom Rift Settings
Game Play Options
Mob Types (default, all selected): Select which mobs will be present in the rift, based on which act they originate from. Tired of wasps? Remove Act 2 mobs.
Mob Density (default, 3): Select from preset mob density values e.g. 1 = minimum density, 6 = maximum density.
Elite Types (default, all selected): Remove Yellow or Blue packs.
Elite Affixes (default, all selected): Remove certain elite affixes.
Timer (default, selected, 15 mins): change the duration of the timer, or remove the timer completely.
Deaths Allowed (default, unselected): unselected means infinite number of deaths allowed, as per usual in Softcore mode. But if selected, then only a certain amount of deaths would be allowed before the Rift was automatically failed.
Mob CC Resistance (default, selected, 95%): This is for mob CC resistance cap. Currently in patch 2.3 it has been increased to 95%, up from 65% of the previous patch. This value wouldn’t change the inherent CC resistance gain and decay stats of patch 2.3: 10% increased resistance per 1 second under CC, and the decay of 5% resistance per second while out of CC e.g. if this value was set at 0%, then mobs would have no resistance at all to CC effects and could easily be perma-stunned. If set to 100% then mobs would increase their CC resistance by 10% per second of CC, up to 100% and then be immune to all CC effects, until their resistance decayed. 65% would be similarish CC-effects of patch 2.2.
Misc. Opts: Remove health/nephalem globes entirely if desired. Allow gold drops and clickables to make use of items like http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/goldwrap, http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/harrington-waistguard, and other interesting items that cannot be used in GRifts simply because gold drops and clickables have been removed from them. (To prevent people cheesing and farming gold you could make it so that any gold picked up in the GRift doesn’t go to the player’s account).
Remove all sources of healing, from abilities or item stats etc., so that you only have a starting health pool and that’s all you have to work with.
Item Options
Item Types (default, all selected): Disallow Ancient items or Legendary items. Disallow sets, or restrict the amount of set items (per set) you can equip e.g. so you can only equip 2 set items per set. Or change the amount of sets you can equip, e.g. only 2-pieces from a set, and only 1 set allowed. Can remove Legendary gems, or just restrict the level the gem can be, to avoid group-leveled gems from dominating.
Item Slots (default, all selected): Want to remove jewelry? Want to force builds that don’t have pants? Go nuts.
Map Options
Maps (default, all selected): Select which map types you want in the pool. It may be impractical to list all the individual maps, so maybe just a selection from Act I, II, III etc.
Rift Guardian (default, 1, all selected): Select which RGs you want to be available to spawn. Or remove the RG entirely. Or maybe you’re insane and want more than 1 RG to make the end of a GRift more like the Uber battles.
Pylons (default, all Pylons selected, no Shrines selected): Select which Pylons/Shrines you want to be able to spawn.
Difficulty Level Range (default, 1 – 100): Set which GRift level range the GRift starts at and maxes out at, to allow a range of difficulties, or you may just want to set it at one difficulty. Maybe you want to set the Grift at, say, level 60 and just see how fast people can complete that difficulty level.
Rift Level Range (default, 1 – 10): This is the number of map levels in the actual Rift, I believe 10 is currently the max. Maybe you want the rift to only have 1 single map level so you put the max at 1. There may be some technical difficulties here with the interaction between Mob Density meter to make one level have sufficient mobs for 100% progress, so maybe this option isn't viable.
Player Options
Paragon Points (default, unselected): Set a cap for the number of paragon points that can be allocated before entering the custom rift, to make paragon grinding not the be-all and end-all.
Stat Caps (default, none selected): Set caps for particular character stats. Leave unselected to leave uncapped, as per normal. This particular example has crit chance and crit damage capped at the inherent bases of 5 and 50, and Elemental damage capped at 0% and Attack speed capped at 1 APS. This would only affect unbuffed sheet stats from gear and passive effects, but would obviously not include dynamic/active buffs.
Classes and Team Size (default, all selected): Allows the setting of what classes and number of players could partake in the custom rift. Maybe the monk community wants to create a rift to see how monks perform on that particular rift, or maybe the Demon Hunters want to see what kind of 4-player DH groups can do against each other. Or maybe force a mixture of Monk + Crusader teams, etc.
Followers (default, 1, Multiplayer off, all other selected): Restrict access to only particular followers, or allow more than 1 follower to be used, or allow followers in multiplayer.
Creating your Custom Rift
Once you’ve chosen all your settings, now you Create the Custom Rift. First you name it, select whether it is open to public or not, and whether it is a Static Rift.
STATIC RIFTS (this is an important option, and deserves a separate discussion to itself)
A non-Static rift would simply operate as regular Rifts and Grifts currently do i.e. whenever you enter a new rift it randomizes (from the set criteria) the rift. So, even if you select only 1 map-type etc. for your Custom Rift, but do not set it as Static, it will still randomly create a rift based on that one map type and the other criteria every time someone attempts that rift. A Static Rift, however, will only create one single rift when the creator/designer of the Custom Rift initially creates the Custom Rift, and from then on all subsequent openings of that rift, by anyone, will all be exactly the same, from the map layout to the monsters’ spawn location and type, pylon location etc. Everything is identical for every player who opens that Custom Rift (excluding RG spawn location, obviously).
PROS of a Static Rift
CONS
If you’re still unconvinced by Custom Rifts, well, simple: there’s no need to play these Custom Rifts at all if you have no interest in them. You miss out on nothing by not playing them. It’s just like how some people will never play Hardcore-mode and they don’t miss out on anything by not. Which brings me to my next important point.
NO LOOT
Custom Rifts would have no loot. None at all (not even from the Rift Guardian). And no experience gained. This is partly so that people couldn’t cheese and create some easy farming rift, but more so because Custom Rifts would be purely about the fun of the competition, just like those countless other games we play because people enjoy competing against each other – that’s what drives (in part) communities. We can see this where D3 communities are already (and have been for a long time) creating their own friendly competitions/challenges in order to keep themselves entertained when there’s little else in the game for them to do, and GRift-fishing becomes too tedious. For examples see the old T6 speed-clearing competition ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14609681171#1 ), the HC No Set Challenge (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/18000139876?page=1 ), the Reddit Challenge ( https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo/wiki/weeklychallenge_s1 ), and I’m sure there’s many more.
Searching for a Custom Rift
Lastly, just to touch on the some of the logistics of a potential Custom Rift system.
‘How would you search for or join a Custom Rift?’
The search system currently used for Communities could be duplicated to provide a search system for Custom Rifts. You could filter the search via words in the title or description - it would likely be too difficult to filter the search by every possible criteria that the Custom Rift could vary by, but one important criteria that should be filterable is Static or non-Static Rifts. This must be a filter option.
The search would return all the Custom Rifts that satisfy the criteria, ordered by most populated at the top, similar to the Community search feature. Clicking on a particular Custom Rift would provide a short description of the Custom Rift made by the creator, and list a few of the more prominent categories, highlighting those that are altered from the default (which you could further explore by looking at the details of the Custom Rift). Clicking Join Custom Rift will add that Custom Rift to your list of ‘My Custom Rifts’.
Entering a Custom Rift
Open a game and go to the Rift Pylon, as per usual when entering a rift. The Custom drop-down lists all of ‘My Custom Rifts’ i.e. all those Custom Rifts that I have ‘joined’, by searching for them as you would search for and join a Community. Once a specific Custom Rift is selected it checks your current gear setup against the criteria of that Custom Rift to see if they are satisfied. If no, an error message is displayed. If yes, then another drop-down for the level of Custom Rift would appear for you to select the level (as currently happens with Greater Rifts). Entering a Custom Rift does not require any kind of ‘key’ – you can enter as many times as you want for ‘free’. This is allowable because Custom Rifts don’t provide you with any loot/xp/gold/etc. and so cannot be ‘farmed’.
Leaderboards
This suggestion of Leaderboards has Custom Rifts as a separate category to Greater Rift Leaderboards. However, Greater Rift Leaderboards could potentially just be removed, if Custom Rifts become the prime place where players can compete against each other for Leaderboard positions, and Greater Rifts can just be another place to farm LGems/xp/loot etc.
As you can see in the pic there is an added drop-down list for selecting which Custom Rift Leaderboard you wish to peruse. This drop-down automatically lists the 10 most populous Custom Rifts, and then below this is the list of ‘my’ Custom Rifts that I've personally joined (if they’re not in the top 10 most populous list already). This example assumes that the separate class communities have split off into their own specific Rifts. However, that won't necessarily happen, and the D3 community as a whole may decide on one type of Custom Rift that is good for all class-types.
Thanks for taking the time to read! Any feedback/suggestions would be great. Do you think some type of Custom Rift system would be viable??
Thanks for the positive feedback, and for taking the time to read the big wall-of-text.
Blizz forum thread: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/19288909452?page=1#0
Some suggestions for all of those Legendary items that aren't legendary, and some tweaks to those legendaries that are subpar.
Note 1: Not going to claim that all the values used here are balanced. Numbers should be adjusted to that end. However, I have tried to base these numbers on the already existing ‘OP’ items, such as 50% multiplicative damage boost of Focus/Restraint, 50% damage reduction from Unity, etc. Also even the fairly useless items that have large damage procs, such as Rimeheart and Nagelring, that both deal 10,000% weapon damage.
Note 2: The damage buff numbers to follow assume separate multiplicative damage boosts, unless otherwise stated.
Note 3: ‘Defensive skills’ refers to the category of skills labelled ‘Defensive’ that all classes have.
e.g. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/barbarian/active/#type=defensive
Amulets
Immunity Amulets
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/talisman-of-aranoch
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/countess-julias-cameo
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/maras-kaleidoscope
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-star-of-azkaranth
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/xephirian-amulet
[These immunity amulets could make you and your allies immune to these elements (and heal you and your allies), allowing them to be useful on your supports and followers.]
Rondal’s Locket - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rondals-locket
Your resource costs are reduced by 90%.
Ancestor’s Grace - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/ancestors-grace
When receiving fatal damage, you explode for 20,000% weapon damage in a 30 yard radius, and are also restored to 100% maximum Life and resources and become immune to damage for 2 seconds. This effect may occur once every 120 seconds.
[This item should be obtainable in both HC and SC, and not be consumed when proc’d but instead just have a cooldown.]
Dovu Energy Trap - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/dovu-energy-trap
Your maximum primary Resource pool is reduced by 50%. The damage of your Secondary skills is increased by 40%.
The Flavor of Time - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-flavor-of-time
All of your cooldowns are reduced by 50%.
Halcyon’s Ascent - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/halcyons-ascent
Vengeance, Wrath of the Berserker, Archon, Big Bad Voodoo, Epiphany and Akarat’s Champion gain the effect of all runes.
Moonlight Ward - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/moonlight-ward
Hitting an enemy within 15 yards reduces your damage taken by 20% for 5 seconds, and has a chance to ward you with shards of Arcane energy that explode when enemies get close, dealing 1000% weapon damage as Arcane to enemies within 15 yards.
Squirt’s Necklace - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/squirts-necklace
Wearing this amulet creates a 20 yard Friend Zone around you. Other wearers of this item that are within your Friend Zone take 10% reduced damage for every other wearer of the item within the combined Friend Zones. Other wearers of this item that are outside the combined Friend Zone do 30% increased damage to enemies in the combined Friend Zone for every wearer of this item within the combined Friend Zone.
[The damage reduction and damage increase is additive with itself. So, if 2 players are wearing this amulet and are within 20 yards of each other, they each gain 10% damage reduction. If a 3rd wearer of this item is also within 20 yards of the 2 other wearers, all 3 of them gain 20% damage reduction. If the 3rd wearer is outside the combined duo-Zone, then this player does 60% (30 + 30) increased damage to the mobs inside the duo-Friend Zones. This should also work with Followers.]
Golden Gorget of Leoric - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/golden-gorget-of-leoric
Hitting an enemy with a Primary skill spawns a skeleton at the target location. Hitting an enemy with a Secondary skill explodes all the skeletons for 1000% weapon damage each. A maximum of 5 skeletons can be summoned at any time.
Overwhelming Desire - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/overwhelming-desire
[Increase the chance of the charm, and the damage buff should work with any charm e.g. from Skull of Resonance, The Tormentor, enchantress charm if she has the amulet on, etc.]
Eye of Etlich - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/eye-of-etlich
Ranged enemies that hit you do 30% less damage for 5 seconds.
[This is in addition to the Ranged Reduction secondary roll. Includes Elite affixes classified as Ranged.]
Ouroboros - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/ouroboros
Hitting an enemy with any skill labels them with a mark of the Viper, increasing any further damage you do to that target by 1% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up 50 times.
[Primarily a ramp-up single-target item. Excludes DoT damage.]
Haunt of Vaxo - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/haunt-of-vaxo
Summons shadow clones to your aid for 30 seconds when you Stun an enemy. This effect may occur once every 30 seconds.
[This amulet is cool, but the clones need to benefit from all your buffs, including ability damage increase rolls on your items (which they currently don’t benefit from), and they need to last for 30 seconds effectively allowing 100% uptime if you’re timing your stuns appropriately. Also it would be very cool if this item worked on your follower, so your follower could produce clones of themselves (if they stun) which then cast their abilities.]
Rakoff’s Glass of Life - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rakoffs-glass-of-life
Enemies you kill have a 50% increased chance to drop a Health Globe and Nephalem Globe.
[Multiplicative increase in chance, so should see 50% more HGs and NGs.]
The Ess of Johan - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-ess-of-johan
[Increase the chance for the pull in.]
Rings
Manald Heal - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/manald-heal
You can no longer heal past 20% of your Maximum Health. Increase your Hit Points by 100%. You take 25% less damage. Increase Healing from all sources by 50%.
[Can make use of items that benefit from less than 100% health.]
Stolen Ring - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/stolen-ring
Triples the quantity of white, blue and yellow resources that drop.
Avarice Band - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/avarice-band
Each time you pick up gold or a Health Globe, increase your Gold and Health Pickup radius by 1 yard for 10 seconds, stacking up to 30 times. The range of your passives and item effects is extended by your Gold and Health Pickup radius.
[Your passives skills, item and gem effects that have conditions dependent on ‘mobs within X yards’ are increased by your Gold and Health Pickup radius, similar to how WitchDoctor passives work.]
Leoric’s Signet http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/leorics-signet
Enemies within 25 yards of you are Jailed for 3 seconds. You do 100% more damage to jailed enemies. This effect can occur on an enemy once every 9 seconds.
[The jailing effect should stop mobs that ‘launch’ themselves at you, such as charging bulls and leaping winged assassins.]
Pandemonium Loop - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pandemonium-loop
Absorb the souls of your enemies around you, reducing your damage taken by 2.5% per enemy within 20 yards, and these enemies within 20 yards take 2.5% increased damage from all sources per enemy within 20 yards of you. Capped at 16 enemies.
[40% damage reduction and 40% increased damage from all sources at cap. Effect lasts as long as there are enemies within range.]
Broken Promises - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/broken-promises
[Let the internal cooldown on this item be slackened, so that it’s actually useable for classes other than 1 specific Monk build.]
Puzzle Ring - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/puzzle-ring
Summon a treasure goblin who picks up white, blue and yellow items, auto-salvages the items and doubles the obtained salvage amount.
Arcstone - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/arcstone
Lightning pulses constantly between all other wearers of this item within 50 yards, dealing between 1000% and 10,000% weapon damage per second, depending on the distance between the wearers. The damage increases the further the distance between the wearers, up to the maximum of 10,000% at 50 yards.
[Moving too far away would break the link (with some leeway). The damage of the pulses per second should be based on the person with the highest DPS wearing the ring.]
Band of the Rue Chambers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/band-of-the-rue-chambers
Your generators generate 500% more resource.
[Still probably be useless, but at least it might be kind of fun if you find it while levelling, like Nagelring.]
Rechel’s Ring of Larceny - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rechels-ring-of-larceny
Gain 60% movement speed for 4 seconds after hitting an enemy.
Rogar’s Huge Stone - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rogars-huge-stone
Increase your Life per Second by up to 75–100% and damage reduction by up to 40% based on your missing Life.
[The damage reduction would work similar to the regen increase i.e. you gain the maximum 40% damage reduction only at 0 Health, and 20% damage reduction while at 50% Maximum Health, etc.]
Wyrdward - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/wyrdward
Lightning damage has a 25–35% chance to Stun for 1.5 seconds. Enemies you stun take 20% more damage from all sources.
[Stun chance should perhaps bypass proc-coefficients.]
Bul-Kathos’s Wedding Band - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bulkathoss-wedding-band
[Increase the heal cap from the current 1% Max Health to, say, 6% Max Health per second, and the damage cap could probably be increased from 2000% to 3000% damage per second (based on monster current health).]
Band of Hollow Whispers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/band-of-hollow-whispers
Haunt a nearby target enemy for 10 seconds, doing 5000% weapon damage per second, increasing by 1000% each second. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
[i.e. does 5000% weapon damage per second for the first second, then 6000% for the next second, then 7000%,and finally 15,000% on the 10th second. Then the DoT falls off and a new one starts at 5000%.]
Stone of Jordan - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/stone-of-jordan
All your elemental bonuses are equal to your maximum elemental bonus.
[Potentially makes hybrid builds more viable, and allows players to make use of proc effects that are of a mixture of different elements.]
Krede’s Flame - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/kredes-flame
Getting hit by Fire damage instantly restores you to full Resource.
Oculus Ring - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/oculus-ring
[Increase the chance to occur to make the uptime closer to 100%.]
Skull Grasp - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/skull-grasp
[Needs some kind of rework to be less awful. Some good suggestions in this thread http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/19136834889]
Eternal Union - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/eternal-union
Increase the duration of Phalanx avatars by 200% and their damage by 100%.
Justice Lantern - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/justice-lantern
Blocking an attack heals you and your allies for 5% of your maximum health.
Unity - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/unity
Wearers of this item take 50% reduced damage while there is another Unity wearer within 100 yards.
[A slight rework to Unity to maybe make it useful in teamplay, as it was actually originally intended. Has the exact same effect for single player as before (except now the Invulnerable Follower token is not mandatory, which is an issue in itself), but also now works in multiplayer.]
Hellfire Jewelery http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/jeweler/recipe/hellfire-ring
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/jeweler/recipe/hellfire-amulet-of-strength
[Both ring and amulet could give you a bonus passive, and allow the use of both of them, for 2 extra passives. Also they might need some sort of generic 10% increased damage and damage mitigation buff to keep up with the other Jewelry (and the current existing Jewelry)]
Chest Armor
Aquila Cuirass - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/aquila-cuirass
Enemies hit by your Nephalem Glory explosions are additionally seared by Holy light for 3 seconds. During these 3 seconds 50% of all damage dealt to these enemies is further dealt as a Damage Over Time effect on these enemies over 5 seconds.
[So, 50% of the accrued damage dealt to these mobs during the 3 second period is then dealt again as a DoT over 5 seconds. Also see suggested rework of Nephalem Glory at the end of the post.]
Heart of Iron http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/heart-of-iron
Gain bonus damage equal to 50% of your bonus +% Life.
[A total of +100% Life = 50% multiplicative damage buff].
Chaingmail - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/chaingmail
Picking up a Health Globe gives you a Chaing stack, up to a maximum of 100 stacks. Taking fatal damage instead restores you to 100% Maximum Life and Resources, renders you immune to damage for 2 seconds, and you spew out 10 Health Globes and three Nephalem Glory globes. This effect consumes 50 Chaing stacks.
[The stacks should have no duration, and there shouldn’t be any internal cooldown on the effect – all you require is at least 50 Chaing stacks.]
Cindercoat - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/cindercoat
Reduces the resource cost of Fire skills by 50%.
[Keeping pace with the power creep.]
Shi Mizu’s Haori - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/shi-mizus-haori
Gain up to 100% bonus increased Critical Hit Chance based on your missing Life.
[Similar mechanic to Rogar’s Huge Stone, where you would get +0% CHC when you are at 100% Health, and it would ramp up as you lose life until you would theoretically have +100% CHC at 0% Life.]
Tyreal’s Might - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/tyraels-might
Killing a Demon increases your movement speed by 3% and attack speed by 3% for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Slain Demons explode for 1000% weapon damage as Holy.
Mantle of the Rydraelm - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/mantle-of-the-rydraelm
Increase the power of your non-set item buff effects by 10%.
[e.g. the 50% damage reduction from Unity would now be 55% damage reduction, the 50% damage increase from each of FnR would be 55%, etc. This wouldn’t apply to set buffs, passive/active skill buffs, gem buffs, or item buffs that you gain from your party, but only buffs from those items that you have equipped. This also wouldn’t affect the duration of buffs, or the damage of damage procs. ]
Bracers
Steady Srikers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/steady-strikers
Standing still increases your Critical Hit Chance by +5% per second, stacking up to 10 times.
[Standing still for 10 seconds results in +50% Critical Hit Chance, that disappears when you start moving, like Boots of Disregard.]
Custerian Wristguards - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/custerian-wristguards
30% of the damage you take is instead taken from your primary Resource.
[Taken as a percentage, so if a hit deals 10% of your max health, it instead deals 7% of your max health and 3% of your max primary resource .]
Warzechian Armguards - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/warzechian-armguards
Every time you kill an enemy or destroy a wreckable object, you gain a short burst of speed.
Promise of Glory- http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/promise-of-glory
5% chance to spawn a Nephalem Glory globe when you CC an enemy. Increase your max stacks of Nephalem Glory to 6.
[(see Nephalem Glory rework at end of post). The increase in stack size to 6 would effectively double the power of the NG effects and synergise with other items that make use of NG.]
Kethryes Splint - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/kethryes-splint
Reduces damage from ranged attacks by 20% for you and your allies, and increases the damage of ranged attacks by 15% for you and your allies.]
[I’m not entirely sure what player attacks are considered Ranged or Melee, but Stalgard’s Decimator already references ‘Melee’ attacks, so I assume all attacks are classified as one or the other.]
Trag’oul Coils - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/tragoul-coils
Picking up a Health Globe reduces all of your cooldowns by 1 second.
Gloves
Stone Gauntlets - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/stone-gauntlets
Your movement speed is capped at +25% and your attack speed is capped at 1 attack per second. Your Critical Hit Damage is doubled.
Magefist - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/magefist
Turns all your damage into Fire damage.
[Your item procs, gem procs, pet damage, abilities regardless of which rune, etc. all now do Fire damage.]
St. Archew’s Gage - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/st-archews-gage
While an elite pack is near you, your Hit Points are increased by 100%.
[This new version with bonus %Life would still work for supports, but could also synergise well with the reworked Heart of Iron for DpS]
Gladiator Gauntlets - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gladiator-gauntlets
Your Defensive skills no longer perform their normal function but instead give you and your allies a 5% damage increase for 6 seconds. This effect can stack up to 6 times.
[Your Defensive skills no longer do anything except proc this damage buff, stacking to a 30% party damage buff.]
Frostburn - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/frostburn
[These need to bypass proc-coefficients or something.]
Pender’s Purchase - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/penders-purchase
Double the damage of your non-set item damage effects.
[Doubles the damage of the item proc effects that do damage e.g. Odyn Son lightning effect etc. Does not include any effects from Set bonuses, and doesn’t increase the effects of damaging buffs e.g. doesn’t increase the damage buff from FnR, Hexing Pants etc.]
Belts
Vigilante Belt - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/vigilante-belt
Reduce one of your cooldowns by 1 second when an enemy dies within 20 yards of you.
Insatiable Belt -http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/insatiable-belt
[Increase stacks to 10]
Saffron Wrap - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/saffron-wrap
Picking up a Health Globe increases your maximum Resource by 10% for 15 seconds. This effect can stack up to 5 times.
String of Ears - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/string-of-ears
Enemies within 25 yards of you deal 20% less damage.
[In addition to the melee reduction secondary roll]
Cord of Sherma - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/cord-of-the-sherma
Chance on hit to create a chaos field that pulls mobs to its center and Blinds and Slows enemies inside for 3–4 seconds and enemies within the chaos field take 10% increased damage from all sources.
Razor Strop http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/razor-strop
Picking up a Health Globe releases an explosion that deals 7000% weapon damage. You no longer heal or gain resource from Health Globes.
Thungergod’s Vigor - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/thundergods-vigor
Enemies within 20 yards of you take 40% increased damage from Lightning attacks from all sources.
[Works with Lightning damage from all sources, e.g. from party members]
Sacred Harness - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/sacred-harness
[Judgement additionally gains the effect of all runes.]
Hellcat Waistguard - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/hellcat-waistguard
Allows you to wield a two-handed weapon with one hand.
Jang’s Envelopment - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jangs-envelopment
[Black Hole additionally gains effect of all runes]
Hunter’s Wrath - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/hunters-wrath
[Allow this to drop for all classes.]
Shoulders
Homing Pads - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/homing-pads
Your Town Portal has no duration.
[Small QoL enhancement. Using Town Portal is just like using a Way Point, and can’t be interrupted]
Pauldrons of the Skeleton King - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pauldrons-of-the-skeleton-king
When receiving fatal damage you are instead restored to 25% of maximum Life, become immune to damage for 2 seconds, and cause nearby enemies to flee in fear. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
Death Watch Mantle - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/death-watch-mantle
When you are hit there is a 25 - 35% chance to explode in a fan of knives for 750-950% weapon damage, and have your thorns damage increased by 50% for 5 seconds.
[Awaiting the thorns rework of patch 2.4]
Fury of the Ancients - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/fury-of-the-ancients
Call of the Ancient’s gains access to all runes.
Profane Pauldrons - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/profane-pauldrons
Picking up a Health Globe increases your damage by 1% for 15 seconds. This effect stacks up to 20 times.
Spaulders of Zakara - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/spaulders-of-zakara
Getting hit reduces your damage taken by 4% for 30 seconds, stacking up to 10 times.
Corruption - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/corruption
Your primary Resource (re)generation is increased by 200%.
Helms
Pride’s Fall - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/prides-fall
Your resource costs are reduced by 50% after not taking damage for 3 seconds.
Blind Faith - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/blind-faith
You deal 350% increased damage, gain 15% increased movement speed and attack speed. You can no longer Critically Hit, Dodge or Block attacks.
[Your Dodge, Block and Crit chance are capped at 0%.]
Deathseer’s Cowl - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/deathseers-cowl
When receiving fatal damage, you are instead restored to 20% Max Health and enter the nether realm for 10 seconds. While in the nether realm you are immune to damage and CC effects and can move through mobs, gain 15% increased damage and 100% increased resource regeneration, and do not heal from any source. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
Andariel’s Visage - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/andariels-visage
Hitting an enemy applies a Poison Damage over Time effect that lasts for 5 seconds and deals total damage equal to 50% of the initial hit damage.
[The DoT effect would be overridden by the highest damaging hit.]
Mempo of Twighlight- http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/mempo-of-twilight
Increase the damage of channeled abilities by 10% per second while channeling, stacking up to 5 times.
Helm of Rule - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/the-helm-of-rule
Your Critical Hit Chance is increased by 50% of your total Block Chance.
[An additive increase in Crit chance, so 100% Block Chance would provide +50% CHC.]
Pants
Pox Faulds - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pox-faulds
When 3 or more enemies are within 20 yards of you, you release a vile stench that deals Poison damage every second for 5 seconds. The poison cloud deals 500% weapon damage per second per enemy within 20 yards, capped at 20 enemies. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.]
Death’s Bargain - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/deaths-bargain
[These need to scale properly with your mainstat and damage buffs.]
Swamp Land Waders - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/swamp-land-waders
Enemies you poison take 20% increased damage from all sources, and explode on death for 1000% weapon damage as Poison. You are immune to Poison damage.
Hammer Jammers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/hammer-jammers
+50% chance to dodge. When you dodge an attack you gain the HammerTime buff for 10 seconds. The HammerTime buff gives you +25% increased movement speed, +15% increased attack speed, the ability to walk through mobs, and your attacks have a 50% chance on-hit to Breakdown the enemy. A Breakdown hit deals up to 100% increased damage based on the missing health of the enemy.
[The ‘Breakdown’ hit would increase the damage you dealt to that mob by 100% if they that mob was on 0% health, 50% increased damage if they were on half health, etc. ]
Depth Diggers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/depth-diggers
[These should be made to work with Wizard and Witch Doctor Primary skills. It’s time.]
Skelon’s Deceit - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/skelons-deceit
You can no longer equip weapons, but instead can equip two non-weapon off-hand items. You gain +1737-1912 Damage.
[These pants inherently provide +1737-1912 damage as orange text (the base damage range for a 2H Mace), and would additionally have a regular damage roll stat like weapons do, with the Ancient range if the pants themselves are Ancient.]
Boots
Boots of Disregard - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/boots-of-disregard
Gain 10,000 LpS, 5% damage reduction and 5% increase damage for each second you stand still, stacking 6 times.
Boj Anglers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/boj-anglers
Each Nephalem Glory stack gives you an additional +5% cooldown reduction, 5% increased damage
[see NG rework at end of post.]
Irontoe Mudsputters - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/irontoe-mudsputters
Allows Movement Speed bonus on gear to exceed the 25% cap. Gain 15% of your increased movement speed as increased damage.
[This would apply to any and all increased movement speed, even from temporary buffs like pylons and shrines etc.]
Fire Walkers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/fire-walkers
Burn the ground you walk on, dealing 1000% weapon damage per second. You are immune to Fire damage.
[Allow the boots to roll +%Fire Damage]
Ice Climbers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/ice-climbers
Gain immunity to Freeze and Immobilize effects. You are immune to Cold damage.
[Instead of rolling %Less Cold Damage taken, allow boots to roll +%Cold Damage]
Board Walkers - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/board-walkers
Your movement speed is capped at +25%. Moving 20 yards increases the damage of your next Secondary attack by 10%. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
[Moving 20 yards would give you a 10% damage buff for your next Secondary skill. Moving another 20 yards (without spending the buff) would increase to 20%, up to a max of 50%. Casting a Secondary ability would spend the stacked buff, and they would have to be built up from zero again.]
1Handers
Genzaniku - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/genzaniku
When equipped summons a Fallen Champion that reduces damage taken of allies by 25%. The Fallen Champion casts a warcry that taunts surrounding enemies for 4 seconds and causes taunted enemies to take 20% increased damage from all sources.
[Most of these summon weapons should have the creature permanently summoned, rather than have a duration. Or at least allow for 100% uptime.]
Flesh Tearer - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/flesh-tearer
Gain 100% Critical Hit Chance. Your Critical Hit Damage is capped at 150%.
The Butcher’s Sickle - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-butchers-sickle
50% chance on attack to release multiple chains that pierce and pull all enemies hit towards you and stun them for 1 second.
[A mix between the Butcher’s two chain attacks: releases 5 (?) or so chains in a 45 degree arc that pulls all enemies hit towards you.]
Sky Splitter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/sky-splitter
25-35% chance to Smite enemies for 600-750% weapon damage as Lightning when you hit them. If the Smitten enemy is more than 20 yards away from any other enemy, the Smite deals 8,000% weapon damage as Lightning.
The Burning Axe of Sankis - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-burning-axe-of-sankis
[This should at the very least be a 50% damage reduction, as opposed to the 35% damage reduction it currently provides. In addition, why not just make it actually be the Ignore Pain skill and inherit the Ignore Pain rune you have selected (if you’re a Barb).]
Utar’s Roar - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/utars-roar
Increase your Cold Damage by 10% per Cold skill on your skill bar.
[Maximum of 60% multiplicative Cold damage increase if using 6 Cold skills.]
The Barber - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-barber
+60% bonus Critical Hit Damage per stack of Nephalem Glory.
Envious Blade - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/envious-blade
Gain 100% Critical Hit Chance against enemies above 75% Health
Pig Sticker - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pig-sticker
Hitting an enemy inflicts them with a grievous wound causing them to bleed for 500% weapon damage per second for 10 seconds while the enemy remains stationary. If the enemy moves, the bleed damage increases up to 10,000% per second depending on the movement speed of the enemy.
[The faster the movement speed of the monster, the higher the damage. So only the fastest moving mobs would be hit for the 10,000% weapon damage per second, with slower moving mobs being hit for less. Perhaps the lowest movement-damage could be 1000% per second.]
Kill - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/kill
Your attack speed is increased by 100%. Your Critical Hit Damage is capped at 200%.
Wizard Spike - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/wizardspike
On attack hurl an Arcane Orb.
[Inherits the properties of the Arcane Orb rune you have selected (if Wizard), and it would proc on every attack like Sash of Knives and Stalgard’s. These orbs would also benefit from any +% Arcane Orb stats on your gear and items like Triumvirate.]
Blood-Magic Edge - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/bloodmagic-edge
Enemies you make bleed take 25% increased damage from all sources.
Odyn Son - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/odyn-son
[Damage buff.]
Mad Monarch’s Scepter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/mad-monarchs-scepter
[Allow the kills made by the explosion itself to count towards the next explosion. Could get some really fun trash-killing chain-reaction explosions going. And the damage could be boosted as well.]
Nutcracker - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/nutcracker
Deal up to 60% increased damage based on your missing primary Resource.
[Similar mechanic to Rogar’s Huge Stone – you gain full buff at 0% Resource, and some portion of that buff at intermediate Resource levels.]
Telranden’s Hand] - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/telrandens-hand
When you hit an enemy you place a charge on that enemy based on the element type you hit it with. Hitting that enemy with a different element from any source stacks another charge. The charges detonate after 3 seconds dealing 5000% weapon damage per element-stack on the enemy.
[A maximum of 7 charge-stacks is obtainable, one for each of the 7 elements in the game, and this would result in 35,000% weapon damage per 3 seconds. And the explosion damage should be based off the wielder of Telranden’s, and off their highest damaging element.]
Solanium - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/solanium
Critical Hits have a 4% chance to spawn Health Globes and a 1% chance to spawn Nephalem Globes.
Nailbiter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/nailbiter
Enemies you hit take 100% increased thorns damage from all sources for 5 seconds.
Neanderthal- http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/neanderthal
Enemies hit by your thorns are taunted, attack 50% faster, and deal 50% less damage for 5 seconds. This effect can occur on an enemy once every 10 seconds.
Echoing Fury - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/echoing-fury
Hitting an enemy with the same ability in succession increases the damage done to that enemy by that ability by 10%, stacking 10 times. Damage dealt to that enemy from any other source clears all stacks on that enemy.
[Even incidental damage done to that enemy, through area damage, proc effects, pets, reflect damage, follower damage, Ally damage etc. would clear all stacks]
Devastator - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/devastator
You have 100% Critical Hit Chance against enemies within 15 yards of you.
Monster Hunter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/monster-hunter
Randomly marks a nearby enemy for 10 seconds. This enemy takes 20% increased damage from all sources. Killing the marked enemy gives players 20% additional damage against subsequently marked enemies for 30 seconds. This effect can stack up to 4 times.
[So, with 4 stacks this would equal 100% increased damage against a marked target. The mark would last for 10 seconds, or until the enemy is killed, at which time a new enemy would be marked.]
Wildwood - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/wildwood
As long as there are no enemies within 25 yards of you, your damage is increased by 40% and resource cost is reduced 25%.
The Ancient Bonesaber of Zumakalis - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-ancient-bonesaber-of-zumakalis
Killing an enemy creates a whirling storm of bones around you that reduces damage taken by 1% for you and any allies standing in the bonestorm. The bonestorm also deals 100% weapon damage per second to enemies caught in the storm. The effect lasts for 5 seconds, and stacks up to 25 times.
[So, at full stacks the bone storm would reduce incoming damage by 25%, and do 2500% weapon damage per second, within a radius of about 20 yards.]
Exarian - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/exarian
Your damage is increased by 50% of your bonus Maximum Resource as a proportion of your base Resource.
[e.g. if you normally have 80 base Maximum Resource, and increase that by 50% to a maximum of 120, then that’s a 25% damage increase.]
Gift of Silaria - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gift-of-silaria
Your Critical Hit Damage is increased by a percent equal to twice your increased Movement Speed.
[+200% MS = +400% CHD]
Rimeheart - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rimeheart
[This should bypass proc-coefficients, or have a dramatically increase chance to proc, or both. This item has been useless for the longest time now, and with new CC changes it’s harder than ever to make this thing proc. Make us excited for finding this weapon once more.]
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/thunderfury-blessed-blade-of-the-windseeker
[Damage buff.]
Sever - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/sever
Double your Critical Hit Damage against enemies below 25% health.
Skycutter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/skycutter
When equipped summons an angel that increases the Holy Damage of allies by 50%.
[50% multiplicative increase in Holy damage for yourself and allies.]
Azurewrath - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/azurewrath
Periodically cast Frozen around you, dealing 1000% weapon damage on frozen explosion.
[The same Frozen that Elites cast (and that Izual casts), that tick and then detonate freezing everything.]
Devil Tongue - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/devil-tongue
50% Chance on kill to go into a rage for 10 seconds. While enraged you have 30% increased damage, 20% increased attack speed, and 50% increased Life on Hit and Life on Kill.
Griswold’s Perfection - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/griswolds-perfection
Critical Hits heal you for 1% of your maximum Health, restore 5% of your maximum primary resource, and reduce one of your cooldowns by 1 second.
Shard of Hate - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/shard-of-hate
[Damage buff.]
2Handers
The Executioner - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-executioner
You deal 150% increased damage to enemies below 25%.
Burst of Wrath - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/burst-of-wrath
Hitting an enemy or an object has a 50% chance to grant you 20% of your maximum primary resource.
Butcher’s Carver - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/butchers-carver
Increase your Strength, Intelligence, Dexterity and Vitality by 1% for 15 seconds after killing an enemy. This effect stacks up to 30 times.
Messerschmidt’s Reaver - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/messerschmidts-reaver
Picking up a health globe gives you a Schmidt buff for 20 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Using a Primary skill consumes all Schmidt stacks, and increases the damage of your next Secondary skill by 20% per Schmidt stack consumed.
Skorn -http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/skorn
Increases the damage of your Damage over Time effects by 60%.
[Works with all skill, item and gem DoTs.]
Cinder Switch - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/cinder-switch
Damaging an enemy with Fire damage increases the chance that enemy will be Critically Hit by Fire damage from all sources by +15% for 5 seconds.
Arthef’s Spark of Life - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/arthefs-spark-of-life
Creates an Aura Of The Living around you. Undead enemies within this aura take +25% increased damage from all sources, and heal players for 10% of their missing Life when killed.
Crushbane - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/crushbane
Frozen enemies that are killed shatter in an icy explosion dealing 5000% weapon damage as Cold to nearby enemies, and freezing them for 1 second.
Soulsmasher - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/soulsmasher
[Damage buff and/or proper scaling with primary stat.]
Skywarden - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/skywarden
Your Laws gain the effect of all runes.
Wrath of the Bone King - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/wrath-of-the-bone-king
On kill summon a skeleton, up to a maximum of 10 skeletons. When receiving fatal damage the skeletons explode dealing 1000% weapon damage each, and you are resummoned to 100% Health and become immune to damage for 2 seconds. This effect can occur once every 120 seconds.
Schaefer’s Hammer - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/schaefers-hammer
[Damage buff.]
Sledge of Athskeleng - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/sledge-of-athskeleng
Periodically spawn Arcane Orbs near you that last for 10 seconds. The Arcane Orb deals 4000% weapon damage per second.
[These would be just like the Elite Arcane Orbs. And the rate that you spawn them could be increased by attack speed.]
Sunder - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/sunder
50% chance to sunder the ground your enemies walk on when you attack, dealing 1000% weapon damage per second to enemies standing on sundered ground. Allies standing on sundered ground gain 25% increased Fire damage.
[multiplicative 25% increase in Fire damage.]
Pledge of Caldeum - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pledge-of-caldeum
50% chance on kill to spawn a Ghost that lasts for 60 seconds. Each Ghost deals 200% weapon damage for every Ghost that is active. A maximum of 5 Ghosts can be active at a time.
[These would be the same Ghost mobs we’ve all come to hate. With 1 Ghost active the Ghost deals 200% weapon damage. With 5 Ghosts active each one deals 1000% weapon damage per hit.]
Standoff - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/standoff
You heal 5000 Life per primary Resource spent. Gain up to 20% increased damage and 20% damage reduction based on your missing primary Resource.
Bovine Bardiche - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bovine-bardiche
When equipped summons a herd of murderous cows. Using a Defensive skill sacrifices the cows making each release two Health Globes and a Nephalem Globe. After 10 s the cows are resummoned.
[The cows can drop those delightful chop-like health globes ]
Heart Slaughter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/heart-slaughter
Hitting an enemy with a Physical skill makes that enemy take 20% more damage from Damage over Time effects from all sources.
Vigilance - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/vigilance
[Inherit the properties of the Inner Sanctuary rune you have selected (if Monk)]
Faithful Memory - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/faithful-memory
Taking damage from an elite affix increases your damage of that element type by 10% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up to 10.
[At 10 stacks a 100% multiplicative damage bonus for that element type]
The Zweihander - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-zweihander
Your damage is increased by 20% per Defensive skill on your skill bar.
[Each class has 4 Defensive skills, for a total of 80% increased damage if all Defensive skills are equipped (except DH that only has 3).]
Blackguard - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/blackguard
Getting hit by a Control Impairing effect increases your damage by a percent equal to your Crowd-Control Reduction for 10 seconds.
Scourge - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/scourge
[Damage buff or ICD buff]
Stalgard’s Decimator - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/stalgards-decimator
[Damage buff]
The Sultan of Blinding Sand - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-sultan-of-blinding-sand
On attack create a whirling sandstorm around you. You and your allies within the storm gain 40% chance to dodge, and enemies within the storm take 25% increased damage from all sources.
Maximus - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/maximus
[Allow this to have 100% uptime i.e. just have the demon permanently summoned, and probably a damage buff on the fire chain.]
The Grandfather - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-grandfather
While you are below 50% maximum health you take 25% reduced damage, your movement speed is capped at +25%, and your damage is increased by 60%.
Warmonger - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/warmonger
Consumes all DoTs on targets hit, dealing 50% of their remaining damage instantly.
[Works on DoTs applied by all party members.]
Corrupted Ashbringer - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/corrupted-ashbringer
[Very cool concept, very useless item. Once again, it’s another item that is crippled by pre-emptive nerfing with ICDs. Perhaps if the chance to summon on kill was increased, and if the Holy burn could hit more than 1 target at a time, it might be more useful.]
Generic Sets
The following set bonuses would not stack with multiple people in the party wearing the same set.
Legacy of Nightmares - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/litany-of-the-undaunted
You gain 5% damage reduction and 5% increased damage for every pet you have active. Capped at 20 pets.
[The damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with itself, like Ancient Parthan Defenders, but the damage bonus would stack additively with itself. So the 20 pet cap would result in a damage reduction of ~64% and a damage increase of 100%.]
Krelm’s Buff Bulwark - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/krelms-buff-bracers
Bracers: Immune to all CC effects (including Knockback)
Belt: Gain 25% run speed. This effect is lost for 1 second after taking damage.
(2) Set: 50% damage reduction.
[These sets with their own orange text are very interesting, but this particular set is currently pretty lack-lustre. Taking a two-piece set needs to be worth it.]
The Endless Walk - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-travelers-pledge
Amulet: Increase your Maximum Resource pool by 100%. Increase your Resource cost by 100%.
Ring: Increase your Movement Speed up to 30% based on your missing primary Resource.
(2) Set: Your Critical Hit Damage is increased by up to +250% based on your missing primary Resource.
[This could also be a 2 set with each piece having its own orange text.]
Cain’s Destiny - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/cains-scriviner
(2) Set: Attack Speed Increased by 10%
(3) Set: You are immune to Butterfly attacks
[Okay so the 3 set isn’t serious, but I’m sure something cool could be there instead.]
Aughild’s Authority - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/aughilds-rule
(2) Set: Killing an Elite gives you +10% increased damage against Elites for 5 minutes. This effect can stack up 20 times.
(3) Set: You and your allies gain +10% increased damage against Elites and +10% reduced damage from Elites, per Elite pack within 50 yards.
Born’s Command - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/borns-frozen-soul
(2) Set: Your Defensive skills gain access to all runes.
(3) Set: Health Globes restore 20% primary Resource for you and your allies.
Captain Crimson’s Trimmings - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/captain-crimsons-waders
(2) Set: Every point of primary Resource you spend heals you and your allies for 4000 Life.
(3) Set: Your increased movement speed is applied to both you and your allies.
Guardian’s Jeopardy - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/guardians-aversion
(2) Set: Increase Healing from all sources for you and your allies by 20%.
(3) Set: Incoming attacks to you or your allies that would deal more than 40% maximum Life are reduced to deal 40% maximum Life instead. The amount absorbed cannot exceed 100% maximum Life.
Blackthorne’s Battlegear - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/blackthornes-surcoat
(2) Set: 50% elite damage reduction
(3) Set: 75% elite damage reduction
(4) Set: You and your allies are immune to all Elite affixes
[4-set includes immunity to Elite affix CC effects]
Asheara’s Vestments - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/ashearas-ward
(2) Set: +25% Life, +100 Resistance to All Elements and +1000 Armor
(3) Set: Your active follower(s) gains access to all skills
(4) Set: Gain access to all 3 followers at once
[4 set permanently gives you access to all 3 followers. Even in multiplayer]
Hallowed Protectors - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/hallowed-barricade
Weapon: %50 increased damage to Demons.
Offhand: Gain up to 60% damage reduction up based on your missing primary Resource.
(2) Set: You and your allies gain +100 to All Resistance and +1000 to Armor.
[It might be nice if this set has the off-hands for each of the classes, rather than just a shield (especially because the Shield auto-rolls +%Holy damage, which is useless to most classes. The offhand damage reduction affix would be like Rogar’s Huge Stone mechanic.]
Class-Specific Items
Class specific items provide good opportunities to buff specific class abilities. But I am not familiar enough with every class to make suggestions along those lines. However, there are a couple of items that would seem to allow for some pretty simple buffs:
Cloak of Deception - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/cloak-of-deception
Enemy ranged attacks pass through you harmlessly
[This effectively gives you 100% ranged damage reduction, including those Elite affixes that are classified as ranged.]
Cloak of the Garwulf -http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-cloak-of-the-garwulf
[This should multiply the effect of the active Wolf. If 3 times 30% increased damage is too much, then it could just summon 1 extra Wolf.]
The Smoldering Core - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-smoldering-core
Enemies are now pulled to your Meteor impact areas.
[Lured? No, PULLED! Pulled like cyclone strike! Support Wizard?? Maybe]
Pus Spitter - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/pus-spitter
25-50% chance to lob an acid blob when attacking. Enemies standing in the acid take 50% increased damage from all sources.
[Support Demon Hunter?? There could at least be items that make it an outside possibility]
Dread Iron - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/dread-iron
Ground Stomp gains the effect of all runes. Ground Stomp causes an avalanche. Increase the damage of your Avalanche by 100%.
The Undisputed champion - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-undisputed-champion
Your Primary skills gain the effect of all runes.
[Allow the player to choose which Primary skill they want to use.]
Bastion’s Revered - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bastions-revered
Your Primary skills acquire up to 5 bonus stacks of Frenzy.
[Works the same if you’re using Frenzy, but you also get 5 Frenzy stacks if using you’re using, say, Bash.]
Angel Hair Braid - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/angel-hair-braid
[All Primary skills should have all runes unlocked. Allow the player to choose which ability.]
Salvation - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/salvation
Blocking an attack heals you and your allies for 3% of their maximum health.
[Please make this not a Crusader-only shield – it doesn’t have a Crusader-specific affix, and it could be a useful shield for your Templar.]
Potions
Legendary potions are cool. But, IMHO, they’re not all that ‘legendary’; they’re a little lacklustre. Also, often you want to use your potion primarily to prevent you from dying i.e. to heal yourself, as we expect potions to normally be used. However, this is not always the same time when we want to activate some special buff from the potion (also you can’t use potions at full health). This puts a limit on how cool the potion affixes can be, because if they gave you a damage boost, for example, then you don’t always want to increase your damage at the same time you want to use your potion. An alternative system is to simply make each potion give you a permanent buff while it is equipped.
Bottomless Potion of Diamond - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-the-diamond
Immunity to CC effects (and their damage)
Bottomless Potion of the Tower - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-the-tower
10-15% damage reduction
Bottomless Potion of the Leech - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-the-leech
Increase Life on Hit and Life per Kill by 80-100%
Bottomless Potion of Rejuvination - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-rejuvenation
Increases resource (re)generation by 50-100%
Bottomless Potion of Regeneration - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-regeneration
Generate 25-50% more health globes
Bottomless Potion of Kulleaid - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-kulleaid
Allows you to walk through Waller walls and mobs [always]
Bottomless Potion of Mutilation - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-mutilation
Increases your Critical Hit Damage by +50% [additive]
Bottomless Potion of Fear - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-fear
[This potion only heals (no perma-buff), but has half the normal potion cooldown]
Bottomless Potion of Amplification - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/bottomless-potion-of-amplification
Increases your Healing from all sources by 25%
Bottomless Potion of the Gods
This potion does not heal, but instead when activated you become one with the Gods for 6 seconds. During this state you are reduced to 20% Health and 20% Resources, become immune to all damage and CC effects, have 100% Resource Cost reduction, and do not heal from any source.
[Just another random potion idea. Could make use of all those item affixes that give you buffs at low health/resource levels. This potion would have no passive effect.]
Nephalem Glory Globes
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8770117237#6
Some of the preceding items make use of NH stacks. Thanks to apo’s guide we can see what NG globes currently do: they do effectively nothing. Which is a shame, because they’re kind of a cool idea. So, at the very least some basic buffs could be given to NG.
Each stack provides +5% movement speed, 2% damage reduction, 2% damage increase
3 Stacks: +15% movement speed, 6% damage reduction and 6% damage increase
At full stacks, picking up another NG globe creates a 30 yard radius explosion for 10,000% weapon damage.
Also it could be made that picking up Health Globes does not extend the duration, thereby putting more emphasis on having to build towards proccing NG globes if you want to benefit from them.
It only affects your attacks. IIRC the initial iteration of the gem on PTR affected everyone's attacks, but they changed that.
A good place to start is to start reading build guides. Often they have a good explanation for why you are picking one skill/item over another. Also start visiting the official D3 forums for your class, often there is some interesting theorycrafting going on there. ALso check out the subreddits for your class, and also for all the classes in general. e.g. the barbarian subreddit has a very good wiki that explains a lot of the basic mechanics of D3.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3Barbarians/wiki/index
This is a long shot, but I’ll put it out there anyway – does anyone still have any blue rings from pre-RoS that have +X to minimum damage, and that they’d be willing to part with? I’m testing legendary affix damage ranges and these would be really helpful.
If so, drop me a line. In-game tag is prvtpile#1225 on US servers
Cheers!
Yeah, have to agree. The whole paragon system is kind of a train wreck aswell. Hopefully in the expansion it'll be completely overhauled, but until then it would be really nice to see some sort of temporary tweak to it.
lol, right? Anyone know what this is about? After all the work they're doing adding powers to the legendaries that don't have them, surely they haven't added more legendaries with no power? Maybe these will get some added later?