With Season 4 came a new crafting system in Diablo 4 and thus entirely new possibilities to enhance items. Some players now believe: This makes them even better than uniques.
Since the start of Season 4, there have been new crafting systems in Diablo 4: Tempering and Masterworking. Tempering allows players to add two additional affixes to an item. This is sufficient for some players to put down their uniques.
Why are uniques “useless”? Unique items (uniques) drop with special affixes and aspects that do not exist on other items, but they cannot be “tempered” or provided with additional useful affixes.
On Reddit, players write that uniques can be fun, but they are too great a compromise. Others argue: At least they can be sold for good gold, which many lack in Season 4. Even MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus is as poor as a church mouse.
“Uniques should be allowed for ‘Tempering'”
What exactly are players saying about the items? On Reddit, “Numerous_Money4276” writes on May 21 that uniques seem to be “really weak now.” While they add interesting mechanics, they cannot be used because the compromise is simply too great.
And “Loadingexperience” points out on Reddit that they bring in about 200,000 at the vendor, which helps with gold farming. Blizzard has released a patch in the meantime to address the ‘gold problem’, but only managed to fix a small part.
In another Reddit post, “OwnAcanthocephala438” writes that uniques should be allowed for ‘Tempering’. Furthermore, he writes that, given the strength of the tempered affixes, it is “really difficult to justify using uniques.” Adding tempered affixes would encourage integrating uniques into more builds. On the contrary, “elgosu” argues that ‘Tempering’ would make them “less unique”.
“They have basically made uniques useless this season”
What do Diablo experts say? Even Diablo partner “Chronikz”, who is behind the minion builds of maxroll.gg for necromancers, stated in a livestream on Twitch on May 18 that uniques are “bad” in Season 4 because they cannot be tempered. And tempering is “incredibly strong.” (Source: Twitch, Timestamp: 02:43:45).
Basically, uniques have been made “useless” this season. Only Uber uniques are still strong. However, Chronikz also notes that there are indeed uniques without which some builds do not work, such as “Stormhowl” for druid builds. He advises selling uniques but keeping a good version in case a “broken build” comes up that one wants to play.
What do you think about uniques in Season 4 of Diablo 4? Are you still using them because they have quite good affixes and aspects, or do you stick with your “tempered” legendaries? As for the new crafting system, you should pay attention to a certain order when using the features. They are actually great, but if you improve items in the wrong order, you are quite literally throwing away gold – and probably also strong items.
