Whats your most disliked unique item?

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nononononono wrote:

That unique strand map.

I see your Whakawairua Tuahu and raise you Pillars of Arun

Wurm's Molt leather belt. Whenever a unique leather belt drops I hold my breath for obvious reasons, but in most cases it's the freaking Wurm's Molt.

This one where the hardcore-players told GGG they need it or else they die from not having chaosresists while beeing a spellcaster, in meleerange. They also forgot to put accidentaly any points in Life and then had the audacity to reserve all of the only defense they had. Then expected to be the Tank while beeing the Damagedealer. And then they also had every Aura switched on.
Now they campaign for hard(stiff) mode.


Additional nominations would be Uniques with keystones, as keystones are a quick and easy way to meta balance the game. These items provide zero itemstability.


Best Unique is still Wisdom Scrolls, totally obsolete because the few doubledup items where you could get excited identifing already spoiler the art.

Three Step Assault.

I don't even know the stats. Their artwork is so off that I just don't look at their stats.

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Exile009 wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

For example, the backstory of Myrmi's items was as I recall quite sad.

Which items are those?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/993539/page/8#p8429472

Amusingly found that link in another of my posts discussing Myrmi's woes.

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Somehow I forgot HoGM which was frankly a waste of 500 USD imo but I guess as I said I didn't want to make it personal. My most disliked unique wasn't about me. It was about the health of PoE and the repercussions of everything Swraps ushered in.

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Headhunter is a true chase item in its design. By the time you get one you should already not need it. Naturally GGG pandered to demand here and made it too easy to get and what should have been a gimmick became to many an essential. But it also came years and years after GGG lost their way with item balance so I don't really dislike it. It is what it is.

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Most disliked unique based solely around the 2d art? Dude. That's harsh.

But hey if we are playing that game, anything that resembles torn flesh or cured human skin. Unpleasant at the best of times -- but in a game that consciously channels visual atrocities from a culture known to make human skin items? Just fucking gross.


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Wurm's Molt is a fucking excellent unique. Low level reliable power in the vein of Pelta Lunata from D2 or Crest of Perandus in Wraeclast. Since HH was much harder to acquire in PoE when i quit, I had no idea that people were finding Wurm's Molt thinking it might be HH. And now you see why I was so vehemently against GGG allowing more than one unique per base item UNLESS the means of acquisition is not through looting. Also, I showed how easy it is to simply make a new base item name for a unique, so other than to fuck with people, there is absolutely no need to do unique double ups.

Especially in a game with paid supporter uniques. Creating a situation in which a person's beloved unique design is perceived as 'trolling' because it WASN'T a much stronger item designed by the devs themselves was one of GGG's most insidious moves imo. "Thanks for your thousand dollars, here's a bunch of titles, a tshirt, and long term humiliation."

Probably have to go with Cameria's Maul.

Don't get me wrong, I've even used the maul on shit characters to level with.

I've been to the Mall of America and seen the eyeball in his pocket firsthand. (It's on a pedestal in the giant lego store) Did my share of hanging around the WOTC store and late nights cycling home in the dark on Old Shakopee Road with a tray of burgers and strawberry shakes balanced on my handlebars. Been there, had the grand tour.

I can't embrace the joke, sorry. my heart so broken from so many gavel jebaits in maps....

After that I guess bitterdream but then remember when it gave you a mana leech gem and that wasn't so bad now was it?

I can't really hate Obliterator or the card that is everywhere in delve like confetti in Times Square. It's a cheap lil tool with a nifty poor mans splodey on it.

Shavs is a drag because up until very recently it really was "use this or else" but there's so much chaos mitigation on the tree now, there's hope for folks looking to avoid having to use it or go all-in CI. I think GGG is perhaps aware of the bottleneck Shavs has become, and are doing an end-run around it by broadening the definition of reservations (indirectly) and providing LL some really spectacular tools like petrified blood and reservation masteries.

some other uniques make me mad because they seem to be deliberate trolls but I can't say for sure that's the case, I really don't know. If someone paid good money to have Oppressor in earnest, then it's hard to say they did it entirely to kick little girls in the shins (but it's a possibility, clinical sadism finds a way).

Heh I oh so subtly made reference to that first item...glad someone else went there.

Unlike Infernal Mantle, that hammer was MADE to fuck with people. It's funny because I know for a fact that Chris personally rejected quite a lot of 'troll' item designs and 'negative experience' items early on.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

'negative experience'

Well, if you think about it a little while, it´s a design decision.
There are basically two groups of players, those who enjoy stacking as many of those cheap "unique"-items with various different buildchanging funny ways to play the game.
Lets call them the "NoNo"-people because this category of items isn´t allowed to be stronger than rares and having more than one equipped is a capital sin according to the clergy.

And then you have the powerfull characters that only use well rolled rares which don´t ever have a thread on the forums to respond to.
If he sold it as an "Design a blue mod" decision, there would atleast be water in the gold cup.

It´s physically impossible to not trippleup with "normal/nightmare/hell"-versions once you run out of bases to put brown colour on. Negating 1337 items against each others is impossible. And the early birds in the queue get the privilege to design a quick normal difficulty item. Redesigning already known items on a 3 month cycle to re-adjust the needs of the many would be hell and negative($).

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DoubleU wrote:

HoGM

All unique maps are dated AF like 99% of uniques. Just more sign posts of bloatware this game is now.

Rewards are trash (compared to juiced maps), unchallenging, low HP mobs and boring. HOGM at least puts up a fight. Especially if you don't know some can only be DOT'd because they still have 100% block spell block even though against game rules. Thats the only unique map I'd leave in game.

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crunkatog wrote:

Probably have to go with Cameria's Maul.

Don't get me wrong, I've even used the maul on shit characters to level with.

I've been to the Mall of America and seen the eyeball in his pocket firsthand. (It's on a pedestal in the giant lego store) Did my share of hanging around the WOTC store and late nights cycling home in the dark on Old Shakopee Road with a tray of burgers and strawberry shakes balanced on my handlebars. Been there, had the grand tour.

I can't embrace the joke, sorry. my heart so broken from so many gavel jebaits in maps....

After that I guess bitterdream but then remember when it gave you a mana leech gem and that wasn't so bad now was it?

I can't really hate Obliterator or the card that is everywhere in delve like confetti in Times Square. It's a cheap lil tool with a nifty poor mans splodey on it.

Shavs is a drag because up until very recently it really was "use this or else" but there's so much chaos mitigation on the tree now, there's hope for folks looking to avoid having to use it or go all-in CI. I think GGG is perhaps aware of the bottleneck Shavs has become, and are doing an end-run around it by broadening the definition of reservations (indirectly) and providing LL some really spectacular tools like petrified blood and reservation masteries.

some other uniques make me mad because they seem to be deliberate trolls but I can't say for sure that's the case, I really don't know. If someone paid good money to have Oppressor in earnest, then it's hard to say they did it entirely to kick little girls in the shins (but it's a possibility, clinical sadism finds a way).

That was a troll item. I watched video of maker and he even said was to make ppl look twice when mjolnir was 60ex.