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unlock 2nd ench slot for artifacts at epic not legendary
burkaanc
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2nd slot should be unlocked at epic level since legendary is out of reach for most players, with current RP prices it might be expensive even for whales at 10mil/item
and without 2nd slot artifacts are often worse than non-artifact stuff, if you spend 1~1.5+ mil on item(thats what would take to buy cheap artifact gear and refine to epic) it should be better than drops/craft you can get for 100~200k
and without 2nd slot artifacts are often worse than non-artifact stuff, if you spend 1~1.5+ mil on item(thats what would take to buy cheap artifact gear and refine to epic) it should be better than drops/craft you can get for 100~200k
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can you provide a link to this post please.
Economic model.
They really don't, because they get normal enchant slots for their item type and not utility. Getting your main hand from green to blue to slot a weapon enchant is critical, but also pretty manageable.
I do hope they take a long hard look at the requirements for legendary though (or XP-based levelling). I am fine with it taking time, but I want to actually see improvements. Gaining one level every couple of weeks on a purple artifact belt while consolidating all refining material drops from all characters is bloody well dispiriting.
Needing to farm millions of peridots by yourself is not the way to keep people engaged and playing your game for years.
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or they could swap with utility slot so u get utility slot when you get to legendary and get normal slot at green
Regular artifacts only get better stats and better activation bonus, and it's still really worth to upgrade them. Artifact gear would work the same way actually; 1 more point in the primary stat for belts, more AP regen for necklaces, more at-will damage for weapons... and better stats. The difference between a Legendary artifact gear and an Epic artifact gear is just too gigantic if you include offense slots.
I hope we have a chance of changing this, because my 2x Draconic Ring and Neck bonus are much better than an epic artifact necklace.
It's called "legendary" not "common" for a reason.
Guess what, there are other items so that you can use them.
I don't agree with you at all, most sets are already pretty useless, if everyone had to have the same items then why bother creating different kinds.
If not, don't use the artifact gear. Simple as that.
Whilst I would welcome the suggested change my inner cynic agrees to the above quoted posters.
epic neck gives 450+ stats and you get enchant, rank7/8 isnt too expensive and they cost cost half of epic artifact, its legendary not unobtainium and no reason to be that much better, whales will go for legendary anyway for those extra stats(or extra utility slot if they swap slot availability), but this would make them valuable for hi-end-ish ppl
Your Draconic rings/neck are not better than 2 personalized rings and an artifact cloak.
Besides the much higher total stats, the special effect of the artifact cloaks(+1-4% AP per 4 seconds of combat or +2-8 Armor Class) can easily outweigh any other necklace. That's not even counting that you may have invested in the appropriate artifact and belt, allowing the full set effect.
This is correct. 3 points in your primary attribute is at least 3% more damage, which is way more than you'll get out of ANYTHING put in a gem slot. Depending on how much power you have, you'll need at least 600-700 more points in power to equal that.
Even if you're slotting a R10, that's only 300 more power. And if you can afford R10's, you can afford Legendary. So for the more average players, each 1% is worth about 220 or so power, or the equivalent of a R8 in that slot.
It's harder to quantify with the AP gain from the neck bonus, but again, gaining 1/2/3% AP every 3 seconds in combat is a huge buff to AP gain, and there's nothing you can put in an offensive slot that could possibly compare.
The issue people have is that it doesn't add to your Gear Score, and people are so obsessed with that dumb number, they'll actually make WORSE choices for their character because they see that number go up.
tl:dr Artifact Equipment, even at green is BiS for some people, BiS for a lot of people at blue, and BiS for nearly everybody at purple.
I'm surprised the artifact weapons don't have the weapon slots locked until legendary as well.
Not everyone's gonna get those rings.
I am actually, but until then, I'll just leave my cloak in my vault. The other artifacts, in the other hand, are better in any situation, while the cloak relies in having the rings or being legendary.
Don't worry, the orange color will still be available only in the last rank.
I mean it should give you huge bonus for huge effort. For epic you need only 2 green resonance stacks, but for legendary you need 18 stacks!
It already gives a lot of compensation through the +1 stat, the 1% AP and the at-will bonus.
Take enchantments as an example. The price from R9 to R10 is much higher than the price from R7 to R8, but the difference between one upgrade and another is the same. The same thing happens with regular artifacts, and people still like to have them on Legendary, even with them not having bonus enchantment slots at that point.
There's absolutely NO reason why Epic artifact gear shouldn't have offensive/defensive slot while every other Epic item in the game does have one. There is however a reason to have a clearly visible bonus on Legendary item and many of them already have (lower cooldown on artifacts atcive ability, +X stat, bonuses for at-wills).