TOPIC: 2026 Transmute Token Ideas

Please see changes below. I re-did the Crossbows to make it easier on the programmers. They now have a big damage boost if the player Crits -- but not a 3X multiplier which is very powerful because it adds in all the extra Ranged damage twice (rather than once with a 2X Crit). I had to boost the damage pretty well since loosing out on the 3X Crit multiplier will not add in all that extra damage that all those Ranged damage-modifiers provide. This is a way that a good slider can maybe free up some Range-damage slots to do other things.

I tweaked the Cloaks to make them more likely to trigger.

I renamed the Greaves, but if you can think of a better 4 or 5-letter word other than "Avail" let me know. I think I have watched that Bridge of Khazad-Dum scene too many times - and I do like alliteration. See video below at 3:36.



Thank you for your patience with this long and sometimes-frustrating process. It is much appreciated. See the newest images here:

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Uh... KKK Crossbow?

Jeff,
Does the damage bonus on the crossbows get doubled on the crit?

I renamed the Greaves, but if you can think of a better 4 or 5-letter word other than "Avail" let me know.

Aegis, Aeons, Aesir, Armor

Alliterations are fun, but we can't have three K words together.

I’ll put the numbers in a spreadsheet, but this version of the crossbow isn’t really much different than Io’s. Do you want to basically the same token idea between old Io’s and the crossbow?

Is there any chance of going back to the Shadowskin transmute chain? I still don’t love the self res function.

With the announced set bonus to Arcanum, the ring does not need to grant +3 all saves (after counting ability score increase) and +3 AC (after counting ability score increase).

+2 all ability scores is already twice the effect of the rod of 7 parts. That should be sufficient after adding set bonuses.

I’m not going to lie. I am very disappointed with the downgrade of the crossbow, went from definitely going to get to definitely will not transmute. I’ll be just sticking to assassins crossbow and Thor’s hammer for everything other class.

There's a solid chance nuking this crossbow is just going to end up with people continuing to request the assassin crossbow be reprinted every year.

The code for the Assassin’s crossbow should already be written, so going back to the last version shouldn’t require any special code changes

Arcanum Repelling Greaves
Arcanum Warding Greaves
Arcanum Adamant Greaves

The crossbow is very similar to Io's, now, as Io's is mostly interesting when it crits, even though it rarely does in my experience as we don't yet have a way to make multiple attacks a round with most classes.

That it's open to more classes means Io's loses some of its specialness. May be hard to have two missile weapons feel different, but it would be nice if this and Io's felt very different.

One way to handle this is to use the old damage wheel from last version on the relic and give it +15 base damage on a crit. The legendary could be 3x Crit and it would be effectively a +4 assassins crossbow, thus giving people what they want from an assassins crossbow reprint

+1 to previous comments about preferring the old version of the crossbow.

The version with the x3 crit had a clear identity - it was the Legendary weapon of choice for Rogues, a way of "reprinting" Assassin's Crossbow, and an interesting build option for other classes to combine with expanded crit range effects. The new version no longer does any of these things and is not overly different to Io's Ultra Keen Slayer Bow which already exists. Please consider changing at least the Legendary, if not the Relic or UR, back to the x3 crit version, restricting the classes on it if that is what is necessary to reduce the programming overhead.

Arcanum Greaves of Repel

I like the changes to the cloak transmute chain.