Kedrin
Dalayan Pious Diety
Doing away with the majority of the buffs and the banes would solve the problems too.
Other than destroying class balance even more.
Edit: With the removal of bane.
Doing away with the majority of the buffs and the banes would solve the problems too.
If there was some way to compensate for losing a pretty significant chunk of damage for losing bane sure. It'd probably be easier to just pare down banes by half and then design gear so you'll have 3-4 common ones on gear always and then floater oddball ones for rare stuff.
What about a hunter type npc who can take bane items and break them down and hand you back a bane aug which you can put into the currently unused power source slot. By having a power source with multiple aug slots, you can fit banes into one slot and upgrade when you replace a piece of gear now that you can select which aug to remove.
If not all banes on one power source, having at least 3-5 banes per power source will save a lot of space against the current 1 bane 1 slot system we are working with.