Rare Items - Minor Buff

[Doctornull]

I like how Rare items use Lesser egos, but I don't like how they are clamped to a single ego.

If Rare items had two Lesser egos, they'd retain their role as "oddball" items but not be worthless when compared to purples.

I wouldn't mind if they also broke the prefix / suffix limitation like Randarts do, so you could get "impossible" ego combos, like two prefix or two suffix egos.

Does this sound reasonable?

[SageAcrin]

I dunno, do they need more buffs?

I've been finding rares to be a very viable piece of gear for the entire game after the randart changes.

On the other hand, the original proposal for rares having a lesser ego had them getting two lesser egos in very high level(40+) areas, so I'm obviously not entirely against this...

[RandomKesaranPasaran]

I'm mostly fine with this, though I'm not sure if letting them break prefix/suffix rules is something that "should" happen. Then again given that they're lesser egos that's probably not a big deal.

[Nori]

I don't develop this game, but as a player maybe I can offer my experience.

In my last game I had a rare ring I used until the mid 40s. It was a very nice ring.
I would say that most of the time purples are better than rares, but every so often rares get something awesome.
Still considering how hard rare enemies can be to defeat a slight buff could be nice.

[Davion Fuxa]

I'd be for giving Rare enemies a buff, very rarely do I find a Rare Ring worth using.

[HousePet]

I'd be much more happy if the power tables were actually good.
Using egos just bypasses the underlying problems with them.
All that extra melee damage is not useful on a staff.
They still need to be sorted out to fix up randarts.

[Doctornull]

@HousePet - I thought Shibari did some fixes on the randart power tables, do Rare items use a different table?

Also melee damage could be great on a staff, for certain classes. Bollock's Big Knocker does see use.

[HousePet]

Shibari did some cleaning up of the tables.
Making them better hasn't happened yet.
The problem with staves is that they only get melee powers.