POE unique in a nutshell
" what is a build then? isnt a build choosing what type of stats you want youre character to have? evasion/ hp/ energy shield/ low life increase dmg passives, elemental dmg passives etc, more frenzy for more dodge (darkray for exemple) etc etc. those are just an example. |
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" I see things the exact oppposite. Uniques are boring. So extremely boring, that they might be the least interesting part of the game. Oh Joy! A Unique Item! You can wear it just like thousands of other people are wearing that near-identical "unique" item! There's nothing "unique" about them -- except perhaps the relative ego size of it's original creator. Rare items take a lot more personal investment within the game to make strong/powerful, and are much more individualistic. You haven't grown attached to any rares because you have yet to make yourself a nice one. When 10+ Eternals are involved trust me, it's not "completely replaceable" (at least not in Hardcore/ONS)...wheras conversely, even a 6L shavronnes is replaceable. More often than that you end up with something far more unique than any actual "unique" item when creating something nice as a rare. Last edited by tikitaki#3010 on Sep 16, 2013, 10:06:36 AM
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" In regards to them not actually being unique, and more in the lines of "fabled" or "storied" or even "famous" items, I get your drift. In regards to them being less interesting because of their similarity, I would disagree. The full moon is not less enchanting than a random cluster of stars. Familiarity and Difference are just sides of the same coin. Rares remind me of teenagers "trying to be different like everyone else." That isn't to say a rare can't be a very useful and cherished item. However, if it lacks some special quality that very rarely see, it isn't really any more rare than uniques are unique. What makes uniques endearing and desired, imo, is the unusual capabilities combined with enough predictability to allow players to plan around them. For example, imo - if rare gloves could roll 700-1000% phys dmg so long as the player was unarmed, Facebreakers would be completely uninteresting, even if they had better rolls and dropped far less often. What might be fun is if there were some sort of exalted/imbue option (char bound to prevent exploiting)that would let you completely name your rare item and give it a seventh stat (randomly chosen from prefixes and suffixes. Perhaps the item could be scoured back to white+zero sockets and the name would stay fixed (along with character binding) and the extra affix slot would remain as the first transmutation roll. "The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games." - Eugene Jarvis PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910 Last edited by DalaiLama#6738 on Sep 18, 2013, 5:37:15 AM
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" Swords are exualy the one weapon that can have resolute technique without taking the keynode, if i am interpreting the keynodes right you can have a 100% chance sword attacks can't be blocked. It's very interesting but i dont have the wealth to make a hc build around it. This is going from the assumption "swords attacks cannot be blocked" doesn't imply enemy's with shield alone, but all forms of block (like evasion) Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
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There are only 2 OP uniques in PoE and just one of them could enable a build.
Items like soul taker or thunders are not OP, just good and nothing more than that. Actually uniques in this game are nothing special and most of high lvl well geared players prefer rares, for a reason. What all the fuss is about? This is a buff © 2016
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" This is why I think The Goddess Scorned is a great example of good unique design. It's powerful for a lot of builds when you get it, and the more you use it, the more you need to build around it for it to remain viable to use. But it still remains viable, never becoming a "trash" unique because of how well it scales. |
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" Any Diablo fanboy or fangirl EVER |
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Am I the only one that appreciates a useless but thematic unique?
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" only if the item is not useless too... OH THE TALE OF THE GREAT BLA BLA BLA, THIS IS HIS SWORD... which cant kill a fucking monster pass a1... ZiggyD is the Labyrinth of streamers, some like it, some dont, but GGG will make sure to push it down ur throat to make you like it
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" Maybe that is why PoE sometimes feels like a trading game instead of a ARPG. Crafting doesn't exist in POE. Gambling does...and the house always wins.
Velocireptile - I LOL'ed. Which made me fart. I wish the office were empty right now :( Hardlicker - I had to push the dog out of the way so I could get to the sexy quilt. |
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