I am wondering if Blizzard could add the following improvement in a future patch.
Basically what I would like is that ethereal items have a different color label or show a special symbol along with the item text. Right now these items are light grey but normal socketed items also have the same label. It would be nice if you would know which items to pick up. Right now I don’t always pick up each grey item and because of this I probably miss a lot of interesting ethereal base items.
Or are there perhaps allready mods to have this functionality when you play online ?
yeah some kind of loot filter and colour editor would be nice.
colored gems are more importand imho. You can say, which is a ethereal item… If it’s an item, that can’t have sockets at least. For all others, just pick it up, and you will see. (probably with inventory open, so you can instantly throw it away again.)
belts, gloves, boots and throwing weapons can’t have sockets. So if one of those categories is grey, it’s an ethereal version. Only bows/crossbows, helmets, chest-armors shields and melee-weapons can have sockets. And if you need an item with 4 or more sockets, don’t bother with items at normal difficulty. Except, maybe act 5. Normal shields with 4 or more sockts only drop at hell-difficulty. The lowest one needs 156 strength (that’s the moarch) if I remember correctly. Paladin-shields, however, even drop at act 5 normal afaik.
I don’t know how you play the game. But in my case, my inventory is quite full of charms so there is not much space to pick up items. So in this case I would prefer an option where valuable items are more recognizable when they are lying on the ground. Instead of the option to load or unload items out of my inventory all the time.
I don’t get why you say colored gems are more urgent. Gems can now already be recognized simply by looking at the name of the gem. Ethereal items cannot