+level of skills/spells/minions

Not sure about the melee, but in the spellcaster/summoner world, these affixes feel just too obligatory to have. Every other stat (like spell damage/cast speed/spirit) can be more or less sacrificed in favor of more defenses or an interesting unique, but + level of skills are just too strong to give up for almost anything, only the strongest uniques like Choir of the Storm (which is likely to get nerfed anyway) can make up for the lost skill levels you otherwise would have had using a rare item. You could have an otherwise amazing amulet, but if it doesn't have skill levels on it - you feel almost stupid for using it (if you have any garbage amulet with +skills on it). It's even more obvious for minion builds and scepters. No +minions on the scepter = trash.

Now I don't know how to balance or fix this problem, all I'm saying is that it feels really bad being forced to get as much of it as possible on every piece of gear. I'd probably be happy if it was removed from gear completely, giving more power to other stats like spell damage or allowing scepters to roll "more" damage/life (to minions, not allies) instead of "increased", but this is just the first thing that comes to mind, I don't claim to have a solution for it.

?? and thats good, skill levels actually matter, they give multiplicative rather than formal increase to skill power, so all the hunting for level 20 gems exists

All the +Skill modifiers should not exist on gear. I get it as Passives, Support Gems and Ascendencies, but putting it on gear is completely parasitic and devalues everything else around it. That's my hot take at least.

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

?? and thats good, skill levels actually matter, they give multiplicative rather than formal increase to skill power, so all the hunting for level 20 gems exists

IIIHUSKIIl above me gets it. It's fine to hunt for the level 20 increase, it's even fine to hunt for corruption of +1 level of skill gem. But having +5 on scepter alone is just too massive to pass it up for anything else.

Also, that +1 on corruption suddenly isn't so important, when you can have up to +10 on your gear.
Minion accuracy is completely irrelevant if you stack enough levels, cause minions will just be so massively above the content level that their accuracy is 100% without any investment.

So items have chase affixes? What is the problem?

I explained what the problem is in the original post. I feel obligated to get it, it limits my options in terms of build diversity.
Again, this is just my opinion. This is a feedback thread and I'm saying it feels bad to me. It kinda feels like rarity right now, but even more important than that.

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Rusty#4193 wrote:

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

?? and thats good, skill levels actually matter, they give multiplicative rather than formal increase to skill power, so all the hunting for level 20 gems exists

IIIHUSKIIl above me gets it. It's fine to hunt for the level 20 increase, it's even fine to hunt for corruption of +1 level of skill gem. But having +5 on scepter alone is just too massive to pass it up for anything else.

Also, that +1 on corruption suddenly isn't so important, when you can have up to +10 on your gear.
Minion accuracy is completely irrelevant if you stack enough levels, cause minions will just be so massively above the content level that their accuracy is 100% without any investment.

Thats your weapon it has powerful affixes yes, you craft your weapon around those rare powerful mods.

Cast speed also broken as well as % spell damage for example ,that gives a fk ton of dps.

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doombybbr#6074 wrote:

So items have chase affixes? What is the problem?

They want to have trash items with trash affixes, so nobody would bother to chase seek strong items and any random crap would have as much value as top item, literally a downgrade for the game.

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doombybbr#6074 wrote:

So items have chase affixes? What is the problem?

its not a chase affix, its a completely mandatory one.
weapons that lack it are completely useless, automatic disenchants.

arguing it is self reporting your ignorance.
try to be informed before forming strong opinions, you look extremely silly right now.

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

Thats your weapon it has powerful affixes yes, you craft your weapon around those rare powerful mods.

Cast speed also broken as well as % spell damage for example ,that gives a fk ton of dps.

Those are strong affixes, not "must have" affixes. Most uniques don't have them, so it's almost always much better to use a rare item with this affix than a unique item that could offer an interesting twist to your build.