Lets talk about a sword design mainly starforge.

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Xavderion wrote:

Mathil is making a Starforge build right now so hang on and sell for 20 ex in a couple of days lul.

i am almost positive that he is of the opinion that dream feather is better than starforge and nothing is going to touch what he did with glyph mark prism.

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RagnarokChu wrote:

Even with lacerate the 20% is completely unneeded since you would play a slayer that would have free splash or massive AoE anyway.

Or, you may pick another class.
I play Slayer, and i want to say - "massive AoE" isnt his main feature even!

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Starforge completely design completely limits it's build to 1 or 2 two builds, while disfavor can be used with many different builds + more build defining.

Disfavour is optimal only for Cyclone builds, or EQ+bleed builds. For others, it's just a weapon with "big DPS number", no more.
Starforge is also optimal for few builds only, and will be just a "big DPS" stick for others.
What's wrong with that? It's unique weapon, after all - it shouldnt overshadow rares for most builds!

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grepman wrote:

both this sword and disfavour (and hegemonys era as well) are disbalanced uniques because uniques arent supposed to be better than most rares (not counting mirror-worthy standard items)
why would you play any other sword than this sword or any other axe than disfavour or any other staff than heges ?

Sadly, it's true. Rolling good physical weapons became almost impossible due to rarity of T1-T2 physical mods. Build with those weapons arent OP as fuck ONLY because melee skills in PoE are too weak compared to spells, totems, etc.