World The Mysterious Trader: Your Way To Get New Untradeable+ Items!

One thing I always dislike about quests, and special minibosses that give you an untradable piece of gear as a reward is that they eventually become useless. Why not make them useful again with Untradeable+ gear!

In Llevigar Prison, there is a secret room containing the 'Mysterious Trader' who is looking to improve your gear, for a cost. This trader has a Token system that you can use to power up some of your untradeables. There are 5 tiers of Untradeable Tokens, 1-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, and 80+. These tokens can be created by trading in an untradeable piece of equipment (weapons, armor, accessories, etc., but not stuff like dungeon fragments or misc items.) These items may not be related to an active quest. To create an Untradeable+ item you need the Untradeable you want to buff, and as many Untradeable Tokens as the tier of the untradeable you want to buff (For example, the Dark Diadem is in the 20-39 tier, and would require two tokens of the 20-39 tier) The result will be an equivalent of that item but 20 levels more powerful, turning it into the Dark Diadem+, with better bonuses. You can transform an untradeable up to a level 100 item, so a level 1-19 can become an item+ five times, while a level 60-79 can only gain 2 tiers of Item+. This allows you to keep your favorite builds viable at higher levels.

 

Ehhh this is a semi-interesting idea. But it does raise the question of why go through all that effort when you can just get an item of a higher level instead of upgrading an old one. Also, this would be hard to implement. It would be tricky not to make it either OP or UP. That being said I do like that you've thought this up and it's nice that you shared but personally I don't like it.

P.S With it being untradable at least that wouldn't mess up the market

 

Really it would just be scaling up the stats of an item to balance them, like HP or defense bonuses

 

Imagine making new verisons for every single untradeable item. That's going to take a hell ton of work. This idea is cool and all, but it would require a lot of item redesigns, and I don't think it should be added, at least yet.

 

Not really. All you’d need is to give them health and defense bonuses, or stat bonuses that would be more balanced for your current level, the items can look the same, but just have a note labeling that they’re a ++ item, etc.

 

You know, when I saw this I was thinking that this "mysterious trader" would trade new, otherwise unobtainable items so when I saw this I was sorta disappointed

 

Do you know much about class building? The balancing is hard, the CT has to change many items every update, but imagine just like 200 new possibly meta-breaking things in it. As I said, the idea is ok, I like it, it would be nice to use some interesting untradeables lategame, but I don't think it would be sensible to do it now.

 

Imagine Avalanche's level 100 counterpart

Imagine Hive Weapon+

Imagine Cosmic Set at 100

lol