Hotfix 6/28 -- Item drop rate changes

[Concillian]

Elric, Combine the affix pools with Viral Spiral's note though.

That's the real issue.

Sure you had a TON of affixes in Diablo II, but items with +skills were GOOD even if they had extremely LOW DPS. Half the classes had builds that wanted +skills, even with low DPS. In Diablo III, even though there are less affixes, there is a comparitvely small number of useful ones. At the inferno level ANY weapon without +damage% AND a +xxx-xxx damage affix is safe to slavage or vendor, because it has ZERO value.

This is what severely limits the issue. The relative concentration of the affixes. Diablo II had several affixes that were TRASH for some builds but PURE GOLD to others. Sometimes even 2 builds of the same class. This is where Diablo III screwed the pooch. The item design needs to force higher probability on the affixes that people actually have a use for in order for people to have a reasonable expectation to find their own upgrades, or even find items that are tradeable at a reasonable frequency.