I've never understood why they turned it off :/and they should be worth 500 points .....most are worthless at this point why not let them be imbued,most of the stuff from the new loot is over 500 anyways
If I understand what you are saying Wizal then I think that you have got an error in your thinking. Imbuable items ARE pof-able, it is only after they have been imbued that they become non-pofable (i.e. items that are imbued). So arties could be made such that we are allowed to imbue them and people could still use pof on them as long as they didn't actually imbue them.I for one am not in favor of letting arties able to be imbued as it won't solve the issue with many of them having either too many properties or too high weight, Imbuing would turn them non-pofable, which doesn't fit right for a rare drop, and it also wouldn't be fair for those who just blessed their rarest stuff.
Gloves of the Pugilist were REALLY nice if you imbued Stamina Increase 8 to go with the Dex+8, then did the rest in resists. The pair I made sold for quite a bit.The only arty I imbued was the gloves of the pugilist to give them more resist and make them usuable. I've since gotten different gloves and replaced them.
Shame is only the first, what happens, eventually, when ALL loot is like that? I don't really fancy making all my stuff from scratch, but more dependance was wanted on crafters. I say let's do it.If anything is "overpowered" it's some of the new crap that's coming out of shame.... though I think most all that is completely useless save for the relic frags... I wouldn't put any of my characters in crap I can't repair, can't powder and/or is cursed.
Sorry but I like the more "permanent" solution of imbuing. At least if that gets worn out I can make another just like it.
That's funny because it's the only thing that I imbued:The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that would really make a difference is a Djinn's Ring, which has FC2 and not much else. Imbuing of that would offer significant options for people looking to get 4/6 casting. Right now, it's a chore to get up to FC4; you pretty much have to have FC on your weapon or carry a shield. However, I'm not sure we need to make it easier to get to FC4 because it is so powerful (in PvP).
Other than that, the potential benefits from imbuing arties is negligible and can easily be achieved through other means. In most imbued suits it's pretty easy to max out resists, HCI, DCI, LMC, LRC, etc. so any benefit from imbuing arties is really not going to throw things out of balance. I think it would just bring a few more arties into play, more variety but not more powerful.
The one thing nobody has mentioned yet is the planesword. That's one arty (is it considered an arty?) that is in fact overpowered when imbued because the weighting doesn't register properly, and it's the one arty that you could always continue to imbue. Dumb.