Using gold to enhance armor defense

visom · 09-07-2008, 16:35

Some items that you searched for forever (like a 3soc arch plate) can really leave you crying for hours when it has the lowest of possible defense

My idea is that you could use, MASS amounts of gold to slightly increase the armor's defense.

I want gold to be more helpful in D3, seeing as how gold in D2 usually buy pots, townscrolls and repairs.

Lets say you find a leather armor, minimum defense is 8, max defense is 12, average is 10. The leather armor you found has 8 defense.

You have to pay 1000 gold to bring it up to 9 defense, and 1500 gold to bring it up to 10 defense, BUT 10 DEFENSE IS THE LIMIT AND YOU CAN NOT GO ABOVE THE ITEM'S AVERAGE DEFENSE. The only way you could find an above average item is to look for one, otherwise if you find a low quality one you simply pay large amounts of gold to upgrade it to standard quality.

Let me know what you think of this idea guys

ironrunes · 09-07-2008, 17:52

this could be cool in many ways.

not only to upgrade defense, but damage output or blocking as well.

that is, if the character sheet is similar to the one in D2.
Who knows.

strongdwarvenale · 29-08-2008, 16:21

that's a good idea.

stillman · 29-08-2008, 18:59

I like it as well.

pantherus · 01-09-2008, 06:56

Yeah - definitely has merit. Probably look at scaling for the qualities of the armour, and subsequent upgrades etc...

mithy · 01-09-2008, 08:59

I like it aswell, there definately has to be more use of gold on higher levels. And not just gambling.

Daft · 09-09-2008, 18:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by mithy

I like it aswell, there definately has to be more use of gold on higher levels. And not just gambling.

You might be surprised.

It doesn't actually need massive sinks to keep gold as useful. You need enough sinks such that gold inflates at the same rate items do. People are more than willing to hoard gold and pay other players gold for things.. as long as it's not something that caps out or evaporates in larger quantities... both of which happen in D2.