Design Philosophy of Affixes

I reference this excellent thread in my recent thread about Rares here.

Thanks! Feel free to list down any affixes you might want to see and haven't been mentioned yet, and I'll add them to the OP.

This is something which ultimately always becomes a "problem" in ARPGs, this will probably not solve it. But it will make for more unique fun builds (which I'm 100% for) and make the "perfect" items more rare (not sure what I feel about this)

All in all, I'm for this change, more affixes for the people! Viva la Affixelution (I'm horrible at this) xD

+1

Not only that, it makes it harder to define perfect. Every build should have more than 4 suffixes and 4 prefixes that it wants on its rares.

Here are a couple of my ideas

Mod 1 (dagger, sword, claw, or axe): +1% attack speed for every 2% health missing (does not apply to totems)
Mod 2 (wands, ES Shields): see Mod 1, but cast speed

Mod 3 (likely for unique, maybe an evasion one): If you take more than 60% of your HP from a single hit, reduce damage by 30-50%

Mod 4 (Again, probably unique, prob helm or gloves): Frenzy charges reserve 3-7% of your health (haven't decided). This health is added to weapon and spell damage as bonus chaos.

Gem: Blood Fury: Converts Endurance and Frenzy Charges into Blood Fury Charges, which adds life leech, and massive attack speed. Can be expended as though they were either charge. For effects that take into account how many of Frenzy/Endurance charges you have, it counts both the appropriate charges and Blood Frenzy Charges (ex. Frenzy or Immortal Call, with the latter expending all charges). They also stack separately from either charge, and have a max Blood Fury charge number = to your combned max Endurance and Frenzy charges.
Quality Blood Fury gems give "+1% of leeched life applied instantly" per quality bonus
(This could work exceptionally with someone using both mod 1 and mod 4)

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Novalisk wrote:

Some ideas for improving the above-mentioned affixes:



Thorns

Changed to "Reflect % of attack damage back at enemy"


Life Gain on Kill

Changed to "Max Life gain on Kill".

Meaning, that after you kill an enemy, you gain 10 max life for 10 seconds.


Reduced Attribute Requirement

Affects slotted gems as well, like Atziri's Foible.


Stun Recovery

Changed to Status Recovery (meaning it affects freeze and shock as well)


Mana Gain on Kill

Changed to "Increased Mana Regen on Kill".

Meaning, that after you kill an enemy, you get 100% increased mana regeneration for 10 seconds.


Light Radius

Spread some "increased damage to mobs in your light radius" around the skill tree.

I REALLY Like that idea.

Thanks!

Added to the OP, and moved the community effort section out of spoiler tags for now for greater visibility.

+.75-1 Life Per Character Level
+.75-1 Mana Per Character Level
+.25-.50 ES Per Character Level
+.25-.50 Life and Mana Per Character Level

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Veta321 wrote:

+.75-1 Life Per Character Level
+.75-1 Mana Per Character Level
+.25-.50 ES Per Character Level
+.25-.50 Life and Mana Per Character Level

That's not so much interesting as making something that's simply resilient to being upgraded, which is completely opposite of what games like this is about.

Having something scale off character level is dumb.

Having something scale off a totally different stat isn't necessarily, but is nevertheless best reserved for uniques, not rare items. (For example, I've got a Unique Design coming my way, and the one mod I want on it is "Adds Evasion equal to your current Life.")