Please STOP having end-game builds rely on Uniques on almost EVERY slot.

what are you talking about lmfao

What twilight zone did I just enter where uniques in PoE are generally good and can fill all / nearly all slots easily in most builds?

You're allowed to find uniques boring. That's all good and for the most part, many of them are. Their unique properties can be extremely exciting though. That first time you get a Paradoxica, a good watcher's eye or even a mageblood?


I looked at the 1st/top build on PoE ninja for the top 5 most played skills:

Hexblast - 6/10 unique items

Lightning Arrow - 6/10 unique items

Righteous Fire - 2/10 unique items

Artillery Ballista - 6/10 unique items

Fire Trap - 2/10 unique items

That's an average of 4.4/10 uniques per build. My build uses 5 uniques and typically, unique weapons and chest pieces are worse than rares. They just have special modifiers. They're of even less value now thanks to Eater/Exarch and champion modifiers being so valuable/useful.

I think you may be looking at a milestone builds reach when they can socket in many build enabling uniques, before they eventually farm the rares they want to max their build. There are so many builds that once they get to level 65-80, there's a whole plethora of uniques that can validate whether or not a build's worth seeing through to its full potential.

There are and have been some uniques armor pieces that just take the cake. Legacy Acuity and Legacy Abyssus for example. Nowadays those (non-legacy) uniques can be beaten by rares. Weapons on the other hand... rares have always been better.

toxic rain doesnt even need a single unique

I don't know, I've played a lot of builds that doesn't fully require a unique in every slot (Save for the HoA necro) and usually only requires a couple of 'build-enabling' ones (Sparingly)

its not like unique in every slot, but most of my builds are lets say unique heavy. there are some really powerful uniques and thats fine, the problem i have is on most skills i just cant slap 5 supp gems and at least get my 4 watch stones.

i think the problem is game is too punishing. back in the day i started playing after heist league i got 2 headhuners in ritual by playing some hybrid life/es lacerate bleed glad. i dont think i used any unique except the belt when i got it. probably still doable right now, its just feels like much more effort and back in the day i didnt used any pob and stuff.

did one day in std to try those reworked unique claws - Essentia Sanguis. made some sort of build with them and ended with super mediocre results, even tho i used some legacy gear. i know i can easy fit doryani prototype and scale my dmg to the moon and build be just fine, but that doesnt need to be the case to get your 4 watch stones and do regular t16 map content imo. probably picked a bit weak class, but even with more dps heavy ascendancies i dont think build will feel much better without doryani. and on the topic of pathfinder, if someone from ggg reads this, please fix master distiler. make it so we get bonuses during effect of diamond, bismuth or amethyst flask without having to sacrifice charges. master distiler also feels kinda weak - just make it give 50% ailment avoidance.(i know raider already has the same stuff, but id rather play something that feels good, than something that looks unique, but doesnt have much practical use)

Very confusing. Pretty much everything said is false.

meanwhile here is me already malding about when the league ends and I can't use anymore because it actually lets me use uniques in slots :p

Best unique they have added for build diversity for me personally.

you either see people complaining that rares are everything and most uniques don't compare or you see posts like these, I'm truly confused