Uniqes are mostly pointless

For a long time, I've been hearing and experiencing that unique items in the game are supposed to allow us to create builds around them. The idea is great, but how can I build a character around, say, a bow that deals 10-20 damage? Even if it has unique powers, what I build around it will still be enough for, say, 10 levels. I understand I should then respec it? Or maybe you should do something to somehow upgrade such a unique item to endgame level?

P.S. Please add sets. This is brilliant.
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For a long time, I've been hearing and experiencing that unique items in the game are supposed to allow us to create builds around them. The idea is great, but how can I build a character around, say, a bow that deals 10-20 damage? Even if it has unique powers, what I build around it will still be enough for, say, 10 levels. I understand I should then respec it? Or maybe you should do something to somehow upgrade such a unique item to endgame level?

P.S. Please add sets. This is brilliant.


Bro, the worst part is most of the items aren’t even good for leveling like, legit white gear is better. Every single item has some dumb downside. Like, boots give you +20 move speed but only when it’s raining, or you get +20 attack if you sacrifice a virgin (???), or +1 to all skills but only if you have ONE skill equipped. Seriously, who came up with this crap?
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Kogh#5027 wrote:


Every single item has some dumb downside. Like, boots give you +20 move speed but only when it’s raining, or you get +20 attack if you sacrifice a virgin


lol that made me chuckle.

Yeah I agree, they clearly should relax with the downside on uniques because yeah, rare items are vastly superior.

There are 2 things that maintain this game alive for me:

1. Good uniques and good itemization in general
2. Being able to feel powerful if I invested a lot of time on my char

In 0.2 this was non existent for minions but it's much better in 0.3. The itemization is a lot better with crafting and there are good uniques now.

But yeah a lot of uniques could see rework. I can't complain because right now, we have good uniques for end game, even though they are not game breaking they are still nice.

But for leveling, there need to be better stuff and they need to stop always putting a dumb drawback on items that are already not even as powerful as rare items...

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