Unique items are worthless

[Opochtli]

I'm all for rares having the higher ceiling, but I'v just looked at all the uniques in the game from a wiki plus the ones I'v looted and they're literally all garbage. They get outclassed extremely fast even in the early game, they are also not build defining either, thats what they were in poe1, weird and powerful in the right build. They lack the defenses, they lack the resistances and the defining stat that is usualy at the bottom isnt worth it either. Also, why limit them to 4 modifiers? Give them some sauce!! 4 modifiers for early uniques is fine but when you get to lvl 60 uniques and all you get is 300 armor, 25% to fire resist a bit of life and a crappy effect that no builds want, like whats the point?

[BadToast]

I generally agree, a lot of uniques need some more stats.

I'm waiting for Acts 4-6 though. Some uniques are clearly missing because of that. Like 2H Maces, there are only 6 unique 2H maces and all are Early-game bases. There are no mid or end-game unique 2H maces or base types in the game yet.

Their base types are the 2H maces from Acts 1-3. And we don't have base-types from Acts 4-6 and Endgame for some item types yet. At Exilecon last year they said every single base type would have 1 unique.

[Insanitor]

A lot of uniques are really bad, and some are really amazing.
I found a pair of Level 11 unique boots that cast Lv. 13 Decompose while Walking. I kept those till my mid 50s :D

[UnknownOne]

They will make uniques better once they add gambling currencies for them. This is not an aRPG. It's a gambling simulator.

[5ean5ean]

Depends on your build. There are a bunch of unique rings and amulets that are straight OP and Expensive AF like Original Sin, Dream Fragments, Everlasting Gaze, Astramentis.