Well Jazz, I like to you read this until the end and read my bold text above before you draw any conclusion. I did say the word inconsistent. I have tested on the GR400 keys and rarely I find anything ancient or usable. Neither are my mates. We get a lot of items yes but there aren’t many ancient drops from both GR and Rift. Even if they do, they are 90% of the time useless. Everyone I played complaining that how crap the drops are and bare in mind they are newbies with paragon 1000 which is the same as you guys who play season. We drop when we find anything useful to them even if they are not ancient. Could be useful to put in the cube or wear it for now.
Which come to my other point saying getting rid of items that nobody care about like Blackthorn, Fletcher Pride, etc or make the current one to be more interesting and more valuable to have like changing the legendary bonus like Raven Wing. Raven take some of your damage or something. I don’t care what. Let them come up with some creative idea.
Speaking of stash space, you don’t need that much space and they can be in the cube. I never played seasons, I have my original 8 stash space (1 for each char and 1 for gems and to do list) and even with all 7 classes and all complete sets for all 7 classes, plus all the legendary gems and my LoD set up. I still have enough room to move around. I don’t even need to put any items in my char stash space. Plus I have so many different settings on every char and when I change setting, none of the items or gems are missing.
LoD build, my monk and DH share some items. In the same way for my Wiz and WD share items which reduce my stash space. No point of having the 3 different version of CoE ring for example. 1 ring that can share between 5 classes. Dex and Str give armour to Intel class anyway. On top of that all 3 of my followers are fully equipped with ancients or primal. You guys do seasons, you should have more than enough stash spaces. It is down to your own organisation. If I can manage that with my 8 stash, I am pretty sure that you can too if you are an organise person.
My whole point is everything in the game exist for a reason. Without reason or purpose, shouldn’t even be there in the first place. Understand? The idea of making other items a better version is to open up the world of creativity and imagination. Open up to more LoD builds that are good as set items which make the game more interesting. It does not break the game in any shape or form Jazz. I used to work in IT industry and I know what projects are like. What I am saying is let the player find things out and experimenting for themselves rather than being spoon feed which is the game should be about. What they are doing is limiting choices and like Blizzard way or high way.
Because every DH is different and everyone is cool and unique in their own creation. Now we are all hook in the set. Now you have balance issue. One set is better than the other and everyone after that set which is what happening right now in D3. If you see a Bab, you know that they will all do WW 80% or Frenzy 10% or 10% HoTA. There are so many other skills, who use them? Nobody. DH charam for example, very cool in my view but nobody use it. If you see a DH, you know that either GoD or Multishot in bounties. Impale in high GR most of the time and that’s it. Very little Marauder or Nat rapid fire. In fact I never seen one.
All monk play Bells or Rush, All WD plays Barrage, All wiz plays hydra or archon. WTF. I want to play Charam or LoD multishot but I can’t even with 5 mill damage, they are only good enough to do GR90 compare with my Unhallowed set. I have mentioned this before some where above.
I like this Hydra in LoD build which is good as Typhoon set. So why not encourage other players that we can build and design in our own way rather than developer way that has specific to the set item? Is it not better? We pay the money, we like to play how we like. They just provide items and the world. Maybe they should remove the set items in the D4. Everyone is free to create on their own style. That way nobody is the same anymore.
If I see a guy in public game, oh WOW. that is cool dude. How did you set it up? You feel proud and happy with your set up and people are admiring your creation. Then I see another guy, Oh that is also awesome, how did I miss that. I like that build and look fun. Then you can combine your own stuff to make your own version and might want to share with some other if you find it work. It opens up a lot of discussion and idea which much more fun and interesting. Now we are stuck/trap with this set items. We all do exactly the same and everyone is after the most powerful build which is a shame. So many skills and we all use the same rune, the same skill?
As for the Primal, I said more than 15 souls. You really are lack of imagination. More than 15 souls could be anything. With some DB or Mats or bounties materials. I don’t care since primal are hard to find in the first place. If we don’t want it, then it should recycle to higher return. I guess you didn’t read my bold text since you still assuming that the game is not broken. It is not technical, when are you ever going to get that? It is what this game do to us in term of creativity and mentally.