Even though I sit here sad I thought it might be cool if we get past this season to enhance idol layouts a bit more. They’re currently 5x5 I think they should be 6x6 (at least) - yes it’ll add power creep but also more defensive layers so who cares power creep is everywhere cough rogue cough. I think the introduction in .4 was one of my favourite things but I also think a lot of the builds ended up chasing the same layout.
I would love to see 6x6 with more layout designs as well as something I was thinking about where you could add a new corruption to the existing idol layout. This would be a once off rune (maybe a rune of tetris, lol god I’m hilarious) and what this would do is completely OR minimally alter the layout of the layout. It would jumble your blocker bricks into randomized patterns, some of them wild and others maybe just 1 or 2 movements over, RNG. Corruption. Once this has happened it will not affect any of the current affixs on the layout but it will add 1 new affix of corruption which could potentially be awesome and make the jumble worth while or could be completely crap making the jumble and the layout now pointless, you know how corruption is already - awesome, meh or ragequit.
Obviously these outcomes could be the completely wrong one for your class that’s the roll of the dice with corruption but same time it could give you a unique cool new pattern to play with because of the tetris effect meaning you still kinda got an upgrade but not the dream you were after.
- Corrupted idols in refracted slots add 15 fire melee (or void or lightning or fire etc)
- Same again but spell related stats
- Another increase of prefix / suffix or god tier both
- Attack speed in refracted
- Health for all non corrupted idols
- THESE ARE JUST RANDOM BLURBS
Anything you can think of that would add flavour - it could be you just use the existing DB of affixs or you could be creative and add new synergenistic (is that a word?) affixs or a new corrupted implicit that arent on the existing ones.
I love idol layouts but currently and shown in your mid season stats most classes were chasing pyramidal layouts with increases to pre/suff + mana. Lots of ARPGs end up with people chasing the same build and items so would be cool if you could make one of the end game aspects more individualised. Someone in chat links their layout and everyones like woaahhh cool! Currently (well 2 months ago even back then) you link your pyramidal and then 7 other people link the identical one. We already all have the same world splitter, titan heart, shatter chains, immortal vises etc
Just more options to create a bigger range of builds - I know its hard and it’s done for a reason but wouldn’t it be cool if you could be more individual?
6x6, random layout rune, more affixs and implicits - win!