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<blockquote data-quote="Gort" data-source="post: 5763787" data-attributes="member: 11239">Wow, these are the exact opposite of what I consider &quot;good items&quot;. Badge of the Berserker makes basically no sense (&quot;in my berserk fury I defend myself flawlessly while charging blindly about!&quot;) and the other ones are just, &quot;Here, have some extra damage&quot;.Things like Iron Armbands of Power in particular are such no-brainers that they actually make the game worse by their presence - if the game designers had intended every melee character to have +x damage it would've made more sense to just give everyone +x damage and remove the arms slot. As it is, pretty much every other arms slot item is worthless because getting more damage trumps the lot.One of the great advances 4e made over 3e was getting rid of the &quot;standard magic items&quot; - flat bonuses to stats. The sooner we get rid of the rest of that legacy (+hit and +damage magic items) the sooner we can move on to items that actually do something interesting rather than just making a number bigger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gort, post: 5763787, member: 11239"] Wow, these are the exact opposite of what I consider "good items". Badge of the Berserker makes basically no sense ("in my berserk fury I defend myself flawlessly while charging blindly about!") and the other ones are just, "Here, have some extra damage". Things like Iron Armbands of Power in particular are such no-brainers that they actually make the game worse by their presence - if the game designers had intended every melee character to have +x damage it would've made more sense to just give everyone +x damage and remove the arms slot. As it is, pretty much every other arms slot item is worthless because getting more damage trumps the lot. One of the great advances 4e made over 3e was getting rid of the "standard magic items" - flat bonuses to stats. The sooner we get rid of the rest of that legacy (+hit and +damage magic items) the sooner we can move on to items that actually do something interesting rather than just making a number bigger. [/QUOTE]

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