When Blizzard will make patch and remaster most of the unique items in the game.It’s annoying that most of them are craps and useless.Except few good uniques. Please make patch and remaster them! Thank you
Very likely never.
Also, there is nothing wrong with having some unique items that are garbage. Some of those items that the seasoned players know as garbage can serve as stepping stones towards something better later on.
The most rare item in the game - Tyraels is trash, Templars, GF,WF, Gaze, Shadow plate,Gladiators BAne etc ?
Yeah, those are non-META… Maybe some niche uses. Cheap alternatives… Stepping stones. You can thank the release of 1.10+ rune words for that.
Tyraels is just a big fat trophy item. I FOUND IT!!11!1 FINALLY… OK sell it to Charsi.
Never. Nothing can be changed. It’s Diabo 2.
they won’t
Also i think remastering unique items is a wrong approach. Lots of items are bad only because of the meta game, not because they’re bad items on face value. For example there are lots of armors whose main advantage are high defense, but noone likes defense. Adjusting items to match meta will just reinforce the meta and make everything easier and more homogenous.
That said, i’d love some rebalances according to rarity, e.g. stat swaps for uniques. For example swap veil of steel and harlequin crest stats; que-hegan’s wisdom and skin of the vipermagi; etc.
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Unlikely to happen. If Tyreals got Cannot Be Cursed, an attribute that exists solely on Possessed Champions, it would instantly be among the top Chest Armors in the game. Especially for Hardcore because getting Amp’d/Decrep’d and other curses(including Blood Mana) royally sucks and would make Energy Shield Sorceress damn near unkillable(with Mana Burn being the lone weakness with Cure handling Poison).
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I never understood the Tyraels is trash narrative. Sure, it’s not Enigma, but it’s not trash. It has a whole host of valuable and unique modifiers on it.
Actual trash is something like Bing Sz Wang dacien falx. You know, the 2handed sword with the crummy frozen orb proc. But guess what? Even this pure garbage of an item, can still be used. I only know because I made BingSzWangShiFu barbarian and dual wielded them with a double swing build. He solo’d all the way through Hell, with crummy budget gear in the other slots too.
So just because you think something sucks and is useless, chances are, it doesn’t suck as much as you think, and can still be used.
Hyperbole.
It’s more that its rarity doesn’t match its power when compared to other equipment you can get at that level. Specifically runewords. Globally, uniques tend to be more rare than runewords, but runewords tend to be stronger.
I’d say that it’s a design issue. Runewords should be items that fill specific needs so that players have what is necessary for their builds, while uniques should be the cream on top. That being said, it’s due to the game’s history, and there’s not really any chance to ever solve that mistake.
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I disagree that you can’t solve the problem because they’ve already demonstrated that they can change attributes on an item. Bul-Kathos Sacred Charge(Colossus Blade) used to have Knockback on it. Not anymore so to say that Uniques or other Set Items cannot be changed is just plain wrong. The problem is whether Microsoft/Blizzard/whomeverisrunningthegoddamnshow cares enough to make updates.
My apologies, I wasn’t really clear about I didn’t think there was any chance for that change : the game has been abandoned for over a year now. I don’t see any change happening at all, even the most mundane one. So a rework of a large number of uniques to change the philosophy of where they stand in the game seems pretty absurd.
It’s not about the change being impossible to make, it’s just that there’s no one working on the game to make that change (or those people have too little time to do it).
True, but more uniques than not are useless. Some are weaker than magic items while leveling. Every leveling unique that you don’t immediately remember is usually a useless one.