I read Dev Blog #2 and saw this:
@TheArtofRawr said:
If we are building our Omega Items to impact hero powers in a specific way, what does this mean for Any-Hero Uniques? Having Any-Hero Uniques compete with Hero Uniques has been problematic for a long time. First, it’s expected that Captain America should use Captain America’s shield, for example, and that Iron Man should use Iron Man’s armor. While the idea behind Any-Hero Uniques is mechanically innocuous, it is thematically inconsistent with the Heroes and the Marvel Universe. We still want bosses to have rare Items that you hunt for that are very powerful, but we are moving away from those going into slots one through five. Instead, they’ll be in different Item slots including Artifacts, Medallions, Rings, Insignias and others.
At first I was concerned. There are many great Any Hero uniques that really define builds, but I'm willing to withhold judgment and when the times comes either I'll roll with it or I'll roll onto something else.
I do see a problem coming by introducing tons of new artifacts, insignias, etc... We'll collect them because they'll be potentially useful and sooner or later we'll have tons of duplicates that we'll need to get rid of. But unlike extra uniques which we can feed to our pets or exchange for credits, relics or runes the only thing useful that can be done with those extra items is vendor them for chump change or toss them on the ground. Its a problem that we have today, but the proposed changes will exacerbate it immensely.
Please give us something we can do with all Extra insignias, artifacts, etc... like we can do with Extra Uniques. Add recipes we can exchange them for, like credit chests, or runes, or relics, or random Omega items or other random insignias, artifacts, etc..
Thanks,
E.Otter