Is it possible to make an endgame viable build with no uniques?
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Except maybe the unique jewels you get from quest rewards (for what they're worth).
I may well be wrong, but it seems to me that any decent endgame build has to rely on some gimmick from a unique, be it damage conversion (Voltaxic/Consuming Dark/etc), charge shenanigans (Romira's/Voll's Protector/etc), or some other extra feature you can't get from rares (Mjolner/Bino's/etc). I'm sure it's possible to have a build that mechanically works, but would it have the DPS/clearspeed/survivability if all you're limited to are the basic rules of the game, without the uniques to hijack them? Last bumped on May 24, 2016, 9:13:55 PM
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A viable physical crit bow build can be done without any unique. Mine use only Atziri's Step as unique but I could certainly run without them, and she's lvl 95.
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Rares are better, stat wise, than uniques. If you are not using an specific property of an unique then a full rare build would be better than one with uniques.
Most Uniques are cheaper than a good rare, that's one of the main reason people use them. Last edited by Adser on May 24, 2016, 2:27:11 PM
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I run 93 ele ranger, atm I try her with just MF boots and Rat's nest for uniques. If I took bit more crit*, I'd be perfectly fine without it. Its "endageme" is atm pretty much every rare t9 and fairly easy t10, but I didn't even properly started with her too.
tl;dr. Althought I heaven't been there yet, I'm sure that it is. * I don't even have cc roll on ammy, half of my gems are without q and 20lvl, plus there are in my setup because they was what I found in stash (Setup is as it is because I burned all chromes I needed 1blue, 1 red, rest green and had some of these in stash. Theorycrafting at its best). Definitely possible. I didn't make any andescency maze so far, too. It's scary. Burn all the orbs! Last edited by skuadak on May 24, 2016, 2:31:53 PM
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Uniques are mostly build-enabling. There are lots of builds that would suck without uniques.
However, it is really easy to make a build that doesn't need any uniques. It would just limit your choices. Face it, all of your suggestions are worse than this idea:
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Yeah, sure you can! Pretty much any melee skill can be made to work just fine without uniques. The same for pretty much any bow build. I can't help you with spells since I tend not to play casters that much.
Uniques to me are mostly for leveling and if I make a build that relies on a specific property of some unique(s). Until some leagues ago I played only self-found and because of that nearly all characters I had used rares (and even blues!) only. Sometimes I got lucky and found a usable unique, and that was great of course. But overall I was doing fine with gear that most people would just vendor. Granted, it could be argued that a build without uniques would be restricted, or inferior if you like. This may well be true. But viable? Sure, no argument there. |
