Cursed Items

[Swiffer]

Yeah, i know, its highly unlikely that these will return, but god damnit, some of the best fun i had in Diablo 1 was playing a Beyond Naked Mage

And it stands to reason the legions of hell might possess some items that have been cursed by the Prime Evils and are dangerous in the hands of mortals.

Note: For those that do not know, the Beyond Naked Mage (BNM) was a varient playstyle from the original diablo. It imposed the restriction that (with, i think, 1 or 2 exceptions) you could not equip any item that had a beneficial magical effect. The only items you could wear were cursed items. Believe it or not, one or two people actually managed to kill Diablo on Hell difficulty like this. Took awhile, but they did it

Here are a couple of screenshots

[Soylentred]

Very funny.
I think the only thing we have close now is if you equip anything with the malice runeword your life is draining while you aren't paying attention.

[voraginous]

Maybe give big unique items big drawbacks as well? Might be a way to bring curses back into the mix.

[jamesisbest]

Well as long as they don't do - stats on them it would be a lot of fun. When diablo 2 had - stats on items people exploited them for infinite skills glitch. With sorcs allof blood moor was covered in meteor flames that instantly killed people. Or if they change it so that nobody can have a stat below 1 even if -stats would theoretically allow it that would work also.