So out of my entire guild there’s only 2 of us left playing. My buddy is doing a meme build and I found a perfect item for him; a helmet with no class-specific affixes: life, barrier generation, crowd control duration and resistance that would be rerolled… all perfectly rolled at high item power.
However, for some reason, that item is class locked to my specific class? WHY?! Why are items with neutral affixes class locked?! I would understand it if that helmet had rogue-specific affixes like +imbue levels, but it doesn’t. Even then, after some mapping, I had plenty of items with rogue-specific affixes (e.g. pants with +skill levels) that were NOT class locked and he was able to equip them on his druid.
What is the point of this? The game is already starved in terms of the ability to trade, but this is really next level of “screw you”.
What we found out yesterday after the helmet fiasco makes absolutely no sense.
- Some items just roll class-specific for no reason
- Whispers rewards are account-bound
- Some world boss drops are class-locked, others are not; it seems random
- Some NMD dungeon-end rewards are also class-locked while others are not
This is the most confusing and nonsensical item system out of all the ARPGs I have played in my entire life, and I have played a lot of those.
Blizzard, please explain.