higgildypiggildy wrote on Aug 17
th, 2013 at 7:07pm:
those rings from the madness chain were clearly either
1) broken or
2) the chase items to encourage you to get the chain.
IMO they were broken. And I say this having the following rings: wis4, cha 6, con 5, heavy fort/3str, 4 str, 5 int, 3 int/7 disable rings from that chain.
What is deeply offensive is the Bound to Account random loot from end rewards (or in chain rewards) from the quest series: deleras, shan to kor, waterworks, tangleroot, sharn, catacoombs. All of this was 2 levels lower and is being changed also. This was not broken loot, these were deliberate design decisions as part of the rewards. They are so widespread that no other reasonable view of these items can be made.
All of these items should be made into "mastercrafted" which is replacing the "race restricted" flag.
Yep. We all knew the ML0 rings would be changed at some point. But all the low level BTA stuff should be left alone. FoS has fixed something that really wasnt even broken.
Named items are often better for the level than random unbound items. All these end rewards were the same. Better BTA items than random unbound items.
And for the most part they were really only made super cool by Festival Icy Burst on the weapons, or using the BTA items for crafting.
Unless you were lucky like higgildy and had ML1 Invis clickies. A guy in my guild has a 3 charge ML1 Invis clicky. He is furious that he is going to lose it.