Make legendaries “legendary”

I want to propose a petition to make unique items interesting. For real, we should be excited to find those items. Instead 99% of the times they are useless. Imagine how many builds you can get with useful uniques. Please, please, please make them useful and interesting

actually they are and feel how they always felt in this game, they are not Legendary they are uniques.

They allow unique gameplay they aren<t meant to be better. they are meant to be unique.

Some of them are good for early game and leveling in certain area, some are great for late game in certain builds. you have to know the mechanics to use them properly.

I am talking about this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/s/A4MslEkbFg

What the fuck is a legendary? Are you sure you are playing the right game? Get the terminology right.

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RickyDMMontoya#7961 wrote:

What the fuck is a legendary? Are you sure you are playing the right game? Get the terminology right.

When I saw this thread, I was immediately thinking Diablo 4 terminology.

They are uniques, there is nothing about power level associated with that. Just unique.

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diablofdb#3816 wrote:

actually they are and feel how they always felt in this game, they are not Legendary they are uniques.

They allow unique gameplay they aren<t meant to be better. they are meant to be unique.

Some of them are good for early game and leveling in certain area, some are great for late game in certain builds. you have to know the mechanics to use them properly.

Yeah they are uniquely bad. That's their purpose. More trash loot.

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ampdecay#1924 wrote:

They are uniques, there is nothing about power level associated with that. Just unique.

Can they not suck though?

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

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ampdecay#1924 wrote:

They are uniques, there is nothing about power level associated with that. Just unique.

Can they not suck though?

they don't suck, they open doors for powerful synergies that are often so good that the items needs to have pretty big downsides. sure some of them are stronger/more popular than others but most of them offer utility to some build you might not even consider

See the problem is people see the color and assume it's a legendary like from diablo 3-4, people forget the color was originally UNIQUE in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, it changed to "legendary" in D3 and now D4.

POE will NEVER adopt the "legendary" term for UNIQUE ITEMS because that's something that separates POE from Diablo, FOR A REASON.

Additionally, people who think uniques "or legendaries as these people call them" suck - is because they associate it with Diablo and they want the same power mechanic in this game. This, is, not, DIABLO. It is PATH OF EXILE.

Unique items can be BUILD ENABLING - offering that "legendary power" you diablo people are referencing but instead of it being from a line that reads "You turn into a God for 30 seconds when killing an elite" - it becomes "Your mana counts as your energy shield" or something mechanically related which ENABLES A BUILD.

In my experience, alot of these people also don't have the capacity to think outside of the box, so when they see Facebreakers for example they think, oh wow this item sucks because I'm a deadeye and I use bows, not realizing that even as a deadeye they could scale into a melee build. Again, BUILD ENABLING.

I also think what's happening is that alot of the D4 refugees are coming to POE 2 and POE 1, I was a D3 refugee in 2019 and once I made the choice to dedicate my time to learning POE, I NEVER went back to Diablo. It's not even a different game, it's a different WORLD.