Mythical Overlord's Iron Grips

[Ditchinit]

I’m a returning player (last played around the time Crucible came out), and I’m having to learn new items and mechanics as I rebuild my inventory from scratch. My character (a level 95+ cabalist) is currently sporting the gloves in the screenshot shown below, but just recently found the Mythical version. “Ah hah! An upgrade,” I said as I saw the item drop from a chest. But when examined more closely, I’m not so certain. Sure, there are increased stats, but … Is the Mythical version just a bad RNG roll, is the non-Mythical version an exceptional RNG roll, or are these normal stats for these two items?

[Elfalpha]

I confess I’m not sure of the problem. Is it simply that the Mythical version isn’t all that much of an upgrade? Every single stat is an improvement, and it’s lost that nasty terror effect.

Edit: 4% DA is a pretty serious upgrade.

Here’s what the average stats look like:

[Ditchinit]

Thanks for that. I guess I don’t understand why the mythical version didn’t keep the granted skill while also getting the slightly upgraded stats. Are all of these abilities fixed (stats can have variable ranges, yes, I know)? Or can items receive a random granted skill? Or possibly a chance at having an assigned granted skill (e.g., a 50% chance of having the granted skill)? As I previously mentioned, I’m trying to understand the new itemization mechanics.

In fairness, the mythical version did receive a bump to Primal Bond while losing the granted skill. These gloves are probably more suited for a conjurer (?) rather than a cabalist … but I’m not terribly picky since it is the best I’ve found thus far.

[Elfalpha]

why the mythical version didn’t keep the granted skill

I had a dig around because that’s a good question.
The answer is that at high level there’s too many skills and effects going off from everything else you have access to already and the devs figured that having items buff skills that are already there instead of granting new skills is a good way to reduce that.

why some of mythical items don't have their cool granted skills?

Hello guys, Like the title, why some of mythical items have to be removed their nice granted skills from its normal version? yeah, I know the skill modifiers are really good stuff. But my opinion is, they don’t have just remove their granted skills, as the mythical version items get skill modifiers. I mean, is it too OP if the mythical item got both of them? well I guess it could be OP for few of them. but then, can’t the granted skills (for mythical ver.) adjusted bit, not to be too OP? …

Mythical items "worse" than regular ones?

When Ashes of Malmouth came out there was what felt to me like a huge backlash about the Mark of the Forbidden. The reason was that the regular version could proc the Toxic Gas Cloud and the mythical version could not, depriving it of a huge utility and making it inferior to the regular one to most players. This got fixed pretty quickly so that the intended upgraded version actually felt like an upgraded version. Now there are some other items where the mythical upgrade doesnt include the proc …

Are all of these abilities fixed

Yes, Epics and Legendaries have fixed abilities, with some vary rare exceptions in Conduits and Badge of Mastery. And crafting bonuses I guess, which are usually a single resistance or a couple of skill points.
Rare (green) items can have different stats based on their prefix and suffix.

[Ditchinit]

Thank you kindly. This has been a big help and you’ve gone over and above the call to provide helpful information.