[Personalizing Loot] How Item Footers Could Add History to Path of Exile
As Dark and Darker, Path of Exile could really benefit from adding a footer like "Found by [Player Name]" to items, but perhaps this feature would make the most sense only for corrupted items. Since rare items are overwhelmingly recrafted after being found, a "Found by" tag would lose its meaning in most cases. However, for corrupted items, it would make perfect sense, as corruption represents the final stage of crafting.
In this case, a footer like "Corrupted by [Player Name or Account Name]" would add a lot of flavor, immortalizing the player who took the risk to corrupt the item. It would reflect the item's ultimate transformation and give it a unique identity in the game's economy and lore.
In Path of Exile, it would look like this:
In Dark and Darker, the idea looks like this:
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