Yeah I agree with most of what you said. Just a few minor points where I differ.
Archers are the first class I think of, 5 out of 6 gifts are fantastic. True Aim and Thunderstroke used to be garbage, but now that they return, both of them are actually a little OP. Even Whirlwind is pretty good, now that we have so many slaying bullets.
The only archer gift I feel dubious about are the boots. As an archer you really want 7lb instead, to keep your distance.
Other classes with mostly great gifts are barbarian, beastfighter, chaos knight, assassin and duelist. Executor is in fact the best gift a duelist can receive, it slays so many things and has great base damage. The cursing is not that big of a drawback when you have intrinsic luck and fate smiles.
Purifier is another gift I would rank as very good. It also has good base damage and slaying powers.
I wonder why you mentioned thief as a class with good gifts? On top of my head they include cat's claw (terrible) and silver key, which does things that common items can do as well.
The best single gift has got to be Justifier for paladins. It has the hidden property that it deals double damage on normal hits when wielded by a paladin, 4x damage on critical hits. Best melee weapon in the game.
Last edited by grobblewobble; 12-24-2018 at 12:45 PM.
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