Completed 1000 Unique Challenge - Reddit Thread Continuation

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andkamen wrote:

not all items drop from merc Dom, as you mention in the beginning.

There are a bunch of uniques that are map only.

None of the extremely good ones are though. Voltaxic fell way out of favor. The highest valued ones from map only are likely andvarius, voltaxic, void battery, ming's and auxium. None of those are 30+ ex last i checked other than VB which barely anyone uses in their builds anymore. Not to mention VB doesn't have a for sale in either 1 month league.

400 uniques done

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Shodokan123 wrote:

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andkamen wrote:

not all items drop from merc Dom, as you mention in the beginning.

There are a bunch of uniques that are map only.

None of the extremely good ones are though. Voltaxic fell way out of favor. The highest valued ones from map only are likely andvarius, voltaxic, void battery, ming's and auxium. None of those are 30+ ex last i checked other than VB which barely anyone uses in their builds anymore. Not to mention VB doesn't have a for sale in either 1 month league.

Woah woah woah, chilllll out with saying some of those aren't extremely good.

- Andvarius is THE BEST pure mf ring (in regards to non-legacy).
- Voltaxic is still really good for pure crit damage bow (no worrying about reflect).*
- Void Battery is (if build right) one of THE BEST possible end games wands you can get.
- Ming's is meh.
- Auxium is very build situational. But generally extremely good when used in a build it works in.

* Voltaxic isn't bad, it's just niche.

The problem with Voltaxic is that its best case scenario requires a crap ton of investment and doesn't have very high survivability. Its big drawback, low base crit (5%) is obviously why people favor Windripper over it (8-10% crit). However, if you manage to get past that 5% crit chance on Voltaxic (it's the one big obstacle really), it's actually really sweet for doing a high damage build that doesn't have to worry about reflect.

It's just an unpopular bow right now because Windripper is the 'lol so easy to stack crit now' bow.

This is incredibly insightful. Thanks so much. :)

Nice one

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DestroTheGod wrote:

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Shodokan123 wrote:

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andkamen wrote:

not all items drop from merc Dom, as you mention in the beginning.

There are a bunch of uniques that are map only.

None of the extremely good ones are though. Voltaxic fell way out of favor. The highest valued ones from map only are likely andvarius, voltaxic, void battery, ming's and auxium. None of those are 30+ ex last i checked other than VB which barely anyone uses in their builds anymore. Not to mention VB doesn't have a for sale in either 1 month league.

Woah woah woah, chilllll out with saying some of those aren't extremely good.

- Andvarius is THE BEST pure mf ring (in regards to non-legacy).
- Voltaxic is still really good for pure crit damage bow (no worrying about reflect).*
- Void Battery is (if build right) one of THE BEST possible end games wands you can get.
- Ming's is meh.
- Auxium is very build situational. But generally extremely good when used in a build it works in.

* Voltaxic isn't bad, it's just niche.

The problem with Voltaxic is that its best case scenario requires a crap ton of investment and doesn't have very high survivability. Its big drawback, low base crit (5%) is obviously why people favor Windripper over it (8-10% crit). However, if you manage to get past that 5% crit chance on Voltaxic (it's the one big obstacle really), it's actually really sweet for doing a high damage build that doesn't have to worry about reflect.

It's just an unpopular bow right now because Windripper is the 'lol so easy to stack crit now' bow.

Voltaxic suffers from single target problems and can only be scaled off of lightning damage really which is its major drawback. You lose far too much clear speed for sustainability of your character due to no reflect. A good majority of crit builds can actually be very sustainable (see the crit split arrow windripper build that was posted a while back's videos of him doing double reflect maps). It does have it's niche but how many people actually partake in that niche anymore that are not players in hardcore leagues? Its flavor of the month status is over simply put. It was at its time the cheaper version of doing an extremely effective bow build since to do so required an extremely expensive rare bow. Lord knows that lioneye's doesn't do so well with reflect which is the main unique competitor to voltaxic/windripper.

Andvarius is the best pure mf ring but you do lose resists and such to use it plus a ring slot. Very few non culling builds use it effectively.

Void is plain rare.

Mings is one of the only items that you can obtain to scale things like EK so it is niche as well.

Aux is a great belt but still like you said it is situational.

Thus most good map only items are niche items :P

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Charan wrote:

This is incredibly insightful. Thanks so much. :)

NP. Should be doing 100ish items a day. Doing 10-15 uniques then watching an episode of Kenshin haha. Haven't watched an anime since I was like 14.

Nice info
I would need the same info but by someone who farm dominus as single player like i usually do. May do it by myself in new leagues

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Shodokan123 wrote:

NP. Should be doing 100ish items a day. Doing 10-15 uniques then watching an episode of Kenshin haha. Haven't watched an anime since I was like 14.

Getting prepared for the new movies, eh?

I'll be watching to see if you drop my sword. :)

Voltaxic has absolutely no interest since Windripper/Atziri Acuity do exist.

Nice. If you want more statistical data you can add the runs from other people (though some ran under different patches so that might throw off the numbers)
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/927215/page/1
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/916272/page/1
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/897768/page/1

I also did some MF runs (80/200, so I only see a unique every other run on average). I'll post to this thread once I reach 50 items. Are you counting the uniques that drop from the fights before Dom?