Why unique items are so useless?..

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Flying_Mage wrote:

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Uniques aren't like legendary items in Diablo 2. They're unique in that they have unique mods you can't find anywhere else.

However, just because they're unique, doesn't mean they have to be strong.

Idk. It seems totally unintuitive to me.
I see item gradation as normal -> magic -> rare -> unique and expect those uniques to be a top tier items (and some uniques definitely are). But the fact that most uniques here is complete trash and there are tons of them, which kinda ruins whole "unique" thing, is what bothering me.

It is unnatural, but it is just what it is.

Not even item was designed with a vision, and many of these items doesn't make any sense at all and should never have been created. But devs cannot always predict what items are good, sometimes they just create and community finds use, and many of the old crappy ones were made before they had a better skill at making items.

Since then they have chosen to make new items instead of revisiting old.

Here we are today.


OH! And btw i have an improvement. They are not unique because they have unique mods(which they don't always), they are unique because they are uniquely designed as opposed to generic randomly generated items.

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Reinhart wrote:

Uniques seem useless because 99.9 pc of the PoE community is completely clueless how to utilize them. Any kind of community consists for the most part out of sheep which are led by a few wolves. And the sheep all copy eachother without much critical thought.

An example: I got a 'secret' leveling build that utilizes 'vendor uniques' deemed trash that powers through the game and makes a tabula noob look like a weakling.

Tabula noob: Reinhart, can you help me with Malachai? I hardly do any damage to him.

Me: Like 2 3-shot the boss in meta hc.

Good example is the tabula-goldrim-wanderlust combination. Like literally everyone uses it but do they know even why? They don't.

I love having all this powerful stuff for so cheap.

Knowledge is Power.

people are breezing through act bosses wearing blue gear on 3 links, what kind of players you got over there in hc that are struggling in act 4 with a 6 link, 20% movespeed and capped res?

people dont kno why they are using movspeed, a 6 link and resists while levelling in a hc league? i was under the assumption players in hc had played the game before? since when did that stop being the case?

all levelling unique are vendor uniques, tabula is a vendor unique, i vendor every one i find, i literally buy them in trade in order to vendor them for divines as often as i buy divines straight because theyre the same price and more people are selling them at the time.