That would totally remove just about all of the strategy in items. No thanks.

If it was a design flaw, I'm sure they would have caught it by now.  I think I remember reading the lead designer on the game talk about this coming up, and them deciding this way opened up more options and play styles.  Personally I prefer it this way.  C'mon, admit it, you want to play a Rook with the two speed boots, the speed cloak, a wand of speed, and the swift anklet favor item.  And if you don't, then you haven't tried it yet

The equipment was designed this way so it was easy to know what to buy. Want more mana? Get helmets. Health? Get Armor. It was a clear design decsion rather than overcomplicate things with silly names. There is no character modification for each item, so who the hell cares if you are wearing 5 helmets or not. This is a video game, not real life.

tl;dr
Stfu, play the game, cry less.

Aha, thank you for the explanation.

But in my mind, as a newbie, it wasn't "easier" at all, because intuitively, I would never had considered trying to buy two weapons or two armors, because of fear that I would loose the first one. It wasn't until I heard from other players that you could do that, that I tried it.

So, at least to me, glyphs would have made more sense. There could have been "combat glyphs", "mana glyphs" and "special glyphs" or something, if they wanted to make understandeable categories.

Sometimes you need to let go of certain types of logic (in particular logic regarding fashion) when playing a video game.

i've learnt to ignore those plebs who can't get my style.

i'm a triple-hatted BAMF, deal with it.

to be honest i do.

there should be a limit to what you can stack on a single demigod, i mean 7k(or more) HP on a rook... dont you think that its abit silly when you can take on 3v1 at the same time?

or atleast make it so that you buy one of each particular item for each slot increasing the stat you want. e.g. if u want mana items you should be able to buy a helm for mana, a chest piece for mana,legs for mana, gloves for mana and a trinket for mana?

How about some magical logic ? 

There magical items and thus have  magical properties having them in a belt tied to your waist would grant the user the game effect . 

Secondly its easy to see somebody wearing three types of chest armor ,  a cloth armor draped over by chain mail , covered up by plate.

As far as the emo foofighter stated Hp stacking is silly , its noticable when a hero is going to stack hp , you gang bang and tag team the crap out of him early keeping his levels low and gold low. Also  there is enough stun and disable if cordinated to lock up almost any hero.   Your fault if you feed the monster , id be much more worried of a well fed Reg then a rook any day over 800dps on reg with mage and askandor and cloak who can smoke your 6k hp in 10 seconds then of a hp stacker.

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