Items giving character abilities
      

  The only reason these were implemented was to change things up, and add more playability to the already stagnant system that D2 had going.That being said the only reason it was stagnant was because the game was what 6 years old at the time?3 1/2?Still, that's quite a long time in game-years. I mean, it *IS* an exciting feature. Build it..
      

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