Shaper unique drops

Speculating they will be like Uber atziri, where 1 is super rare, like the gloves, 1 is rarish and completely guts the incentives to craft <insert weapon type> (likely not a bow, likely not a 2h axe.. probably a dagger or wand) because of how good it will be. The others will be vendor trash because they'll be so common.

any other thoughts

People will complain. That's the only thing we know for sure.

That's the route they took with the Pale Council too right? Seems reasonable to expect more of the same. Although I think they said only 12 (?) uniques were boss gated. But there are 5 bosses. So that math isn't quite apples to apples with some of what we've come to expect. It could be that none of the uniques drop all that frequently and these things are going to be unicorns.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

People will complain. That's the only thing we know for sure.

This. So much of this

I think (hope)the uniques are all useful. To me, it seems it will be harder to farm for the T16 guardians and shaper maps than it is to farm for Atziri/Uber Atziri. I would be very surprised to see people doing dozens of runs a day like with uber since it's not farmable through easy/quick content nor can it be bought cheaply from everyone like current sets.

i hope it is a wand,only good unique wand atm is void battery(that i can remember of).

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marcos459 wrote:

i hope it is a wand,only good unique wand atm is void battery(that i can remember of).

Wow, I just realized on how many spell dagger uniques there are compared to spell wands (in terms of good ones). 3 good spell daggers, 2 good phys daggers, at least 4 phys wands (most people still use obliteration anyway) and only 2 noticeable spell wands, one of them being Lifesprig, a freaking lvling wand.

A gimmicky spell wand would be a nice change indeed.

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Shaper himself will probably be extremely difficult to get to, and that's ignoring the monster level/difficulty. You need to drop four T16 maps before being able to access him! That's pretty funny.

Everyone speculating on "ruining" their Atlas by unlocking it all is going to have a much harder time reaching the Shaper since they'll lack all that juicy IIQ it gives. Unless GGG stealth buff map drops. But that's doubtful.

My speculation is that Shaper's 4 unique items will be more powerful than Uber Atziri's. Mostly because GGG want players to try to reach him. If they're not (at a minimum) as powerful as Uber Atziri's drops, he will be ignored in favor of Uber Atziri, who can be more reliably farmed.

We'll see once Standard gets the level 100 character chaining high tier maps and rushing to explore Shaper's secrets. I expect we'll know how difficult he is and what he drops three weeks into Atlas' launch.

^I expect we know at day 3 of AoW release.

Standard people are going to rush the poor fucker and make him explode.

Peace,

-Boem-