Memories... the past

[Jugalator]

Here's a wild and crazy idea.  How about for 1.1, reward the casual players?  I'm not asking for a Hell Fallen to be able to drop a Windforce every 5 games.  All I'm asking is increase the chance for the casual players to find gears or ingredients that are usable and reachable.  Cleaning up the junk affixes in Rares (especially on weapons) would be a great start.

Arreat Summit list one change as "greatly improved drops from regular monsters" and "boss drops best the first time only" which actually seem to reward non-hardcore (not the game mode) boss rushers, i.e. those who plays the game through, killing beasts along their way.

I wonder how drastic the changes to regular drops are, since they actually use the word "greatly". Sounds like the ratios were drastically changed to show some very noticeable changes. Hmm.

And yes, I'd also like to see some changes to rare affixes. What I'd like to see isn't really magic-only affixes (magic items SHOULD be inferior imho -- that's why rares are harder to get), but perhaps a rare-only affix here and there. Nothing too uber, since a fortunate combination of uber affixes would make a rare item too good, but perhaps something like a possibility to get cool stuff magic items can't, like 10% Crushing Blow or decent MF on a weapon. This would make rares even more like "random uniques", or "random crafts" if you like. Where actual crafts where themed for a special purpose (half-uniques) and actual uniques were of course those with 100% preset stats.