Purple items

[Torquemadada]

Every purple items I've found are worse than the blue ones...They have terrible penalties.
One is -30 stamina.
Another -25 life.
And last but not least -20% xp.
So what are they good at ?

[^7ja^1co]

I suppose it depends on your build , you would need to find an item that has combination of really good buff with a penalty you can live with

[marmih]

some are worse than others, that's true. one that decreases equip load is not too bad. the loss of gold upon death is also okay. less XP is not too bad compared to the others tbh. the worst one i've experienced is "loss stamina on damage taken", cause it means loss of ALL stamina. so not only do you get hit, you're also about to die cause you can't doge away or block lol.
i do feel like some of the buffs on purple items should be higher

[craftz]

Same I have only one with %30 focus gain and -%6 xp penalty. Decreased load also viable but others sux. I also see no point to use them right now. They need higher stats.

[Naandayo]

Theyre supposed to be double edge swords - meaning they have good and bad aspects to them, that make the playstayle more interesting. I finished act1 with twin daggers that gave plague damage, but also gave me it - its about weighing up the trade off with other items in your build

[N5O1]

Originally posted by Rotor:

Every purple items I've found are worse than the blue ones...They have terrible penalties.
One is -30 stamina.
Another -25 life.
And last but not least -20% xp.
So what are they good at ?

what the problem with those debuffs?
-25% HP is fine, you now can get not 4 hits but 3.
Situation with Stamina is worse, but I spend SP to stamina anyway, so it won't affect too much (my build at least)
-xp.. it's scary only if you are dying, which is very hard to do, only if you not in harry and don't jump from another cliff