Unique adjustment and visual effects

[Evolutionize-1965]

Reading off the summary of dev stream,
Some uniques will be buffed to match the level of legendary; besides the razorplate getting 4 affixes now, the other few items seem to be small buff or swapping out 1 attribute laterally; are all changes to uniques included in the patch notes ?

Another interesting thing is skills will appear visually more powerful as they level up. I know there was a video in pre alpha a few years ago showing different intensity level, but the skill also covers larger area as it gains ranks. Is that still the same here. Would love to see more recent up to date visual demo.

[Iggi-11818]

@Iggi-11818

Do unique items get a stat/funcationaly boost since tempered legendaries are just straight up better? Is it generally not worth it to equip a unique item after the patch?

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Colin
We’ve done a pass on all the unique items, we’ve done things like Razorplate I think has 4 thorns affixes and we changed what the legendary power is.

Adam F
By the way that was a big question from people on the PTR. Changes should be in the patch notes.

Adam P
Heavily Summarized
In updating tempering mechanics and legendary items in Diablo 4, we aimed to give legendaries a unique journey and story, distinct from the more static nature of uniques. We acknowledge that uniques are currently powerful but lack the same ongoing engagement as legendaries. While some adjustments were made to certain uniques, we didn’t go over all of them, as the focus was on preserving their distinct identities.

We anticipate that uniques may be less prevalent than before, but still essential for various builds. Rather than make changes immediately, we prefer to observe how players engage with the current system. We could potentially add crafting mechanics to uniques, but we want to see how the current system works before we make any changes.

Colin
And the fix nature sort of has you consider its part of your optimization as well. Well I’m going to give up some tempering affixes to get this unique for example in my chest slot. We want to see where that goes, we think that’s fun. We think the excitement of a unique are those fixed stats when you see the item on the ground you know ‘ok thats the unique I want, I can just equip it, I don’t even have to work on it.’

Tl;Dr - Some Uniques were changed, but not all. It’s going to be a work in progress essentially.

That’s from the Q&A at the end of the live stream. Hopefully that helps answer your question.

[boltbane-1510]

I like how blizzard are adding Tempered Manuals to increase certain aspects damage. I want a Tempered manual that increase any and all Unique damage scale with Primary stats which ever is highest. I sure don’t want to pick up a Azurewrath just to stick it in the stash because the proc damage is too low.

[Shivera-1883]

@boltbane-1510

Azurewrath just to stick it in the stash because the proc damage is too low.

They’ve readjusted all proc damage, including those on Uniques.

[boltbane-1510]

Are you saying Azurewrath will do more damage than Dust Devil aspects with the glyph AND Tempered Affixes?

[Shivera-1883]

@boltbane-1510

Are you saying Azurewrath will do more damage than Dust Devil aspects with the glyph AND Tempered Affixes

No - I’m saying the new S4 Azurewrath will do more damage than the Azurewrath in the current Live game. That’s a fact. What we don’t know is how much more, but given the PTR scaling coefficients on procs, it seems to be about double. We also know that procs are supposed to scale with %damage now, as well as %type-damage (like %Cold).

What you are actually asking is impossible to answer at this time. You’re wanting me to compare two completely unknown values to each other. We don’t know how much the final proc on Azurewrath will do, we don’t know how much Dust Devils will do after PTR fixes, and we don’t know what post-PTR Tempers look like. So a comparison simply isn’t possible.