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We posted <a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-gallery">one</a>, <a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-2">two</a>, <a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-3">three big collections</a> of legendary items earlier in the beta, but it's been a while. So now it's back, and bigger than ever! (As she said.) Glory in a fresh Reaper of Souls Legendary Item Gallery with over 100 level 70 legendary and set items, the majority of which were found by myself and other members of the INC guild in the past week since the new improved legendary drop rates went in.
[caption id="attachment_375128" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/clan-notifications.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/clan-notifications-300x255.jpg" alt="Everyone loves a good nosy." width="300" height="255" class="size-medium wp-image-375128" /></a> Everyone loves a good nosy.[/caption]Guilds have a very cool feature that anytime someone loots (but not gambles) a legendary everyone in their guild who is online at that time sees a notification in the text box, and they can click it to see the new score. Those announcements also go into the Guild notification messages, and anyone in the guild can scroll through those and see what the others found since you were last online. Handy, a conversation starter in-game, and helpful for someone like me collecting such images for gallery updates.
I'll put all the pics in a huge gallery below, sorted by name, but first here are some of the more interesting finds with some individual commentary about how legendaries and the overall item game is going in Reaper of Souls.
It's interesting to find the updated lvl 70 versions of some of the better (or the useless) Diablo 3 legendary items. This is the first Mempo I've seen in RoS (I didn't find it) and it's excellent, but the limits on primary stats keep any item from being as OP as this hat is in classic D3. So it's got a big mainstat roll, res all, a socket, and the special bonus to IAS (which generally has smaller values in RoS than it did in D3). But the +10-12% life and the additional random roll that might pop to Critical Chance can't be rolled in RoS. (Or perhaps the Res All and/or Mainstat are random?)
In any event, you'll never get a Mempo with 5 primary affixes + the inherent IAS, as the old D3 version can roll. You could add Crit Chance to this, but you'd have to enchant one of the 4 mainstats into it, and of them the AllRes or IAS is the most expendable, in terms of making the least difference to your well-geared lvl 70 char.
[caption id="attachment_375065" align="aligncenter" width="353"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-mempo-of-twilight1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-mempo-of-twilight1.jpg" alt="Newly-found Mempo of Twilight in Reaper of Souls." width="353" class="size-full wp-image-375065" /></a> Newly-found Mempo of Twilight in Reaper of Souls.[/caption]
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<h3>Legendary Jewelery</h3>
[caption id="attachment_375003" align="alignright" width="224"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-unity1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-unity1-224x300.jpg" alt="Not yet enchanted..." width="224" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-375003" /></a> Not yet enchanted...[/caption]The best piece of jewelry I've found so far in RoS is a Unity ring, and it's spectacular. Aside from that, I've found maybe a dozen orange rings and amulets, and none of them have been better than my best rare jewelry, and that's still true even now that more Legs + Forgotten Souls are dropping, which makes enchanting Legendaries much more possible than it was earlier in the beta.
My Monk is my best char, geared enough to handle Torment 1 pretty easily, and he's wearing sets and legendaries in every slot... except for rings and amulet. What's the problem with legendary jewelry, then?
Click through for that, plus the huge galleries of set and legendary items.
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The issue with rings and amulets, and also with Gloves, is that you really want damage stats on those items, and with only 4 primary affixes, you pretty much have to hit all of them. There are 5 damage stats of most utility. In roughly descending value they are, Critical hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, Mainstat, +damage, and Increased Attack Speed.
That's not the classic
trifecta order of Diablo 3, since IAS is much less valuable (for paper DPS, at least) in RoS. There are a few reasons for that, but chiefly:
<ol><li>Mainstat rolls much higher (500-800 in RoS vs 100-200 in D3).
<li>IAS rolls lower (4-6% in RoS vs. 8-12% in D3).
<li>And +damage is more impactful with so much higher mainstat leveraging it. (This goes for Crit Chance and Crit Damage as well.)
So, for a top quality ring/amulet you pretty much have to have CC, CD, Mainstat, and either +damage or IAS, and you get that, or even 3 parts of that with a 4th primary you can enchant, on a very tiny % of jewelry. And since you find or can gamble 100 rare rings/amulets for every legendary, it's just an issue of RNG and probability. (Legendaries *should* be better long term, since they can roll higher values for mainstat than Rares can, not even counting their special legendary properties or affixes.)
The best legendary jewelry I see keeps coming very close, often with 2 of the quinfecta stats in the primary affixes, but usually some other useful stat like +vit or AllRes is crowding out the desired damage affixes. And sure, +95 AllRes or +450 Vitality is very useful, but you can get those stats from other armor pieces where you can not get the damage stats. Many of the rings and amulets can *never* be top quality, since they've got 2 or 3 inherent stats that aren't the damage ones you need on a piece of jewelry.
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, for instance.
<table><tr><td>[caption id="attachment_375025" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band2.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band2-300x286.jpg" alt="The inherent life steal is pretty weak." width="300" height="286" class="size-medium wp-image-375025" /></a> The inherent life steal is pretty weak.[/caption]</td><td>[caption id="attachment_375024" align="aligncenter" width="234"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band1-234x300.jpg" alt="The inherent life steal is pretty weak." height="296" class="size-medium wp-image-375024" /></a> The inherent life steal is pretty weak.[/caption]</td></tr></table>
There's an inherent roll to mainstat (great) and Critical Hit Damage (great) but while Life per Hit and +Life% are very good mods, they're not what you want on jewelry, and those all seem to be inherent stats with no variation allowed on this ring. You could enchant the +Life% into Crit Chance and make a very good ring, but it would never be truly top of the line on DPS, which is what most players want from their fingerlings.
The big exception to this trend is the Unity I thumbed above, since it rolled with a trifecta, the LpH can be enchanted to Crit Damage for a great quadfecta, the +damage roll is much higher than a rare can get... and the special property is a giant +12% damage to Elites which is not something a rare ring can roll. That's a hugely-useful affix, especially in Torment+, where boss hit points are off the charts.
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<h3>Enchanting Jewelry</h3>
The final problem with legendary jewelry is enchanting. It's much better now than it was a week ago, when Forgotten Souls were so hard to come by (each enchant of a legendary or set uses up a FS), but they are still pretty scarce. Furthermore, the massive array of possible affixes on jewelry, that makes rolling a trifecta or quadfecta so hard in the first place, makes replacing a dud stat with one you really want... that much harder.
If you haven't yet had the joy of burning up all 8 of your hard-won Forgotten Souls just trying to turn a primary affix into Critical Damage on an amulet... wait. Just wait. It's such fun! (This is not hypothetical. Goddamned amulets.)
[gallery link="file" ids="375025,375024,375017,375015,375029,375028,375044,375043,375048,375060,375059,375089,375088,375105"]
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<h3>Set Items</h3>
One of the main complaints about BoA on legendaries and the limited stash space is that it will make completing Item Sets too difficult. That might be true, but finding all of any of the end game sets was a lot harder in D2, since almost every set had at least one ultra-rare item. That's not the case in RoS; the items in the sets aren't spectacularly hard to find, but you'll obviously need some luck and patience to gather them up. And isn't that how item sets should work? Play with friends so you can trade legs, and run a tab. Today you find an item from Immortal King that your Barb friend wants, next week he finds Inna's helm that your Monk wants. BFFs forever! (Good luck on the mainstat rolls.)
In the last month of the RoS beta (most of which was played with much lower leg drop rates) I've found several single set items, plus 2 items from Blackthorns, and 3 from Natalya's... unfortunately 2 of those were the Cloak, as you can see in the comparison image below. I really want a third one since that's what enables the huge 7% Crit Chance set bonus. No more does that come with just two of the items. You need three now which means it is still attainable for non Demon Hunters, but you'll have to wear the boots and ring, plus the helm, and with the Dex bonuses in there it's probably only a real viable gear option for the Monk. (The Cloak and xbow in the set are DH-only.)
[gallery link="file" ids="375115,375119,375117,375118,375116,375120,375121,375122,375123"]
One thing I don't so much like about sets is that almost all the set bonuses are very utilitarian. Functional and powerful to be sure, but they're mostly just +stat, +res, +CD or CC or IAS, etc. Most of the quirky, flavorful, build-tweaking bonuses seem to be on individual legendary items, rather than set items, or from Item Set bonuses. I'd like to see a bit more flavor from set bonuses.
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<h3>Legendary Items</h3>
The full orange gallery. Enjoy.
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[caption id="attachment_375128" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/clan-notifications.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/clan-notifications-300x255.jpg" alt="Everyone loves a good nosy." width="300" height="255" class="size-medium wp-image-375128" /></a> Everyone loves a good nosy.[/caption]Guilds have a very cool feature that anytime someone loots (but not gambles) a legendary everyone in their guild who is online at that time sees a notification in the text box, and they can click it to see the new score. Those announcements also go into the Guild notification messages, and anyone in the guild can scroll through those and see what the others found since you were last online. Handy, a conversation starter in-game, and helpful for someone like me collecting such images for gallery updates.
I'll put all the pics in a huge gallery below, sorted by name, but first here are some of the more interesting finds with some individual commentary about how legendaries and the overall item game is going in Reaper of Souls.
It's interesting to find the updated lvl 70 versions of some of the better (or the useless) Diablo 3 legendary items. This is the first Mempo I've seen in RoS (I didn't find it) and it's excellent, but the limits on primary stats keep any item from being as OP as this hat is in classic D3. So it's got a big mainstat roll, res all, a socket, and the special bonus to IAS (which generally has smaller values in RoS than it did in D3). But the +10-12% life and the additional random roll that might pop to Critical Chance can't be rolled in RoS. (Or perhaps the Res All and/or Mainstat are random?)
In any event, you'll never get a Mempo with 5 primary affixes + the inherent IAS, as the old D3 version can roll. You could add Crit Chance to this, but you'd have to enchant one of the 4 mainstats into it, and of them the AllRes or IAS is the most expendable, in terms of making the least difference to your well-geared lvl 70 char.
[caption id="attachment_375065" align="aligncenter" width="353"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-mempo-of-twilight1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-mempo-of-twilight1.jpg" alt="Newly-found Mempo of Twilight in Reaper of Souls." width="353" class="size-full wp-image-375065" /></a> Newly-found Mempo of Twilight in Reaper of Souls.[/caption]
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<h3>Legendary Jewelery</h3>
[caption id="attachment_375003" align="alignright" width="224"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-unity1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-unity1-224x300.jpg" alt="Not yet enchanted..." width="224" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-375003" /></a> Not yet enchanted...[/caption]The best piece of jewelry I've found so far in RoS is a Unity ring, and it's spectacular. Aside from that, I've found maybe a dozen orange rings and amulets, and none of them have been better than my best rare jewelry, and that's still true even now that more Legs + Forgotten Souls are dropping, which makes enchanting Legendaries much more possible than it was earlier in the beta.
My Monk is my best char, geared enough to handle Torment 1 pretty easily, and he's wearing sets and legendaries in every slot... except for rings and amulet. What's the problem with legendary jewelry, then?
Click through for that, plus the huge galleries of set and legendary items.
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The issue with rings and amulets, and also with Gloves, is that you really want damage stats on those items, and with only 4 primary affixes, you pretty much have to hit all of them. There are 5 damage stats of most utility. In roughly descending value they are, Critical hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, Mainstat, +damage, and Increased Attack Speed.
That's not the classic
trifecta order of Diablo 3, since IAS is much less valuable (for paper DPS, at least) in RoS. There are a few reasons for that, but chiefly:<ol><li>Mainstat rolls much higher (500-800 in RoS vs 100-200 in D3).
<li>IAS rolls lower (4-6% in RoS vs. 8-12% in D3).
<li>And +damage is more impactful with so much higher mainstat leveraging it. (This goes for Crit Chance and Crit Damage as well.)
So, for a top quality ring/amulet you pretty much have to have CC, CD, Mainstat, and either +damage or IAS, and you get that, or even 3 parts of that with a 4th primary you can enchant, on a very tiny % of jewelry. And since you find or can gamble 100 rare rings/amulets for every legendary, it's just an issue of RNG and probability. (Legendaries *should* be better long term, since they can roll higher values for mainstat than Rares can, not even counting their special legendary properties or affixes.)
The best legendary jewelry I see keeps coming very close, often with 2 of the quinfecta stats in the primary affixes, but usually some other useful stat like +vit or AllRes is crowding out the desired damage affixes. And sure, +95 AllRes or +450 Vitality is very useful, but you can get those stats from other armor pieces where you can not get the damage stats. Many of the rings and amulets can *never* be top quality, since they've got 2 or 3 inherent stats that aren't the damage ones you need on a piece of jewelry.
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, for instance.
<table><tr><td>[caption id="attachment_375025" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band2.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band2-300x286.jpg" alt="The inherent life steal is pretty weak." width="300" height="286" class="size-medium wp-image-375025" /></a> The inherent life steal is pretty weak.[/caption]</td><td>[caption id="attachment_375024" align="aligncenter" width="234"]<a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band1.jpg"><img src="http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leg-bul-kathoss-wedding-band1-234x300.jpg" alt="The inherent life steal is pretty weak." height="296" class="size-medium wp-image-375024" /></a> The inherent life steal is pretty weak.[/caption]</td></tr></table>
There's an inherent roll to mainstat (great) and Critical Hit Damage (great) but while Life per Hit and +Life% are very good mods, they're not what you want on jewelry, and those all seem to be inherent stats with no variation allowed on this ring. You could enchant the +Life% into Crit Chance and make a very good ring, but it would never be truly top of the line on DPS, which is what most players want from their fingerlings.
The big exception to this trend is the Unity I thumbed above, since it rolled with a trifecta, the LpH can be enchanted to Crit Damage for a great quadfecta, the +damage roll is much higher than a rare can get... and the special property is a giant +12% damage to Elites which is not something a rare ring can roll. That's a hugely-useful affix, especially in Torment+, where boss hit points are off the charts.
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<h3>Enchanting Jewelry</h3>
The final problem with legendary jewelry is enchanting. It's much better now than it was a week ago, when Forgotten Souls were so hard to come by (each enchant of a legendary or set uses up a FS), but they are still pretty scarce. Furthermore, the massive array of possible affixes on jewelry, that makes rolling a trifecta or quadfecta so hard in the first place, makes replacing a dud stat with one you really want... that much harder.
If you haven't yet had the joy of burning up all 8 of your hard-won Forgotten Souls just trying to turn a primary affix into Critical Damage on an amulet... wait. Just wait. It's such fun! (This is not hypothetical. Goddamned amulets.)
[gallery link="file" ids="375025,375024,375017,375015,375029,375028,375044,375043,375048,375060,375059,375089,375088,375105"]
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<h3>Set Items</h3>
One of the main complaints about BoA on legendaries and the limited stash space is that it will make completing Item Sets too difficult. That might be true, but finding all of any of the end game sets was a lot harder in D2, since almost every set had at least one ultra-rare item. That's not the case in RoS; the items in the sets aren't spectacularly hard to find, but you'll obviously need some luck and patience to gather them up. And isn't that how item sets should work? Play with friends so you can trade legs, and run a tab. Today you find an item from Immortal King that your Barb friend wants, next week he finds Inna's helm that your Monk wants. BFFs forever! (Good luck on the mainstat rolls.)
In the last month of the RoS beta (most of which was played with much lower leg drop rates) I've found several single set items, plus 2 items from Blackthorns, and 3 from Natalya's... unfortunately 2 of those were the Cloak, as you can see in the comparison image below. I really want a third one since that's what enables the huge 7% Crit Chance set bonus. No more does that come with just two of the items. You need three now which means it is still attainable for non Demon Hunters, but you'll have to wear the boots and ring, plus the helm, and with the Dex bonuses in there it's probably only a real viable gear option for the Monk. (The Cloak and xbow in the set are DH-only.)
[gallery link="file" ids="375115,375119,375117,375118,375116,375120,375121,375122,375123"]
One thing I don't so much like about sets is that almost all the set bonuses are very utilitarian. Functional and powerful to be sure, but they're mostly just +stat, +res, +CD or CC or IAS, etc. Most of the quirky, flavorful, build-tweaking bonuses seem to be on individual legendary items, rather than set items, or from Item Set bonuses. I'd like to see a bit more flavor from set bonuses.
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<h3>Legendary Items</h3>
The full orange gallery. Enjoy.
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