Epic-tier Normal Items

Just throwing an idea out there that I had. Let me know if you like it or think it has promise.

Got this idea from Champions: Return to Arms (an old action RPG for the PS2), where the most powerful items were actually normal-tier weapons/armour at the max level, which were very hard to get.

Basically, there would be an extremely low chance that a normal item (from a chest or enemy) would be an epic-tier normal, where it would have greatly increased damage for its level and attack-speed tier. The damage on these would likely be between that of a legendary and mythic, but would not have any other attributes, other than maybe 1 or 2 powder slots.

Epic-tier normal armour pieces would have greatly increased health and/or defence, but no other attributes other than maybe 1 or 2 powder slots.

 

And why this instead of just adding an Epic tier that's in between Legends and mythics?

 

This could've worked pre-gavel when we had real Endgame armours, but right now, creating an Endgame tier is rather unnecessary.

Currently, your Endgame depends on your build and playstyle. That's a good thing that we don't want to ruin; it creates diversity and allows for shifting balance in the power scheme.

 

Well I was only referencing the fact that in the other game it was end-game. Here it would affect any-level normals, from lv 1 to 100

 

That would take WAYYYY to long. Imagine all the items and stats that have to be designed, with this you could just get the normal items and change them a bit...

 

There's no real difference in adding a totally new tier and adding a totally new tier that's disguised as normal items. It would also completely mindfuck lots of people when they find out this random Normal item is better than their legendary.

 

It literally is upgrading only normal iter items. But that's still a lot.