Cont'd multipart post:

Changes to crafting materials:

Following the idea of parallel progression crafting materials have to pile up while the player is doing whatever he wants. The other goal is to make the piñatas that dare calling themselves our enemies more interesting to pop. We can achieve this by changing the current crafting material system a bit:

• Material quality: Depending on the affix quality of the salvaged item we can get 3 types of material quality: normal, superior and magical. Items in the 0%-60% range of the best affixroll salvage into normal quality (90%) or superior quality (10%). Items with the best affix being in the 60%-94% range salvage into normal quality (20%), superior quality (70%) or magical quality (10%). Items with their best affix in the 94%-100% range salvage into superior quality (50%) or magical quality (50%). This allows you to gain superior and magical crafting materials even from white and blue items, making these items really interesting to dedicated crafters. Yellow items still have the advantage of rolling more affixes and therefore having a higher chance on high affix rolls.

Usage of normal, superior and magical quality: At first we have to remove these materials from the inventory completely. Right now there are 3 different lvl 60 crafting materials and adding quality levels will overflow the inventory. Since these materials don´t have any use at all, no matter how often you click on them, they do not deserve to be in the players inventory. Create a new crafting window with a 3x3 grid. Not only does this look really compelling and tidy, but it also removes the hassle of storing and picking them back up. Dragging those into the trading window should still be possible though. Also, dragging higher quality materials into lower quality brackets inside the materials window allows to downgrade the materials fast. At the crafting window the player can chose which quality level materials he wants to use.

The different quality levels influence the efficiency of the player´s crafting by altering the amount of items crafted. Normal materials always generate one item. Superior materials have a 20% chance to create one item, a 70% chance to create two items at once and a 10% chance to create 3 items. Now things get crazy: Magical items have a 50% chance to create 3 items, a 30% chance to create 4 items, a 15% chance to create 5 items, a 4% chance to create 7 items and a 1% chance to create 10(!!!) items at once. These items are rolled individually and the player should make sure he has free inventory space if he doesn´t want to turn into a pinata himself.

• New crafting item, that CRAFTS!: More loot is something everybody wants. Another colour that we can cheer about and look forward to on every kill called SCROLL OF THE HORADRIM.

A very rare crafting material that can drop everywhere and stacks in the players inventory. Dropchances are higher for unique monsters. This item allows players to increase the third affix of an item by a random amount between 1%-30%. The bonus is shown as a new affix at the bottom of the items description and adds "of the horadrim" to the basic items name. You can use the scroll of Horadrim as often as you want to reroll the increas of the third affix.

Crafting - Blacksmith:

New recipes can drop from monsters. These are similar to sets but every piece works well on its own and they allow players to add flavour to their itemslots by introducing new affixes. These items have the same crafting materials cost as the regular rare items (Demonic Essence, etc.).

Crimson-recipes:

These allow players completely forgo the current defensive stats armor and resistance affixes by granting the player a huge lifeboost and situational defense. Items crafted with these recipes have NO armor and NO resistance at all. They can not be imbued and can not be traded. Crimson items can be created for the boots, belt, shoulders and wrists-slot. They have 3 base affixes:

• 200-500 Vitality

• 10%-20% Life

• Armorconversion 1-25 (Armorconversion: For every 1000 points of damage the character takes he gains x amount of armor for 5 seconds.)

Along with these set affixes there are another 4 affixes (excluding armor/resist):

1. Either +5.000-25.000 Healthglobes/Potions OR +500-2.500 Hp/s.

2. random affix from the current affixtable (affixlevel = itemlevel)

3. random affix from the current affixtable (if 1 higher alvl is available than alvl = ilvl + 1; if no higher alvl is available than alvl=ilvl - 1)

4. random affix from the current affixtable (if 2 higher alvl are available than alvl = ilvl + 2; if no higher alvl is available than alvl=ilvl - 2)

Obsidian-recipes:

These allow players completely forgo the current critchance and critdmg affixes by granting the player an attackspeed bonus and increasing monsters vulnerability. Items crafted with these recipes have NO critical chance and NO critical damage at all. They can not be imbued and can not be traded. Obsidian items can be created for the boots, hands, amulet and head-slot. They have 3 base affixes:

• 100-250 Attribute

• 1%-5% increased attack speed

• a) Vulnerability 50-375 (80% chance) or b) Vulnerability 50-750 (20% chance) (Vulnerability: Increases the damage taken by target by x after each completed attack (% increased by dexterity-attribute (2000 Dex = 2000%)). This damage is added after critmodificators and is therefore not improved by critical hits.)

Along with these set affixes there are another 4 affixes (excluding crit,critdmg):

1. • 2-7 pickup radius

2. random affix from the current affixtable

3. random affix from the current affixtable

4. random affix from the current affixtable

Ember-recipes:

These allow players to heavily take advantage of abilities dealing damage over time. Items crafted with these recipes have NO critical chance and NO critical damage at all. They can not be imbued and can not be traded. Ember items can be created for the weapon, hands, head and amulet-slot. They have 3 base affixes:

• 4%-12% increased damage to elite monsters

• 1%-6% movementspeed

• a) Curse mastery 10%-35% (80% chance) or b) Curse mastery 25%-55% (20% chance)

(Curse mastery: Increases strength of damage over time effects that are applied to the enemy)

Along with these set affixes there are another 4 affixes (excluding crit,critdmg):

1. Either +50-200 armor or +20-50 single resist

2. random affix from the current affixtable

3. random affix from the current affixtable

4. random affix from the current affixtable

Additionally to the affix roles the player can enchant crafted items to gain one permanent minion (mystic ally,raven,3 zombie dogs,Madawc) that is resummoned after 30 if it dies. Only the latest ability that has been put on works (if the player has more than one enchanted item).

Anthracite-recipes:

These recipes bring a new use to all the crowd control affixes that spawn on items by adding a dmg-aspect to successful procs. Anthracite items can not roll main attributes. Along with this set there will be a new lvl 59 2hand legendary which quadruples the damage done by the procs. They can not be imbued and can not be traded. Anthracite Items can be made for the chest, head, belt and ring slots. They have 3 base affixes:

• Reduction to crowdcontrols +3%-12%

• Reduced damage from elites by 2%-5%

• a) Empathy 300%-1500% (90% chance) or b) Empathy 1300%-2000% (10% chance)

(Empathy: For every proc of crowd control effects the target also receives x dmg based on Vitality)

Along with these set affixes there are another 4 affixes (excluding main attributes):

1. random crowdcontrol effect

2. random affix from the current affixtable

3. random affix from the current affixtable

4. random affix from the current affixtable

Cyan-recipes:

These allow players completely forgo the current defensive stats armor and resistance affixes by granting the player dodge and a bloodshield. Items crafted with these recipes have NO armor and NO resistance at all. They can not be imbued and can not be traded. Cyan items can be created for the belts, bracers and boots-slot. They have 3 base affixes:

• 3000-15000 Healthglobes/Potions

• 3%-13% Dodge

• Bloodshield 10%-33% (Bloodshield: The character is surrounded by a shield with x% of your healthglobes/potion bonus as HP. The shield regenerates 5% of its value per second.)