I feel like I must vocalize my opinion because with 9 acts- and 3 more acts unreleased- is already making me feel like i am choking inside, thinking about re-doing it EVERY 3-4 months. It is way to long for a game with Cycles. If cycle was 8-9 months 9 acts would be ok.
I am aware I can somewhat skip the campaign with dungeons, but if You went CoF like me on your first character with a strict loot filter, your not going to have a lot of gear for the other specs, more less for alts when you target farm with prophecies. In practice it means i MUST run the entire CAMPAIGN everytime I want to make an alt which is abnoxious.
What I would promote is an alternative similar to what Grimdawn / TQ did or the New Pathfinder game did with its DLC, as a seperate arena that scales on your level. You push into it and kill thousands of mobs as a way to farm xp on mass, and the gear drops based on your level bracket.
An alternative would be to shorten the campaign by removing 90% of the maps - since we are redoing them anyway for Monoliths, may as well toss most of the world ones out. And increasing the mob density and XP multiplicatively.
The campaign would bring you straight to level 100, toss away all monoliths up to 100, and start players directly in empowered 100. Add leveling npcs like in WoW did with special gear you could craft and unlock [speed leveling gear].
Spellcaster Set
Set Bonus: [11]:
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- 25% movement speed, +15% cast speed
- +25 to all attributes
- 1.5% health leach to Health/mana on Spell Hit
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- 150% mana regan + 110 Mana
- +X-340% spell damage increase [scales with your level]
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- X-35% universal resist + 1% resist uncapped per 5% of Maxed Mana
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- 4 to all skills that are spells
- +2 to all skills with descriptor [transversal]
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- x-560 health [scales with level]
- Gain 15 ward per 4% dmg done [cap of 4K ward]
Damage over Time Set
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+30% to movement speed + 1% from global %damageovertime or Elementaldamageovertime or %ignite %poison %bleed %shock %frostbite
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- x-1000 mana [scales with level] based on your uncapped #of dots on enemies
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- x- 400% damage overtime for {damage over times} [scales with bonus 1]
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+20% global resist per stack of global dots on enemies within 150m / 100 [GDS Stacks, max 20 stacks for a bonus of 20% * 20 does not apply to physical damage only dots]
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40% chance to shred resist per dot on enemy. max stacks 100, max resist shred= 600%
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0.5% of damage is leached as health [none channeled]
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15 ward generated per dot on enemy per second, max ward 4K
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+4 for [Dots]
*+2 for traversal skills -
- X-400 health
Summoner Builds
*+ x-1000% health for minions based on your max intellect
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- x-450% minion stun avoidance per max intellect
- 100% for minions critical avoidance + 1% critical avoidance per 4 points in Dex
- +x-45% for minions to shred global resistances per 100 mana, max stacks 5
- +4% health leach to minions and self from damage done
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- 8 to minion skills or totems
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- 4 to max minions per 100 mana max cap of 4
- 100 mana for every 10 points in Dex
- gain 10 temp dex, per use of a traversal skill + #minions, cooldown of 20s,
- +x-150 dex or intellect [pick one] based on weapon [dagger=dex] [wand= intellect]
Physical damage builds
*+ x-100% stun and critical avoidance for every 50 points in strength [2000 strength=100%]
- Gain 25 strength per hit with [rmb] or 85 per hit taken up to cap of [800]
- Gain 10 stacks of adrenaline every 100 points of strength + 250 endurance for every 50
- Movement skills grant 45% retaliation for 8s and 600 strength for 8s
- 45% resist per uncapped strength, and 15% dot negation per 2 stacks of adrenaline
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- gain 4500 ward on movement skill + 800 ward per second per 500 strength [lvl 100]
- you get + 30% to block per 500 strength, max cap of 4
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- 2000 health + 250% endurance threshold per 800 strength max cap 4
- heal 100 health per hit + 200% per 100 strength
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- 12 to two handed or one handed martial weapons or Bows
- 4 to movement skills
Tank Builds
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- 45 to dexterity per 10 strength
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gain 10 strength on successfully blocking or glancing blow
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gain 10% dot mitigation per 45 dex for 10s, max stacks 10
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+100% to block all attacks on movement skill for 8s and grants 20 strength
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- 80% global resist for 3 sec after using a RMB and hitting 1 enemy
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Gain permanent frenzy: frenzy doubles for every 90 dex for a cap of 20
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gain 500 ward per second per 100 strength and 100% regeneration
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gain 250 endurance per 10 strength and 1% health back on damage
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- 750% endurance threshold per uncapped global resist
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gain 45% move speed increase pre 90 dex
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+8 to skills with shield or two handed
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+4 to movement skills
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- 12% to shred global resistance per 100 dex, max cap of 4
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+100% retaliation damage from all sources
Conditional Builds [4 item set bonus]
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- 45% for all procs to trigger per point of intellect or dex [which ever is higher]
- gain 25 intellect or dex based on weapon per use of Rmb for a cap of 4
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- 100% mana regan + 80 mana
- +120% to AoE on all [spells, conditionals, malee, bow, or minion]
**Unique 2 item set bonuses **
[1] * +25% dex per intellect or total mana based on weapon [rounded to closest number] + 40
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- 200 endurance threshold per 50 of gained bonus stat max stack 2
[2]: * +25% strength per dex or intellect based on weapon [rounded to closest number] + 40
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- 200 endurance threshold per 50 of gained bonus stat max stack 2
[3] * +25% intellect per strength or dex based on weapon [rounded to closest number] + 40
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- 200 endurance threshold per 50 of gained bonus stat max stack 2
[4] * +25% dex per total mana or strength based on weapon [rounded to closest number] + 40
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- 200 endurance threshold per 50 of gained bonus stat max stack 2
Class Specific 1 Item Set Bonus
Idol +2 to skill [create one for each skill in game] max 2 equipped
Ring
[1] +200% mana regen per 10 points in intellect
[2] 200% mana regen per 10 points in strength
[3] +200% mana regen per 10 points in dex