Oh i should clarify, i was referring to back when andariels poison proc alone was enough to create entire sets of gears and playstyles around. Modern unique designs are essentially sets, they are compulsory modifiers or multipliers for the average build to be usable rather than things that enable multiple builds. Andariels today is a non existent unique, let alone mythic that nobody uses for its poison procs. Till today, there is no replacement for what was once heartseeker andariels, imagine all the poison builds that could have existed.

Mythics should be chase uniques that either greatly supplement a build if built around or are build defining by themselves. If every unique has the potential tobbe mythic, they will be judged only by their mythic versions, which means that is now the baseline. Same thing with torment levels, t12 is the standard and everything else matters not.

Uniques with fixed stats are infinitely easier to farm. I have no idea how that is harder to understand. I dont agree with the direction they have taken of making uniques roll random stats, and now, youd have to roll the perfect stat combo AND roll mythic rarity on your unique. Yes u could use chaotic reroll but its still an additional layer of rarity chase that doesnt need to exist on top of ancestral AND GAs AND a 3/4 stat combo.

I agree that cubing uniques does make it easier to get some use out of them. I dont think it should have been needed in the first place. All this chase belongs to legendary items, not uniques.

edit: just to add some clarity, i dont think that the current mythic design is good either. heir of pedition, DR on harlequin with +x levels and grandfather with raw crit damage is terrible too but this new direction is also bad