The Horadric Rectangle

Random but does it bother anyone else that the inside of the cube is 4x3 and not 3x3 or 4x4? Give us 4 more slots!

it's MAGIC, no need to explain shit.

should be either 8 (2^3), 27 (3^3), or 64 (4^3) slots

It should be 8 slots since it’s a cube with a side length of 2. The only way it gets 16 slots is if it’s the Horadric Tesseract.

Wouldn't have room to craft

Would love 16 as well

Horadric Cube is just a secret chest
(3 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet, constructed from rare materials worth 5,000+ GP, and a Tiny replica of the chest made from the same materials worth 50+ GP) thus 12=3x2x2

tatarjj wrote: 3 weeks ago

It should be 8 slots since it’s a cube with a side length of 2. The only way it gets 16 slots is if it’s the Horadric Tesseract.

Oh, c'mon, it's an ancient artifact. I'm pretty sure the Horadrim could've made a cube with side length 2∛2 slots. Or 2∛2×cis(2π/3) or 2∛2×cis(-2π/3) - a bit complex, indeed...

Necrarch wrote: 3 weeks ago

Would love 16 as well

Let’s just be honest here, charms should have their own, charm-only inventory, and only in the charm-only inventory would they be equipped and active. Charms in the regular inventory would do nothing. Also would solve the annoyances of not bring able to pick up more than one

Hellfire Torch, Gheeds or

Annihilus, because you could hold as many as you want in your regular inventory but only one of each in your charms inventory. And no one would be wishing for a 4x4

Horadric Cube.

The design choice the original D2 devs made to make charms take up your regular inventory space and become a quality of life vs character power trade off was a terrible choice, players should never have to

Sacrifice quality of life in this way to make their characters stronger. That’s not a modern sentiment, I’ve felt exactly the same since I started playing LoD in 2001 as a 16-y-o.

tatarjj wrote: 2 weeks ago

Necrarch wrote: 3 weeks ago

Would love 16 as well

Let’s just be honest here, charms should have their own, charm-only inventory, and only in the charm-only inventory would they be equipped and active. Charms in the regular inventory would do nothing. Also would solve the annoyances of not bring able to pick up more than one

Hellfire Torch, Gheeds or

Annihilus, because you could hold as many as you want in your regular inventory but only one of each in your charms inventory. And no one would be wishing for a 4x4

Horadric Cube.

The design choice the original D2 devs made to make charms take up your regular inventory space and become a quality of life vs character power trade off was a terrible choice, players should never have to

Sacrifice quality of life in this way to make their characters stronger. That’s not a modern sentiment, I’ve felt exactly the same since I started playing LoD in 2001 as a 16-y-o.

Project Diablo agrees.

tatarjj wrote: 2 weeks ago

Necrarch wrote: 3 weeks ago

Would love 16 as well

Let’s just be honest here, charms should have their own, charm-only inventory, and only in the charm-only inventory would they be equipped and active. Charms in the regular inventory would do nothing. Also would solve the annoyances of not bring able to pick up more than one

Hellfire Torch, Gheeds or

Annihilus, because you could hold as many as you want in your regular inventory but only one of each in your charms inventory. And no one would be wishing for a 4x4

Horadric Cube.

The design choice the original D2 devs made to make charms take up your regular inventory space and become a quality of life vs character power trade off was a terrible choice, players should never have to

Sacrifice quality of life in this way to make their characters stronger. That’s not a modern sentiment, I’ve felt exactly the same since I started playing LoD in 2001 as a 16-y-o.

I think they wanted to shoot two birds with one Stone: give players more ways to continue improving itemization while making use of that "wasted" inventory space (because players don't really pick up much stuff at higher levels, which is what charms are really aimed for). If you're going to give charms their own inventory, I'd just remove them from the game. At that point, charms don't really add anything other than power, with no real decisions.

Not that I love charms as they are, but if we're assuming that we're making the game from scratch and we want players to have more ways to itemize without crippling their inventory, then I'd just use a different system. For example, charms could become consumables that you use to add stats to your equipment. That way, you keep the "give players ways to continue optimizing in the end game" while at least adding some new dimension to your equipment (which is really where the cool items are), rather than it being a no brainer that you just fill up your "charm inventory" with the strongest charms you find and be done with it.

vued wrote: 2 weeks ago

tatarjj wrote: 2 weeks ago

Necrarch wrote: 3 weeks ago

Would love 16 as well

Let’s just be honest here, charms should have their own, charm-only inventory, and only in the charm-only inventory would they be equipped and active. Charms in the regular inventory would do nothing. Also would solve the annoyances of not bring able to pick up more than one

Hellfire Torch, Gheeds or

Annihilus, because you could hold as many as you want in your regular inventory but only one of each in your charms inventory. And no one would be wishing for a 4x4

Horadric Cube.

The design choice the original D2 devs made to make charms take up your regular inventory space and become a quality of life vs character power trade off was a terrible choice, players should never have to

Sacrifice quality of life in this way to make their characters stronger. That’s not a modern sentiment, I’ve felt exactly the same since I started playing LoD in 2001 as a 16-y-o.

Project Diablo agrees.

Median XL challenges - by having unique charms only.