Uniques That Got DESTROYED by Runewords - Diablo 2 Resurrected

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[louisax]

Blizzard missed a great opportunity to rework the Uniques to have better specs when they laucnhed D2R.

[RyanL]

I feel old just turning 37 but I played since 2000 and I remember a lot of these being great, even with the bugged items in circulation, etc. Schaefer's was so awesome to use with Zeal. I really hope someday, they bring back the strength of uniques.

[bivdog]

I never did play enough back in the day pre-runewords, but when I found doombringer, a couple weeks ago…man. That’s a weapon that should be GG.

[shaneharriman]

Just found a Windforce the other day! Thanks for putting out this video. I really miss those days...
Honorable mention for me would be Gull Dagger. Mad Magic Find for back in the day.

[bulldog]

I found a Grandfather yesterday, and I jumped out of my chair. Of course later I figured it out that it only worth a Lem rune damn it

[mb]

Unpopular opinion, but i think homun is best in slot for pvp. You can still hit 125 cast with out spirit.

40 from hoto
20 from arach
20 from 2 fcr rings
20 from trangs gloves
20 from godly circlet
Remaining 5 from caster ammy.

If caster ammy is 15 fcr or higher sub in one soj.

This allows the necro to use homun, which matches the skill boost from spirit, but can hit max block with WAY less dex than spirit.

Small addendum, I was super active in the 1.09 days. Shaft was best in slot due to the dr% cap being 75% not 50%. Shaft, stormshield and gaze or string were all pretty necessary.

[majinvegitto]

I remember running dual grandfathers on my whirlwind barb back in the day. At one point I had 3 of them then traded two of them for my only Windforce. In D2R I have found Grandfathers several times but don't even pick them up.

[cory]

Back then, the Buriza was simply called Ballista,

[RafaeldeLucena]

Ethereal Cruel Balrog Blade of Quickness was so dope back then

[Michael-hwvj]

I remember getting an 08windforce as a kid. Holy crap did I have a blast, that thing with the huge dex bonus was so powerful and before runewords were OP. So glad I got to experience all of these in their glory days.
Pretty sure you were right about the static, think there was a patch nerfing it around 1.10 or 1.09 but I can't remember.

[waltlock]

Homonculus at least comes with a hidden bonus to life, since you don't have to crank your strength up to wear the monarch shield. Some necros can still get some really nice use out of it.

[Travnorton]

I remember these days. When a decked out multi shot zon was king of the cow level. I never did find any of these items as a kid, but I remember how much fun pierce + knockback was for PvP. And having to play through the game with a shit build just so you’d be good for PvP later with no respecs

[potatolauncher]

Arkaine's Valor used to be highly sought after. Not so much now. BlackHand Key (or most necromancer wands) was wiped out by runewords. Cranium Basher was an awesome 2 hander with the 75% crushing blow, chance for amp damage and a bunch of other stats. Even the Bonehew (ohgree axe!) used to be a choice merc weapon. Buriza used to be an end game bow. Now, these are mostly just throwaway items.

[starvinforGarvin]

Allowing them to be socketed with a very slim chance of them getting 3 sockets would bring them back.

[devilsephiroth]

The Buriza-Do Kyanon is a romanticized Japanese pronunciation of "Blizzard Cannon"

Fun fact 😂

[jacobdhall]

Some of us were using 3p diamond tower shields

[Algonqiun]

I remember having doombringer and the grandfather for my barb. Shaft + WF on my zon and my zealot had lightsabre because couldn't get stormlash or schaeffers. Also ended up switching out my barbs doombringer to a ccboq

[Bobtheslob]

In middle school, I remember rocking a grandfathers with white rings on my barb. 😆

[Micloren]

Really curious what they were thinking when they launched runewords that killed all the uniques. At the very least someone should be tasked with bumping all the top tier uniques to be slightly better than the runewords. Only reason I can’t see this happening is if they’re all hardcoded in a bad way.

[mikemurray]

As a casual offline player, uniques are mostly bis for me because i will never find the runes for the top runewords. Looking for a Windforce for my strafezon currently. Found a Death's Fathom for my sorceress a few few weeks ago. I was stoked lol