New Unique Armour: The Restless Ward

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chimpanzee wrote:

To everyone insulting this unique: It's made by a supporter. Calling it "vendor trash" (even if it is) shows a lack of respect for the supporter who made it.
It's better to keep it for yourselves.

This.

About the unique: It would totally rock if it was boots (or, to keep the claim of name and fluff: shield) or simply: no body armor. So it is an item that may come in handy. And i believe that there are theorycrafters out there that can make nearly every unique useful ;)

Not bad, definitely useful.

Though the rewards are a bit on the low side, unless the 1% increase in speed can be divined to 3% then it would be an awesome chest.

Nice artwork too. Are you guys having trouble to keep coming up with personal artwork for uniques?

Cheers, Rob.

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chimpanzee wrote:

To everyone insulting this unique: It's made by a supporter. Calling it "vendor trash" (even if it is) shows a lack of respect for the supporter who made it.
It's better to keep it for yourselves.

Nice logic. All things done by supporters must be respected.

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chimpanzee wrote:

To everyone insulting this unique: It's made by a supporter. Calling it "vendor trash" (even if it is) shows a lack of respect for the supporter who made it.
It's better to keep it for yourselves.

Final outcome of the unique design done by supporters is always upon GGG. They will balance its power, rarity and usability. It is also GGG's ultimate responsibility to populate their game with meaningful itemization choices. Supporter unique or not, there is already enough useless unique items in this game that adding more lackluster items feel like a bad joke.

This item has many controversial choices present in its design. This is where I have problem with it. I do not mind if it is not as powerful as Shavrone's or Mjolner, however, I do have problem with the fact this item is so niche and restricted in its use it becomes borderline useless.

My view on the bonuses assuming basic amount of charges (ie. 3):
* 1% movement speed per frenzy charge, +3% movement speed, which is worth 1 skill point only if you pick it along the way to better Notable.
* 16hp per second per endurance charge, 48hp/sec, which is worth approximately 1% hp per sec, which is single notable, often with good nodes leading to it.
* 100% increased duration is one great bonus on this armor, this is extremely potent buff but changes to skill tree in Awakening makes it little less ideal due to restructuring of charge clusters and inclusion of duration increasing nodes around additional charge nodes.

Remaining stats are mediocre at best. EV/ES base is niche. Life bonus is mediocre. Lvl71 requirement is outright crazy.

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mevsc2 wrote:

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chimpanzee wrote:

To everyone insulting this unique: It's made by a supporter. Calling it "vendor trash" (even if it is) shows a lack of respect for the supporter who made it.
It's better to keep it for yourselves.

Nice logic. All things done by supporters must be respected.

If the 3d art is as good as the 2d looks I would skin it, definitely, even if it was not the right chest for my build.

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Baron01 wrote:

My view on the bonuses assuming basic amount of charges (ie. 3):
* 1% movement speed per frenzy charge, +3% movement speed, which is worth 1 skill point only if you pick it along the way to better Notable.
* 16hp per second per endurance charge, 48hp/sec, which is worth approximately 1% hp per sec, which is single notable, often with good nodes leading to it.

IF you'd use this armour, you wouldnt stick around with only 3 endurance charges, with like 7 charges the life regen is pretty good imo.

what would be really cool with this would be a "increased life regeneration rate" notable or unique

Awesome 2D Art!

Here's my personal opinion on the item:

The Charge Duration and the Frenzy Charge Bonus are nice, but the rest of the mods seem to have too low values.

This item + Blood Dance = Easy Righteous Fire + Blood Rage.
previously Blood Dance + RF was a pain to keep up, but with the increased charge duration there should be no problem.

for life based RF characters I don't think this will be better than Carcass jack, Belly of the Beast or Kaom's Heart. but for ES based RF I think this can be really good.

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mevsc2 wrote:

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chimpanzee wrote:

To everyone insulting this unique: It's made by a supporter. Calling it "vendor trash" (even if it is) shows a lack of respect for the supporter who made it.
It's better to keep it for yourselves.

Nice logic. All things done by supporters must be respected.

I don't understand you. Imagine you would be that supporter. Doesn't it hurt to see all those comment against your immortalisation in PoE? What I'm saying is that even if you don't like this unique item you should keep it to yourself unless it arises major concerns in you for the health of the game. And then, I think it's better to discuss it civilly. There's a difference between "Great. Yet another garbage unique." and "I don't see a potential use for this. Can someone enlighten me, please?".

if the % inc eva/es goes up to 200% i dont think this should be buffed. otherwise a buff might be nice but isnt necessary to make this useful to some niche builds. looking forward to finding it ingame!