Yeah, they better not limit anything with regards to items… Finding good unexpected stuff, and build a character out of the norm is what is exciting. If they control everything completely, Diablo 3 will be boring.

I get what he’s saying, but it doesn’t make sense from a logical perspective. What craftsman would imbue his items with useless properties? And there’s just something tainted about getting a good item drop (say a rare) with one vestigial property like “attacker takes damage of 1.” Like a stain or a wart. Not hurtful, but it mars the item I feel.

And they already restrict properties in certain ways - you don’t see any swords with Faster Cast Rate or +Skill trees. You don’t see gloves with Faster Run/Walk. They killed dual leech for awhile.

If anything, at least make all properties useful to each class the way they are doing with attributes. + elemental damage could affect cast spells in some way (convert X points or percent), +AR could calculate for a chance to have critical strike damage, etc.

Yes, no only-optimal stuff thanks. It may sound good in theory, but wouldn’t make sense in practice. What would boss runs turn into, for example? One of the good things in Diablo is to me that what you find *might* be very good. Why take that surprise factor out of the game?

It’s a tough call.

All I care about is that there are about 250 more mods than what we had in d2. When a rare drops for the hundredth time, we’re seeing the same little hadfull of mods on it. There are about 5 or w/e useful ones. That kind of variety can hardly be called variety at all.

I think you have to have a good balance.

It’s no fun when every single drop has retarded affixes like “attacker takes damage of 1”.  But at the same time, it makes the game start getting old if EVERY drop is important. 

While I say keep the drops and affixes random, I also say rares, and magics to an extent, need an improvement on their possible stats/procs.  There’s a reason that item is “rare”, and its not because it’s got only 2 stats (which BTW are both PoS), whereas my white superior crown shield has 3, and good ones too.

I certainly don’t think every drop should be “important,” just relevant. Especially if they are going to greatly expand the number of affixes/properties, a lot more attention needs to be paid to grouping them such that the chance to get something useful doesn’t become infinitesimally small (which I am sure they will do). +2 mana on a wand is as useless to a good char as +2 max dmg, but at least it makes sense as a property. At the very least some tighter controls should be placed on what will spawn on rares, like you said. These items became worse than magic items because there was a good chance 3-4 of the properties they spawned with were usually crap (due to the abundance of useless properties) and the top tier of the useful properties was disallowed on rares.

The easiest way to fix some of these problems is imo this have a lage amount of possible bonuses for each type of item that makes sense. (IE weapons have good +damage +attack/cast speed etc but not good +defence that more for armour) secondary the best bonuses should only be found on rares not lesser magicals (IE a lvl 5 magic item can have +3 to +6 damage but a lvl 5 rare can have +5 to +8 damage etc)

some limiting wouldnt hurt though. Honestly, who needs an orb with lifesteal? Or a wand with increased AR on it? If anything it would have made more sense to block those affixes on wands and orbs and replace them with single digit fcr%, or dmg taken on hit.

You’d have to be a failure as a wand-maker to decide “Hmm… this orb should do 20-30 FIRE damage! Who needs that 10% FCR really, it blows!”