Smithy- Build your own Items

"One of each" makes for all the fun items.
Elemental Sword
Epic Weapon
Level 14(.5)
Mighty Hack
Fiery Stab
Icy Block
Nimble Strike
Immovable
Arcane Feedback

Staff of Force
Rare Staff
Level 7
Force Cannon
Force Cone
Force Blast
Force Bolt
Force Field
Forced Rotate

Continuing the theme, Burst staffs are always in high demand. Wizards also needs their own song.
Bombersong
Legendary Staff
Level 18
Fireball
Radiation Bomb
Ember Burst
Arcane Burst
Spreading Laser
Big Zap

Single-item Anti-synergy is one of my favorite game mechanisms. it makes some of the cards at top of the power curve more bearable.
Awkward Futuristic Mail
Epic Heavy Armor
Level 21
Force Field
Adaptable
Arrogant Armor

There aren't many good source of Sundering Strike. Denying heal is proven to not break the game yet there aren't more of it either. So we introduce this bleeding edge technology:
Bleeding Edge
Legendary Weapon
Level 17
Sundering Strike
Sundering Strike
Sundering Strike
Sundering Strike
Hemorrhage
Hemorrhage

 

What about this:

Elemental Halberd
Level 15 Epic Weapon
Pulverizing Hack
Fiery Stab
Warding Lance
Chop
Icy Block
Large Weapon

 

As I play back through the expansions, crafting a team from items from each release, I noticed a lack of skill involved in the creation of sky citadel.

Space Marine
Human Skill
Laser Block
Push The Button
Run

Eldar Rocketry
Elf Skill
Rocket Charge
Rocket Dash
Fright

Mimetic Squat
Dwarf Skill
Mimetic Crown
Mimetic Armor
Immovable

Light Knight
Martial Skill
Laser Thrust
Team Walk
Impaler

Racial Cleansing
Divine Skill
Genetic Engineering
Gene Therapy
Holy Presence

Polar Levitation
Arcane Skill
Cooling Laser
Hover
Hover

We're also missing an elf skill for Aloyzo's Arsenal at this point. (I suggest my previous post Parity: Warp Run, Warp Run, Vulnerable.) this evens things out between races such that each has a way to deal with attachments from the skill slot.

 

Nice theme. You're forgetting the best guys though.

Novice Waagh!
Level 1 Martial Skill
Blind Rage
Blind Rage
Trip

Perfect Waagh!
Level 15 Martial Skill,
Battle Rage
Blind Rage
Dropped Guard

Also, if we're already here.

Cleanse and Purify
Level 14 Human Skill,
Fiery Stab
Flaring Torch
Firestarter

 

Wayland's Smithing
Dwarf Skill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith

 

I see we're making references.
Asimov's Authoritative Amulet
Common Divine Item
Level 3 Tokenless
Fright
Prestidigitation
Impenetrable Nimbus
In this order. Force Field would've been bit better fitting theme wise but less balanced.

Super Hot Dagger
Legendary Weapon
Level 18
Nimble Strike
Time Snap
Dodge
Nimble Strike
Accelerate Time
Vicious Thrust
I admit this is pretty far-fetched. Unused card potential is just so tempting.

Obsidian Crafting Kit
Epic Arcane Item
Level 19
Lava Pool
Flash Flood
Penetrating Cut
Pick included.

"Heedless of obstacle or hindrance, they hurled themselves at the foe." -Saga of Skarn Elkinford
Howling Guidance
Hurling Guidance
Rare Human Skill
Level 19
Scamper, Team!
Jump, Soldier!
Dangerous Maneuver

Speaking of Team! moves, why couldn't we have this card? it doesn't even pass for a card idea.
Cooperative Ferocity
Dwarf Skill
Probably
Dwarven Battle Cry
Charge, Team!
Charge

Giving each race ways to counter what each class does.
Elusive Counter
Epic Elf Skill
Level 21
Acrobatic Flip
Quick Reactions
Warp Run

Flexible Counter
Epic Human Skill
Level 12
Escaping Run
Counterspell
Purge
Maybe with Open Wound in place of Purge? Humans don't have their own ways to counter each class, so they end up getting something generic.

Stalwart Counter
Rare Dwarf Skill
Level 15
Parry
Immovable
Antimagic Skin

Shotgun Slug is hard to put in an item because it's hugely undercosted. Fortunately, wizards also have one heck of overcosted card..
Unstoppable Shotgun
Common Staff
Level 18
2 of each:
Shotgun Slug
Shotgun Spray
Penetrating Bolt
I would like to see Shotgun Spray in game. for some reason we don't have long range damaging Cone attack.
Its potential in Death March is awesome and would also make Smoke Bomb a real thing.

As a Smoke Bomb Arcane Skill, this would've made the most sense.. but it's also less than playable. so Novice Obfuscation got the favor.
Incomplete Combustion
Common Arcane Skill
Level 13
Kindler
Firestarter
Smoke Bomb

 

What about Robotic Rules Robes?

Since my kids play minecraft, I caught that reference.
I love Charge, team! it belongs on the card ideas thread.

 

Everyone, if you're excited about what comes next, we better make tributes for the new devs... of gamebreakingly overpowered items, exclusively available to them! Let's start with giving them 3rd copy of the best block in the game...
Knight of the Unity
Epic Martial Skill
Level 18
Defender's Block
Wind Dancer
Penetrating Lunge

"Hey, you use Unity?"
Oh wow, another game engine showed up. It seems that they wants to compete too...
Unreal Engine
Rare Arcane Skill
Level 19
Illusory Barrier
Dimensional Traveller
Rocket Dash

Previously, wizards got their own song. But they had more things they miss! Lunatically powered item is one of them.
Orb of the Pale Moon
Rare Arcane Item
Level 16
Teleport Self
Illusory Barrier
Zap

This also fits into my previous post better, but I wants attention at all, so I'm not editing this in.
Alchemy Circle
Epic Staff
Level 14
Fireball
Wall Of Stone
Touch Of Death
Nimble Strike
Hard Tin Fist
Stone Spikes

 

A discussion about under-itemized cards on the Discord resulted in me thinking up the following:


Demonic Flames
Epic Staff

Level 12
Scorching Rays
Scorching Rays
Firestorm
Firestorm
Demonic Revenge
Demonic Revenge


Searing Coat
Rare Robes

Level 15
Scorching Rays
Firestarter
Combustible


Malfunctioning Flamethrower
Epic Staff

Level 21
Scorching Rays
Scorching Rays
Scorching Rays
Flame Jet
Meltdown
Meltdown

 

For organization's sake, I will create a new post for a new card to focus on, and add any further items using scorching rays to the previous post.
This post will be items using disenchant, which might be a bit overpowered, but is an interesting idea.


Spellshatter Locket
Epic Arcane Item

Level 18
Disenchant
Counterspell
Mind Leak

I would also be interested to see other people think about how to use these un or under-utilized cards. It is fun to think of sensible items using super powerful cards.


After it being pointed out that Disenchant belongs on priest items, I have come up with the following:
Witch-Hunter's Flail
Rare Divine Weapon

Level 18
Disenchant
Frenzy Aura
Inquisitor's Strike
Inquisitor's Strike
Purging Strike
Purging Strike

 

Super quick thoughts:
Lovin' it.
Searing Coat has no Armor cards and a Boost normally only found on the Skill.
Disenchant is probably more of a Priest card—and really ought to be Utility, come to think of it, instead of Attack.

 

@fatcat__25 I refer you to the following thread for wise guidelines for suggesting new items

 

I'd play hell's everliving flames out of Searing Coat.

I think I had the idea to put Firestarter on robes before, as it's the only other item that's exclusive to wizards with only one slot, so it felt the safest bet for a potential fourth copy. As it's been pointed out before, however, Searing Coat lacks an armor card, currently, and considering that Firestarter is considerably undercosted at bronze (in line with most of the cycling traits, sensible considering that they only occur on class skills, resulting in this being rather hard to abuse), I feel that the robes with Firestarter should not be too streamlined. I'd consider replacing Combustible with Cloth Armor. This would bump up the item level to 18, requiring a major token, remove a cycling card from the item and add an armor card to it, and a rather anemic one at that. I think it'd make the concept a lot more balanced (I'd still play it on every occasion I get, though).

As much as I love the idea of Demonic Flames (the unholy drawbacks on fire cards), I don't think I'd use it. Not because of the Demonic Revenges, even, I just dislike Firestorm a lot and systematically don't use items with it. Much like in the previous case, I don't think it'd particularly hurt the item if it required a major token, albeit in this case in exchange for much more useful and interesting cards than Firestorms. Flame Spit would be, I believe, fairly fitting thematically speaking, too. It is a card that's, while underpowered at bronze (compare it to Flame Jet that trades a single point of initial damage for the ability to hit multiple opponents), is still good to have in a few copies for variety's sake, and generally not easy to find on arcane items. If my algebra's correct, replacing the two Firestorms with Flame Spits would increase the item level to 15 and the token requirement to one major and one minor. I'd personally be perfectly fine with that and would be much more inclined to use the staff that way. As a final (also quite subjective) note, I think that an indication that it is in fact a staff would be nice. Demonic Flamestaff or something like that.

Not sure I'd play Malfunctioning Flamethrower but I find it a lot of fun. I've heard it being said before that malfunctions are typically not put onto items as they are, but that's weird because Laser Spray shows up on some items by itself, so I'm not sure why Meltdown couldn't. Very flavorful, interesting choice, and the item looks pretty good otherwise, but with a considerable risk. I like it.

As for trying to design an item, let's see. Other than Scorching Rays, another card I'd like to be able to use more is Fireball. Obviously quite powerful. Found only on three items, all three of which have substantial drawbacks. Staff Of The Fire God is by far the best of the three, although two Magma Sprays are a pretty bad deal. Searing Flame has three Flashes of Agony which are dumb and unsuitable for a fire wizard, and Spritastrophe is just too all over the place for use. Let's try to build something systematically. We want Scorching Rays and Fireball. As mentioned before, Flame Spit is a useful card to have on a staff designed for pyromancers, and we can reduce the item level with drawbacks, all the way down to 21 (it's futile to assume that we can go below this if we want both Scorching Rays and Fireballs).

In fact, forget Flame Spit.

Hellfire Staff
Staff (level 21, legendary, )


I've decided to go with Friendly Fire for another thematic black card that can be quite serious (burning 2 on a random ally with Firestarter on can mess things up), to avoid plagiarizing the idea with Demonic Revenge (which otherwise would still be a really nice fit), and to make the item legendary.

Another route to take could be to go a little less extreme. Let's say we cut down the Scorching Rays and/or Fireballs to one, but add two Instant Burns. This could be helpful in allowing us to double up on the staff. If we're fine using up all our major tokens on the two staff slots, we could go with something like...

Pyromancer's Battlestaff
Staff (level 21, legendary, )


I wasn't quite sure what to put as the last card. I went with Fire Bolt, as I think we could actually use that card for players. It's definitely not overpowered at paper quality, and it'd be nice to have alternatives for pyromancers at this level that have a range of more than two tiles. If you don't like that, Magma Spray is of course still an option. Having a black card in the last slot would net us a staff of level 19, still requiring double major. We'd have our options here, such as Friendly Fire, Demonic Revenge, or whatever else you may have in mind.

If we want the staff to require one major and one minor token, we need to let go of one of our Fireballs.

Wym's Singestaff
Staff (level 16, legendary, )


As before, feel free to substitute Friendly Fire to other black cards of your preference. And once again I opted for Flame Spit for the aforementioned reasons.

...I might have gone a little too deep on manifesting my dreams in item form.

 

Thanks @tolkien, that guideline list should help a lot. As for Searing Coat, is feel like a dunce for having armor without armor, and think Frostguard's suggestions to fix that seem appropriate. I missed that Disenchant is holy, rather than arcane. It would make more sense as a priest's card because of that. Hopefully I have time to come up with more items soon.

 

I have been having some interesting ideas for weapons, now, using unused cards.

Mad Jester's Knives
Rare Weapon

Level 12
Flurry of Steel
Flurry of Steel
Berserk Spin
Berserk Spin
Blind Rage
Blind Rage


War God's Ax
Legendary Weapon

Level 21
Almighty Hack
Almighty Hack
Frenzy Aura
Strong Hack
Subtle Parry
Clumsy Chop

 

I vote Pyromancer’s Battlestaff. It adds the most new toys to the game without destroying balance.
MAGA Make Aggro Great Again.

 

Smith doublequartz's New Year Special

Card Hunter made me grow fond of alliteration. Unfortunately, there aren't many Arcane Item kinds that begins with a T.
Turnbull's Triangle of Tickling
Common Arcane Item
Level 11
Winds Of War
Dissolve Armor
Force Bolt

Slice of Life
Rare Martial Skill
Level 6 Tokenless
Slicer
Morsel
Dangerous Maneuver
Here, if 4-card item was possible, I would have added GLOMP...

It seems for some reason the devs have decided not to print a tokenless Mind Worm item. Seeing how weak it is, though, I think we could have one...
Brainwashing Worms
Legendary Divine Item
Level 6 Tokenless
Mind Worm
Mind Worm
Savage Curse

I usually prefer to respect the item design guideline. Well not this time. Having even one non-Trip card would be untolerably off-flavor.
Qwop's Shoes
Uncommon Boots
Level 1 Tokenless
Trip
Trip
Trip

Stout Dittowarf
Rare Dwarf Skill
Level 21
Duck
Mimetic Armor
Mimetic Armor

This one is probably bit too strong in terms of balance. Still, I find this item to be a natural extension of existing dwarf skills.
Advanced Raging Battler
Legendary Dwarf Skill
Level 11
Battle Rage
Blind Rage
Toughened Hide Strips

 

Vicious Cycle
Boots, Common, Level 0 1
Spin Around, Trip, Trip

$:^ P

 

With the incoming CF expansion it's high time for us to create some Japanese-themed items. I've wished that Flash Flood and Teleport Self was found on one item. While that's likely overpowered, Leap is a thematical downgrade similar enough to possibly justify introducing it on a new slot.
Inaba's Portable Bridge
Level 9
Epic Arcane Item
Flash Flood
Leap
Dropped Guard

Spooky Battlestaff
Level 15(.5)
Epic Staff
Unnerving Strike
Startling Strike
Boo!
Hex Of Dissolution
Shifting Block
Chilling Rime
Yes, there's no CF cards in here. I'd rather not force myself into using any new cards when it makes more sense otherwise. This staff however is tuned for CF, Grinding Aura in particular.

Self purging with Arrogant Armor, Lateral Thinking and/or Gene Therapy looks like an interesting concept to build around. Sadly, actual attempts to do so is followed by realization that items like Enormous Mattock are not far enough ahead of its alternatives, partly because of power creep-inducing items like Stolen Torch.
Intimidating Club
Level 18(.5)
Rare Weapon
Anvil Strike
Strong Bash
Lunging Bash
Devastating Blow
All Out Attack
Fright

Overloaded Medallion
Level 12
Uncommon Divine Item
Demonic Power
Boosted Heal
Mind Leak

Despite having three good cards, this robe is probably not strong enough to justify ... More of thematic item than anything viable.
Aurora Veil
Level 18
Epic Robes
Cone Of Cold
Illusory Barrier
Sparkling Cloth Armor

 

Extraterrestrial Exoskeleton
Divine Armor
Hungry Plate
Hungry Plate
Demonic Miasma

Patient Plate
Heavy Armor
Hungry Plate
Heavy Armor
Ill-fitting Armor

Gravity Greaves
Heavy Armor
Heavy Armor
Ill-fitting Armor
Slowed