TOPIC: 2026 Transmuted Tokens <= Almost Ready for the Printer!

Thanks so much for your patience as I try to finish these up today. I will be away for a few days of traveling, but when I return we can make final adjustments based on your feedback to follow. Thanks so much!

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These look great. 👍

Thanks for adding back the vampiric ring and crossbow progressions. I like how these turned out. Thanks for your patience with all of the community feedback!

I’m not sure how the rings are supposed to compare to the Havoc rings but if comparable I might bump the stat line up to +4 and +6. You’d then be giving up the ranged damage for the healing on a melee hit, which will be cool for melee builds but still comes at a cost.

Thanks, Jeff!

I see the Mark of Enlightenment says Crafted By. Is it no longer soulbound?

The wording on the Marks now strikes me as odd "This tattoo grants..."

It would be like a bead token saying "This bead grants the Free Movement power" instead of just "Free Movement."

Some of that may be due to the fact this is a new slot. I think given the rarity of these tokens players can figure out it's slotted.

Anyway, these could say:

Grants the Enlightenment Power
and
Grants the Insight Power

or even just:

Enlightenment
and
Insight

If a reminder needs to be there for the slot it occupies they could say:

WHATEVER (Tattoo slot)

If there's room on the token most tokens with expanded crit range say:

Criticals on "19-20"

Rather than "Crits"

Matthew Hayward wrote: The wording on the Marks now strikes me as odd "This tattoo grants..."

It would be like a bead token saying "This bead grants the Free Movement power" instead of just "Free Movement."

Some of that may be due to the fact this is a new slot. I think given the rarity of these tokens players can figure out it's slotted.

Anyway, these could say:

Grants the Enlightenment Power
and
Grants the Insight Power

or even just:

Enlightenment
and
Insight

If a reminder needs to be there for the slot it occupies they could say:

WHATEVER (Tattoo slot)

+1 to "Grants the Enlightenment Power
and
Grants the Insight Power"

Craven's Vampire Ring feels like +4 damage would be a better fit to put the power level around the same place as Muk's Greater Ring of Havoc, since it will likely provide 15-20 points of healing per adventure which is a lot. Ring of the Vampire Lord could likely also drop to +2 damage for similar reasons.

Val's +4 Keen Fellbane Crossbow feels underwhelming, it's essentially a much lower power version of Io's in exchange for being available to all classes and hitting a few specific enemy types for extra damage. I guess it might an interesting option if you're playing the same run multiple times and know that the extra damage will trigger in more than 50% of combats, but even then Io's has a better crit range on it. I'm not sure who this crossbow is actually for since four of the classes (five with both fighters) can just equip Io's instead and the other classes aren't that likely to be doing missile builds with the exception of Rogues who would not equip this token anyway as it it loses out to Assassin's Crossbow.

The rest of these look good to me.

The vampire ring is my favorite of all the proposed transmutes this year.

It’s a shame to lose a 3x crit crossbow when we already had Assassin’s crossbow, but it sounds like we have to put that one to rest.

More detailed feedback on several tokens.

Ring of the Sacred Circle

Problem Statement
The Ring will boost AC, Saves, and for multiple classes add FOPs, which is additive to the set bonus. This means when added with another Arcanum set item, we're seeing multiple relic items consolidated into a single slot, and are likely pushing the values too high with too small of a slot commitment.

Let's look at Arcanum shirt + Sacred Circle w/ set. We get

+2 melee hit
+2 damage w/ melee and thrown weapons
+2 ranged hit
+5 Ref Save
+5 Fort Save
+5 Will Save
+5 AC
14 HP
+2 FoP
+1 level

In 2 items, we get a level, nearly a legendary cloak, nearly a legendary ring in AC (Rolland's), nearly a legendary ring in ref (Khing's), and the the extra add on in Level, HP, FOP, and hit / damage. These bonuses will be very common going forward and we have to consider the ramifications of giving out lots of Saves, ACs, and FoPs in future runs.

Possible Solution
Cut the CHA bonus from the ring, OR remove the free FoP from the set bonus. That way you still get A FoP, but you don't double up.

Reduce or remove the "bonus" AC and saves from the ring OR reduce or remove the bonus AC and saves from the set.

Possible Power compensation
If the ring loses the bonus AC and Saves, since the rings will be numbered, consider allowing the Ring to get access to Eldrich Sublcasses 1/year. This would be a desirable add to let people who missed the boat on the skull to get access to subclasses.

The fun part about Assassin’s Crossbow is the 3x crit. Can we find a way to keep that, even if it is limited to Rogue only?

Endgame wrote: More detailed feedback on several tokens.

Ring of the Sacred Circle

Problem Statement
The Ring will boost AC, Saves, and for multiple classes add FOPs, which is additive to the set bonus. This means when added with another Arcanum set item, we're seeing multiple relic items consolidated into a single slot, and are likely pushing the values too high with too small of a slot commitment.

Let's look at Arcanum shirt + Sacred Circle w/ set. We get

+2 melee hit
+2 damage w/ melee and thrown weapons
+2 ranged hit
+5 Ref Save
+5 Fort Save
+5 Will Save
+5 AC
14 HP
+2 FoP
+1 level

In 2 items, we get a level, nearly a legendary cloak, nearly a legendary ring in AC (Rolland's), nearly a legendary ring in ref (Khing's), and the the extra add on in Level, HP, FOP, and hit / damage. These bonuses will be very common going forward and we have to consider the ramifications of giving out lots of Saves, ACs, and FoPs in future runs.

Possible Solution
Cut the CHA bonus from the ring, OR remove the free FoP from the set bonus. That way you still get A FoP, but you don't double up.

Reduce or remove the "bonus" AC and saves from the ring OR reduce or remove the bonus AC and saves from the set.

Possible Power compensation
If the ring loses the bonus AC and Saves, since the rings will be numbered, consider allowing the Ring to get access to Eldrich Sublcasses 1/year. This would be a desirable add to let people who missed the boat on the skull to get access to subclasses.

+1 to all of this.

I've been saying this in previous threads. The Ring is too good. But then add in the set bonus and OMG, all of that is just insane. I'm suprised more people aren't saying anything about this. Maybe they are too focused on the legendary transmuted tokens.

The ring needs to be changed and the set bonus needs to be changed. I've posted before what I think they should be.

Prefer to get rid of the crossbow and have a relic strength belt since it been 14 years since one can be crafted.