What sort of Unique Effects?
These will need to be truely impressive to make these anything other than a complete waste of time.
Especially Khari weapons, the recipes for which are Rng gated as is the material to make them, at the end of the longest dungeon in the game.
What sort of super power would justify all that hassle?
Obsidian is in a very similar boat in that it is a pain to get. Not as bad as Khari steel, but still a massive annoyance to farm.
Were you planning on allowing the Player to craft Black Ice weapons at home with a smith?
Dragonbone gear is all gated behind being able to craft weapon handles, a restriction Hardened Steel lacks. Would you also remove this restriction? Or add the weapon handle restriction to Hardened Steel gear?
So, the Unique drops would be universally worse than the dreck that has been crafted since level 30 something?
Again, we enter why bother terrain. Especially as they cannot be dismantled, these run the risk of being just trash cluttering an inventory.
The ability that most legendaries have is being a big ole stat stick.
The glowing property is weak enough as is, diluting it would make it not noticable compared to the new personal innate light.
Light weight, but not as light as Baal’s? Sorry, that sliver of weight is not going to matter.
Severe is a legendary trait, and very useful, because it is super cripple. Water it down and it’s just cripple… Meh.
The only potentially useful trait would be using a different stat than the usual stat.
Now we are talking!
Nevermind. Pointless time sink is pointless.
Unless one of the legendaries is a Bow that shoots actual explosive jars, there is no way it would be worth the effort in PvP. That time is better spent making IEDs. Especially now that there are no Godbubbles to save anything.
In PvE, the only real utility would be the adventure to acquire it and then leave it hanging on a wall as a trophy, too rare and precious to risk using, because once gone it could take years to acquire again.
Give each Legendary it’s own specific formula of boss harvests and rare materials, then this is a grand idea.
The bigger the effort, the less tolerable RNGesus crapping on someone is.