I would post this as part of the 1.3b thread, but I feel its too huge of a post to clog up an already clogged thread with.
This is a list of item tweaks I'm proposing for 1.3b patch. There is nothing concrete about this list of changes, nor do I hold any authority in whether these changes are implemented. They are merely suggestions to be looked at, discussed, and agreed/disagreed upon.
Also, if anyone knows how to create a hide/display list on these forums, please tell me. I hate how this post is such a huge eye-sore and using that function would make it much cleaner.

Major Points:
1) The primary focus is on exceptional & elite items.
2) Items that previously had 5% CB in 1.21z all have 1% Crushing Blow restored to them. This will cap 1handed CB% to a 16% maximum, assuming you're using a 6x Ber'd Weapon.
3) Middle ground is the biggest theme of these item tweaks. Items that have had strength, resists, absorbs, DS, etc., slashed to nothingness all have approximately half of their values restored.
EX: Worldstone Granite has a proposed +15 Strength from +0 in 1.13a and +20 from 1.21z. The main focus of these tweakings it to alleviate the huge slashes of stats from items and instead meet a middle ground where they're just moderately nerfed from 1.21z.
4) The legend is as followed:
Bold = Altered values OR brand new modifier
Italics & Underlined = Removed modifier

I've currently only done Armors, Soulmancers Set, and Gem/Runes. I'll work on Class-Specifics & Weapons next for proposals, but I figure I should post what I got so far.
Here we go:

Gloves:

Venomgrip:
+145-160% Enhanced Defense
+5% to Poison Skill Damage
Poison Resist +30%
Adds (256-256) Poison Damage Over 4 Seconds
5-10% Life Stolen per Hit
+25 Defense
+20-25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+1% Chance of Crushing Blow
+3 to Venom (Assassin Only)

Lavagout:
+2 to Fire Skills
+200% Enhanced Defense
+20% Increased Attack Speed
Fire Resist +30%
Fire Absorb 8%
Half Freeze Duration
Adds 120-180 Fire Damage
+20 to Durability
-10% to Enemy Fire Resistance
8% Chance to Cast Level 12 Fire Wall when Struck
5% Chance to Cast Level 10 Enchant when Striking
100% Chance to Cast Level 40 Volcano when Dying

Hellmouth:
+1 to All Skills
+1-2 Combat Skills (Paladin Only)
+1-2 Shadow Disciplines (Assassin Only)
-10% to Enemy Magic Resistance
+200% Enhanced Defense
+10% Increased Attack Speed
+20% Faster Cast Rate
5% Chance to Cast Level 1 Corpse Explosion when Killing
+5% to Lightning Skill Damage
+5% to Fire Skill Damage
+5% to Cold Skill Damage

Dracul's Grasp:
+120% Enhanced Defense
12% Life Stolen per Hit
25% Chance of Open Wounds
6% Chance to Cast Level 6 Life Tap when Striking
+15-20 Life After Each Kill
+10-15 to Strength
+3-5 to Feral Rage (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Cobra Strike (Assassin Only)
+15-20 to Dexterity
+2-3 to Life Tap (Necromancer Only)

Champion Fist:
+200% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Attack Speed
+10 to Strength
+20 to Dexterity
15% Chance of Deadly Strike
Damage Reduced by 5%
+100 to Attack Rating
+3-4 to Phoenix Strike (Assassin Only)
+3-4 to Weapon Block (Assassin Only)
+3-4 to Burst of Speed (Assassin Only)

Steelrend:
+300% Enhanced Defense
+200% Enhanced Damage
9-12% Life Stolen per Hit
+20 to Strength
10% Chance of Deadly Strike
Increase Maximum Life 10%
Damage Reduced by 5%
+1% Chance of Crushing Blow


Helms:

Steelskull:
6% Mana Stolen per Hit
6% Life Stolen per Hit
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
+10% Increased Attack Speed
+200-250% Enhanced Defense
30-60% Better Chance of Finding Magic Items
30-60% Extra Gold from Monsters
+60 Defense
+10 to Strength
+10 to Dexterity
+15% Resist All

Blackhorn's Face:
+1 to All Skills
+180-220% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +20%
Lightning Absorb 5%
Fire Absorb 5%
Cold Absorb 5%
750% Thorns Damage
15% Chance of Deadly Strike
+50% Enhanced Damage
Prevent Monster Heal
25% Chance of Open Wounds
+1 to Grim Ward (OSKILL)

Vampiregaze:
+1 to All Skills
+100% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +20%
10% Mana Stolen per Hit
10% Life Stolen per Hit
+10% Faster Cast Rate
Damage Reduced by 10%
Magic Damage Reduced by 20
Adds 100-200 Cold Damage
+3-4 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
10% Chance to Cast Level 20 Bone Armor when Struck
Level 20 Bone Wall (15 Charges)
+3-4 Bone Armor (Necromancer Only)
+3-4 Bone Wall (Necromancer Only)
(Will produce ~1500 damage Bone Shield)

Harlequin Crest:
+2 to All Skills
+(150-200) to Life (Based on Character Level)
+(150-200) to Mana (Based on Character Level)
150% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+15 to Dexterity
+15 to Vitality
+15 to Energy
+15 to Strength
+25% Faster Cast Rate
Socketed (2)

Kira's Guardian:
+2 to All Skills
+100% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +40%
Cannot be Frozen
+30% Faster Hit Recovery
Socketed (4)
Increase Maximum Life 10%
Increase Maximum Mana 10%

Veil of Steel:
Resist All +30%
+400% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
+20 to Dexterity
+20 to Energy
Damage Reduced by 8%
+33% Faster Hit Recovery
+1 Iron Skin (OSKILL)
100% Bonus to Attack Rating
Socketed (2)
+6-8 to Tiger Strike (Assassin Only)

Giantskull:
+2 to Necromancer Skill Levels
+4 to Summoning Skills (Necromancer Only)
+25 to Life After Each Kill
+25 to Mana After Each Kill
Socketed (2)
Knockback
Requirements -25%
80-120% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+10 to Concentration (OSKILL)
Level 22 Teleport (20 Charges)
+4-6 to Skeleton Mastery (Necromancer Only)
+4-6 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
+4-6 to Bone Armor (Necromancer Only)

Crown of Ages:
+3 to All Skills
+450-500% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +33%
+33% Faster Hit Recovery
Indestructible
Damage Reduced by 8%
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Socketed (3)

Guilluame's Face:
+1 to All Skills
+120% Enhanced Defense
+30% Faster Hit Recovery
15% Deadly Strike
+10 to Strength
1% Chance of Crushing Blow


Belts:

String of Ears:
+1-2 to Shadow Disciplines (Assassin Only)
+1-2 to Passive and Magic Skills (Amazon Only)
+150-180% Enhanced Defense
Magic Damage Reduced by 6-8
Damage Reduced by 9-11%
6-8% Life Stolen per Hit
+15 Defense
+10 to Durability

Snowclash:
+3 to Cold Skills (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Ice Arrow (Amazon Only)
+3 to Freezing Arrow (Amazon Only)
+150-170% Enhanced Defense
Cold Absorb 8%
Cold Resist +50%
Adds 60-90 Cold Damage
+3 to Chilling Armor (OSKILL)
+1 to Dim Vision (OSKILL)
-10% to Enemy Cold Resistance
8% Chance to Cast Level 16 Blizzard when Struck

Thundergod's Vigor:
+3 to Lightning Strike (Amazon Only)
+3 to Lightning Fury (Amazon Only)
+3 to Lightning Skills (Sorceress Only)
Adds 1-300 Lightning Damage
Lightning Resist +50%
Lightning Absorb 8%
+200% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Vitality
-10% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
12% Chance to Cast Level 20 Chain Lightning when Struck
8% Chance to Cast Level 12 Fist of the Heavens when Striking

Arachnid Mesh:
+2 to All Skills
+120% Enhanced Defense
+25% Faster Cast Rate
Level 15 Venom (30 Charges)
-10% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
+3-4 to Venom (Assassin Only)
Slow Enemies 10%
Poison Resist +25%
Poison Length Reduced by 25%
3% Chance of Deadly Strike

Nosferatu's Coil:
+150% Enhanced Defense
10% Mana Stolen per Hit
10% Life Stolen per Hit
+10% Increased Attack Speed
10% Chance of Deadly Strike
+10 Strength
+30 to Vitality
Resist All +10%
Cold Absorb 6-8%
Lightning Absorb 6-8%
+50 to Life After Each Kill
+50 to Mana After Each Kill
10% Chance of Open Wounds

Verdungo's Hearty Cord:
+200% Enhanced Defense
+30 to Vitality
+100-120 to Stamina
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
Damage Reduced by 10%
Replenish Life +30
+3-4 to Shadow Master (Assassin Only)
+3-4 to Shadow Warrior (Assassin Only)
+2-3 to Phoenix Strike (Assassin Only)
+2-3 to Dragon Flight (Assassin Only)
+20% Increased Attack Speed

Worldstone Granite:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
40% Faster Hit Recovery
Damage Reduced by 8%
+15 Strength
Resist All +10%
+20 to Vitality
Cannot be Frozen
Level 25 Iron Golem (30 Charges)
+1 to Golem Mastery (OSKILL)
10% Chance to Cast Level 30 Shock Wave when Struck
+100 Defense


Boots:

Goblin Toe:
+40-50% Enhanced Damage
Damage Reduced by 4
Magic Damage Reduced by 4
+20 Defense
+60% Enhanced Defense
+5 to Strength
+5 to Dexterity
+1% Chance of Crushing Blow


Silkweave:
+1 to All Skills
+150-190% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+25 to Mana After Each Kill
+25% Faster Hit Recovery
+10 to Energy


War Traveler:
+1 to Assassin Skill Levels
+20 to Dexterity
25% Extra Gold from Monsters
50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+30 to Durability
+40% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+170-190% Enhanced Defense
Adds 20-40 Damage
500% Thorns Damage
50% Slower Stamina Drain
+10 Strength


Gorerider:
+200% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
15% Chance of Deadly Strike
30% Chance of Open Wounds
+30% Enhanced Damage
+10 to Durability
+25 to Stamina
1% Chance to Cast Level 3 Amplify Damage when Striking
+3-4 to Amplify Damage (Necromancer Only)
+20 to Vitality
+1% Chance of Crushing Blow


Stormwalk:
+1 to Assassin Skill Levels
+150% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
Regenerate Stamina 30%
+2-3 to Burst of Speed (Assassin Only)
+2-3 to Phoenix Strike (Assassin Only)
+2-3 to Fade (Assassin Only)
Cold Absorb 3-5%
Lightning Absorb 3-5%
Adds 160-240 Cold Damage
Adds 1-500 Lightning Damage
+2-3 to Increased Speed (Barbarian Only)


Forsaken Moon:
+200% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+3-4 to Werewolf (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Werebear (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Lycanthropy (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Rabies (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Fire Claws (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Frostbite (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Shock Wave (Druid Only)
+3-4 to Hunger (Druid Only)
Replenish Life +30
4-6% Mana Stolen per Hit
+15% Chance of Deadly Strike


Shadowdancer:
+300% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
+20 to Dexterity
+20 to Vitality
Damage Reduced by 8%
+10 Strength
+15% Deadly Strike
+150 to Attack Rating
+3-4 to Leap Attack (Barbarian Only)
+3-4 to Dragon Flight (Assassin Only)
+3-4 to Dragon Tail (Assassin Only)
+3-4 to Dragon Claw (Assassin Only)

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quick summary:
added lots of +resists back
added lots of +strength back
added lots of %deadly strike back
added some crushing blow back

result - lets make the game easy again!

As you guys put the training wheels back on this mod for the kiddies who find it too challenging, let me remind you of a quote from Soulmancer:

In short this is Diablo II vastly enhanced with many new surprises, challenges and features! Diablo as it was meant to be!

This mod is focused towards group multiplayer in a manner of which a group of friends or players can start fresh new characters and fight through the forces of hell side by side, although there is a solo edition available.
As multiplayer is the prime focus here, Solo play in the sense of progressing onward is not recommended. Solo play is used mainly as a means of treasure hunting, catching up in experience or refining gear and skills… Those purely interested in solo play will find a huge obstacle in bosses, as they were designed mainly for multiplayer combat…
I recommend 3-6 players for the full mod.
http://www.arimyth.com/hell.htm

Ask yourself the long and hard question of whether you are really sticking with that single paragraph vision that the mod creator had in mind.

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Armors:

Rattlecage:
50% Bonus to Attack Rating
+200% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +15%
+100% Enhanced Damage
+15 to Strength
+25 to Life
Repair Durability (1 Per 5 Seconds)
1% Chance of Crushing Blow

The Spirit Shroud:
+1 to All Skills
+150% Enhanced Defense
+20% Faster Cast Rate
Cannot be Frozen
-8% to Enemy Poison Resistance
-8% to Enemy Magic Resistance
+20% Resist All
Ethereal
Indestructible
Fade Character
Regenerate Mana 20%
Reanimate Slain as: Specter (5%)
Magic Damage Reduced by 8-12
Damage Reduced by 6-9
Replenish Life +20

Ironpelt:
+3 to Defensive Auras(Paladin Only)
+120-160% Enhanced Defense
+125 to Durability
+100 to Life
Magic Damage Reduced by 20-30
Damage Reduced by 20-30
+(156-300) Defense (Based on Character Level)
+20-30% Increased Chance of Blocking
Level 15 Shout (33 Charges)
10% Chance to Cast Level 1 Shout when Struck

Spiritforge:
+2 to Summoning Skills (Druid Only)
+2 to Oak Sage (Druid Only)
+4 to Heart of Wolverine (Druid Only)
+4 to Spirit of Barbs (Druid Only)
+120-160% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +20%
+(27-50) to Life (Based on Character Level)
Adds 60-120 Magic Damage
+4 to Light Radius
+20 to Energy
Socketed (4)

Shaftstop:
+300-400% Enhanced Defense
+200 Defense
Damage Reduced by 20%
+100 to Life
+1 to Iron Skin (OSKILL)
+20% Increased Chance of Blocking
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+250 Defense vs. Missiles

Guardian Angel:
+1 to Paladin Skill Levels
+180-250% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +20%
-10% to Enemy Magic Resistance
+(128-200) to Attack Rating Against Demons (Based on Character Level)
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+30% Faster Block Rate
+20% Increased Chance of Blocking
+100% Damage to Demons
+2-3 to Salvation (Paladin Only)
+2-3 to Redemption (Paladin Only)
+2-3 to Sanctuary (Paladin Only)
+6 to Light Radius

Black Hades:
+300% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +20%
-4 to Light Radius
Cannot be Frozen
10% Chance to Cast Level 10 Blade Shield when Struck
10% Chance to Cast Level 30 Bone Armor when Struck
10% Chance to Cast Level 30 Cyclone Armor when Struck
10% chance to Cast Level 10 Frozen Armor when Struck
Prevent Monster Heal
2-4% Mana Stolen per Hit (varies)
Reanimate Slain as: Fiend (5%)
Socketed (4)
15% Chance to Cast Level 10 Shiver Armor when Struck
+500 to Attack Rating Against Demons
+200% Damage to Demons
20% Chance of Open Wounds
(Armor was pretty much useless filler in it's current state, might as well give it some flare)

Glassglare:
+1 to All Skills
25% Faster Hit Recovery
+10% Increased Chance of Blocking
+250% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +35%
Magic Absorb 5-8% (varies)
Cold Absorb 5-8% (varies)
Lightning Absorb 5-8% (varies)
Fire Absorb 5-8% (varies)
Damage Reduced by 10%
Poison Length Reduced by 50%
Socketed (2)

Trapper's Catch:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
+50% Increased Run Speed
+30 to Dexterity
+50% Increased Attack Speed
Damage Reduced by 10%
+4-6 to Blade Sentinel (Assassin Only)
+4-6 to Blade Fury (Assassin Only)
+4-6 to Blade Shield (Assassin Only)
+4-6 to Death Sentry (Assassin Only)
+1 Strategy (OSKILL)
+350% Enhanced Damage
+3-4 to Fade (Assassin Only)
Level 20 Shadow Warrior (30 Charges)
(Strategy added to help with BF sin's AR problems, as well as some added dmg%)

Darkfear:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +30%
Damage Reduced by 10%
-10 to Enemy Fire Resistance
Requirements -50%
+3-4 to Confuse (OSKILL)
+3-4 to Dim Vision (OSKILL)
Reanimate Slain as: Demon Imp
Hit Freezes Target +5
+3 to Immolation Arrow (Amazon Only)
Socketed (4)
20% Chance to Cast Level 20 Terror when Struck
10% Chance to Cast Level 50 FireWall when Striking

Duress:
+45% Faster Hit Recovery
+150-200% Enhanced Defense
+100% Enhanced Damage
Adds 80-160 Cold Damage
Indestructible
33% Chance of Open Wounds
Drain Stamina 20%
+20% Increased Run/Walk Speed
Resist All +20%
Cold Resist +20%
1% Chance of Crushing Blow
(5% resist all base, +15% from Um rune, +20% Cold Res from Thul rune)

Enigma:
+2 to All Skills
+200-250% Enhanced Defense
+50 Life After Each Kill
+90% Increased Run Speed
+1 to Teleport (OSKILL)
Increase Maximum Life 10%
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
20% Damage Taken Goes to Mana
Damage Reduced by 7%
+15 Strength
+30 Dexterity
(DR 7% due to Ber rune increase. 30 Str/Dex may seem like a lot now, but remember it used to be 66-75 Str/Dex)


Shields:

Warriv's Warder:
+2 to Druid Skills
+200% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +25%
+20% Increased Chance of Blocking
+40% Faster Block Rate
-5% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+3-4 to Firestorm (Druid Only)
+2-3 to Fissure (Druid Only)
+2-3 to Armageddon (Druid Only)
+2-3 to Molten Boulder (Druid Only)
Socketed (2)
Damage Reduced by 5%
+4 to Hydra (OSKILL)

Blackoak Shield:
+2 to Druid Skills
+200% Enhanced Defense
+30% Faster Block Rate
+20% Increased Chance of Blocking
+(56-75) to Dexterity (Based on Character Level)
+(148-200) to Life (Based on Character Level)
Cannot be Frozen
+2 to Tornado (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Cyclone Armor (Druid only)
10% Chance to Cast Level 6 Decrepify when Struck
Socketed (2)
Cold Absorb 5-10%

Revenge:
+250% Enhanced Defense
+30% Faster Block Rate
+30% Increased Chance of Blocking
+15 to Strength
-15% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-15% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-15% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+7 to Vengeance (Paladin Only)
+5 to Conviction (Paladin Only)
+25% Resist All
Socketed (2)
+100% Enhanced Damage
+2-3 to Salvation (Paladin Only)
+3 to Holy Fire (OSKILL)
+3 Holy Freeze (OSKILL)
+3 to Holy Shock (OSKILL)
(Buff to Vengeance Paladin. Basically a more offensive version of Dragon Scale, and supplies them with some much needed passive pierce)

Spirit Ward:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
Cold Absorb 7-9%
Fire Absorb 7-9%
Lightning Absorb 7-9%
Resist All +40%
Poison Length Reduced by 50%
+40% Faster Block Rate
+30% Increased Chance of Blocking
5% Chance to Cast Level 5 Fade when Struck
Socketed (3)


Soulmancer's Set:

Soulmancer's Boots:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
1000% Thorns Damage
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+25 to Dexterity

Soulmancer's Gloves:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
1000% Thorns Damage
+30% Increased Run/Walk Speed
+25 to Strength

Soulmancer's Belt:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
Magic Damage Reduced by 25
+100 to Mana
+25 to Energy

Soulmancer's Helm:
+1 to All Skills
+300% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by 25
+100 to Life
+25 to Vitality
Socketed (2)

Partial Set Bonus:
Resist All +35% (2 Items Equipped)
+50% Enhanced Damage (2 Items Equipped)
+33% Increased Attack Speed (3 Items Equipped)
+33% Faster Cast Rate (3 Items Equipped)

Restored Soulmancer's to half of it's previous glory. Without any sort of stats, the once pretty good set was total crap for anything but a mercenary.


Gem/Runes

Sapphires (In Shield):
Chipped: Cold Resist 8% / Cold Absorb 1%
Flawed: Cold Resist 12% / Cold Absorb 2%
Normal: Cold Resist 16% / Cold Absorb 3%
Flawless: Cold Resist 20% / Cold Absorb 4%
Perfect: Cold Resist 24% / Cold Absorb 5%
Starstone: Cold Resist 28% / Cold Absorb 6%
MoonStone: Cold Resist 36% / Cold Absorb 7%
Uber: Cold Resist 44% / Cold Absorb 8%

Same values for Topaz/Rubies. Basically, smack dab in the middle between 1.21z and 1.13a.
My Emerald proposal is also the same value of resists (PLR remains the same)

Diamonds (In Shield):
Chipped: 5% Resist All
Flawed: 7% Resist All
Normal: 9% Resist All
Flawless: 11% Resist All
Perfect: 13% Resist All
Starstone: 16% Resist All
Moonstone: 19% Resist All
Uber: 22% Resist All

Again, taking the middle ground between 1.21z & 1.13a.

Skulls (In Shield):
Chipped: 1% DR
Flawed: 2% DR
Normal: 3% DR
Flawless: 4% DR
Perfect: 5% DR
Starstone: 6% DR
Moonstone: 7% DR
Uber: 8% DR

Amethyst (In Armor/Helm):
Chipped: +3 to Strength
Flawed: +5 to Strength
Normal: +7 to Strength
Flawless: +9 to Strength
Perfect: +11 to Strength
Starstone: +14 to Strength
Moonstone: +17 to Strength
Uber: +20 to Strength


Runes:
Um (In Armor/Helm): +15% Resist All
Um (In Shields): +20% Resist All
Ber (In Armor/Helm): Damage Reduced by 7%
Thul/Ort/Ral/Tal (In Armor/Helm: +20% Specific Resist
Hel (In All): -15% Requirements

Jewels:
Wirt's Jewel: 6-8 All Stats, -20 Requirements


And that's all I got thus far.
EDIT: Hm, appears I could even get to my second post before the Blue rage was upon me. Apparently you no longer stand by your "Do it yourself" motto
Maybe I should propose Oskill Masteries? Then again... I suppose that made the mod too hard. Speaking of mod difficulty Blue, how about you go and play untwinked instead of leeching through every boss? You may have a different perspective then

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All of these items are balanced similar to purrages patch suggestions. They are pretty level balanced and nothing is extremely high. Abominae only added small portions of str/dex/ds and buffed some items that needed some twinkage such as abs on ward etc.. I don't think many people are going to disagree with this list.

+1 support

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@Blue I guessed you missed the added 101 boss and the non KB LoS. Difficulty is being added in conjunction with buffs being made. We are simply trying to bring a little life back into the items you completely decimated. Let me repeat. COMPLETELY DECIMATED!

Btw we = the community because I'm already holding the position that most people agree with Abominaes changes.

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1) Soulmancer made HU with all items and he was FINE with them
2) Items nerf overnerfed for melee and overbuffed for casters
3) Items are getting 40% of power they have SM did them
4)... Abominae surely want easier mod as he just posted reduced version of soulmancer items.

I like these changes, nice work

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I'd like to take a look at Scepters as a whole class of items Astreon's is lackluster as well as most Scepter's most of this looks really good tho. I'm going to ignore Blue's comment because his proposed craft changes to Ame Weps in itself was silly.

I can quote Soulmancer to btw



Edit: Forgot to say I like what has been done so far.

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Great work Abominae, seems alot more balanced in general

Keep it up!

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Trolling LockDown since 14/01/2012.

Thanks. I plan to start working a rough list for weapons/class-specifics basically following the same trend as armors/gems. As far as scepters go, the biggest thing I had in mind was to tweak Ironward into a beastly Vengeance scepter because as it is now Vengeance Paladins have no real end-game weapon that provides them with both strong weapon damage and a decent amount of passive pierce.
I do suppose I should have saved some posts in this thread, but I guess I'll suffice with it being broken and lists flying all about.

However, I would love to see others contribute/suggest item changes. I am by no means am trying to claim authority over items and would love to see other suggestions thrown out for discussion/consideration.

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HOLY SHIT! THERE'S GOING TO BE STR ON ITEMS!??! lol

great effort abom, thanks for the work.

I read through most of the changes and am not against any of them particularly, but it does seem to be mostly buffs. Perhaps my perception is just skewed since all I know is this patch which apparently is fucked. I'd be happy to roll with these changes though and see how it goes

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BINGO!
That's because people seem to feel this mod is too hard. You have to go through all the bother of finding a party and all of that nonsense. The preference is to make it a single person owns type of mod.

There is only one reason to add +str to items and that is str bugging.

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You are correct. The changes are 99% buffs when viewing from 1.13a. However, when compared to 1.21z, 99% of the changes are still nerfs.
A lot of what I've been doing is comparing items from http://blue.arimyth.com/ (1.13a) and http://critterkiller.arimyth.com/ (1.21z) and going with a middle ground between the two versions of items. (As well as a couple small tweaks to buff certain builds)

EDIT: Editted Steelrends thanks to Zikur. And on the note of Ber/Skulls, I feel if you're going to dedicate a socket to DR, it should be worth it. Bers I really have no problem with being 5% with all the other DR% buffs, but I felt 12% DR -> 5% DR on skulls was much too harsh considering for every class but Paladin, skulling a shield is giving up any hope at reliable block frames.

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steelrend had 5% dr in 1.21
overall i like, seem like a lot of %dr added tho with buffs to bers/skulls

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I'm all for hard and I play HC for a reason. I love the additional challenge of naked parties and what not, it makes things interesting. Similar to the physical only party we did near the beginning of this ladder to try to prove to people that melee was fine. I think my WC barb, Bobby_Mcferrin, is the only one left alive.. now he's my BO bitch / leo runner

and you skipped part of my quote:




yea, I get that and am not against it. Besides, items are server-side edits, right? So if there is some unforeseen imbalance created by the skill/character changes + item buffs then it could be an easy fix, no?

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I'll shoot you some PM's when I look at scepters later Zach. Steel and I have been trying to figure it out for the past few days.

Edit : Probably also need to take a look at fire druid Weps because at the moment it's Geddon or bust.

Edit2 : Add in Pally shield Runeword That gives level x Convic on Equip would help out Avengers and Holy Zealers more than anything.

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In hue of the items getting stat buffage again from Blues version, perhaps its time to consider re'upping the minimum spawn again? The game was easy at 3 with Terry's stats. Imagine 2 with middle ground? I can forsee this becoming far to easy again...

+1 Support for raising minimum spawn rate.

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+1 as well.

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Round Two. Finished up 2handers & Throwing as they were easiest to spiff up. 1handers, class specifics, and jewelry will probably wait til tomorrow.
Again, I encourage people to post suggestions for items for consideration/discussion, as well as continue to correct me on the mistakes I make!
Mainly buffs again, but I don't think anyone can argue end-game 2handers need them. They got slashed pretty hard in 1.13a. The main focus is to return them to strong, but more defensive/utility orientated than their eth-rare counterparts.

Throwing Weapons:

Lacerator:
+450% Enhanced Damage
Replenish Quantity (1 Every 30 Seconds)
+40% Increased Attack Speed
Prevent Monster Heal
33% Chance of Open Wounds
33% Chance of Deadly Strike
33% Chance to Cast Level 1 Amplify Damage when Striking
+1-2 to Barbarian Skill Levels
Piercing Attack (25%)
1500% Thorns Damage
50% Bonus to Attack Rating
+1-2 to Assassin Skill Levels
Hit Causes Monster to Flee (64% Chance)

Gargoyle's Bite:
+2 to All Skills
+500% Enhanced Damage
+60% Increased Attack Speed
Adds 250-500 Magic Damage
12-18% Life Stolen per Hit
12-18% Mana Stolen per Hit
20% Chance to Cast Level 33 Plague Javelin when Attacking
20% Chance to Cast Level 33 Lightning Bolt when Attacking
Hit Freezes Target (+1)
Ignore Target's Defense
Piercing Attack (90% Chance)
Replenish Quantity (1 Every 30 Seconds)

Gimmershred:
+5-7 to Double Throw (Barbarian Only)
+450% Enhanced Damage
+80% Increased Attack Speed
50% Chance of Deadly Strike
Adds 250-500 Fire Damage
Adds 250-500 Cold Damage
Knockback
+3-4 to Throwing Mastery (OSKILL)
+3-4 to Increased Speed (OSKILL)
Piercing Attack (100% Chance)
Replenish Quantity (1 Every 30 Seconds)
Socketed (2)
Adds 1-800 Lightning Damage


Two-Handed Weapons:

The Reaper's Toll:
+5 to Necromancer Skill Levels
+350% Enhanced Damage
+50% Increased Attack Speed
20% Life Stolen per Hit
Ignore Target's Defense
25% Chance of Deadly Strike
50% Chance of Open Wounds
Prevent Monster Heal
+50 to Life After Each Kill
+12 to Bone Armor (OSKILL)
25% Chance to Cast Level 6 Decrepify when Striking
Reanimate Slain as: Doom Knight (5%)

Tomb Reaver:
+2 to All Skills
+400% Enhanced Damage
+80% Increased Attack Speed
Prevent Monster Heal
Resist All +35%
35% Chance of Deadly Strike
+666 to Attack Rating Against Undead
+100 Life After Each Kill
Ethereal
Indestructible
5% Reanimate As: Rot Walker
Socketed (2)
+5 to Light Radius

Executioner's Justice:
+2-3 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+2-3 to Druid Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+80% Increased Attack Speed
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
Ignore Target's Defense
Damage Reduced by 5%
Resist All +35%
35% Chance of Deadly Strike
12% Chance to Cast Level 6 Decrepify when Striking
Reanimate Slain as: Moon Lord (5%)

Windhammer:
+2-3 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+2-3 to Druid Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+80% Increased Attack Speed
30% Chance of Deadly Strike
6% Chance of Crushing Blow
Resist All +30%
Slows Enemies 20%
+30 to Strength
Reanimate Slain as: Suicide Minion (5%)
(Note: Windhammer used to rock +100 Strength in 1.21z. It was reduced to 0 strength in 1.13a. If anyone feels 100 -> 50 is not significant enough nerf, please say so. EDIT: Dropped to 30 str.)

Steelpillar:
+1-3 to All Skills
+500% Enhanced Damage
+66% Increased Attack Speed
+300 to Attack Rating
Ignore Target's Defense
+100% Enhanced Defense
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
Resist All +20%
+15 Strength
Increase Maximum Life 20-25%
Increase Maximum Mana 20-25%
Socketed (2)

Ondal's Wisdom:
+5 to All Skills
+100% Faster Cast Rate
Damage Reduced by 33
Magic Damage Reduced by 33
Regenerate Mana 100%
Resist All +40%
+50% Increased Run/Walk Speed
Increase Maximum Life 10%
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
+1 to Battle Orders (OSKILL)
Level 30 Spirit Blades (30 Charges)
Socketed (4)
+5 to Sorceress Skill Levels

The Grandfather:
+2 to All Skills
+500% Enhanced Damage
+(285-300) to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+80% Increased Attack Speed
20% Life Stolen per Hit
+15 to Strength
+15 to Dexerity
100% Bonus to Attack Rating
Increase Maximum Life 10%
3% Chance of Crushing Blow
30% Chance of Deadly Strike
Resist All +20%
+40 to Vitality
+40 to Energy
Damage Reduced by 3%

Ribcracker:
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
+250 to Attack Rating
-50 Resist All
-25 to All Stats
+100 Defense
+100% Enhanced Defense
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
+100% Increased Attack Speed
+100 to Durability
+20 to Dexterity
Adds 40-65 Damage
+350% Enhanced Damage
(Ribcracker change is a shot in the dark. I personally like it, as it would be THE high CB / low damage weapon, but if it's not liked it's no skin off my back to leave it in it's current state)

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I hesitate putting so much CB on Grandfathers because a Frenzy Barb would then have 6% CB without Ber's 20% DR from Frenzy and Pretty good life. Ondals is now a 6 BO Cta but no shield so lose +2 Skills on it so not a big deal. Windhammer is already pretty heavy not gonna use it to str bug anything so that argument is a null point for that.

Ribcracker is one of my favorite items and always has been but what would the damage on an Eth Upped one be with those stats?

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Technically Frenzy will still only have 3% as CB does not stack from weapon to weapon. With Ber up to 2%, we're now looking at 10% CB Gris Caddy's, so I figured Frenzy Barbs wouldn't mind 3% to compete a little. Frenzy has always been a fairly sub-par skill when compared to Whirlwind. With a decent bit of CB being restored to 2h, I figured GF wouldn't be an issue with 3%.
If people don't like it though, I have no qualms about letting it go.

Ondal's used to be THE buff stuck (+7 All / +1 BO), now it's just the equivalent of WizSpike/HHG buff switch with BO to boot. You lose BC versus CTA, but gain a viable buff switch, which was the idea behind my changes.


IIRC, Blue nerfed the crap out of base staff damage. Without any ED% at all, the base damage will be very very low. You won't be hitting anything close to real physical damage using that proposed Ribcracker.

EDIT: Ribcracker will be 8-16 base damage. If you get it eth + up you're still only looking at 42-81 base damage, which is nothing. Only reason to up it would be the next staff base is -10 speed instead of 0 base speed.

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Ah then that's fine and Frenzy is lackluster also didn't see the res removal so that works nice. I have no problems with the Ondals change I like it. Looked at Ribcracker on site 76-137 damage with 350% ed eth and upped will still be shit damage so it's a nice change I think.

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It would be whatever the 2h elite staff weapons dmg is.. Theres no ED on it

One note Abominae... You are going to have to change your Grandfather proposal. I count more than 12 mods on it. The uniqueitem.txt has a hardcoded limit of 12 mods so some of those added mods on Grandfather will have to go or some of the existing mods. I don't have anything against the proposal itself its just the proposal doesn't obey txt file limits.

+1 again

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+2 to All Skills
+500% Enhanced Damage
+(285-300) to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+80% Increased Attack Speed
20% Life Stolen per Hit
+15 to Strength
+15 to Dexerity
100% Bonus to Attack Rating
Increase Maximum Life 10%
3% Chance of Crushing Blow
30% Chance of Deadly Strike
(11)

Underlined are removed mods.

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take the cb off and str/dex from grandfather. 15 str/dex isnt huge anyway.

drop the str on windhammer to 30 from 50. 50 is pretty big with the current ed/str bonuses.

Thank you, I've been wondering about the modifier limit on items. I've pretty much just been making sure to remove a line if I add one, so I don't blunder over the limit.
As Lockdown pointed out though, the underlined modifiers below Grandfather are to be removed, which would bring its modifier count to 11. Unless Grandfather contains any modifiers that require two lines?

Also, do additional sockets also take a modifier line? (If so, Gimmershred is over the limit as well)

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Yes extra sockets will add an other property line. No one property that displays as one line though requires multiple property slots though. There is theoretical ways to go about making a couple properties take up only one property slot though as long as they share the same amount (such as the +15 str/dex you had for grandfather). This however requires some fancy item modding and modifying other files besides the uniqueitem.txt in particular.

no, it would be fine, it has 2 stats that are equal (40 vit/energy? or was it vit/str?)
just create a new property in properties.txt called enrstr and add str and energy as the stats for that 1 property.

the limit is on properties not actual stats, each property can have more than 10 stats attatched to it.
you could also create a property called cbdr and save another line as cb and dr are both 3% on that item.

Ps. higher spawn is nice and easy, just change the values in d2mod.ini for the spawn count

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Even with combining the str and dex togethor into one property and the vitality and energy into one property I still count 13 properties for grandfather though.

higher spawn does nothing to increase the difficulty, only the number of hits it takes to drop a monster. It makes the game more tedious, not more difficult.

Reducing the number of hits it takes a monster to take YOU down on the other hand does increase the difficulty and is the direction that people should be heading towards. That is what makes the game harder and consequently encourages people to party up to overcome the challenge.

With no difficulty though, there is no incentive to party. And when parties do get together they simply roll through areas without pause.

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Incorrect Blue. Higher spawn means it takes longer to kill the boss which means you take more damage. On a boss like Hell Samhain higher spawn is more difficult and Baal. These bosses deal very high damage and the faster you kill the less damage you take/higher chance of survivability.

The longer it takes to kill something equates to more damage dealt to you and your party.

I know from actual experience. Doing bosses on my OP druid in SP is much easier than in higher spawn as I take more damage and require more juvs etc.

While it's true bosses that do more damage also make it difficult just thought I'd point that out.

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With the nerf to re-castable tanks longer boss fights put you in even more direct danger now. I know Hell Sammy is a chore I've killed an 8 Spawn Sammy and an 8 Spawn Baal this ladder. Have you? Upping the spawn does increase difficulty because there are more opportunities for you to fuck up.

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shards inventory size needs increased to 1*2

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So they won't look weird as sin now?

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shall we ignore your posts , for the sake of giving you a taste of your own medecine?

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As long as parties don't have to rely on healadins, 1sec spammable summons and poison damage to overcome the bosses (otherwise party fail) I'm a happy camper

Won't it be over saved on items actually in inventory? Can cause only problems without a ladder reset.

I'm really liking what I'm seeing thus far. Similar to ideas I had suggested before patch went live. These changes will bring back many of the builds we all loved when coupled with the new patch. Happy days One item that could be looked at is Devastator.

+5 to Amazon Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+60% Increased Attack Speed
+40% Faster Run/Walk Ignore Target Defense
+1 to Natural Resistance (OSKILL)
+1 to Iron Skin (OSKILL)
+1 to Increased Stamina(OSKILL)
All Resistances +50%
Socketed (3)
Level 6 Fanaticism Aura when Equipped

With the buffs melee Zon's got last patch and the return of res on many items seems like a bit of overkill now. Possibly something more like:

+5 to Amazon Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+60% Increased Attack Speed
+40% Faster Run/Walk Ignore Target Defense
+1 to Perfection (OSKILL)
+1 to Iron Skin (OSKILL)
+1 to Strategy (OSKILL)
All Resistances +30%
Socketed (3)
Level 6 Fanaticism Aura when Equipped

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Melee Zons have Life problems bad. I played one to 93 basically if you stop attacking you die. I also don't see why you'd OSKILL Zon skills on a Zon item. Adding res BACK to other items. Dev is end all be all for the build.

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Abom when you get to RW's take a look at Darkness Zod rw for claws. The frenzy oskill is broken and doesnt seem to work. Someone else may want to test to be sure. Id suggest changing to Maul or Fury if it is indeed the case

Testing right now.

Icon shows up as regular attack but the Frenzy is working on single player. Gave the FRW and IAS from the skill. Maul and Fury also can't be cast outside of Shifted form.

Actually.. it isn't giving IAS DR or ED with the animation just the swivels.

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How's broken? Doesn't work completely (red skill icon) or crashes games? That may be the case of skills restriction to 2x melee wpns but not claws... or animation error.

As in i see no inherent bonuses from frenzy. No armor reduction no ias improvement. No ED. I do however see the attack animation, just nothing changes.

I'd rather have 2 sockets then a little fire damage.

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Then how do the A5 barb mercs do it?

The original barb frenzy would cause crashes when used by an assassin, its not actually frenzy but "AssFrenzy" skill id 400 in skills.txt.

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IAS boost works ok, it's pointless with BoS tho.
FRW works ok too.
ED isn't added cuz it's a different skill - need some %ed then?
%DR on barbs require hard points so anyway would be unfair to give assassins extra 20% dr on top of %20 dr from fade.
It's just copy/paste of Dclaw really. No real use now.
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Mercs/monsters can use any skill in any form actually. All restrictions are for players only.

Probably why I couldn't tell the difference <_<

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I recall doing some item size change modding in the past without resetting character inventory data. As long the items in question are arranged so that they don't overlap with something when they gain the new inventory square from being increased to their proper size nothing will be nuked in the inventory from changing the size.

The change can be done without a reset, but if the community isn't warned to properly adjust their shard arrangement then they would probably lose shards and/or other items immediately below their shards.

nearly impossible to do with how irregular some people play. would be better off leaving it for a reset since its just 5 spaces.

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Can someone tell what's requested more? New rws etc. I can change uniques but list should be completed. It's a task no one likes so I want to do this only once (well can do small corrections). I will also fix few bugs viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2630 from that list... other than wrong graphics. I don't mess with that.

Yes.
While you can avoid it via communication as Baerk suggested, I would strongly suggest that you do not do that as most people won't read/listen and then scream bloody murder when you destroy their character

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These item changes are pointless imo, except that skull bonus in shield could use a change, currently there is no incentive to use higher than Starstone Skull.

I like how all these items are getting a shit ton of absorb and dr. I can put on 2 4% dwarf star rings and turn hell diablo a joke, yet most of these items have 8+ absorb and TONS of dr, and TONS of def/dr boosting oskills.

not to mention all the str dex, ect. with all the extra vit oak should be nerfed lol...

+1 for iddqd O_o.


(iddqd = god mode by the way)

like the cb/ds/ar adds tho, especially the ar

why the caster nerfs? the fire druid got his dick cut off with the armageddon nerf and now your punching him in the balls with the warrivs nerf...

Snowclash:
+3 to Cold Skills (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Ice Arrow (Amazon Only)
+3 to Freezing Arrow (Amazon Only)
+150-170% Enhanced Defense
Cold Absorb 8%
Cold Resist +50%
Adds 60-90 Cold Damage
+3 to Chilling Armor (OSKILL)
+1 to Dim Vision (OSKILL)
-10% to Enemy Cold Resistance
8% Chance to Cast Level 16 Blizzard when Struck

whats the point of chilling armor? sub frozen armor to be useful

One further concern with some of the unique change proposals though. Is its possible to merge multiple skills into one property slot? Each skill will have its own skill ID (meaning the different skills merged into one property will not be getting passed identical arguments). I noticed some of the proposals in the first post were potentially rather over the limit because of this.

Man why do you pretend you are someone you're not. Everyone knows what noob you are, how you failed many chars and deleted them, and made a psn zon and a fire druid to kill bosses. Post some screenies of your failed cold din or any other melee pls. Then tell you put dwarfs and kill hell diablo with easy

iddqd is that from doom?

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Ok... found a way to merge multiple single skills into one property yet allow each individual skill to have its own individual roll (so if an item has 4 +individual skills that could range from 3-6 they are unlikely per say to all 4 roll +6 and would be more like +6/+3/+4/+5).

Hell D is already a joke... Just did hell D on a shard run on my pzon last night. Did around 45 dmg with his flame wave with just MDR and PDR...
Fire Druids are not only high life for casters they also dish it? Jeez when did HU turn into Bnet.. I think you missed the post where they intend to up the bosses to directly adjust to the gear increase..

Well switch to 1lvl frozen armor oskill? with enough +skill prebuff entire team? I don't think it's a good idea.
Belt seems fine for 60lvl. Can remove Carmor and replace it with reduce cold length 50%

From a Frost Nova sorceress perspective, +6 Chilling Armor is awesome, as Chilling Armor is actually a large portion of your damage. As an Oskill, yes it's very lackluster, but no one outside of Cold Sorcs and Cold Zons use this item to begin with.
For the +6 to Chilling Armor for Fnova sorcs alone, I left it there.

If it does irk you that bad, suggest someone different. In all honesty though, I'd prefer to add something and remove the CTC Blizzard procs, as Blizzard causes spell delays when using this belt for cold sorceresses.

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Hows the rest of item list going along Zac? Gj btw so far.

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Erm. Got ideas for jewelry and the triplets of elemental staves (The dru/sin ones). Drrod is currently working on 1h weapons, mainly elemental based from what I've seen, which is good because melee ones are much simpler to modify and balance.

Armor (and 2h) was the easiest part, but I'd like at least someone to take a pair of second eyes through 1.21z & 1.13a armors. The melee ones were quite easy to spiff up, but most of the specialized armors (think Construct Forge, Trapper's Catch, Radament's Vale, Arkaine's Valor, The Gladiator's Bane, etc) are troubling. Mainly Construct Forge and Radament's Vale I want to find a use for.

At first I wanted to make Radament's Vale a Skeletal Mage specific armor. Give it around +7-8 to Skelemage/Skelemastery, maybe some to LR as well. The biggest problem with that though, is even with a significant Skelemage buff, you want Oskill Teleport first and foremost. In order to justify adding Oskill Teleport, I'd have to make it specific (and shitty) enough to where only Skelemancers would really abuse the armor.
Given that the only form of Oskill Teleport is on Enigma currently, and there was some hatred on Oskill Teleport with the transition to 1.13a, I was hesitant to just slap Teleport on there. Obviously, the issue with that is any Summon Necromancer specific armor is absolute trash without Oskill Teleport.


EDIT: Might as well post my proposal for Radamant's Vale to see if it's liked. If so, I'll slap it into the Armors list. If not, I'll just scrap the idea. I tried to make it crappy enough to warrant only Summon Necs using it for teleport, but either way it will probably be used as a stepping stone to Enigma if you're desperate enough.

Radament's Vale:
+200% Enhanced Defense
+2 to Summoning Skills (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Raise Skeletal Mage (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Skeleton Mastery (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Raise Skeleton (Necromancer Only)
Replenish Life +30
+1 to Teleport (OSKILL)
Cold Resist +60%
Poison Resist +60%
+30% Faster Cast Rate
+3-4 to Spirit Blades (Necromancer Only)
+3-4 to Golem Mastery (Necromancer Only)

Basically just want to see another OSKILL Teleport item added for Summoners, as it's pretty much hell to play them without tele.

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Like the Rada change me and Steel were discussing Enigma in game.. the Dex is ok as it helps the two main classes that use it (Windy's and Hdin's) we thought 25 strength may be too much and would like to see it changed to maybe 10-15.

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Idea: Instead of focusing on Radaments Armor for a skelemagemancer, why not use one of those necro-specific shields , slap teleport OSKILL on it ( so only necros would be able to use it ) , and give it those skills Abominae proposed, so only skelemagemancers would be attracted to that item
An example would be:
Radament's Will ( Overseer Skull , necromancer only)
+200% Enhanced Defense
+2 to Summoning Skills (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Raise Skeletal Mage (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Skeleton Mastery (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Raise Skeleton (Necromancer Only)
Replenish Life +30
+1 to Teleport (OSKILL)

If you can add another extra elite item, I think thats a good idea imo. If not, w/e , just tried to help a lil bit

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i think in a necro only shield is a good route myself as it would keep it to necro's as intended/

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Dont really need reduce Clength when you have a raven for CBF though

besides i can just pre buff my chars with my lvl 50 or so FA any way on my other sorc, just trying to make the belt more useful at the start of the game for resets if some one finds it etc

This is a nice idea--
Radament's Will ( Overseer Skull , necromancer only)
+200% Enhanced Defense
+2 to Summoning Skills (Necromancer Only)
+2-4 to golem mastery (Necromancer Only) would be more useful though
+4 to Skeleton Mastery (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Raise Skeleton (Necromancer Only)
Replenish Life +30
+1 to Teleport (OSKILL)

Changed all proposed uniques/sets/gems (not that high res all on diamonds), fixed orb range bonus, set higher drop rate to aldurals icon/lowered mara, 95lvl uniq zon bow is now 80, hwawinas head 50lvl (was 64 while other parts 48-50). Can't remember what more but nothing what wasn't suggested/bugged.
Haven't touched Enigma/Duress or any crafts as Kramuti said he will edit these.
If there are new proposal pls do a complete list and I'll reupload them when I have a time this week.
edit:removed skills.txt as changed only zeal/ww to use orbs, someone else doing skills probably have more recent file.
Edit2 @blinky99. There is a construct forge armor for that. Radaments is heavily skele oriented...

15 Str / 30 Dex work for you? Enigma was pretty much the only caster item I added Strength to, mainly because I hate to see slashes like 75 -> 0 to a stat.



This would be a great idea and a good solution to making the Teleport Necromancer specific. I wasn't sure if any brand new uniques were up to being implemented (not sure the workload vs just tweaking existing ones), but if it is this shield would be very cool to implement. Make it req lvl 85 I suppose.

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15 works only 3-4 classes really use it as the main armor and HDins and Summoners aren't very popular at all.

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Okay, well I finished up class-specifics and jewelry. Jewelry there wasn't really much for me to do, just restore Raven/Dwarf/Shock to a little bit of their former glory. They did used to rock 20% absorbs y'know.
Revamped two of the three elemental staves into Fclaw/Fbite weapons. I have zero ideas for Thunder Sky, and will leave it as is unless someone can come up with a cool idea for it.

Ele-Staves

Crimson Hellcast:
+2 to Druid Skill Levels
+100% Increased Attack Speed
+4 to Fireclaws (Druid Only)
+4 to Armageddon (Druid Only)
350% Enhanced Damage
-25% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+15% to Fire Skill Damage
+40% to All Resistances
Fire Absorb 10%
Level 12 Holy Fire Aura when Equipped
Socketed (2)
+6 to Fire Skills (Sorceress Only)
+50% Faster Cast Rate
Fire Resist +40-50%
+3-5 to FireStorm (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Volcano (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Fissure (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Molten Boulder (Druid Only)

Should hit 4FPA using Fireclaws in Werebear form. With 33% more IAS, you hit 3FPA.

Absolute Zero:
+2 to Druid Skill Levels
+100% Increased Attack Speed
+4 to Frost Bite (Druid Only)
+4 to Hurricane (Druid Only)
+350% Enhanced Damage
+15% to Cold Skill Damage
-25% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Cold Absorb 10%
+40% to All Resistances
Level 12 Holy Freeze Aura when Equipped
Socketed (2)
Cold Resist +40-50%
+6 to Cold Skills (Sorceress Only)
+50% Faster Cast Rate
+3-5 to Artic Blast (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Twister (Druid Only)
+3-5 to Cyclone Armor (Druid Only)

Basically Cold version of Hellcast.


Jewelry:

Dwarf Star:
80-120% Extra Gold from Monsters
Replenish Life +20-25
+30-50 to Life
Fire Absorb 8-10%
Fire Resist +20%
Adds 240-480 Fire Damage
+8-12 to Strength

Raven Frost:
Cannot be Frozen
Adds 130-360 Cold Damage
Cold Absorb 8-10%
+30-50 to Mana
+8-12 to Dexterity
Regenerate Mana 20-25%
Cold Resist 20%

Shock Absorber:
+10% Increased Run Speed
Adds 1-1200 Lightning Damage
Absorb Lightning 8-10%
+8-12 to Dexterity
40-60% Increased Chance of Getting Magic Items
+40-60 to Stamina
Regenerate Stamina 20-25%
+100-150 to Attack Rating
Resist Lightning +20%


Class-Specifics:

Shadow Killers:
+5 to Assassin Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Defense
+80% Increased Attack Speed
Ignore Target's Defense
50% Faster Hit Recovery
+15 to Dexterity
-15-20% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-15-20% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-15-20% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-15-20% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Reanimate Slain as: Death Mauler (5%)
Socketed (3)
+40% Increased Run/Walk Speed

Venom needs love too.

Darkness:
+3 to Assassin Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+350% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increase Maximum Life
Level 5 Redemption Aura on Equip
+66% Increased Attack Speed
+25% Faster Hit Recovery
+25% Faster Block Rate
15% Chance of Deadly Strike (From Lo)
Adds 250-500 Cold Damage (From Lo)
Indestructible (From Zod)
2% Chance of Crushing Blow (From Ber)
+10 to Frenzy (OSKILL)
15% Chance to Cast Level 5 Amplify Damage when Striking
+10-12% Life Stolen Per Hit

Designed to be used as a defensive claw in tandom with an Eth-Rare for Dragon Claw Sins or Shadow Killers for Phoenix/Kickers. Frenzy is removed as it's redudant when Assassins have Dragon Claw (Same max FPA, but much stronger ED/AR). 25% additional FBR allows Assassins with 61%+ Weapon Block to hit the 86% FBR breakpoint.

Cerebus' Bite:
+4 to Druid Skill Levels
Resist All +35%
+350% Enhanced Defense
12-18% Life Stolen per Hit
12-18% Mana Stolen per Hit
+15 to Strength
Damage Reduced by 5%
33% Chance of Open Wounds
+33% Faster Hit Recovery
Replenish Life +20
Socketed (2)

Ravenlore used to be much more melee friendly (+30 Str/Dex), but those stats were dropped in favor of -20 Poison Pierce for an unnecessary buff to Rabies. Pretty sure people are used to it by now though, so decided to make Cerebus more melee orientated in it's stead.


Dragon Scale:
+5 to Paladin Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +40%
Fire Absorb 10%
Lightning Absorb 10%
Cold Absorb 10%
+15 to Strength
+30% Increased Chance of Blocking
+100% Faster Block Rate
+15 to Vitality
Socketed (3)

Dragon Scale used to be an insane beast. 20% Absorb all, 50% Res All, +30 Strength, 50% Inc Block. Buffed it a bit as it was murdered, but it's nowhere near its previous strength.

Halberd's Reign:
+3 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+2-3 to War Cries (Barbarian Only)
+250-300% Enhanced Defense
+30% Faster Hit Recovery
+40% Faster Cast Rate
Damage Reduced by 5%
+30 to Life After Each Kill
+30 to Mana After Each Kill
Reanimate Slain as: Minion (5%)
Socketed (2)
+50% Enhanced Damage
8-20% Life Stolen per Hit
8-20% Mana Stolen per Hit

Demonhorn's Edge:
+5 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+400% Enhanced Defense
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+250% Damage to Demons
20% Life Stolen per Hit
Damage Reduced by 8%
+150% Enhanced Damage
+100 to Attack Rating
Reanimate Slain as: Urdar (5%)
Socketed (3)
Increase Maximum Life 10%
50% Bonus to Attack Rating

War Cry / BoBarbs get a dedicated helm. Figured +5-6 isn't an issue as you can make +7 WC or +7 BO helms now. Demonhorn's melee stats buffed up a bit. For how incredibly rare the thing was, it's mods weren't the best.

EDIT: Talkin' to Lockdown, proposed Vipermagi tweak. It needs a little love to set it apart from Heavenly Garb which is 14 levels below it.

Skin of the Vipermagi:
+1 to All Skills
+120% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +10-15%
+25% Faster Cast Rate
Replenish Life +25
+15 to Mana After Each Kill
Magic Damage Reduced by 12-18
Regenerate Mana 30%
Poison Length Reduced by 25%
Reanimate Slain as: Claw Viper (5%)
+10% Increased Run Speed
+10% Increased Attack Speed

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There's a problem with this runeword:

Darkness:
+3 to Assassin Skill Levels
+500% Enhanced Damage
+350% Enhanced Defense
+30% Increase Maximum Life
Level 5 Redemption Aura on Equip
+66% Increased Attack Speed
+10-12% Life Stolen Per Hit
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
+25% Faster Block Rate
35% Chance of Deadly Strike (15% From Lo)
Adds 250-500 Cold Damage (From Lo)
Indestructible (From Zod)
2% Chance of Crushing Blow (From Ber)

There are only 7 property slots for mods not entirely from runes for runewords (yes the limit is smaller than uniques). I count 10 properties not entirely from runes on that proposal not entirely from runes and none of them share quantity ranges either. Either tweak some values so I can merge properties or lose some mods.

If there are to be other runeword changes, make sure that they go through the proper channels. I won't change them until I see them in a bonified changelog, or baerk or pious posts in the RW proposal thread. I will have some time late this evening and maybe at some point tomorrow.

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ya if you're gonna add oskill teleport make sure its a necro shield, so its not easy for all the other classes to access. i like that suggestion by kantos.

Good idea on the helm changes for Druid and Barbs I suggested it a while back
here http://forum.arimyth.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4085 but it got mostly ignored.

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Since I just PM'd these to Baerk as he requested my RW data, I should post these last two works up. I don't really have anything to add runeword wise, so this should complete anything I have to propose for runewords.

Obedience:
30% Chance to Cast Level 25 Enchant when Killing
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
+400% Enhanced Damage
-25% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+200-400 Defense
Resist All +10-20%
Requirements -15% (From Hel)
+10 to Strength (From Fal)
+15 to Dexterity (From Ko)
Adds 16 Damage (From Ko/Fal)
Adds 30-40 Cold Damage (From Thul)
+8% to Cold Skill Damage (From Thul)
-25% to Target's Defense (From Eth)

It is currently 300%, but was 425% ED in 1.21z. Nerfed it slightly, but restored it's beef mid-game status. It was a great merc weapon, as well as a boon to Zealers. It still suffers from Ko/Fal nerf, and a cut to its resist all.

Pillar of Faith:
+3 to All Skill Levels
+1 to Berserk (OSKILL)
+500% Enhanced Damage
+80% Increased Attack Speed
Damage Reduced by 10%
+250 to Attack Rating
-30% to Enemy Magic Resistance
Indestructible (From Zod)
Hit Freezes Target (From Cham)
Slows Target by 4% (From Cham)
15% Mana Stolen per Hit (From Vex)
250-500 Fire Damage (From Vex)
25% Chance to Cast Level 5 Life Tap When Striking
+50% Resist All

Scrapped Life Tap for Magic Pierce. This turns it into THE Sanctuary Zealer weapon as Heaven's Will has no ED%, while Pillar is much more melee friendly. Magic Pierce also has good synergy with the Berserk OSKILL.
Also scrapped the beefy 50% Resist All in favor of AR.

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No objections forth coming from me on either of these. I like the Pillar idea.

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New "radament" could be a runeword as well in necs shields. Can be unique too, when you have final version pls include it as so far there were like 3-4 versions .

Here's a couple that can use a bit of love. Yes I know they're mid-game but still.
Que-Hagan's Wisdom
+1 to All Skills
+100% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +15-20%
+25% Faster Cast Rate
+25 to Mana After Each Kill
Magic Damage Reduced by 25
Increase Maximum Mana 10%
+25% Faster Hit Recovery
Socketed (2)
Adds 60-120 Magic Damage
Required Level: 70

Needs a little bit to set it apart for Vipremagi which comes in 18 levels before it. Had 160% ed and 30 res in 1.21z so I left it toned down a bit.

Toothrow
Sharktooth Armor
+1 to All Skills
+5-7 to Teeth (Necromancer Only)
+100-120% Enhanced Defense
Resist All +30%
+20% Faster Cast Rate
750% Thorns Damage
+25 to Energy
100% Chance of Open Wounds
16% Chance to Cast Level 32 Teeth when Struck
16% Chance to Cast Level 32 Teeth when Attacking
-10% to Enemy Magic Resistance
Requirements -25%

Lost a lot of ed compared to 1.21z had 160-200%ed. Split the difference. As it is now, basically Charsi food.

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Toothrow is possibly the best armor for bone necs till 95lvl. Dunno if they even need def having range of multi arrows. Can set it to 100% if it's needed.

Also having an upcoming amp change in mind I'm gonna change Lacerator ctc amp from 33% 1lvl to 15% 3lvl... Forgot to add I've set on this and Gimmershred replenish rate to 1 per 4 sec.

did you only change the replenish rate for those weapons or all throw weapons? because it would be pretty nice to have more kinds of weapons to choose between, as the ones with high replenish rate would be way better then anything else. For double throw at least...
Also, I like the amp change on Lacerator.

EDIT: all these item changes will affect existing items aswell right?

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Existing items are never effected by item changes (except for RWs when their rune order is changed) and become legacy (which means if this patch is put onto the realm without a ladder reset there's going to be a ton of legacy facets which will be quite valuable due to having higher than normal +%ele).

However for the test phase on the realm I think I have a way of providing a couple generic testing phase only cube recipes that could allow people to reroll their existing sets/uniques/runewords as well as extract legacy facets from their gear.

Such cube recipes however are not implemented at the moment (besides... I will have to check up on the exact semantics necessary for removing socketed stuff intact from a socketed item).

I've change only these two, can change every item too.

As for finding the item again... dunno if it's that big deal. Only 95lvl items may be difficult to get.
For the facets... Well same deal like with armg/valor mastiers. It doesn't matter tho.
Reroll formula won't be needed. With that guys could reroll their non perf items to perf items. And I doubt anyone would want to extract their better jewels for worse...

would be nice if the new replenish rate was on all items. then you wouldnt need like 5 different sets of weapons to switch between everytime you run out. Also I dont really have any gimmershreds yet so... yeah :P
using wraithflight atm

EDIT: would be good for lower lvl aswell

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Final Proposal:
Radament's Will
Overseer Skull - Requires Level 85
+200% Enhanced Defense
+20% Increased Chance to Block
+30% Faster Block Rate
+2 to Summoning Skills (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Raise Skeletal Mage (Necromancer Only)
+4 to Skeleton Mastery (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Death Knight (Necromancer Only)
+3 to Raise Skeleton (Necromancer Only)
Replenish Life +30
+1 to Teleport (OSKILL)

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would it be possible to make it so that you can get eth weapons from crafting?
would be pretty sweet, maybe too good I dont know, just throwing it out there :P
and by that I mean that it would be random if you get it or not, not having it left from the weapon you crafted from...

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iirc you could set it 50/50%

I'll check maybe tomorrow when I have time.

With such a narrow range on that the eth would actually roll pretty often. Also there's the matter crafts only get 5 property slots (which are already taken by the current recipes if i'm not mistaken). Such a thing would be honestly be more balanced if you had to provide an eth weapon as material to get an eth craft.

Could do a new craft rec with just 2 mods like "ethereal" and "100-140 %ed", rest rare mods. But I'm afraid these could outshine other crafts really quick.

Eth item + zod = eth craft
edit: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3593/screenshot008zx.jpg
no idea if it added extra 50% . Someone do the math. I'm off.
edit2: nvm, did a 2nd craft. sabre base 5-11. craft 12-16 with +5minimum mod.

In any case eth is an awfully powerful thing to be throwing into the mix. We're talking potentially some crazy things such as rares getting dethroned from their top status (a godly eth death craft would easily put even a godly rare eth to shame after all due to all the edge the death craft would get from automods to help make it awfully nice in spots besides ED%).

For now we are trying to avoid game shaking changes such as this. We should honestly put off considering adding something with such heavy balance implications till after we get this rough balance patch done with.

yeah I know what you mean. I thought it would be something cool to try at least. Maybe could be considered later for a bigger patch or something.

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Isnt it even more rare to get a "game shaking deadly craft" though? not only do you have to find the eth magical item. You have to be lucky enough that the mods pan out. Since you can't reroll it.

As it stands right now. Finding the eth rare is the hard part imo. Once u have it, all you have to do is put on as much % gold find u can muster and go do nm leo a couple times for max gold.