Upcoming Unique Items

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

I think its for the nulls bow as a few ppl have suggested. That bow needs 212 dex and summons animate weapons or whatever on kill with the bow, so if ur minions cant actually kill things and u can cull everything with whatever they use, chain split arrow? I dunno, but it seems like that ignite thing could be a buff for the build. The bow itself has minion damage % per dexterity.

Exactly, the only usage of this helmet seems to be for Null's, you want to stack dex and you don't want your minions to kill, even Bex mentioned about culling.

The problem with Null's is, that though it's really fun to play, it's "chain shaped strands, skip boss" grade build, I played one Null's and while it cleared nicely mid tier maps, going higher was troublesome and killing bosses without ads was always a problem.

Soul tether - this would be great if instant leech worked with ES..oh wait.

Ahn's might - This would be less horrible if only the weapon did not have abysmal base crit and the fact iaoe is worthless after 2.6. To top it off you gimped it's usage with whirling blades?

It feels like they designed these uniques after major balance changes in 3.0 were finalized.
Please for god sakes give us a few more new skills or at least one good unique so 3.0 is not a complete wash for the people who continue to play past level 75.

I am sorry, maybe i am stupid but what good in Soul Tether?

This item allows you to leech life when you are not on full life, and ES when on full life, SO:
1) Player should be Hybrid Life/ES build.
2) CI ES life build.

Lets look at Hybrid:
a) You can't reserve life, otherwise this items doesn't give any!
b) If you Life/ES build you can easily get to Ghost River node.

For CI ES build:
a) Ghost River obviously.

AND DON'T FORGET 3.0 , THERE ARE NO INSTANT ES LEECH!

So my question goes: what practical use of this item?
Hybrid without life reservation? Where you get so many nodes for life and es increase?!

Tinkerskin is just perfect for my Trapper Trickster build. Big love <3

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twitticles wrote:

Being an avid trapper, I'd still not use the trap-specific new chest piece Tinkerskin over something like Carcass Jack, unless possibly if the CDR range goes way higher (40%+) than the example shown.

I'm in agreement here.

Tinkerskin is a good idea on paper, but as it's been repeatedly hammered home earlier, the mechanic by which Tinkerskin grants recovery just doesn't help players who play trappers currently.

I am going out on a limb here, but maybe GGG are trying to inspire players to avoid Saboteur+Chain Reaction and Sunblast builds? Maybe they want to inspire players to actually get their traps triggered individually by enemies?

I tried the above play style once. It plays horribly. It would be similar to playing a golemancer using melee-only golems. Except your golems are now stationary (have fun running circles around your trap/golem while herding cats into it while you wait on a cooldown to cast again!).

For Tinkerskin to be appealing to trappers, and for it to inspire trappers to avoid Chain Reaction/Sunblat to skip the horrors I listed above, it is going to need significant increases to trap cooldown recovery. I hope what we've seen here is the bottom end of the spectrum, and that it can go significantly higher.

I might use that chest if it had 70% recovery minimum. Otherwise there is no reason to use it over Carcass Jack, Beast Fur Shawl, or a more defensive option like Belly of the Beast/Lightning Coil.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if I enter a new map with the belt, I will have only life and no ES. So I have to build hybrid since CI won't work, I would enter a map with 1hp/0es.

If I go hybrid I get to leech energy shield when my life is full. Is it worth doing when every time I tp out/in during a boss fight I start the fight with 50% of my EHP? same with a map. I guess we'll have to see, just greatly increases my likelihood of being 1-shot when I tp to recover flasks.

wow that sword is god damn BAD

I dont even see any point in adding even moore useless uniques, i mean cmon, we have so many useless ones, make them useful and if your gonna add new uniques, make them atleast vagly usefull...

This is a joke, moore vendortrash

boring items

i think this game has already way to many trash items and then this? ... cmon...

Even if 3.0 didn't cut INSTANT ES LEECH, would anyone use Soul Tether???
Hybrid build goes for LL build.

I didn't see any Hybrid build which would stuck LIFE and ES nodes from passive tree for just increasing EHP without reservation!
Only RF build might do so, but for it Soul Tether is useless!!!

And life affix in items = less ES item can provide.