If you had the chance to design a weapon or a piece of armor... what would it be?

A bow that can use sword skills.

Or vice versa

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

That sword wouldn't make it past the email phase without serious discussion of balance.

Yeah of course, it's exaggerated. But the unique single-handed swords in the game right now are pretty underpowered in my opinion. I would like to see an end-game unique sword equal to the Soul Taker axe in the future (around pure phys 360DPS)

I would probably make some staff/wand with str/dex to int conversion and more damage when on high mana.

Ill quote myself from another post, but these were my ideas. I seriously love to see some more staff variants. XD

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quicksilver31189 wrote:

Bramblemist's Spineguard (Shield Staff)

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Serpentine Staff
Req. Lvl 49
(104–117) - (216-243) Physical Damage
6.5% Weapon Crit Chance
1.21 - 1.28 APS
80-100 Energy Shield
18% Chance to Block
100-125% Increased Physical Damage
This Weapon is treated like a Shield.
10-16% Increased Attack Speed
10% More Movement Speed
10-15% less Armor

Tanky Staff, that if possible can enable the use of Tempest shield while wielding a staff

Staff of Elemental Chaos (Elemental Hit staff)

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Lathi
Req. Lvl 60
6.68% Weapon Crit Chance
1.44-1.5 APS
40-400 Lightning Damage
180-360 Fire Damage
150-320 Cold Damage
Each hit deals only one type of random Elemental Damage.
Elemental Equilibrium
15-20% Increased Attack Speed
Deal No Physical Damage or Chaos Damage
-25% Less Elemental Resistance

This item functions like Elemental hit in a way, yet it will only do one particular element that was randomized, say if you hit with fire, you only deal fire damage from all your gear and this item. If you dealt lighting damage, it will only deal lightning damage. etc etc.

Spell/Melee Staff (unsure of a good staff name for this theme)

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Imperial Staff
Req. Lvl 66
57–170 Physical Damage
6.68% Weapon Crit Chance
1.00 APS
100-130% Spell Damage
12-15% Cast Speed
30-50% Increased Spell Critical Chance
Spell Damage applies to Physical Damage as well
Cast Speed applies to Attack Speed as well
Spell Critical applies to Melee Critical as well
33% less Mana and Mana Regeneration

This staff is themed around Hybrids who wants to do well at both physical and spell damage. Also enables more builds that use Cast on Crit or Melee Kill.

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Andromansis wrote:

bonus damage when on high mana

fuck, this needs to be in the game

I would make a sword called "Blood Drinker". It would be a level 1 unique with base attack speed of 1.02. It will have only 2 offensive stats.

4-10 Physical dmg
+2% attack speed


Every 10,000 enemies you kill with the sword, it gains 2x its previous stats. Caps at 256-640 physical and 2.28 attacks / second.

You have to USE the sword to kill the enemies. I.E melee skills only with the sword equipped. It won't slowly gain stats as you kill stuffs. It will just double at the exact moment when you kill 10,000 more enemies.

Essentially, you would have to kill 60,000 mobs to get it to its final state.

The armor piece i would design would be pants

i would make a either of these: melee dagger, quiver, 1h axe

the reason is simple: these 3 categories only have 2-4 unique's.
i am for example making a build that resemble's a rogue/assasin but there are currently only 2 unique melee dagger's and that for a rather low lvl so i guess i would prefer designing a dagger.

Base Item: Platinum Kris
Item Name: Assasin's Blade

Affixes:
increased damage
Grant's critical strike multiplier
causes all attack's to use both weapon's while dual wielding
Hex Master

Shell of the Last Kappa
Unique Spiked Bundle

+(20-30) to Energy Shield
+(20-30) to Strength
Adds Evasion Rating equal to your current Life
20% additional Block Chance when on Full Life
50% of Block Chance applied to Spells when on Full Life
Acrobatics

Some weapon that lets your attacks/aoes/spells (staff?!) etc target allies too and will heal a percentage of the damage done to enemies by that attack to the allies hit.

Eg freeze pulse that hits 5 enemies and 2 allies. The pulses deal a combined damage of 500 to enemies. It would heal 100 life to the 2 allies shared between them (50 life each).

Possibly too OP with totems though. However, it could make Animate Guardian not terrible.

EDIT: Maybe it could be like a ring that gave this effect or amulet.

A second cool item could be something that has the following effect: mana reservation cost in auras in this item has a multiplier of 0.5 (or some other number that would make it balanced) but these auras only buff yourself and nobody around you. (Maybe it could work with your totems/summons too?)