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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/1nf4m0u2 on 2024-12-25 16:48:42+00:00.

It seems like history is repeating itself, and once again we have the vast majority of unique items in a Path of Exile game being completely useless. The worrying part is that, this is just beginning of POE2’s lifespan, we don’t have the complete roster of unique items yet and I honestly think the problem is already worse than it is in POE, not only in the fact that the majority of new unique items we have in POE2 are useless, but even some of the old ones they brought over from POE have been utterly annihilated.

Devouring Diadem lost it’s eldritch battery identity and is now a trash, low level unique item. Original Sin has a ridiculous downside that renders it’s implicit… useless? Brass Dome has been stripped of it’s brass and it’s dome, why in the world does it give -5% to all maximum elemental resistances, when it gave up to +5% to them in POE. Seriously, what kind of fear is driving the designers at GGG to do this? Why are they afraid of giving us strong unique items?

The confusing part is that, we know that when GGG wants to, they can give us some absolutely banger unique items, across all base types, low and high level. Morior Invictus is one of the coolest and strongest new unique items POE2 has given us. What they did to Mahuxotl’s Machination was genius and now it’s one of the strongest unique shields we’ve ever seen. Cloak of Flame and Ghostwrithe have been ported over and are faithful to their original identity whilst being as strong as ever, and still remain as low level base types.

So why is it that it’s only like this for 10%-20% of the unique items? What kind of fear is stopping them from giving good numbers and strong effects to more? Are GGG really okay with the other 80%-90% being something players just disenchant for 1/10th of a chance orb? The unique item problem was something I was hoping would be eradicated in POE2, but that doesn’t look like that’ll happen if this seemingly fear driven design philosophy keeps up as we move forward.