Early Access Discussion - Legendry Items Are Mostly Trash in Poe 2 - Forum

" lupasvasile#5385 wrote: UNIQUE items in POE work differently than in other games. You generally have 3 types: leveling, normal, and end game. Leveling ones are used in the campaign until you find good rares. General ones can be used whenever you have a use for them. End game are good at defining your specific build. On top of that almost all of them need planing to use them right. Since they all have some sort of specific mechanic, you have to build around it. If you're creative, and smart enough, you can use low lvl leveling uniques in the end game. This is not Diablo IV where legendaries drop like candy and you only use them. In POE you're meant to use 1 or 2 in your build, maybe 3 for some niche build. Rare items will always be the best items outside of that specific Unique that enables your build. As their names imply: they are UNIQUE items; their use is up to your creativity. just to be clear, i have put in about total hours 2170 hours POE 1 and 322 hours in POE 2, and i would still say that uniques are underwhelming in both. Poe 1 has more, however more doesn't mean better. (that is what D4 did i dislike it.) but the lack what you can do with the gear is what bothers me. Uniques should be something that you can build around, unfortunately in POE 2 most Uniques are worthless with no bearing on game play past early game. what im wanting is to allow the player to either make a really great unique or to brick the item, and you could limit what could go on the uniques so that it doesn't have every mod, but i would argue it would expand the rang of game play. (I also believe that allowing people to mod the gear is in line with the (BUILD YOUR WAY) thought process of GGG)	Posted by Singullarityy#7852 on Jan 13, 2025, 12:30:44 PM Quote this Post
So is the consensus then that the majority of uniques are only for early game and largely unattractive for mid-game to end-game use? That's certainly how I see it. I personally do not like this style of uniques. In D2 you used to get that rush out of finding a unique but in this game it's like 'does it fit into my collection i'll never use'? Finding a unique should be more valuable than salvaging to make 1ex.	Posted by MOZZIE#1849 on Jan 13, 2025, 1:33:43 PM Quote this Post
" MOZZIE#1849 wrote: So is the consensus then that the majority of uniques are only for early game and largely unattractive for mid-game to end-game use? That's certainly how I see it. I personally do not like this style of uniques. In D2 you used to get that rush out of finding a unique but in this game it's like 'does it fit into my collection i'll never use'? Finding a unique should be more valuable than salvaging to make 1ex. i honestly couldn't agree more.	Posted by Singullarityy#7852 on Jan 13, 2025, 10:57:24 PM Quote this Post