That actually looks pretty cool. I'd go further to say that only one of the the final tier abilities can be bought for armor (only 10% chance on hit or only 15% to double strike or only +10% to all triggered skills/abilities). It would up the RPG + Strat ante a tad.

Yeah i just added that while you where posting.   Max of 3 upgrades.  Each item would look similar, just different bonuses on each path.

Also, one upgrade could give 2 different bonuses.

I had to go eat but wanted to put it up there.

how do you do tis

nice idea

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Photoshop.

You photoshopped that in and then scrawled completely illegible text instead of using the text tool? Why?!

This is an awesome idea! It does away with the difficult-for-new-players item recipe system in DotA without giving up the functionality of it! Great idea!

because i thought it'd be funny.

Notice i numbered them and wrote in the post underneith Mr. Meanyface. 

Pretty cool idea actually.

that looks sick they should really implement that for most or all items cept consumables of course

I was thinking for every single item except consumables (but some of the current items would be removed, maybe a few new ones added)

Q. Not to be a downer (nice pic btw), but is this system really doing anything besides letting you recycle your earlier purchases? If all the ingredients and upgrades can be purchased with just money, than ultimately the final item costs nothing but the sum of the ingredients. Yes, you can choose upgrade paths, but really you're just making a larger variety of items (even if some of the items are just variations on a single item). It's when you start including unpurchasable factors (time, dropped rare items, enemy kills, etc) that it becomes a meaningful game mechanic.

No, it lets you slowly customize an item over time to your specifications. It allows you to go to the intermediary stage you want when you want. It could be accomplished with about 700 items total, but that would be inane. If we add unpurchaseable factors, that adds another completely arbitrary layer of complexity to the whole thing and pervert strategy into knowing the whole goddamn upgrade tree for everything instead of making good decisions on the fly. If various kills made some upgrades cheaper, sure, but if you need unpurchaseables, it'll be almost as inane as recipies, becuase it'll require a similar level of studying. I study for calculus. I DO NOT study for video games. If something that needs over ten minutes of study to be passable at, I will go apeshit.

Innociv, excellent job getting the right way to do items into such a good post. Karma for you!

ne thing is does, is like currectly you have..

+15% IAS, +150 armor boots
+50% ias +75 armor boots.
+40% ias, +350 armor boots.
Can basically get the same thing by having upgrades for strengthening boots.  That's just one example.  There are the rings that arebasically the same, armor, helms.

It will REMOVE items from the actual shops.  Like each shop would just have 3-5 items probably, instead of around 5-8.

And while this gives more items (1 item turns into 3 if you just go by highest level, 8 if you count all levels) it makes them much simpler.

Tyo actually said they have 150 items or something on the drawing board to pick from and narrow down form. But we have about 50 in the game.(But 13 are consumables.. so 37.)

If there was 4 of each artifacts/helms/rings/breastplates/gloves/boots that'd be 24.  If they each had 3 end paths, that's 72.

You'd have the variaty of twice as many items in the game than we have now, but it'd be very intuitive, actually having less items to go through in the shops.

The only problem with the system is that many items are already (basically) upgrades of an older item. Some items would need to be removed or revamped.