Why are 99% of uniques totally useless?

[Moxxie-11371]

Are you legit trolling lmfao.

I lost braincells…

[Slaughter-1927]

because they don’t know how to design a fun game, instead preferring to bore everyone after ripping them off for $80+

[Suedomsa-1857]

I rather like the uniques I have found.

[Gustomucho-1835]

Let’s be honest, it is so they can “fix it” later and call it content in seasons.

[Veszerin-1913]

These morons…

If it’s not Best in Slot for a top tier build crafted by your favorite website/streamer, it’s “useless”

[KnightOwl-11885]

I ran 100k steps for a while. I found out that the auto stomp inherited any other perks or talents spent on ground stomp so I put three points into ground stomp talents to get tactical stomp and every time it went off I got like 60+ free fury. Not too shabby.

[Yemallis-1606]

@Bodach-1471

I think they’re afraid to take risks. Look at this latest patch. It’s full of 1% buffs for skills no one even uses.

I’m hoping this isn’t the case.

I’m hoping they’re just saving big balance changes for season 1.

[blktiger60-1510]

@Omentum-2105

They are pretty rare which i absolutely do like. Thats a sensible approach to make loot hunting more interesting. Well except the superuniques ofcourse. That kinda rarity is not sensible at all. But anyways, back to the more common uniques. Why on earth have they made them all so completely dull and useless? There are like 2-3 of them that some classes can use and maybe benefit some from. The rest are just complete trash. Specially because the prerolled stats are always junk. I am lucky if i see one or top two stats on a unique that would at all be remotely useful in my build. And the aspect on them are usually not very interesting compared to the best legendary aspects. Baffles me.

Unlike say, . . the D2 uniques - super relevant and usable?

Edit: well maybe not all of them, but most.

[PhearBunny-1825]

Theyd be good if you could imprint over their crappy affixes.
Or enchant off one of the completely idiotic stats they roll with.

But alas, you cannot.
So they generally suck or are for specific, really weird, really niche builds.

[Wingedaxe-1620]

Because most people that plays the game apparently rather wanna get lvl 100 in 2-3 days than getting some real fixes to the game, items / tcontent.

[blktiger60-1510]

@Wingedaxe-1620

Because most people that plays the game apparently rather wanna get lvl 100 in 2-3 days than getting some real fixes to the game, items / tcontent.

I got 1 alt to 52 and 3 others to lv 25 so far. How other people play really doesn’t effect how I play. Never has.

[Truex-11746]

Was wondering the same thing, feels odd being level 81, having like 20 uniques drop by now and not using a single one of them lol

[Truex-11746]

Exactly. I have a rare chest with…dmg reduction to burning, dmg reduction to close AND flat damage reduction which comes out to a total of 79% DR…cant really trade that for Raiment and survive in 50+ NM dungs

[JPRG74-1849]

I have a 92 barb. I have tried hellhammer. It sucks, upheaval is the worst spender barbs have.

The deathblow hammer sucks because they removed the deathblow skill ranks. If they still had them then you could get the aoe affect to do as much base damage as a lvl 5-9 hota.

Ramilandi is the only good one but using that requires you to use a berserk or shout fury gain ring aspect and locks you into dbl swing or frenzy.

[Storm-1505]

Problem is… one stat can be as strong or stronger than the legendary aspect… so unless the power on the unique is twice as strong… its junk. And some uniques have like all 4 stats as garbage stats…

I think a compromise would be having good stats, but a larger range of rolls… so instead of a comparable rare 4-7, they could roll 1-7. So atleast theres a chance they can be good… but its not instantly godly perfect stats. Having a 100% chance of them sucking feels bad.

[ClubbinSeals-11164]

The ultra rare uniques, you’ll never get one even if you played for literally 1 million hours. Out of 300 million hours played by all players, only 1 or 2 shakos dropped, and a handful of grandfather swords. There’s no point in even chasing it or building around getting one of these, you’ll never get it. Ever, they’re even rarer than mirror of kalandra drops in Path of Exile, or Zod rune drops in Diablo 2.

[poochy123-1491]

Naw even with perfect rolls they’d still be worse than similar item power legendaries. The only 2 uniques that are better than legendary for Barb are Shako and Grandfather(and only if you don’t get low rolls), but you have to grind 60 hours a week until your 60 years old to see one of those.

Druid has a couple that are worth it, Necro has a few, but other than that, most uniques are useless and worse than common rares with a good aspect imprinted.

[poochy123-1491]

Those guides are outdated and haven’t been updated.

Temerity shield is not worth it(it is like 1 hit) over having 4 good defensive aspects on pants. A shield that protects you from a single attack is not worth losing ~60% damage reduction on all attacks. Maxroll is simply wrong, and even Raxx would tell you that.

Gors used to be BiS for gloves, but it was nerfed and is no longer worth running over well rolled normal gloves.

[radmuskai-1268]

I dropped like 15 useless uniques and not a single Temerity.

[Ringovski-1228]

What i don’t understand is why the rolls on loot drops can’t look at the build you are using and give you a higher percentage chance of getting loot with those skills. Not every time or every piece but more often than currently.

I’m running a blizzard & frost nova build and these skills 99% don’t appear on the drops, rare or legendary it doesn’t seem to matter. So where’s the fun in that, the game is supposed to be fun not a grind.