Unique items don't seem all that unique

It just seems to me that they are really not much better and sometimes not even asd good as rare items...just thinking outloud

My pet peeve with a lot of the uniques is that they are rare, yes, but when you finally find one it has some off the wall stat making it next to unusable. There are few really "unique" items, meaning that when found, makes it stand head and shoulders above the magic/rare versions of it.

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hopr wrote:

It just seems to me that they are really not much better and sometimes not even asd good as rare items...just thinking outloud

Uniques aren't supposed to be best-in-slot. They are, as it's name suggests, unique. Very few uniques are actually best-in-slot. Most uniques are very niche that people build characters around.

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Hrishi wrote:

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hopr wrote:

It just seems to me that they are really not much better and sometimes not even asd good as rare items...just thinking outloud

Uniques aren't supposed to be best-in-slot. They are, as it's name suggest, unique. Very few uniques are actually best-in-slot. Most uniques are very niche that people build characters around.

well they are not really unique, as all of them are the same, but they have unique abilities. i always loved that part about D1 and D2 - the paradox of calling an item unique, when they are the least unique (in the true meaning of the word) items in the game :)

other than that, this

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LazerTechnoBuddha wrote:

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Hrishi wrote:

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hopr wrote:

It just seems to me that they are really not much better and sometimes not even asd good as rare items...just thinking outloud

Uniques aren't supposed to be best-in-slot. They are, as it's name suggest, unique. Very few uniques are actually best-in-slot. Most uniques are very niche that people build characters around.

well they are not really unique, as all of them are the same, but they have unique abilities. i always loved that part about D1 and D2 - the paradox of calling an item unique, when they are the least unique (in the true meaning of the word) items in the game :)

other than that, this

I'm not seeing any real uniques that are niche in any way. Most are the same type of drop that you get from regular, blues or rares.

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hopr wrote:

I'm not seeing any real uniques that are niche in any way. Most are the same type of drop that you get from regular, blues or rares.

Facebreakers?
Asenath's Gentle Touch?
Eye of Chayula?
Victario's Acuity?
Dream Fragments?
Kaoms Sign?
Thief's Torment?
Death Rush?

The list goes on and on.

Unique's as described by Chris Wilson are supposed to usually be in the 90th percentile or below in terms of quality. That means that around 10% of rare items should be better at least. They simply serve the purpose of providing viability to off-builds, or functionality over power. For example, the ability to not be frozen is only on unique items, and could replace a stat like damage, causing it to be different, and perhaps better (or not).

Make you little sense?

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hopr wrote:

Unique items don't seem all that unique

It just seems to me that they are really not much better and sometimes not even asd good as rare items...just thinking outloud

The title is about Uniques being unique. That is different from each other and different from possible rares.

The post only mentions how powerful they are and doesn't talk about uniqueness.

I sort of feel cheated! :(

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hopr wrote:

I'm not seeing any real uniques that are niche in any way. Most are the same type of drop that you get from regular, blues or rares.

There are 147 Uniques. You are saying that most of them are similar to possible rares.

Please list at least 74 Uniques which you feel are too similar to rares to be considered uniques. Or, even 7 non-unique uniques.

you kind of proven my point. I don't consider them "uniques" as much as just better than some rares. Just as rares are better variations of blues and blues are better variations of whites. Unique, in my mind should be items that are totally off the normal path of other items that are available. Not just something better than what is already available. A better description would be extremley rare..not unique

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hopr wrote:

you kind of proven my point. I don't consider them "uniques" as much as just better than some rares. Just as rares are better variations of blues and blues are better variations of whites. Unique, in my mind should be items that are totally off the normal path of other items that are available. Not just something better than what is already available. A better description would be extremley rare..not unique

I listed a few that are totally unique items that enable things that aren't possible through traditional blues/yellows.