let's discuss Voidhome

is good for pvp

Piety farming. Bash her to 10% then use

I'm not really convinced it is bad. Yeah it decreases XP-Gain by 40-50%. But that simply means you have to kill twice as much. Exspecially for fresh players getting to Merciless often means that they have a terrible weapon and die a lot. So the XP-Penalty isn't as harsh if the weapon keeps you from dying, because it actually does fairly decent damage.

I used it on one of my chars to progress and yeah I did Cull Merveil, Oversoul etc. with another weapon but the XP penalty isn't as hard as it seems. It would not suggest that weapon as a endgame-weapon but to progress through Merciless quickly, exspecially for newer players it is fine. However the problem is that most of these players are propably alienated by the -XP-Gain and will never use the weapon although they propably lose a lot more XP due to dying, because they don't have a proper weapon.

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johnKeys wrote:

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DirkAustin wrote:

Its for people that want to farm, not for people that need XP.

reduced XP AND reduced rarity.

The reduced rarity is easily overcome, the reduced exp is not. Therefore it is for people who want to farm. It sounds contradictory at first, because how can a weapon that has -rarity be good for farming? It is about clear speed. If you clear the instance much faster with this weapon than you do with your other weapon, then it IS good for farming.

This weapon is excellent for PVP.

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Emphasy wrote:

I'm not really convinced it is bad. Yeah it decreases XP-Gain by 40-50%. But that simply means you have to kill twice as much. Exspecially for fresh players getting to Merciless often means that they have a terrible weapon and die a lot. So the XP-Penalty isn't as harsh if the weapon keeps you from dying, because it actually does fairly decent damage.

I used it on one of my chars to progress and yeah I did Cull Merveil, Oversoul etc. with another weapon but the XP penalty isn't as hard as it seems. It would not suggest that weapon as a endgame-weapon but to progress through Merciless quickly, exspecially for newer players it is fine. However the problem is that most of these players are propably alienated by the -XP-Gain and will never use the weapon although they propably lose a lot more XP due to dying, because they don't have a proper weapon.

to me, the Rarity penalty is worse than the XP one. and both "complete" each other.
Voidhome is a Act3Cruel-level weapon. just the place where you start to feel the fact you are under-geared for the content.
so you need XP because - as a new player - you're constantly dying.
and you need gear - as any player - because monsters hit hard, and the ruthless Path Of Exile RNG is feeding you peanuts at best.
then Voidhome comes in and says "you know what? you get neither! I'll even punish you in both: you'll now need to dumb-farm twice as much for your XP and gear.".

yes I think it's a bad unique - as I hinted in my OP - simply because it's downside is just something you don't do in a game like Path Of Exile.
because it punishes the player, not the character he/she plays.

I'd understand if it was just stupidly powerful, or available for use at level 30ish, or in a game where Magic-Find doesn't mean the difference between survivor and punching-bag.
it's none of the above.

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I_NO wrote:

Lol watch them make it god like in 1.0 :P

1.0's come and gone.

As others have stated, its a great, cheap, easily accessible weapon for pvp. It has pretty amazing dps for how easy it is to find/buy/

Perma-stun attack speed build for PvP?

I see potential