0.9.3 Updated Progress Report (final update Nov 13)

I cant see the stats of you rings :/

What kind of calculators are you making and when do you plan to release them?

While a character builder might be nice, I would love an item builder where you choose the (base) item and add/change mods/sockets and the calculator tells you what orbs you have to use and what item lvl is needed for the mods.

Are you considering changing some of the implicit mods on items to be percentage based, such that they're useful to both low- and high-leveled players?

The amount of dedication to your community never ceases to amaze me GGG. If I could, I'd get you some ghost chips :P

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sturglemeister wrote:

The amount of dedication to your community never ceases to amaze me GGG. If I could, I'd get you some ghost chips :P

^ you know I can't grab your ghost chips!

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Chris wrote:

That is something that has been discussed, but there are problems giving percentages to low level players because they often have only a very small effect.

I haven't seen it on any current items, but can you have percentage plus flat increase? e.g. 10% extra accuracy, +53 accuracy. Useful at low levels because of the flat boost, not useless lategame because of the percentage boost.

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Chris wrote:

- To clump the base items up in more interesting ways. We don't have a new ring type introduced every 5 levels any more, for example. Instead they appear in groups.

Do you mean that each progressively higher-level group of base items has new effects all separate and unique from other base items, or is each new base item in a group an improvement on a different item at a lower level?

i.e. BaseRing2 gives an implicit +50 to +54 accuracy, 10 levels later BaseRing12 gives an implicit +70 to +74 accuracy.

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Chris wrote:

An example with the new ones introduced today is that you have a choice between a 1-3 physical damage ring, a life ring and a mana ring at very low levels. They're all introduced at the same time and offer the player several options (rather than forcing people into something like before). Later, there's then a tier that has three different (generous) resistance rings available with similar values on them. They're all ranges of course, so you want to find the best ones in each range to later upgrade.

Regarding upgrades: as far as I can tell, the potential explicit mods that you can get on an item are dependent on the base level of an item (so we won't see +150 accuracy explicits on a level 2 item). That being said, some of the lower- to middle-level rings might have an optimal range of stats on them.

Will we see different, higher-level versions of these rings (e.g. both level 20 and level 70 versions of a ring will give between 20% to 30% fire resistance)? The higher level rings would allow for vastly stronger explicits, though I don't know how the low-level version would be valuable to a high-level player. Perhaps a currency item that boosts the low-level item to a high-level one, and increases the numerical values of explicits currently present on the item to appropriately match the new high-level status of the ring?

This would mean a relatively new player could find a very nice item that would be useful to a veteran high-level player if the veteran boosted the item's level requirement with some currency items. As far as I can tell, this could match your design intent.