Blue Items - Hero specific items/upgrades

[vennnot]

I get the current reasoning for making them blue. I'm just not sure if it's a good enough reason. Also kinda UX/UI wise having a tab that just has x upgrades for a hero is awkward since the rest of the space would be empty.

These items don't always need to be straight upgrades; they could also simply be a fundamental change to the ability with trade-offs.

I'm glad we all agree hero specific items are hype though.

 

[Fred_]

I get the current reasoning for making them blue. I'm just not sure if it's a good enough reason. Also kinda UX/UI wise having a tab that just has x upgrades for a hero is awkward since the rest of the space would be empty.

These items don't always need to be straight upgrades; they could also simply be a fundamental change to the ability with trade-offs.

I'm glad we all agree hero specific items are hype though.

Yeah but you have to consider what it would do if you made them fit other categories.

1. you have the issue with item investment which I think shouldn't be a thing for hero upgrades.
2. each hero having their own set of custom hero items means the item shop will be dynamic and look very different on a hero per hero basis which can end up being confusing for some people and hard to follow. You need to make a clear distinction between which items are hero specific and which ones are universal, if you pack both types into the same categories people will end up having a hard time understanding the layout of the shop and will have a harder time with building the memory to quickly browse the shop.

 

[Rosgath]

So we have 6 new heroes, so CLEARLY WE NEED BLUE ITEMS FOR THEM! This round is for BILLEH