If you want to buff uniques - DO NOT repeat the Kaom's Primacy' disaster please

(item links dont seem to work for me, so had to use wiki links)

3.7 patch, the 'melee' patch, 'buffed' some so-weak-that-calling-them-garbage-was-just unique items, one of them:

Kaom's Primacy
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Kaom%27s_Primacy

Max 400 pdps, slow (1.15 aps), non crit axe.

Yes, these are the stats AFTER the buff.


This is 380 pdps 1h sword. A mediocre one. You can buy better ones for reasonable price, you get ALL the benefits of fast attacking weapons with this one:

(cannot link that damn sword here: 150-270, 1.86 aps, 7.5crit)

Sure, Kaom's Primacy has some unique properties:

- gains up to 50% of its base phys as fire
- gains Rage faster, via bonus on crit

Few issues with that however:

- 50% of 'almost nothing' is almost nothing in the end. there is no synergy with spells here (just to make sure noone tries to make a point of it).
- due to how scaling in this game works that fire is useful only with fire converted skills - so you already have a weapon for 3 (in theory) and even less (in practice) skills. you can ignore it and treat as a 'nice free bonus' but then you end up with slow 400 pdps two hander.. whats the point?

- it scales with crit. with 5% base. sure, ascendancies give free crit like candy nowadays so you can make 5% base into 'crit weapon' but.. just WHY? Fleshrippers are in the game after all.

- and the final one. extra Rage? PFFFFFFfffffff! Anyone NOT using Warcy cluster jewels? getting 10-15 Rage every 3 seconds without pretty much any investment (because Warcy clusters are bonkers in general there is no opportunity cost)


So, we end up with:
- 2h with damage comparable to not-so-good 1h

- SLOW 2h, aka terrible gamplay because action speed, movement skills STILL scale with weapon speed

- such slow speed makes it good with Cyclone and.. Cyclone? If you want slow 2h for EQ, Marohi does FAR BETTER job
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Marohi_Erqi
..maybe because it deals 100 pdps more AND has 7th link

- and the best part: it is extremely rare. some kind of exclusive from Legion end-game encounter.


Sadly, this is not the only one weird 'upgrade' for 2h in this game:
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Doomsower
this one at least isnt slow. but it is a sword made for the same few fire converted skills.


so, please, pretty please. if your 'buffed' 2h sword deals less than 600 pdps (or 800 ele dps) - dont work on it. noone is going to use it. right now 350pdps 1h foils are the norm. you can scale them up via attack speed and various 'flat phys' beyond what 2h can achieve

if you want people to use 2h (excluding XXXforges) you need to increase base damage of 2h by like 50%, revert the horrid crafting nerf and finally add damage added effectiveness depending on base attack speed

if you dont do that - youll have to make some kind of monstrosity for people to even look at it. regular rare 2h remaining garbage noone cares about

Yes, ultra rare crappy weapon, quite a buff.
many legion item are stupidly rare and useless.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Lavianga%27s_Wisdom
this one is a joke and lvl20...

this one
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Honourhome
is good but lvl12...


and yes, many one handed random weapons are far better than this undropable axe.

I actually have a hard time finding any 2-hander that has the DPS of a nice rolled one-hander. Certainly not when you compare to the 2 hander uniques. Not to mention you are giving up all the block/defense advantages of a shield (as well as the shield buffs to DPS). Agree 100% with OP