Whats the Purpose of Garbage Uniques?

I wish we had a more useful vendor combo for these trash unique items. The chance orb recipe isn't really worth my time.

Maybe they should make a 1 unique item for every slot combo? Like the rare recipe for chaos orbs? And give a divine orb for the combo? It would at least give me a reason to save them. This might create a new demand for some of the garbage unique items, and place a set minimum value. Basically any unique will be worth a chaos orb, and you can find a buyer if they need that specific unique for a vendor combo.

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DirkAustin wrote:

They exist because we cant have only OP unique drops. Besides, i think it was never meant to be like this, that everyone is all decked out in uniques. This game is going down that same route as D3, uniques will be mandatory and rares will be place holders.

That is actually wrong. Unique items are technically the place holders, because its possible to craft a rare item that can blow uniques out of the water. Most people are not going to do that because the cost is absolutely enormous to craft a GGS rare item. I personally wouldn't even try unless I had at least 20 eternals + 60 exalts of disposable currency. You'd probably burn 2000+ alts just to get 2 of the rarer mods you need on the first step of the crafting process.

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Evantis wrote:

Someone please propose a build using one of this two "unique" items.

Low-level facebreaker infernal blow marauder?

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Hodari wrote:

Low-level facebreaker infernal blow marauder?

"Take 5 damage when hit by attacks" and "cannot evade enemy attacks" are definitely not melee bonuses.

Did OP even think 1 second about this question?

When there are no bad things you just don't know what is good.
It's easy like that.

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Evantis wrote:

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Hodari wrote:

Low-level facebreaker infernal blow marauder?

"Take 5 damage when hit by attacks" and "cannot evade enemy attacks" are definitely not melee bonuses.

If you are going for only armour, yes?

the thing is u considering them garbage doesnt meant they are garbage , one man`s trash is another man`s treasure!

Now u are comparing these items with other items which are either 100x more expensive or 30 levels higher :P


Not all uniques are meant to be build enabling or even related to any specific build. Limbsplit is the best axe a lvl 13 leap slamer can get for many many other levels. THe chopper has 360 dps + culling strike and a 20 life on kill , that chopper could get u easily to maps with only 2 chaos.

Is that so garbage?U seem to forget Infractem has the arrows always pierce mode , do u even know what peirce does? Frost wall and pew pew arrows to be unkillable and deal damage in the same time?

Shiversting is another awsome unique to level with, compare its dps with another 2h sword of that level , try to get that mana leech on them now :D.Not even mentioning the cannot be frozen :P

Now infractem already proved to be a decent build enabler , last resort is even better. Take a look at shadow forums and your question will be answered.

Shav pace gives u a great ms boost for that level and some great es , that unique made Kripp win a race if i am not mistaken.

Foxshade is one hell of a chest for umm every eva player , how do u even level with facebreaker? Easy peasy , get a meg and a foxshade and thats it...

Just think about it for a moment , there is not only u in this game .There are a lot of other players leveling every day , trying to make a new cool build and they are happy they have some many items to choose from.U cant only have epix loot , how can u even recognize epix loot when u dont have the "bad" loot :P

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MadBro_ wrote:

the thing is u considering them garbage doesnt meant they are garbage , one man`s trash is another man`s treasure!

Now u are comparing these items with other items which are either 100x more expensive or 30 levels higher :P

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keep telling that to yourself..

you seem to imply that people saying 'garbage uniques' see only two tiers: 'garbage' and 'op'

while in reality there are 3 tiers - garbage, good and op

there are several garbage uniques, that are so bad/dumb that no matter how hard you try youll not be able to find a reason to use it (other than 'because i can')

take Heatshiver:


+1 to fire and cold gems - at this level is rather inconsequential. dmg gain is around 10% but so is the mana cost that at lvl 20 can be a serious issue

evasion is pretty in line with rare helmets

mana regen is huge - like 2 passive points (and mana regen is very rare resource on the passive tree) but it is on evasion helmet and as such is rather wasted stat

-res - huge huge penalty guaranteeing serious issues in normal docks/lunaris and in cruel in general.

also: no HP, no MF, no RES.

+1 gems is unique, but at this level it matters shit. at higher levels -20 res is incredibly harsh penalty that only sporkers/summoners can accept. but they dont need +1fire/cold

at low lvl gear matters little anyway. from 20 to 25 can be done in like 20 minutes (just check races) so lifespan of this item is incredibly short

id like to see YOU present a build that makes Heatshiver a treasure, or Crown of Thorns or Lightbane Rainment or any of the items i listed earlier.

or maybe a Darkscorn build - i can give you 2 of these if you want to try it out. for free. btw tried to give them away for free some time ago - no takers..

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sidtherat wrote:

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MadBro_ wrote:

the thing is u considering them garbage doesnt meant they are garbage , one man`s trash is another man`s treasure!

Now u are comparing these items with other items which are either 100x more expensive or 30 levels higher :P

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keep telling that to yourself..

you seem to imply that people saying 'garbage uniques' see only two tiers: 'garbage' and 'op'

while in reality there are 3 tiers - garbage, good and op

there are several garbage uniques, that are so bad/dumb that no matter how hard you try youll not be able to find a reason to use it (other than 'because i can')

take Heatshiver:

+1 to fire and cold gems - at this level is rather inconsequential. dmg gain is around 10% but so is the mana cost that at lvl 20 can be a serious issue

evasion is pretty in line with rare helmets

mana regen is huge - like 2 passive points (and mana regen is very rare resource on the passive tree) but it is on evasion helmet and as such is rather wasted stat

-res - huge huge penalty guaranteeing serious issues in normal docks/lunaris and in cruel in general.

also: no HP, no MF, no RES.

+1 gems is unique, but at this level it matters shit. at higher levels -20 res is incredibly harsh penalty that only sporkers/summoners can accept. but they dont need +1fire/cold

at low lvl gear matters little anyway. from 20 to 25 can be done in like 20 minutes (just check races) so lifespan of this item is incredibly short

id like to see YOU present a build that makes Heatshiver a treasure, or Crown of Thorns or Lightbane Rainment or any of the items i listed earlier.

or maybe a Darkscorn build - i can give you 2 of these if you want to try it out. for free. btw tried to give them away for free some time ago - no takers..

Try Heatshiver (preferrably 3-4L with Discharge or Elemental hit. You'll be pleased with results :) And mana isnt an issue for these skills, really.

or i can just use searing touch with discharge at low lvl...

garbage uniques will stay garbage.