99%+ of uniques either stay on the ground or get thrown back on the ground with the rest of the trash
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You talking about endgame, what did you expect?
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In the beginning of the season that’s not the case
It really is though. Even leveling most uniques are garbage. Terrible game design that begs for adjustment, yet we keep throwing in more rune words for some reason
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Rune words are overpowered and made rares and uniques pointless
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Yes, when it comes to perfect endgame meta
No, when it comes to just playing the game without worrying about min/maxing
But if every unique was amazing, you’d be done gearing in an hour and have no reason to log back in.
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Some runewords yes. Lower level uniques need some buffing to make them on par with the early-mid game runewords, and early drop rates increased so that you can have some gear diversity.
Unless you farm normal(who the F does that lol) for uniques or sets, you never find them without some luck, or you find them in NM or Hell farming for those low characters. After awhile, bingo, they just get left on the ground and very obsolete.
It’s not that all rune words are overpowered, it’s that most uniques are underpowered.
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I mean, there’s always going to be BiS gear. Just the nature of games. You can’t get away from meta cookie cutters. Just have to pick your poison. D3 tried to solve this by making everything a stat stick. Which was just stupid and boring.
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Not true - before LoD rares had the potential to be the best items; and there was a lot of debate about which was the best, and nobody could really agree. When people agreed a certain stat was best on a particular item e.g. life and mana leech on rings, all the other stats on the rings were still very different
We threw that away for cookie cutter runewords where everyone uses identical gear
Runewords have been given overpowered stats that rares and uniques cant compete against
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I mean, not really. Whatever has the 20%ias etc with all res, and a useful state addition, with +2 skills. That kind of thing is really cookie cutter just as much. Illusion of sought after variety because there are so many more affixes. There is always a BiS. At least for meta builds. Of course there are always novelty builds where these things are debatable.
Actually some rares and blues still make some cookie cutter items obsolete. Some of them cost like 20 enigmas or more. So you still have that here. It’s just that they made it a little more fun for the more casual cookie cutter people
Not all of them Buriza-Do Kyanon,Raven Frost,Mara’s and many others are still useful however your right the game is very different from when it was made
most uniques are garbage, crushflange for example. griswolds edge was trash even in d1 just cause of the knockback alone. majority of uniques are just fluff. Bstar used to be bis for zealot, second to shaefers. when ebotdz came out and changed the meta, shaefers was still used from time to time, but Bstar was only handy for dealing with phys immunes.
so while most uniques suck, it’s really just because they have stats that nobody needs or cares about. crushflange for example is a completely useless unique that nobody ever uses. who uses rattlecage? nobody, because nobody who could benefit from crushing blow wants to have to chase their enemy across the dang map thanks to it’s other attribute which inflicts fear.
runewords arent overpowered, they’re just mostly worth using. maybe of more uniques didnt self-nerf or have garbage bonuses that nobody needs or wants, they would be more viable and valuable.
well you can’t have runeword rings, amulets and boots, that’s the only item slot they haven’t ruined
They came with ED % you just can’t find on anything else, and then there’s the various auras and other overpowered stats which means nothing else competes with them - that makes them definitely overpowered
And Buriza-Do Kyanon,Thunderstroke,Titen’s Revenge and the others?
welcome to 1,10 to 2,40 where 90% of the time item are useless and only a few of crazy rune word rune the game
god forbid we get items that dont suck? I’d like to see you take on uber trist with a ww barb using doom bringer and storm shield lol…good luck.
You’re mentioning javlins, which don’t have runewords, then a 150-200% ED crossbow which is also outclassed by runewords
Is this your evidence that runewords are not overpowered? There’s no point even identifying rares anymore, straight in the bin unless they are for a slot runewords dont exist for
Runewords also made many uniques pointless aswell
And unique Polearm’s such as The Reaper’s Toll? for example?
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