Quote Originally Posted by Lynnabel View Post
Speaking entirely selfishly, I hope Con doesn't win. Con is way less rad from a design standpoint - even if it's universally appealing, it'll also avoid being build specific, and build specific stuff is where the funkiest designs live.
This makes the LEAST amount of sense for an item you want a community to vote on.

There were about 200 votes for which slot the item should be. 200 different people with probably 40 different builds and 90 different playstyles.
Either the majority of people vote for the most universally appealing option because that way at least everyone will have an item they can somewhat use, or you have 40 different groups each pulling their own direction and winding up with an item where polls are ended with votes scattered and nothing reaching a clear majority, nobody happy because each group wins once or twice and gets a tiny splatter of what could be useful to them on the item, but the rest of the item doesn't pull it together and allow it to be great or even good for their build, and thus nobody uses it and this whole thing turns out to be a failure.

imo if you want to design a rad, funky item for a specific build then that is what you should be doing.
If you want to know what specific build to make a funky item for, it would have been better to make a thread asking for weird builds and look through them until you see one that inspires you to make said item. Like, maybe the idea of a Cleric/Warlock that does most of its healing and damage through passive auras gives you the funky item idea for an Orb whose powers increase every few seconds so long as you don't actively swing a weapon or cast a spell, similar to In The Weeds/Hiding in Plain Sight for being still or Riposte for not attacking.