Unique items are nice but

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Just my opinion on something. I spent a lot of time levelling from 1-70. I have a job, I work 40 hours per week. I don’t have time to play 18 hours per day like streamers or no lifers.

That being said, I do enjoy the game so far (yes I do!!!). Ok, I have done 70 levels alone, but I did my own little thing, at my own rythm. I did not ‘‘exploit’’ any of the loot dungeons with ultra high density (anyway as soon as I was coming home from work they were already nerfed lul)

My only issue is about the Unique items (and stash size but i’m not gonna add another rant about this here haha) I spent 60 levels without getting a single unique items (other than the guaranteed one at the end of the story). I spent a lot of time playing always trying to catch up but I was never able to find an item that was making me happy.

That is until I found the Greatstaff of the crone. I got so excited when it dropped, at level 61. It changed everything. I was able to go to T4 with that. This is the feeling I was looking for playing D4. You know, getting a super nice item. I love it. Was the same thig in D3 when you were getting the set items you wanted and you were finally able to push a higher tier.

Sadly, the more I play, the more I figured out the uniques drop rate is too low. I got another unique at 62 and that’s it. I’m 70 now, no unique.

The issue I am having is as I am levelling, this level 61 staff is slowly starting to get outdps by every other yellow items that drops, and the more I level, the more behind I will fall. There is no way to extract power on unique items in this game like the cube in D3. The solution is just to find another one (which is not likely to happen).

Ok, there’s a ton of different build. But I spent so much ressources getting the good legendaries to go with it. If I want to change build, I have to delete my entire paragon board ($$$$$$) and talents (more $$$$$). Will need to get a few different legendary item upgrade to go with my new build ($$$$$$).

So that was my little rant. I really hope in the future we can transfer the power of unique weapons on a different weapon or extract the power.

Actually, a better solution would be to be able to just be able to upgrade our unique items. I don’t care if it cost an arm and a leg. Just something to keep playing the build we enjoy.

Thanks <3

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I haven’t found a single unique item with stats, mods or aspect worth using over my ancestral gear with imprinted aspects and rerolled mods/stats.

All of the unique gear have either 1-2 mods that don’t fit my build, and with no way to reroll them, they only detract from my gear power and synergy and are not worth using.

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NGL uniques are mostly terrible, but that staff looks decent. I feel for you though as you will need to replace it as weapon power level is too significant to hold onto a low level one forever.

But once you start grinding out nightmare dungeons in world tier 4 you will see all your class specific uniques on the regular.

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I’ve been grinding nightmare dungeons in T4 since I found the staff at level 61. That is the issue haha. I know, it’s probably just bad RNG.

My issue is Unique mean one of its kind. I just feel like when you find one, you should be able to keep it and upgrade it. It’s a special item.

But it’s fine, with anything random, at some point luck will come back on my side right? RIGHT? !

EDIT: I really hate this game, just got a Unique Barbarian 2 Hand Axe on my druid. !_!

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Unique “aspects” (for lack of a better word) are nice, but the explicits aren’t random and can’t be re-rolled. So I am stuck with phys damage if I like Butcher’s Cleaver…

Should just have the “aspect” fixed to the one item, not the explicits. Can’t even enchant…

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I think people are forgetting that this is a Diablo game. Yes, you might find a level 70 Yellow that is better than your Unique. You might even find a nice legendary too! It’s all about chance. The grind. You might even find four uniques tomorrow and change four of your equipped items. Who knows. The game’s hardly been out that long. Chill. Or grind more.

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So you can usually work with the paragon board you have.

I played shred and it isnt good. Got lucky enough to get tempest roar. The only board i deleted was my most recent which was poison and barely started.

Ill eventually go back into poison anyways too. Most everything worked well on the transition. It was time to upgrade and redo my gear anyways. That being said in the interim id mostly build in a way that the transfer was seamless.

That being said i wish i could play shred because tornado is a snore fest. Super strong though.

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Unique drop rates are fine. The issue is way too many builds for all classes require a bunch of very specific gear to be able to do basic content. Then the builds that don’t have uniques or a bunch of legendary effects that revolve around that build just flat out wont work.

A lot of stuff for all classes need buffs and balancing.

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no one cares about your sob story of having a job. jobs dont mean you deserve in game items, maybe go play immortal where you can p2w.

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Uniqes suck , half of them are for nerfed builds ane their base stats terrible

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Actually it’s a false statement. You don’t care. YOU. But still, you spent time writing a reply.

If you read my original post, it’s not about the amount of drops, it’s about the fact they are getting useless after a few levels since you can’t extract or upgrade them.

The word unique means once. You should be able to find it once, then it’s yours forever scaling with your level or maybe be able to pay a price to upgrade it let’s say, every 10 levels.

But I appreciate your very positive contribution to this post.