Sets giving a skill is not a new idea. But what about a set that gives you an Exclusive Skill? I think it could be a great idea, especially if it supports Saboteur. Maybe even Occultist if the set supported a 3rd class since Occultist only has the one exclusive.
Hope you remember that exclusive skills cannot be used with exclusive skills, and Crates don’t like wasting stuff. If you picked it for another character, that already has 4 exclusives (because one class normally has 2, occultist is just a bitch with one :P), you’ll gain another skill that you might not use. So it would be kind of pointless, I’d rather have a regular buff too.
I think it’s easily possible, but probably isn’t a thing because most exclusives are simple stat boosts so it’s bonuses could be just spread across the set as item bonuses rather than making a skill. So while there’s a cool factor of having a special exclusive skill that suits perfectly it’s not actually all that special.
I actually think the OP may be onto something because those simple stat boosts tend to be fairly daramatic - large piles of %dmg, flat dmg, and/or even more beneficial stats like CDR, RR, dmg absorb, 100% skill disrupt res. Adding an option to use a set specific exclusive skill could - in the right circumstances - be the difference between Saboteurs being decidedly 2nd rate or a equal choice with other class combos.
If it’s for saboteur then there’s no point making it exclusive, because saboteur doesn’t have exclusives anyway :rolleyes:
The point would be that it could allow a set to give a lot of power specifically to saboteur without worries that something like Oathkeeper or Inquisitor could take it and become crushingly OP. Given the power of even middle of the pack exclusives like Stormcaller’s it’s a legit concern…
Do you mean the skill should be exclusive to saboteur? That doesn’t seem like very Grim Dawn-y.
Edit. Oh wait I understand now. You want it to be an exclusive skill so that inqs can’t use it with censure. sounds neat.
Good idea. Totally support
Exactly, it’d basically be a way to give favoritism to one specific class combo (in this case Sabotuer, lacking any exclusive skills) while not over-inflating the stats on a set too much. Obviously it could still be used by other classes though, if it was better for that specific spec than their class granted exclusives. Personally I’d envision some sort of ‘Stormheart’ set with % pierce to light on WPS and perhaps fire to light to FS and a lightning based exclusive aura as a way to further boost power of Sab over using it as a savagery set, while leaving the option open to savage tricksters (their only drawback with be the semi-redundancy of the exclusive + Stormcallers, but it’d be their choice to make at least) - note this is intended merely as an example of the type of situation where a skill like this could make sense.
At least I think that was what the OP intended?
Although unless Crate is still putting together new sets I suspect even if they like this idea its a bit too late to implement.
Nailed it.
Obviously the +skills already give favoritism to a specific class combo, but we’ve seen how well that’s worked out (krieg’s or belgothian for example). Just having 1 of the 2 classes for a set can sometimes be good enough if the class that replaced one of them is strong enough. But this wouldn’t be the case if that class’s main strength is in its exclusive skill coughinquisitorcough