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

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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CheLseAxGriNN wrote:

Pull a Charan and make one.

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

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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.

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DalaiLama wrote:

Gotterdamerung was a must have if you wanted to take on the Angry Diablos in the V&K Hellfire mod. Angry Daiblo did too much damage and had too many HP to just kill - which was what the mod makers Varaya and Khan intended. They had gutted the Nest area for use in other parts of the mod and they didn't want players going in there.

A8 Sirus is a fuzzy teddy bear by comparison to Angry Diablo. The only viable way to defeat them was with a bard with a light radius so small that they couldn't detect you. You then had to wail away on them with enough damage to keep them in stun until they died (which took forever). At the moment, I don't recall why you couldn't do it with a monk or warrior, I just recall the Bard was the only character it was possible with and it took a Gotter and a couple other items, including a source of infravision so you could find the Angry Diablos without bumping into them and dying immediately.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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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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And no, I typically don't respond to 'Charan' anymore. He's just a character. But in this case, you meant me; 'Charan' definitely didn't make the sword. If anything, sort of the opposite ('Wielding Oni-Goroshi made me the man I am today!' [insert severelyscarredperson.gif here]).

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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. ^_^

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Draegnarrr wrote:

Lmao carrion crow was a player designed card? Wow -_- must have been a piece of joke memorabilia where they wanted something they made in the game but didn't want to have any impact apart from players like me moaning about how many bad div cards there are!