Posted 22 March 2010 - 17:41
I'd like to thank the admins for revisiting the requirements to complete the quest.
I realize why they were set so high - because there were never supposed to be more than a handful of these items in the game - but the initial release issues pretty much made that an unrealistic perspective.
However, I would appreciate it if the itemization team would please review the stats on these items. They should be good, but the current stat values of these items are a serious detriment to game balance as things stand. This does not necessarily mean that these items need to be nerfed, but something does need to be done. While items such as the inferno hammer and the master of magic spear have had relatively long runs in the game and it is reasonable to eventually itemize past them, two items in particular present major failures in itemization, specifically the Blue Man of War Sword and the Mace of the Colossus.
Comparing the Reborn Elemental Earth Hammer versus the Blue Man of War Sword, perfect and fully forged, the Man of War sword, despite being an epic and over 100 levels higher than the Hammer, has only 181 stat points more; the hammer additionally has MORE damage, which like it or not is what the vast majority of the playerbase looks for in itemization. The Colossus Mace suffers similarly when compared to the Reborn Elemental Fire Blade. The Mace was in the game less than a month before it was superceded, and it's a Titan drop, for chrissakes.
Therefore, please consider implementing one of the following changes:
1. Resetting all current quest epics to their pre-Reborn values
2. Altering the stats on the Blue Man of War Sword and the Mace of the Colossus to bring them more into line with current epic itemization
3. scrapping the Mace of the Colossus entirely and creating a new epic drop for the Gurgriss titan, which current owners of the Mace could send tickets in and have exchanged for.