Ingenuity & Other Belts

As it stands today, Ingenuity is the best in slot belt for pretty much every single build especially when paired with breach rings.

Minion build? Ingenuity. Deadeye? Ingenuity. With Hunter? Ingenuity. Stormcaster? Ingenuity. Chronomancer? Yup, Ingenuity.


I'm all for chase uniques and build enabling item - but when it's the best item for pretty much every single build - it's a problem.


There isn't a single belt out there that will do better than even a meh set of breach rings and a 60% ingenuity, at 70+ it's a no brainer.

I don't like the idea of nerfing cool uniques, but it's either that or a huge buff to the stat tiers of belts to make things besides Ingenuity end game viable.

Right now, it's not even close. For attack builds ingenuity can add massive added damage for casters an absurd quantity of mana, mana regen and % damage. No other belt can do that.

Their stance on uniques makes absolutely no sense. They don't want the build enabling uniques to be best in slot so they make them so weak almost no one ever uses them. Then at the same time they have uniques like ingenuity which is obviously best in slot.

Brilliant.

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

Their stance on uniques makes absolutely no sense. They don't want the build enabling uniques to be best in slot so they make them so weak almost no one ever uses them. Then at the same time they have uniques like ingenuity which is obviously best in slot.

Brilliant.

Yup, if 50% was max roll on Ingenuity, it would become somewhat situational - where yeah if you have 2 really good rings, it's worth it.

As is, past 50%, you are losing 1 slot to boost two slots to values beyond what a belt can offer.

Overall, belt stats are pretty limited compared to what rings offer and if Ingenuity were to remain in the game as is, belts as a whole need to have a huge balance pass to make them better than just "Something with resists and mana or hp until I get Ingenuity."

+1

+1

And what's even better is it's locked behind an expensive boss paywall.

GGG and absolutely broken uniques in belt slot - name a more iconic duo. I agree though that ingenuity is way too strong even for pinnacle boss drop.

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TRYLLTV#2466 wrote:

And what's even better is it's locked behind an expensive boss paywall.

Strong chase uniques should be dropping from pinnacle bosses, that isn't a problem. The only problem is that ingenuity is way too common and removes any choice for entire slot.

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TRYLLTV#2466 wrote:

+1

And what's even better is it's locked behind an expensive boss paywall.

I think the paywall for Invitation is because of the 25% drop rate for a 20d+ item.

That and getting the invitation is such a tedious chore.

You do not see this with the likes of Howa as while the item is BIS for stat stackers - that's it. It's a limited usecase and that's fine.

Of course if you are a stat stacker, you're going for Ingenuity to boost your +attribute rings...