Equalizing essence/attribute allocation.

[Radz]

I accumulate Water and Earth essence more than others. 3 times for Water and 2 times for Earth. I know that Extra Gold, Life Regen, and Deflect Rating increased after the 1.4.0. but 4 of the Attributes is associated with Water and Earth essence and only 2 in Shadow.

Water (4)
Life Regen
Life on Hit
Deflect Rating
Dodge Rating

Earth (4)
Vitality
Armor
Block Rating
Extra Gold

Shadow (2)
Power
Ability Rate

Wind (3)
Critical Rating
Haste
Movement Speed

Fire (3)
Critical Damage
Experience
Parry Rating

I suggest moving one of the associated stats to Shadow?

[ShotDead]

+1

[ShotDead]

I suggest moving one of the associated stats to Power?

You mean "moving one of the associated stats to Shadow" I guess

[Radz]

You mean "moving one of the associated stats to Shadow" I guess

Yep thanks, I edited it

[13ft shadow]

...fire is too valuable, water is currently useless...

should also consider switching xp and ar, just a thought... fire would then be cd, ar, and pr... and shadow could be life regen. and xp...

and +1 as well

[Alica2122]

The essences should represent some common attributes: Water (Life), Earth (Defense), Shadow (Magic), Air (Speed), Fire (Damage).

If we use the logic above, then:
- Vitality should belong to Water (Life, because Vitality means more life, more hit points)
- Deflect rating moved to Earth (Defense, deflection used to be a part of Armor)
- Dodge rating moved to Air (Speed, Dexterity)

Note that only certain types of gears can have Block Rating, Parry Rating (weapons) and Movements Speed (boots/pants), so the drop rates of these attributes are lower. If drop rates of other attributes are 1.0, then Block Rating, Parry Raring and Movement Speed have drop rate 0.x.

After the change proposed above:

Water: Life Regeneration, Life on Hit, Vitality
Earth: Armor, Extra Gold, Defect rating, (Block rating)
Shadow: Power, Ability Rate
Air: Haste, Critical Rating, Dodge Rating, (Movement Speed)
Fire: Critical Damage, Experience, (Parry Rating)

Now Water has drop rate 3.0, Earth 3.x, Shadow 2.0, Air 3.x, Fire 2.x. It still not perfect, but it is better than the current drop rate (Water has drop rate 4.0!).

If we move Extra Gold to Shadow to make the drop rates more balanced (Shadow = Magic and we all know that Golds have magic power ) then the drop rates will be:
Water: 3.0
Earth 2.x
Shadow: 3.0
Air:3.x
Fire: 2.x

Now only Air has little higher drops than other. But drop rates of boots/pants (movement speed) are much lower than weapons (block rating, parry rating), the difference between drop rate of Air and other attributes are negligible.

[Jose Sarmento]

I second the concern voiced in the OP, but would harmonize things by slightly (re)adjusting the attribute probabilities of occurence.

Out of the 16 attributes, 7 are more ubiquitously desirable (Power, Haste, CR, CD, AR, Vitality, MS). MS is a special case, since it can only drop in Boots and Pants, i.e. in two out of the 9 possible item types. On those items, it is *always* desirable.

Then XP is "almost ubiquitous". We can all use XP gear, and all the more so in ANBs. Life on Hit, while not used in some particular builds, can also be labeled "more useful than other niche properties".

So I would weight the various attribute likelihoods of occurence, and their respective essence, as follows:

	Weighted chance to drop on
	Pants/Boots	Other items		Average chance to get		Essence type
Movement Speed	5	0		0,032679739		WATER	0,032679739	0	0	0	0
Vitality	3	3		0,100067613		EARTH	0	0	0	0,100067613	0
Power	3	3		0,100067613		SHADOW	0	0	0	0	0,100067613
Haste	3	3		0,100067613		WATER	0,100067613	0	0	0	0
CR	3	3		0,100067613		AIR	0	0	0,100068	0	0
CD	3	3		0,100067613		FIRE	0	0,100067613	0	0	0
AR	3	3		0,100067613		SHADOW	0	0	0	0	0,100067613
XP	2	2		0,066711742		FIRE	0	0,066711742	0	0	0
Gold	1	1		0,033355871		EARTH	0	0	0	0,033355871	0
Regen	1	1		0,033355871		WATER	0,033355871	0	0	0	0
LoH	1,5	1,5		0,050033807		AIR	0	0	0,050034	0	0
Block	1	1		0,033355871		EARTH	0	0	0	0,033355871	0
Parry	1	1		0,033355871		WATER	0,033355871	0	0	0	0
Dodge	1,5	1,5		0,050033807		AIR	0	0	0,050034	0	0
Reflect	1	1		0,033355871		FIRE	0	0,033355871	0	0	0
Armor	1	1		0,033355871		EARTH	0	0	0	0,033355871	0
TOTALS	34	29
							0,199459094	0,200135227	0,200135	0,200135227	0,200135227
							Water likelihood	Fire likelihood	Air likelihood	Earth likelihood	Shadow likelihood