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The itemization killed my interest. Attack and Defense? Who thought that was a good idea, it's worse than D3.

This seems like a very uninformed response. Items have a myriad of additional stats on them, such as +critical hit chance and +attack speed. This is also in addition to the +skill/talent ranks that can appear on items. If anything, itemization has a lot more variety in D4.

It depends on how much weight the attack/defense carry. If those stats are on the items to make them more powerful than lower level items, regardless of the prefixes and affixes, then they exist to make sure that as you progress into higher difficulty levels, all previous gear becomes obsolete. This is a bad system. This is the D3 system.

It is too early to tell how well done itemization will be. Honestly, even once you have created all of the items in the game, you would need to extensively test from beginning to deep within endgame to know how well everything meshes together. It seems like a very difficult task for the developers, and they need to take the time to think every detail through, thoroughly, and put the entire game through many iterations of testing, including hopefully alphas and betas far in advance of release to continue to gather up feedback and see how everything meshes. If the itemization is like D3, where as you get into harder content, you simply replace every single item with new gear, that is a very boring system that becomes stale too quickly. Do not have all items become obselete as you progress further into difficult content, or it will create the hamster wheel affect like D3. There should be items that have their niche from as early as like level 15-20, that can be viable at end game for different builds, play styles or end game objectives and goals. Ancient versions of legendaries like in D3 is a bad idea. Most importantly, there needs to be items, and rolls of items, that are very rare to find. I want the loot chase to last a long time. Don't make it like D3 where you find all of the same exact items hundreds of times, and only keep the ones that are ancient/primal. It should be like D2 where someday you will find a new and truly unique item like a new high rune or tyrael's might or something of that nature.