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I miss the charms in d2...I remember playing as a necro and stacking +skill points charms to make my skeleton army. I felt so invincible! I wouldn't mind seeing charms making a comeback in some form or another. I have some ideas on how they would be implemented. I think they should be one size and take up considerable bag space...maybe 2x3. Charms should be legendary drops. Charms should not necessarily buff outright, but augment entire gear specs. For instance, I would love to see a charm that could change elemental damage from cold to fire...or dexterity to intelligence...etc. I think fun charms would even be possible....like a charm that adds + 40% to equipment primary stats while the gear is at 0 durability. Why not have a charm that changes the way gems buff certain gear? I think there's a lot of room for possibilities here...what do you guys think?

Maybe sw should be a passive...wait, hear me out. Sw can be a one-stack passive by default. Crit hits will add stacks like normal. If this is done, they can lower the drop off timer from 6 sec to 4 sec per stack. Also, to they can add a spirit debuff while sw is active because there's no longer a spirit cost to cast it. The debuff I had in mind is to have spirit spenders cost an additional 5%-10% while sw is active. This mechanic gets rid of the pesky refresh clicking while still being useful. Furthermore, monks will still have to consider if the debuff works with their build or not. Builds focused around dropping high cost spirit spenders will want to stack reduced resource to offset the debuff, for example.

Meanwhile, a potential replacement set bonus for the Inna's set could be to remove the debuff while granting the attributes of all sw runes.

I'm in the same boat as you with my love for sw. I dont really mind the 6 second expiration, however. What I find excessive is the spirit cost to maintain it if we can't hit refresh. I think another solution is to lower the cost to refresh it. It shouldn't be so low that we can just continually spam it ala Inna's. It should be costly enough for us to consider resource management but not so costly has it can potentially handicap our dps for if we misjudge mob density.

Perhaps we can use a combination of ideas here. Cheaper refresh spirit cost + stacks falling ff 1 at a time. If sw is at three stacks, then the refresh cost should be at its lowest with an increase in spirit cost with two and one stack. This way, there's still a penalty for the less vigilant players...but the punishment is not so bad as it gimps a misjudging mob encounters.

If this method for sw is used, they can also revamped the set bonus for inna's set. Perhaps remove the spirit cost for refresh altogether. My two cents.

I do like the idea of the core stat changing according to which character we're playing. At very least, they could make it less costly to change the core stats while still allowing us to change another affix on the gear.

To further expand on the delayed-listingidea...perhaps another way to implement a safe trading environment is to allow trading guilds. Be able to join a guild and those who have been in the guild for X amount will be automatically allowed trading privileges. Guilds will be maintained and monitored like clans...reputable trading guilds will be highly sought after for membership while shady ones will be avoided by most and possibly even shut down altogether. I would imagine that anyone that wants to be a part of a trading guild will want to make sure the guild they are joining has a robust and equitable commerce before investing X amount of time to join.Issue is that this won't dissuade spammers from blasting chat with "JOIN OUR TRADING GUILD - Dress4Less - Join now!" Or...it may even promote botting and farming specific Trade Guilds. Okay...you know what...maybe not such a good idea.

I think there's a safe medium between strict trading restrictions and open free-for-all-trading. I don't often get to play the same times as from of my friends and every once in a while, I get a drop that would be a decent upgrade for them. Just last night, my brother wanted to get some gold for me, but to his dismay...not allowed. I wouldn't say the restrictions are frustrating for me...but they're definitely inconvenient at times. Having said that though...I love how the gold spammers are down. I rarely see them in trade or general chat anymore. Every once in a while, I'll see solicitations for "Safe" leveling....but even that's far and in between. So where's the medium between iron-clad shacklesrestrictionsand spammer's paradise? Why not implement a Friends-only Trade system? Friends that have been on our list for more than say...2 or 3 weeks...have trading priviledges opened up? This can system can prevent trade for spammers trying to make a quick buck while still allowing trade between friends. Sure, the spammers can still try to have us added to their list...but at least in this way, there's a long enough lag time for Blizzard to identify and lock-out the spammer's account before any trading can occur...it'd still be pointless for the gold/item spammer to even try. I don't think a D2-like trading system would ever come to D3...nor do I think it should. I don't want to go back to the day when I log onto my D3 account and find over 50 friend requests from gold spammers. A friend-only delayed trading system is probably the best way to allow trading but still dissuade spammers.