New items you'd like to see in FoA

I’m sure we’re all dying to see the new items by now. What are you most excited about and hoping to see? Who knows, maybe there’s still time to incorporate some of the suggestions.

Personally I wish for a lot more 2H melee MI’s to satisfy my perverse inclination for a certain category of builds. In particular there isn’t a single 2H melee chaos MI in the game, and I hope we’ll see more than one option coming in FoA.

Totally Normal Tomes

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The thing I look forward to the most, beyond anything else, POSSIBLY even more than the new mastery and act, is the ascended Epics. Imagine all the Epic sets turning Legendary (that IS happening, right?). And all the non-set Epic items we have now turning Legendary. There’s a good number of Epics that are just perfect for some of the builds I made that ended up falling flat on their face at endgame because past lvl 80 the support disappears and Epics just don’t cut it. There’s gonna be so much support and new item modifiers for builds I already have, I’m half tempted to not even touch the new mastery until I’ve gone over all my existing builds to see how they have evolved with the expansion.

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More pet items, especially on axes or one handed ranged weapons.

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  • Items which allow Shapeshifting
  • A lot MOAR Spears
  • More green MIs supporting unconventional damage types for classes (e.g. Aether damage for Occultist)
  • Anything with -Chaos RR on it which is not bound to a caster skill
  • More MIs supporting Soldier :scorv:
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I want to see more 2H melee MI weapons.

Yep. I have to confess that I am not much thrilled about Berserker. Builds with it will be too piano…

Oh I am by all means thrilled about Berserker. It’s just that I’m just as ridiculously thrilled to potentially revolutionise many of my existing builds that I love. My giddiness is immeasurable on both fronts.

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Now I want Totally Normal Gutripper too :smile:

It can be a spear perhaps

I didn’t dare suggest it, so I’m glad you did :sweat_smile:

Same! Though if I remember correctly it won’t be all (at least initially). Here’s hoping they end up doing MOAR :crossed_fingers:

I wouldn’t be surprised if the expansion launches without a Challenge Dungeon and then new upgrades come along as that releases.

Well, we already knew that from the Announcement thread back in 2023.

edit. Medea beat me to an answer about dungeons. Anyway:

As for the items, for me it would be:

  • in terms of fashion or easter eggs - a nice little lightsaber-like weapon
  • in terms of sets - give me an Oleron themed set, and I’ll be as happy as ever… Oleron deserves his name on a set and berserker-style combat would be perfect… BONUS POINTS - if its all heavy and metal
  • In terms of gameplay - I would love to have an endgame Fireblast (which I just realized would fit perfectly on one of the Awakened Epics)

Any of the three above - best exp ever!

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Too much announcing, can’t keep all the info straight :smiley: Expected there to be a dungeon later, didn’t recall there’s two already announced. But like I said, wouldn’t be surprised if that comes bundled with additional Epic upgrades.

This reminds me, there are several blues that lack mythical counterparts that I’d like to see. Particularly, Fanatic’s Overcoat and Swampdwellers Legguards. Those are really good leveling items and I’m always disappointed when I need to stop using them.

Other such cases include the Royal Crown jewelry set and Badge of Tenacity.

In terms of current blues that already exist at mythic level, Black Star of Deceit has flat RR (which can save a lot of skill or devotion points) and is quite close to being a solid pick already.

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Off the top of my head just Nar’s Arcane Destroyer and the Flame Keeper set in a Legendary version would be pretty massive for two of my builds and that’s just what I can come up with without thinking. There’s dozens of items, especially weapons, that could do revolutionary stuff for build variety when upgraded.

Edit: you can tell I’ve been away from GD for too long when I’m starting to mix the terms Mythical and Legendary. It’s really going downhill with me.

Please for the love of C’thon/Rattosh/Korvaak/Crate, a pair of legendary gloves with %vit damage, attack speed, and some reasonable skill mods or conversions. Voidrend talons are far and away the closest we have, and those are clearly a chaos item with %vit damage tacked on.

I’d say the same for pierce, but they actually have good blue options that will probably get ascended boosts.

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I would add one more ability - of dual wielding ranged weapons on those gloves! So DW ranged Vit char can use Occu+Necro and don’t need to use Plunderer’s T.

canon or something like minigun

I would love to see new cosmetic pets, and also please let me have more than 3 out at a time, could we go with 5?

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How about a blueprint for Bysmiel’s Trinkets?