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As long as they don't introduce many new useful itemaffixes I don't see how they will achieve this. Bracers withour CC? Useless! Boots without movementspeed? Useless! Weapons without Socket and/or CD? Useless! Pants/Chestpieces without sockets? Useless!

So they either have to introduce many new and cool affixes or all Items have to be the same and just vary in their values.

How far do you want to take this though? If every chest that drops already has 3 sockets, aren't you just gonna say "no vitality, useless!"? If every weapon already rolled with a socket and crit damage you would still throw 90% away because they lack things like loh/life steal.

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"I accidentally pick up crap I don't want and it's affecting combat" ---> "We won't fix that, but don't worry: in the future, you'll WANT to pick up crap".

Well I suppose it wouldn't hurt to reduce the amount of items on the ground, as long as they're talking about all items in general. Rather than reducing the amount of rares and legendaries.

They can change it by changing the primary affix, the DPS. I understand that Barb and Monk use DPS, but Wizard and WD?

The day they decided to make all skills based on weapon DPS was the day that itemization became extremely important. You no longer have decisions to make, because the decision was made for you. You are always going to want specific values and properties on gear, no matter what they do. There is absolutely no way they can fix itemization, it's just impossible. Every class wants the exact same stats, except for their main stat.

Also... I can understand some skills using your weapon DPS, such as Barbarian's Whirlwind. How does the Wizard's Blizzard rely on the weapon? Just makes no sense at all.

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As long as they don't introduce many new useful itemaffixes I don't see how they will achieve this. Bracers withour CC? Useless! Boots without movementspeed? Useless! Weapons without Socket and/or CD? Useless! Pants/Chestpieces without sockets? Useless!

So they either have to introduce many new and cool affixes or all Items have to be the same and just vary in their values.

How far do you want to take this though? If every chest that drops already has 3 sockets, aren't you just gonna say "no vitality, useless!"? If every weapon already rolled with a socket and crit damage you would still throw 90% away because they lack things like loh/life steal.

The only reason socketed gear is mandatory for playing is because they are the best by such a large margin its hilarious. If they can itemize so that even non socketed items are better than current socketed items then it works.

Grey / White items are worth less than 10g and are useless to pick up (unless you're a level 1 who doesn't have anything, but even then some might argue that going naked is about the same as picking up a +1 armor belt). If they made those colors worth about what blues are, maybe they could be worth picking up.

Praise the gods, there seems to be a huge itemization system overhaul in the works. It is the one true problem of D3, and, in the eyes of the majority of the playerbase, it's biggest downfall. Lazy and bland, it was a step back in the evolution of the ARPG itemization, which should always have soul and complexity attached to it. Blizzard won't screw this one up. They have no choice but to make some big changes if they are to pave the way for the success of the upcoming expansion.

They can't fix the items in a single patch, b/c they have to totally redo so many different things it would blow up the game. Expansions, however, are perfect for that kind of overhaul.

-Remove or hard-cap critical hit damage
-Change main stats from percentage increases to linear/additive increases

These two things speak the problem of geometric increases (percentage increases) and arithmetic increases (linear/additive increases). Geometric increases grow exponentially, and small changes in a stat lead to huge changes in damage. This means that the geometric stats are "mandatory" to a degree that the arithmetic stats are just pathetic in comparison. By switching most of your damage to more manageable, linear stats, then there is more flexibility in the stats and gear you can choose. Of course, this means they'd have to completely overhaul monster health pools...

-Switch critical chance and attack speed to ratings, like armor and resist

This is nice for lower levels. You can give them some pretty neat and powerful stats w/o "breaking" the lower levels or making upper gear obsolete. It also allows you to have something to grow on if they ever introduce more levels and skills. Guess what game and developer already learned this simple lesson? WoW and Blizzard. Why these idiots didn't learn from their own company's games is frustrating.

-Completely redo helm and weapon gems

Self-explanatory.

-Completely redo crafting

During early beta, the blacksmith recipes were pretty useful. You could pick a few stats here and there when crafting basic blues and some rares. When they decided to "streamline" it into simple gambling roulette, the smith turned into Gheed, only more useless, b/c you couldn't gamble on ilvl 63. The BoA recipes were a good first step, but still run into the problems of crit being way overpowering. They need to give the smith way more control over what stats are present on an item. The smith is a workaround from over-randomization, not another layer to it.

-Remove percentage life leech
-Remove or hard cap life-on hit

You're always trying to improve your DPS. Adding more survivability to DPS is a recipe for game-breaking face-rolling. Good for bots, boring for people. As earlier, percentage stats are dangerous; small changes lead to huge outcomes. Of course, losing this leads to major changes to armor, monster damage, and skills. Not something that's very "palatable" mid-expansion.

-Redo two handed weapons
-Redo shields

Right now, shield blocks are fixed. There is no way to increase the amount they block (there are a few % block chance mods out there, almost exclusively on shields themselves). The max ilvl 63 block amount is 4706 damage. That's it. Wow, that's pathetic. Also, two-handed weapons are still garbage. The one exception (other than Skorn) are bows/crossbows, b/c Hunters can use quivers. Maybe other two-handed weapons could use the quiver model? Especially Wizards/Doctors. It's a real shame, b/c caster staves look pretty cool.

-Bind on Equip Legendaries

Another WoW lesson that these morons selectively forgot. The myopia and naivete are profound. If they ever watched a D2 ladder, even w/o the bots/dupes, they would see what happens when you can freely swap gear around w/o any way of removing it from the game. A Shako flood of biblical proportions.

So yes, if they do all that in a single 1.09 patch, it'll be fixed. Somehow, I doubt that would go over very well w/o a full expansion.

You cannot fix the system if everything is base on DPS. You can have 9999/100%c/1000cd on your stats and if you have a weapon that only 100 dps, you are not going to kill anything.

The only thing that can do is make the weapon a high DPS. Of course, high dps on weapon itself is not good enough. You have to have socket(s) and/or CD/LL.

The problem with whirlwind is the collision. Normally, you can't walk through mobs; however, whirlwind allows you to pass through them. Although we don't see it. There is a bit of lag going on, but we don't notice the fraction of a second of lag. The server resets you to a point where you're not standing in a mob, but on your end graphically you've moved to the point you were expecting. I'm guessing the longer you whirlwind the more build up with mini lag spikes. My point: mob to player collision is the problem. That's the only thing I can think of that would explain why people with good latency and computer builds still get affected by rubber banding.

I really do not see them fixing itemization until the expansion comes out since likely the whole system needs to be worked and re-worked again.

In regards to having the follower pick up things is not needed. What would be better is they bring back the option to either sell gear or to salvage the gear outside of town(that option was in the ealry stages of the Beta). Since now with so many things dropping your inventory gets full in no time with blues and rares.

Crafting is for the most part a joke unless you have the best high end plans and get really lucky on the rolls. But the cost involved with getting a good or better item from crafting will likely cost much more than just going to the AH and scrounge for deals. I prefer to find the gear myself since I find the Auction House really boring, If I found that exciting then I would be doing that in real life and get more money doing that.

First of all Crafting would need more plans and I am thinking that there should be rare one use recipes with some rare affixes on them. I started a few low level characters since these types of games I prefer to create new characters after betting normal since I usually get bored with characters. The crafting recipes are really useless for low level or starting characters for the most part. There are a few nice low level 3 affix magic items and they help out alot if you get lucky but still cost quite a bit of matterials to make but you are not concerned about rolling a kickass item at that point.

Affixes need to be worked on and re-worked again until it really offers more than just a few that are must haves. Right now since all damage based skills are based on DPS, That means all gear are looking to improve that factor with hopefully some defensive affixes to round out the character but some of the devensive affixes also has a defensive effect depending on the class. I think it might be time to nerf or get rid of stats(Strength, Vitality, etc) on gear or only have them available on a limited number of slots. I would even go to the point to having more stats based on leveling up or with the paragon levels. Another option would to have special runes drop that can be added to the skill you are using (they would only roll with stats and or bonuses to skills), Blizzard was working on a system like this but decided it was too complex, But my suggestion is not that complex and it would open up more options for gear and also more things to find in the game.

We need to have junky or crappy items every game in this genre have it and it is there since this game genre is based on finding the best gear with the best affixes on them or for affixes for a build you are making. The problem is that there are not that many good affixes out there and the few that are nice get overshadowed by the mega must have affixes.

The last thing is to bring back the Mystic Artisan and have the option to add sockets to gear and to boost gear with some expensive recipes or finding one time recipes to boost an item.

Vendors in Diablo for the most part never sell anything good or useful except for at the beginning when you have nothing.

Diablo 1 the vendors did have some useful things since some blues could roll high stats that uniques or rares could never roll.