Instead, you will want to find a well rolled rare and then insert a legendary power. This makes the item hunt relevant because your not just looking for a legendary item and every white/blue/yellow you find is garbage. It will be like Classic D2 (Non-expansion) where rare items are usually best in slot except in D4, you will be able to put legendary powers on them. In Diablo IV, I think this idea of inserting legendary powers into items you find can be good. So in Diablo 2, the item system feels well-rounded and not lopsided with one mega rarity. Yellow items in Diablo 2 are sometimes better than unique items. Blue items can be used for crafting and also blue rings/amulets have purpose because they can roll worthwhile stats such as +100 life +3 fire skills on an amulet. So you can either get lucky by finding an “orange” item or you can craft your own if you have enough resources.ĭiablo 2, white items are used for runewords. The timesink with that process in this game, is crafting materials. The Slormancer you can use the blacksmith to use a white item and add whatever stats you want which increases the rarity based on how many affixes the item has all the way up to the highest rarity.

The currencies themselves have varying drop rates so the gameplay loop always feels rewarding.

Path of Exile, you can turn a white into a blue, a blue into a yellow and at all stages you can reroll the stats with currencies. Path of Exile / The Slormancer / Diablo 2 are the only games that found purpose to all item rarities.

So you ask yourself, why do white/blue/yellow even exist? In most ARPGs, the white/blue/yellow become trivial once you have orange/greens. Was something that needed to be innovated upon. I just watched a video briefly and the devs explained that legendary powers can be “extracted” and inserted into other items such as rares.

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