POE Needs Set Items, Epic Items and a new category

If sets are too bad, people get mad when they get all the pieces and find out it wasn't worth the time (original d2). If sets are too good, everyone wears the same thing in most of their item slots and all other options for those slots become worthless (later d2. Immortal King's, anyone?). If sets give partial bonuses, if you have a couple pieces then your ability to upgrade your gear becomes badly constrained, since you have to either find substantial upgrades to every piece you have or one incredibly good piece before you can change anything. Like a lot of the ideas from d2, I think sets were ideas that had emotional appeal, but weren't fun when you actually played with them. Gems before you could socket anything, class specific items, and charms are all things I put in this category too. I liked d2 as much as everyone else, but being a good game doesn't mean every specific thing it had was a good idea.

One of the original poster's ideas of having additional item tiers I think is an interesting idea that hasn't been explored much since in this case games have largely just copied d2's item tiers. Unfortunately as far as Path of Exile is concerned I think the ship has largely sailed on this one, since making new tiers would require huge amounts of both creativity and rebalancing that would be counter productive with the game being advanced to this point. At least rares are good in this game, so it's just the blue items that are throw away garbage.

I really think the biggest thing they could do to make loot more interesting at this point is make more mods that could appear on magic/rare items that people would be happy to see. There are already very few properties that can even show up on items at this point, and even a lot of those are mostly useless, unless I'm misjudging how happy people are when they see stun recovery and accuracy show up on items.

Personally I'm Happy with no set items..


It doesn't dilute the other gear at higher levels.. Making you work for the build without cookie cutting to everything..




(between D3's AH and Set items almost everyone high end is running around in same gear)

Personally, I like set items, and there s no need to make them only items to wear for high levels.

Even shitty Diablo 3 made set items for low levels - a few, and with an auction its worthless - but it wa a step in the right direction.

Set items make game more interesting, because there's a thing for "collectors" - to complete a set, which is extremely rare, for example. If u want to make hundreds of uniques - it s not gonna compensate for this feeling, because u'll never know, what you gonna get. But with a set item, you imagine: how would the next set item look like, what's it behind its epic name (like Yin/Yang swords in Titan Quest).

Only problem I see with sets in PoE - you have less item slots, so you limited in making sets more different.

Dont get me wrong - game is great as it is, but i think sets, more item slots, charms or TQ-like artifacts can make your game even better

Agree on item sets,its just baffling to see unique items with the same name (Shavronnes Wrappings and Shavronnes Pacing) that are literally unusable with one another,because one requires you to be on full life while the other is meant for low life.

Plus you could have some interesting bonuses to make lower level items be more useful mid/end game wise.

The positive side effect of set items is that you can create an easily attainable item set that's viable in end-game. This makes it a super attractive proposition for beginners and people looking to level alts.

Look at IK barbs, or Mav zons or Tal Rasha sorcs in D2, they were more than capable of handling end-game content well, but were quite far behind top-tier items.

Just my $0.02

why the useless necro ?

set items are really hard to balance and none needs epic items for what
whats next accountbound ?

Since the necro happened already (partially my fault)...

I'll take this opportunity to promote my set gems idea. :)

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ventiman wrote:

why the useless necro ?

set items are really hard to balance and none needs epic items for what
whats next accountbound ?

why there are hard to balance? U mean because there's MMO economic element or what?
Titan Quest had a lot of set items, and two unique levels.

You just make 4-5 sets for each class and make them ultra-hard to find

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redrach wrote:

I'm very glad that Set items won't be in PoE. Thank you!

+1

Hope we get full 3D art for all unique items when 1.0 hits.

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2i0 wrote:

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redrach wrote:

I'm very glad that Set items won't be in PoE. Thank you!

+1

Hope we get full 3D art for all unique items when 1.0 hits.

OMG, I really cant believe someone who likes this type of game dont like sets.

I dont wanna live on this planet anymore