Now this is a runeword holy moly this has me hyped
Looks like a pretty insane helm. Imagine this on a Beast/Grief barb in PvP for a swapout, youd throw away 4x3/20/20 or something like that, to be able to get a hit off as a bear and then gain those 3 pretty solid buffs instead. Depending on rules ofc., But having this in cube for a swapout seems kinda bonkers vs all physical users at least
Expect to see huge waves of beasts mauling over the sanctuary! I dig this trend: new passive and flavorful buffs in the form of runewords! If only they could also change the appearance of the helm to match the fantasy as well!
that's a runeword
Uh, thats such a bad runeword design...If it works the way I assume it should, you will get a maintenance buff that features:40% HP // 20%AR // 25% IAS // 25%CB // 20%PDRfor swapping 2 items (or even one if youre using beast anyways). Thats WAY too strong. So while this runeword certainly buffs melees in general, it adds further gearing costs to builds which are already fairly expensive. Plus, weaving in that swap along with shifting and striking is gonna create one cancerous pile of a maintance loop. Please Devs, D2R doesnt need new fancy runewords. Prio for 2.6 should be 1) Bug fixing as always. Example: Gambling coronets still is annoying af due to the swapping between coronets and circlets.2) Buffing melee classes. And not by throwing in more broken runewords, but reworking those baseline skills instead.3) Buffing/reworking the existing elite uniques4) Changing that god damn clone event, it resulted in WAY too much annis, completely rendering them worthless exept for perfect rolls and bulk unid trading. My suggestion: No more region based events. You may trigger the event in your existing game by cubing a unique item, with the %chance of the event triggering being 5% of the elite uniques itemlevel. This will greatly reduce the amount of floating anni charms, while still being fairly accessable even for casual players. It also makes you feel good about any unique item drop.
nice defense
I've never played a shapeshifter druid, I think that's about to change though. Hopefully it's not ladder only, because I've got the runes sitting and waiting in my non-ladder stash.