Maraketh Weapons?

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One is a new class of uniques, the Maraketh Weapons. Grinding Gear told me it got to have a lot of fun with the Maraketh Weapons. Previous uniques were, as Grinding Gear told me, created to “fill a niche.” That period of the game is pretty much over now, though. There's a unique weapon for practically every niche imaginable, so with the Maraketh Weapons the designers got to really push some boundaries.

For instance, one weapon I was shown made any applied spell effects get cast in a nova around the player instead of in the standard pattern. This would allow a somewhat weaker character to still wade into battle without worrying about getting surrounded. Another weapon sucks all surrounding enemies towards players, allowing them to tank more effectively. A third—this time, a bow—spawns minions around the player every time an enemy dies.

It's a bunch of slightly-crazy effects that really open up the end-game in terms of character customization.

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FunkyFritter wrote:

Pretty sure the maraketh weapons are just the new sword bases. Whoever wrote that was confused.

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takeme wrote:

You can se one of them here:

Spoiler

There is no way it will come out of beta with those stats, atleast I dont hope so as it got higher dps, higher crit and better Implicit then normal 2H sword.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

There's no way Ancient Blade would be put into 1.3.

We have no idea what sort of power scale 2.0 will have.