Act V Reward question

[alex_reno]

After personalization, you'd get

"Breath of the Dying"
Telveck's Hydra Bow

Correct. And you're quite right that that sucks. There are a lot of runewords that would be pretty cool when personalized. Tikkanen's Doom would be great. Lore, Hand of Justice, Delirium, Passion, Fury, Honor, Malice, Memory, Steel, Silence, Rhyme... we're deprived of all of these. Wouldn't it be cool if your mercenary relied on YourCharName's Honor?

Just as an example, you could have a character named BobMarley with personalized Rhyme, Melody (weapon switch) and Smoke. That would be pretty funny. Oh well.

Memory would have an extra significance in hardcore; my best living character has Memory. If she dies, her deeds will be remembered, but Yog-SoThoth's Memory works waaay better than Memory - Yog-SoThoth's Battle Staff.

Hey, can D2 be modded so that the personalized runewords display the way we expect?

a 3 diamond shield

Noob! Use personalized socketed Prismatic of Deflection instead! Can you get Prismatic of Deflection on a blue pally shield? With prismatic automod and a couple of sockets that'd be a pretty sweet shield...

(Portions of this post in italics are good-natured kidding.)