05-06-2003, 06:01 AM
What I'd want to add is a cube recipe that rerolls one of the stats on am item and, if improved, sets it to that. The recipe would also use an amount of gold proportional to the item value. (as well as an antidote, a stamina and a thawing potion - because they ought to be valuable!)
Let's say I've found a Sacred Targe for my Paladin. It has a defense of 130 and a modifier of +36% to resists. It's nice but I wish I'd found a better one. I use The Recipe. It randomly picks between defense and resists, and comes up resists. It rerolls the resists and gets a 42. I now have a 42% resist shield with a def of 130.
I try the recipe again. This time it rerolls the def to 145. Better and better.
I try yet again. Reroll def to 136. Since it isn't an improvement the shield is unchanged. I'm still out the gold and potions, though.
I can keep going until I have a "perfect" shield, but the odds of improving it go down as it gets better.
If the Targe were magical, then the prefix and/or suffix would also be possibilities for improvement.
A six affix rare could take a long time to perfect.
Maybe for an additional amount it could be possible to upgrade and affix to the next higher level, e.g. Shimmering to Rainbow.
I think this would help get rid of the gap between the haves and have nots.
-- CH
Let's say I've found a Sacred Targe for my Paladin. It has a defense of 130 and a modifier of +36% to resists. It's nice but I wish I'd found a better one. I use The Recipe. It randomly picks between defense and resists, and comes up resists. It rerolls the resists and gets a 42. I now have a 42% resist shield with a def of 130.
I try the recipe again. This time it rerolls the def to 145. Better and better.
I try yet again. Reroll def to 136. Since it isn't an improvement the shield is unchanged. I'm still out the gold and potions, though.
I can keep going until I have a "perfect" shield, but the odds of improving it go down as it gets better.
If the Targe were magical, then the prefix and/or suffix would also be possibilities for improvement.
A six affix rare could take a long time to perfect.
Maybe for an additional amount it could be possible to upgrade and affix to the next higher level, e.g. Shimmering to Rainbow.
I think this would help get rid of the gap between the haves and have nots.
-- CH