Upcoming Unique Items

Eh, I liked some of the items. They can't all be chase items, then they would be just items and I doubt this preview is the right place to introduce the new Headhunter.

Looking forward to the Pillar map as I tend to play tanky characters but this will probably be hell for a few builds. I also like the Lightning emphasis as I'll testrun a lightning melee char in the races.

>Bodyswap

well heres a new skill, and its a movement skill

jesus that staff is broken xD
new league chaos dmg caster meta? :P

"Bodyswap" is it a new skill?

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Draegnarrr wrote:

staves ok but has a small issue called power charges do nothing for chaos spells (or provide 4% spell damage per which is still pretty weak) could be decent for entry level mapping.

Well crit dark pact is a thing. And a Trickster MoM build using Aylardex ammy would turn power charges into a way to become tanky while using chaos DoT skills.

Those boots are just vendor trash... useful for perhaps one build.
Low top movement speed, no resistances, and only buffs shock... total *meh*

Helm is okay-ish, but taken against other helms in the same range, both unique and rare, it falls far short.

And they teasered a new skill 'bodyswap', whatever that is.


What they need are *personal* auras to replace relatively useless niche heralds (since party play is maybe, what, 5% of active play and mostly relegated to top tier racing teams).

Wait...


New maps confirmed?

Abberath, Avarius, Kitava as map bosses?

And this new map skin sounds like a full atlas revamp

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neat

Some sad Uniques.

More leveling uniques that aren't needed at all.
Act 1-10 is done within a day. And if you play hard core there's no way you can sacrifice life for the minion helm etc.

Shield is garbage. You can still be chilled so players still need to carry a freeze flask. So what's the point with having this mod (can not be frozen) as a freeze flask will always be up anyways? Low life roll and 0 restiances. Nice hybrid armour/evasion at least but that's about it. The +2 lvls is a good

The staff looks really strong. I will give you that. Hope you come up with some build enabling items and some chase items. This was too sad for my taste tbh.

I hope the new movement skill is good and I hope flame dash is improved by giving it 5 charges.

The new map is only t7. Which makes the "+experience mod" useless. But I do think the map will also work like a fragment that will unlock something cool. We'll see :)