New Orb, a smart and needed one

Ive been looking and asking for this thing and it seems it dont exist. It would be nice to have such Orb, especially for Low level Unique items. Heres an example
Love the Phyz dmg% and Life, but because its low level, the Def% on that low def makes its worse and worse over progression and that Cannot evade amplifies the need for Def.

To those who dont understand, this orb would only upgrade the base item (def for armor, x-x dmg for weapons. Stats dont get touched

Items are generated in difficulty series just like in Diablo 2 ( normal, exceptionnal and Elite). And it would be fun to bring a normal unique to an exceptionnal one, because as Brother Laz said :http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/laz-discussed-his-work-on-path-of-exile-items-median-xl-and-diablo-3-items On the 5th question, unique items have stats that cant be found anywhere else in the game, it would be sad to waste such stats that can be usefull at anylevel only because the base item is a ''normal'' quality one and has a low base def that dont change with the quality %


to those who will whinne about '' Unique items are unique, they are meant to be unique and not be changed'' ... there is Mirror of Kalandra

Trouble with this is when you get uniques (especially weapons) that are designed to be overpowered at their level, with the assumption that the character will eventually outgrow them.

Bringing those up to endgame, while appealing in principle, would in practice make for a lot more disappointing drops ("Meh, it's a sword. I've already got Tipua").

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Skivverus wrote:

Trouble with this is when you get uniques (especially weapons) that are designed to be overpowered at their level, with the assumption that the character will eventually outgrow them.

Bringing those up to endgame, while appealing in principle, would in practice make for a lot more disappointing drops ("Meh, it's a sword. I've already got Tipua").

Oh ya i didnt notice, some items arent designed and scaled for this...

-maybe have items scaled i.e.: so instead of +256ed% its +20-100 dmg
-Limit the number of Upgrades so a normal type item cant be upgraded to the final tier

anyway unique item stats that arent % are scaled to the level of the item, so the non-% value will always be higher for higher ilvl uniques (i.e.: Tipua +4-8 fire compared to Shiversting +35-70 cold) it bring somehow more diversity to itemization (IMO)

Mirrors can't make copies of uniques. So I don't know what you're getting at there. Also, as the other poster said, many uniques you outgrow, or because of how powerful their mods are, or how unique their mods are, there's supposed to be a tradeoff.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Mirrors can't make copies of uniques. So I don't know what you're getting at there. Also, as the other poster said, many uniques you outgrow, or because of how powerful their mods are, or how unique their mods are, there's supposed to be a tradeoff.

didnt know that but still

talking only about armors for now

why not make it something like fuse 2 same items to get 1 of hier tier or do something about the quality% upgrading which at some point improve the tier of the item

Because there's supposed to be a trade off.

Risk vs reward.

Some high tier maligaros defeats this, and everyone would wear it all the time.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Because there's supposed to be a trade off.

Risk vs reward.

Some high tier maligaros defeats this, and everyone would wear it all the time.

Yeah i get the point of tradeoff but still... i believe that it will might be implement someday and that they will have the uniques stats scaled for that purpose before Release.

they have Brother Laz working with them now, as a unique items creator and consultant. Every items were upgradable that way in his modz, which was part of the success