Old uniques are becoming obsolete

The purpose of all those uniques is to drive the chaos orb economy. If the unique is INTERESTING enough for somebody to want to play around with (because remember this is a GAME after all) then those who are willing to put them up for sale rather than instantly vendor just might end up getting 10s and 100s of extra chaos orbs in exchange for a little bit of time.

This also makes the game more of a choose your own adventure if you are the person doing the buying. Rather than relying on RNG soley.

That said, I don't think there are many useless uniques in the game % wise. if there are 1000 uniques I'd say that 300 of them dont' have a space whre they shine at doing much of anything. And 700 interesting -> good -> necessary uniques out 1000 isn't bad at all. It's pretty stellar actually

Like these uniques on my current character. I have no idea whether they are going to work. But it was fun researching them and putting them together. I got the chest just because it was a unique item with +40 int on it. How perfect for what I'm trying to do atm.



Oh yeah and also I PoeBuilder some old uniques like mortem morseu or whatever those claws are and they can do millions of dps because of the newer mechanics that have been introduce since their initial release

Power creep's been a constant in Path of Exile.

I remember the furore when your boots were announced.

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Skyforth wrote:

more and more obsolete with each patch :(

Hey, your shoes will always have a place in my heart for aurabot builds.

Thank you for convincing GGG to put so much reduced mana reservation on em.



Bless.

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Zionyaru wrote:

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Skyforth wrote:

more and more obsolete with each patch :(

Hey, your shoes will always have a place in my heart for aurabot builds.

Thank you for convincing GGG to put so much reduced mana reservation on em.

Bless.

i want that changed >:c

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Astasia wrote:

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caboom wrote:

uniques should fall into 2 categories

first is build enablers. Uniques like whispering ice, facebreaker, pillar of the caged god,etc...

second ones are min-max uniques, They have one or two monster mods and plenty of drawbacks to avoid making it a no brainer. kaoms heart comes to mind, It gives more health than any rare chest will ever give but in exchange you loose sockets and other mods making it a hard choice for most builds.

uniques that dont belong to those 2 categories will either be worst than rares and as a result vendor trash like many of the so called "leveling uniques" or better than rares in wich case they become overpowered and a no brainer for most builds.

I'm not sure "build enabler" is a good selling point these days. There are so many skill gems and viable builds that you don't need a fancy item to get more options.

A unique being a no-brainer BiS isn't an issue because you still have to get that unique. It's not like because an item exists you automatically have it and there's no point in playing. I've never seen 90% of the "chase" uniques in this game drop, after like 1000 hours played, giving me strong items to look forward to dropping in a game about looting drops is not a bad thing.

Have you not seen the millions of Auction House threads where do EXPECT to have access to whatever item/consumable they want, when they want, and without wasting a single second of their time.

Do you not see the vitriol from the entitled masses when a perceived BiS item; headhunter, is not available to everyone. There is the assumption that since every other game has allowed them to cake walk their way to victory that this one must do so as well. This is the standard way of the thinking of the entitled.

I’m glad GGG effectively tells those people to pound sand. I just wish they did more forcefully so they took their toxic attitudes with them to another game.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Still never had your boots drop.

Same here.