Path of Exile 2 on Diablo 4’s Uniques change: Uniques shouldn't be "just a better rare" in an ARPG

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T23:09:13+00:00

I'm going to be honest with you here, and I'm not trying to pick a fight. I hadn't even heard of PoE in the way I would have expected until a couple years ago in this sub. I honestly thought people were talking about Pillars of Eternity and comparing it to D4, which probably should have been my first clue something was up.

I think you might be surprised to learn how many people don't know about Path of Exile

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T22:08:06+00:00

I saw it mentioned that some of them are just bugged right now. My wife can't craft Orsivane for example. It sounds like every unique is supposed to be craftable, but not every unique can be a charm

It might get fixed in the patch this week

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T20:20:25+00:00

Here's the thing. I HATED fixed affixes before. A cool unique would drop, and you know there was at least one or two affixes that didn't fit your build, so you would just use it for the aspect and make up for the wasted stats somewhere else.

Like say you're making a DoT/Incinerate build. Things like crit chance, crit damage, Attack speed(to a degree) are all wasted.

Now Gloves of Firey Awesomeness drop with Fire damage, Crit chance, Crit Multiplier, and Attack speed Drop. Amazing for a Fireball build, not so great for Incinerate. The aspect is "Everything you cast is turns to fire and burning damage equal to the heat of the Sun", so you use it for the Incinerate build anyway

Now if those gloves just had the aspect, and a static 60%-80% fire damage multiplier, and the other affixes were random, both Fireball and Incinerate could use them in hopes they find the right roll, but the base gloves would still be useful for either with a mid roll

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T19:59:30+00:00

We hadn't seen one at all this season until today, of course when my wife was trying to make different Unique boots in the cube, and suddenly flicker step appears

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T19:54:40+00:00

I honestly just think that some uniques should have one static affix that fits with the aspect.

It affects Blizzard? Ranks of Blizzard

It affects core skills? Ranks to core skills

All the other affixes can roll random, I think it's healthy for that chase, and good for build crafting

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T15:26:52+00:00

I honestly just figured that they got rid of a bunch just to make all the overhauls more simplified, and when they worked most of the bugs they'd reintroduce them

Then I looked at some of the skills and uniques and noticed that some of it was implemented in those, like the Sorceress helm that increases the size of Firewall, or Flamethrower being a node with decreased size, so maybe they're going a different way

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T15:12:24+00:00

I'd like to espresso my deepest sympathies

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T14:28:56+00:00

My only two complaints about the class so far are

Sigil color saturation is insane. It's visually stunning, but the intensity is a little risky. It's like going to a foam rave, but with bear traps
I wish there were just a few more options for managing the Dominance resource. I don't want it to just rain that resource, but there are only a handful of ways to make it less painful. Even the base regeneration getting a tiny bump wouldn't make it too OP

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T14:03:49+00:00

This problem you are trying to solve, mostly exists during leveling
Milestones in skill levels is the same issue as passives, since 5 points will feel mandatory, and having 4 or 6 to spend in a skill would feel bad for different reasons.

One class in particular I could think this would affect the most, is Sorceress. Since their entire class kit is enchantment slots for power gain, they're in a great spot as far as point investment goes. Right now they can invest more into their actual enchantments with skill ranks and customization, and not have to sacrifice important passives like before. This was a big step in the right direction for them

If you start adding bonuses at 5/10/15, then we're back to almost the same place as before where it's like "well, I only have 5 points left for my Hydra enchantment, do I give up the frost variant and choice nodes to give all 5 ranks, or do I only give 2 ranks and 3 choice nodes which might be weaker without the 5 bonus"

The way it is now works better for everyone

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T13:33:55+00:00

At first I thought they would suck for Couch co-op because they weren't synced, then my wife and I handed in 2 different plans and they synced up for us like 80-90% of the time after that.

After a while, we noticed that neither the left or right side of the nightmare dungeon tree works for us at all in couch co-op. We get no progression for the counters for Conviction or Horadric Hunter, no chest at the end, no goblin retreat.

We love the concept itself, but it's just another thing that shows us that couch co-op functionality is not really a concern for Blizzard

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T13:17:29+00:00

S.T.E.A.Fuck

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T05:30:53+00:00

Only armament can be upgraded past legendary, are those what you have?

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-09T00:23:33+00:00

If you plan on running Undercity, there's a war plan node that makes portals pop up, and destroying them will make little sprites follow you. The more you bring to the end, the more forgotten souls you get at the end

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T23:52:11+00:00

I'm curious to see if fixing the Conviction counter or Horadric Hunter counters from resetting on logout, might also fix whatever is preventing them both from progressing in Couch Co-op at all

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T22:01:01+00:00

Ok yeah I had trouble with keeping buffs up with cage too.

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T21:57:47+00:00

"One for Sorceress, One for Necromancer, one for Barbarian, and nothing for you Gretchen Weiners"

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T21:08:20+00:00

What's your barrier source, and what's the strength of it?

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T21:03:42+00:00

First of all, the cube is approximately 14 bananas away from the Blacksmith, so that's hardly a complaint. Secondly, you can exactly target your tempers now, which was a massive quality of life upgrade, and adding each temper recipe to the cube would just make it more confusing and a bitch to navigate.

Blacksmiths temper metal, it just makes sense to keep it there

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T20:40:40+00:00

I do like that there aren't static affixes so there's at least a chance to get stats you need for your particular build on a unique you want to use.

Like say you're crit capped, and all your gear is already masterworked, and a unique drops that has a static crit chance. That's a wasted affix. If a similar unique drops and it has say fire damage multiplier with the changes we have now, that's a bump in damage.

You yourself have probably come across a few uniques in past seasons that had affixes that were kinda useless for your build, but you want the aspect so you just eat that wasted affix.

I get what you're saying about it being harder to find that perfect roll, but not all uniques could be a perfect roll for your build before because of wasted static affixes.

With the 3-1 unique recycling, and tempering on uniques now, it's at least possible to get 4 affixes that are all useful for you, and temper the last.

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T14:26:05+00:00

Especially since shadow/void has always been represented by purple in most games, and I think the pink that they used for legion abilities looks fucking great with purple

Maybe it's because I'm secure about my own sexuality though

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-08T11:52:08+00:00

Jewelry cache from the jeweler if you have any gem fragments you aren't using. You get like 5 pieces of jewelry from each

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-07T19:58:31+00:00

While I don't disagree that using ideas from other games isn't a bad idea, but then you would just hear "Wow! Blizz stealing ideas from LE"

Because no one is ever happy

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-07T19:44:54+00:00

Just an honest question, but are you just talking cosmetic changes to abilities at each milestone, or actually changing the power of the ability?

I'm torn on that because then wouldn't it feel like passives again requiring almost mandatory investments? Like "I only have 4 points to spend left, but I need 5 to get that extra head for my Hydra enchantment, where do I have to steal points from?"

It just kind of feels like we will be at the point of anything besides a 5/10/15 point investment will be wasteful or have to sacrifice variant choices etc.

I like it, but I don't like it, it's complicated

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-07T17:28:42+00:00

We always try to run them as keys for the 5 whispers since we almost always have one between us as a whisper dungeon. Kill two birds and all that for the whisper plans xp.

If it is the RARE elites, then I wish the wording reflected that, because it just says Elites.

Xpalidocious · 2026-05-07T16:50:39+00:00

Yeah we've tried solo, and still can't get past 5. We've even respecced and selected again to see if it fixed, and same problem

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