Why unique items are so useless?..

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Fruz wrote:

Because Tabluta carries you all the way to level 90 easiler, even in HC.
This item is fucking stupid to be honest, it trivializes most content until red maps and makes everything boring because other non 6L choices just simply suck in most cases until the (map/delve) content gets scarry.

There is more powerful stuff than tabula but the issue will get resolved automatically in POE 2.

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Reinhart wrote:

There is more powerful stuff than tabula

There is nothing as easy to get + powerful + usable with all skills as Tabula rasa.

There are 2 ways to build a unique:

1. Give them credits for.
2. Decide whether you want to go for a "valuable"(in a tradebased game lol) or for a,
lets call it "i-value" (imaginary-value that has a lot of combinationabilty with future added mechanics/items)

The later is a little bit trickier as you don´t know the amount of negative Resistances added to the game, the former is a question of how many players you want to have a chance of using it.

I welcome the fact that there are still combinations out there which are not public knowlegde, this way players can discover and devs can recover from the endless abyss of nerfing again.

Sharing Knowledge is dividing Power

Goldrim-Tabula-Wonerlust meta is example of uniques that have its place in PoE, definitely if you are playing in challenge leagues. These are readily available and affordable items that will greatly improve your speed and comfort of leveling your characters. You can get better or more specialized items but they are much harder to get than the aforementioned combo.

However, uniques should not be relegeted just to helping you level your characters faster. I'm not saying uniques are all useless but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there is just too many useless ones.

My suggestion to improve uniques is to fully focus on their uniqueness and come up with mods that are trully only available on this type of items. This is the only way to compete with all those new mods that can appear on rare items, be it incursion gear or latest influenced gear from 3.9. I liked what Syndicate did with certain uniques that had veiled mods, this was good move that could make those uniques attractive. GGG should redo uniques to fully embrace their build-enabling potential. Uniques should be powerful to a point where you could introduce restriction on how man pieces of gear you wear.

Sad state of uniques is the fact that some unique specific mods were added into general item tables -> no longer feel unique.

Unfortunately that is one of the powercreep aspects in PoE - rare items are getting stronger and stronger through various means while uniques remain the same or they add new ones with questionable usefulness / specific usecase only.

Take the new The Saviour sword. It's unique, strong as fck, yet some mirror tier stuff in Standard that will be crafted with double influence for 5000-10000 exalted orbs will be more potent.

And i would say it is almost guaranteed to get the clones mod into regular mod pool within 2 years anyway, making this sword basically meaningless as boss drop.

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Fruz wrote:

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Reinhart wrote:

There is more powerful stuff than tabula

There is nothing as easy to get + powerful + usable with all skills as Tabula rasa.

there are two problems with tabula: it's far too common and it's obtainable/wearable too early.

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vio wrote:

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Fruz wrote:

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Reinhart wrote:

There is more powerful stuff than tabula

There is nothing as easy to get + powerful + usable with all skills as Tabula rasa.

there are two problems with tabula: it's far too common and it's obtainable/wearable too early.

imo they should change tabula into something like

-more common,rnd number of sockets and links and has the item mod "only rolls white sockets"

or

-same droprate or slightly more common,always 6 sockets,rnd of links and has the item mod "only rolls white sockets"

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ciel289 wrote:

imo they should change tabula into something like

-same droprate or slightly more common,always 6 sockets,rnd of links and has the item mod "only rolls white sockets"

That one is a good idea. They could add a hidden mod "has 40% additional quality" that doesn't show too. It'd make it possible to link while still going through the act, and basically guaranteed once you're into mapping.

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BloodPuddles420 wrote:

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ciel289 wrote:

imo they should change tabula into something like

-same droprate or slightly more common,always 6 sockets,rnd of links and has the item mod "only rolls white sockets"

That one is a good idea. They could add a hidden mod "has 40% additional quality" that doesn't show too. It'd make it possible to link while still going through the act, and basically guaranteed once you're into mapping.

i doubt we will the any changes to tabula until poe 2
in poe2 the socket/link system changes,so its simply not worth changin anything right now just to change it again in poe 2

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ciel289 wrote:

i doubt we will the any changes to tabula until poe 2
in poe2 the socket/link system changes,so its simply not worth changin anything right now just to change it again in poe 2

Indeed. Hardly anyone will be using tabula anyway in POE 2. It will become an item of the past.