Cherrubim's Maleficence - Supporter's Unique Item Craft Retrospective

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HegemonyTV wrote:

this is what i thought when i saw the art

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Blezmeck wrote:

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HegemonyTV wrote:

this is what i thought when i saw the art

I agree with this. The good ol' days...

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Tin_Foil_Hat wrote:

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Charan wrote:

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Tin_Foil_Hat wrote:

Eh, not sure how i feel about this. No real downsides at all, the healing is going to be absolutely outrageous with a leech gem and Binos, thanks to the leech rate.

Going to be perfectly honest, GGG has been putting out way too many uniques with no real downsides, which baffles me because thats the entire concept of a unique (risk vs. reward).

Actually, that's not the concept of a unique at all. All an item has to be to qualify as a unique is endowed with at least one property a magical or rare item cannot generate from the pool of possible affixes.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_items -- Plenty of these do not have drawbacks. And these are all Closed Beta Classics (list far from exhaustive): Crest of Perandus; Searing Touch; Astramentis; Lioneye's Glare; Silverbranch; Mightflay; Karui Ward; Wurm's Molt; Kaom's Sign; Rainbowstride; Hrimsorrow; Asenath's Mark; Divinarius; Shiversting; and Doedre's Damning.

As I said (I don't know why I bother, really), Nick's design approach seems to be minimalistic but entirely positive. I think it's a more difficult path, given that drawbacks are an easy way to provide balance to otherwise unbalanced items, but ultimately it may be the more rewarding. The risk of using this item is you're not using another one that might provide other benefits. Plain and simple. With this sensitive, please-me-now playerbase, it's hardly surprising that GGG may be leaning more towards a case where 'drawback' is nothing more than the absence of other positives.

Meanwhile I'll keep on using the Dark Side of the Force and creating uniques that immediately make most people recoil in horror with their drawbacks.

"The risk of using this item is you're not using another one that might provide other benefits".

When youre using something thats BIS that no longer applies, Crown of Eyes is a great example, same with Atziri's Acuity. You listed a bunch of unique items that arent used end game which is precisely why it doesnt apply to my comment.

My point being, items that are generally too good are making it through the unique item creation process.

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dlrr wrote:

YAY! BLOW PRIDE! :D

Well done yet again Andrew! :D

Can't wait!

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marcosyy87 wrote:

the armour art is... fantastic

gratz, please bring 3d for it