What are most interesting / powerful rebalanced Uniques?

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Brutus' Lead Sprinkler: No longer has Added Fire Damage against Ignited enemies. Now Adds 2-4 Fire Damage to Attacks per 10 Strength.

Strength based HoWA! On an 8% crit weapon! Raw damage will probably be lower, but with the extra crit and possibility of ignite scaling it will be very strong and possibly contend with HoWA builds. Plus, it's a weapon you can easily level with and doesnt need to be upgraded etc, so should be a lot easier to obtain (unless they make it rarer to balance the strength).

With the high crit, Inquisitor is an obvious choice for high dps, but Chieftain with it's strength and fire scaling could also be viable, especially for a tankier char in HC.

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Mannoth wrote:

Wearing Marylene's Fallacy makes critical strikes actually feel like critical strikes I guess?
High damage burst hits that sometimes happen, not all the time.

Just run it with ice spear its nice having 7x and above crits all day ^^ but like you say could be pretty big for bleed or ignite where only the biggest one applies.

Most OP changes to me looked like

Covenant
Incandescent Heart
Brutus's Sprinkler + Geoffri's + Shaper's touch changes are superb for str stacking, it was just about viable last time with the values doubled and better synergy that could be huge.
Daresso's Courage is pretty big if you play aggressively enough to block often

Brinerot Mark: No longer is supported by level 15 Concentrated Effect. No longer is supported by level 15 minion life. Increased Spell Damage mod increased to 20-25%. Increased Level of Socketed Golem Gems increased to +3. Now socketed golem gems have +25% buff effect. Now socketed golem gems have 20% of golem life added as Energy Shield.

So why people think that ES is not added to the golem but the player?

The description is not so confusing you see

I think new Shaper's Touch + Geofri's Chest opens up some interesting possibilities. MoM anyone?

Brutus Sprinkler won't compete with HoWa. 2-4 Fire damage per 10 STR with 1000 STR is just 200-400 damage. You would have to work hard to get this weapon into serious action. It's not that impressive compared to new staff or this Flicker Strike sword.

Oh, forgot that one can dual wield them for 400-800 Fire damage with 1000 STR. It's not bad actually :)

Incandescent Heart is gonna be pretty good indeed. :P

Tarttycat, who think so?

You can dual wield them.
It kinda acts like HoWa.
Brutus' Lead Sprinkler x 2 + Geofri's Sanctuary + Shaper's Touch is super high on both damage and EHP.

* Edge of Madness is really strong now, especially for Viper Strike (+ Cherrubim)
* Belt of the Deceiver is too strong for double dipping builds (Intimidate makes ennemies take 10% increased damage)
* Jorrhast now allows to cast Animate Weapons ala CoMK (Dominating Blow ?)
* Thief's Torment allows some MoM builds to be broken sustain wise (Barrage with 5 attacks per second and 10 projectiles ? That's 3K HP/1,5K mana per second per ennemy of sustain, not bad)
* Dyadus items got huge buffs, rendering them viable (finally)
* Covenant and Incandescent Heart as mentionned above.
* Hrimsorrow and even moreso Hrimburn are more than decent (but i dislike the added damage part, not good with EE sadly)
* Chernobog gets really decent with added damage and higher proc chance.
* Fidelitas' Spike can some really nice uses on a HoT centric build.
* And many many MANY others.

Those are the ones i'm already theorycrafting around :)

I like what happened to Kikazaru ring:

40% reduced effect of curses on you (up from 20%) - that's lots of QoL when mapping, temporal chains curse almost not noticable, easier to overcap resists, other curses less obnoxius
1 Life Regeneration per Second per Level - it's obscure but I found MoM + EB + ZO combo beneficing heavily from high flat life regen, which is what this ring now delivers

so your saying im going to have to actually look at uniques this league?

welcome change

Ming Heart: Reduced Maximum Life mod is now 10%. Reduced Energy Shield mod is now 10%.

now I want to dual Ming's Heart for Deep Penetration with my next EK Poison build

Shappers seed got buffed to 4% regen total low life RF never looked so good imo.

Shapers Touch + Geofris is absolutely insane. There are so many nice things that scale with strength.
Scale strength and you get:

double dip % Dmg from Doon Cuebiyari
inc. % ES from Shapers
base ES from Geofri
base life
melee dmg or Spell/Proj with Iron Will/Grip

you can basically scale everything you need in this game with one single stat.


Here a little example on a 2000 strength Scion.