Why GGG CAN'T CREATE A REALLY GOOD UNIQUE ITEM since beta?

Pull a Charan and make one.

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imLuCaSsS wrote:

I never played D3, but if there unique items is a BIS everywhere, then I may understand why GGG is holding the unique item power.

Been a long time since I've played Diablo 3 myself, but yes - as far as I know, the end game revolves around 99% unique and set items. I may be wrong here, and I am open for people to correct me.

The real name of uniques are Memes.

They will make 100 bad uniques and one decent unique.

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Nubatron wrote:

or had an idea for how to use it

If you want, you can use it as an auctionhouse repellent spray ?
unlimited supply, no prize tag and a easy turnoverrate

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The top1 unique items of this game has been created 5 or 6 years ago. Kaom's heart, belly of the beast, Shavrones.

I am guilty of hypeing those into oblivion. Then i stopped doing that.

I dont know what criteria you have for good uniques but you are just wrong. All of breach uniques were good or great, same with bestiary, incursion, half of delve ones, synthesis were decent. The only kinda iffy i would say were from Harbinger but even those are usefull to some extent.

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Nubatron wrote:

Most uniques have a time and place where they have some use. Some maintain that level of usefulness until end game, some are just lucky drops on the way to help you through a few acts, and others are there to help you twink your next character.

I can only think of one unique that I've never used or had an idea for how to use it, which is this masterpiece (which is more a testament to D2, than an item you would use).

Sidenote....I personally think they should have some side quests/areas that are a bit more involved than things like the Fetid Pool that offer these twink uniques. Something to make new characters/acts more fun at the cost of fast progression.

That helmet was useful for ultra deep delve teams in the past. It was a good combo with gluttony of elements.

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yamface wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

Most uniques have a time and place where they have some use. Some maintain that level of usefulness until end game, some are just lucky drops on the way to help you through a few acts, and others are there to help you twink your next character.

I can only think of one unique that I've never used or had an idea for how to use it, which is this masterpiece (which is more a testament to D2, than an item you would use).

Sidenote....I personally think they should have some side quests/areas that are a bit more involved than things like the Fetid Pool that offer these twink uniques. Something to make new characters/acts more fun at the cost of fast progression.

That helmet was useful for ultra deep delve teams in the past. It was a good combo with gluttony of elements.

Yeah, I do recall that. I guess should have said I didn't know what I would use it for specifically. Delving to insane depths was never interesting to me as it just becomes one shot fest for you and the monsters. Not really fun for me.

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crunkatog wrote:

The worst thing they could do for their business model would be to give players what they want after a reasonable amount of effort and time.

Exactly. This is why companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube went broke long ago. Never give the customer what they want.

Where your comment fails is what is considered reasonable. Let's make it a lot clearer. Imagine if the players had a satisfaction rating they could give for each league (say 1-10). Now imagine that the rule was that GGG employees could only access half of their bank accounts if the player's combined rating was less than 9/10. The players could call the new banking/rating system "Challenging". GGG employees would scream and howl about how unfair it was.

People aren't really asking for the game to be easier, they are just asking for some consistency, and for the game to not intentionally shaft players.

Here's an example - when an item like body armor rolls 2 good resistance mods, why is there almost always a 3rd non resistance suffix? The item may easily have 5 mods, but a third mod that blocks a good set of resists is almost always there. I suspect the game is programmed to intentionally add crap rolls to items with a few really good stats, and isn't random at all.

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crunkatog wrote:

You still play because you're dissatisfied with your current situation and want to improve it. Even an incremental improvement feels amazing but it's incremental - no significant performance improvements allowed here - so you keep pushing.

For some types of players this is true. Other types of players want to play a certain build or in a certain play style and don't care about the power level. Give them a reliable way of farming/crafting items that takes longer than just farming currency and trading, and you haven't broken the game one iota.

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crunkatog wrote:

The minute GGG allowed you to roll consistent 6x T1 modded rares and drop build-defining uniques at every other boss, you'd quit shortly after out of sheer boredom.

That would only happen if the game play itself wasn't exciting. Where are the tier 20 maps? Why does the game still have trash mobs, instead of making the player fight their way through?

Diminishing Returns could fix all of their major balance problems, and allow people to play a wide variety of builds. It would mean uniques wouldn't break the game. GGG could still play the new league meta routine by allowing new skills and new items a less steep diminishing return algorithm. The same thing could apply to maps and drops. It works for everything in the real universe.

The answer is not 42, it is 4.67

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CheLseAxGriNN wrote:

Pull a Charan and make one.

I'm touched that anyone would want to pull a me!

(In a number of ways, some of which I'll keep to myself.)

All jerks aside, you can't actually buy a unique design anymore, at least not without directly approaching GGG and paying over twice what everyone else did -- all of which I read as an implicit 'fuck off, we're full'. And, as the OP and others have pointed out, unless you really go out of your way to make it stand out, your vanity unique will probably be lost in the insane amount of glut both already in the game and added on a regular basis.

But if anyone were to design a unique, my recommendation is *always* a Map. It's just such a different sort of unique, and the design flexibility is sort of insane. Instead of making an item that only some people might even want to equip, you're creating an experience that very easily can stand out from the crowd because rare Maps come and go so quickly. Also, brainstorming ideas for your little pocket dimension of doom is a fucking blast.

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Nubatron wrote:

I can only think of one unique that I've never used or had an idea for how to use it, which is this masterpiece (which is more a testament to D2, than an item you would use).

Before Delve, this was just an interesting example of what happens when a Diablo 1 player (OG Exile Lachdanan) makes their own unique and wants to pay homage to one (or two) of the more memorable uniques. Not that Gotterdamerung is copyrighted or anything, but "veil of the night" is something of a misnomer. Veils are sexy, alluring, concealing but revealing, and the night, well, sort of the same. This helmet is just a blindfold made of steel that exposes you to the elements for some ridiculous reason. OTOH 'Veil of Steel' is also taken, amusingly by the same D1 base item as Gotterdamerung. They were both Great Helms -- Veil of Steel was the quest version and given to you by the real Lachdanan; Gotterdamerung was just a drop. Also bafflingly, the Veil of Steel *buffed* your resistances by 50%, which in D1 was extremely high -- I think only the Constricting Ring topped that, and it came with a constant self-DoT.

I had a light-reduction unique at discussion with Design phase for a little while -- I really wanted to create something (likely a hood) that gave you serious melee damage buffs and reduced chance to be hit at the cost of light radius -- you know, basic stealth approach. This actually worked with Gotterdamerung in D1, as light radius dictated monster awareness, which was brilliant and made for some surprisingly fun tactical approaches to an otherwise straightforward game. But as it turns out, every idea I came up with was too easily broken because, shock and horror and gasp, PoE's idea of 'melee' is fuuuuuucked. ^_^

some of the player uniques are truly a cut above though Charan and I think are probably worth the effort if you have a good enough idea.

I know sire of shards was done by a pleb and I think that is about the coolest unique in the game, its a real boon that its there.

Meanwhile whoever made hallowed ground only wanted players to suffer!