Why cruel uniques so bad?

[renbrød]

I'm on act 3 of cruel and the unique's I'm getting are for a level 16..???? How does that make sense?

[Tazz]

for me as long as that unique shoes have movement speed that give 100% it dosn,t matter what level 16 or not i take it

[Diminutive]

Uniques don't scale level wise, if it drops at the start or late game, the level it will be will always be the same. The stats on the unique can differ in range though.

[Boomshanka]

Originally posted by renbrød:

I'm on act 3 of cruel and the unique's I'm getting are for a level 16..???? How does that make sense?

Its not so much the level of a unique, but the funky modifiers on them that could make a build.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by renbrød:

I'm on act 3 of cruel and the unique's I'm getting are for a level 16..???? How does that make sense?

rolled modifier is what determines the minumum required level to equip something.

You can get item level 80 , but only require level 40 to use it, determined by the modifiers.

[LastTourniquet]

Because when you roll for a unique drop your rolling from all available uniques up to the level of the zone/mob that dropped that particular item. The lower level uniques are inherently going to be more common.

That is just how look works.