Top 5 Best Endgame Unique Items

Hey did you know there are uniques, you probably even have some, you might even like them. Here are the only five uniques for endgame.

Number 5: Anvil Crawler
Heavy melee is a good archetype and anvil crawler is good at it, number 5 could have been like 3 other things honestly.
Number 4: Albacore
This is a bit of an odd one since it has heavy competition in both Whitecap Crown and Sizzling Shawl. That said if you want to use stillwater/mpc/any other water hive item this is a useful alternative to Whitecap. It's also sometimes better without that caveat since it gives a lot more health, fire damage as well as water, and 1 mana regen. The damage is notable worse than Sizzling Shawl but if you want survivability (either in the form of SP or positive hpr) Albacore is your go to
Number 3: Vacuum
This is just a good item, not too much competition in its niche means that with it's 3/4 and good damages it gets to reign supreme.
Number 2: Yang
Damage slap go brr. Fits in any spell build unless you're cool or have to use bcata. Outclassed by intensity unless you're going sp tight or using a different master hive.
Number 1: Medeis
Ye this one is obvious. Not only is the health good with 40% effective spell damage, it also gives a massive amount of skill points. The worst you could get out of this would be 20 skill points if you aren't using dex for anything and even that's really good. This thing is even used more than Anima which is a master hive, and not getting to use anima means intensity or contrast. Busted item. If it was a legendary it would be a real good legendary.

Honorable Mentions: Impudent, Finesse
SP slap + damage for melee and spell respectively.

Anyway what are your 5 uniques, why are they the wrong ones? I am the supreme authority on builds and if you disagree I'll steal your dog. I've done it before and I'm willing to do it again. Oh, don't have a dog? Think that will stop me. I will give you a dog just to steal it.

 

i am a big fan of calidaddy mail

 

sparkling plate

 

While medeis provides better overall dmg stats than anima, it must be noted that anima provide mana Regen which aids in effective dps as well as -spellcosts which substitute the need for sp in most cases as well as provides purely positive elemental defences, especially considering that medeis’s -EA defences can be punishing in an endgame with TCC, Orphion and the eye as final bosses

 

Pro Tempore is a poor man's Memento, and definitely deserves a spot on the list! One could even make the case that this unique outclasses Memento, though that's up for debate.

Spleen Splitter is also another viable unique, especially if you can't afford Toxoplasmosis! With a massive 4,000 damage poison bonus coupled with some Life Steal, it is a viable alternative.

I'd also like to give a shoutout to Reminder, a solid intelligence ring, though Detective's Ring might be a bit superior.

 

Pro Tempore is honestly way better than memento since it gives more spell damage, more lifesteal and 10 skillpoints. The only problem is the mana steal, which doesn't matter anyway unless you are going spell steal

 

Anvil Crawler is pog

 

All of above, plus:
Sparkling plate - nice spell cost % and hpr, especially I find it really good to pair it with slayer to counter -hpr.

 

Sanos care, and Azurite

 

Cracklers cracklers cracklers cracklers cracklers

oh also silent ballet

 

Mmm it's really hard to narrow a list of good uniques down to only 5 items, since you can't really compare weapons to armors to accessories, but here's some of my favorites (Not including the ones already listed because yeah those are all good and have been argued for):

Helmets:
Caesura (Big dick damage helmet, one of the strongest if not the strongest damage helmets for its usecase (Earth/Thunder or Rainbow spell in situations where brainwash would be bad- ie. rainbow builds). It has some harsh -mana downsides so you need to build around it but otherwise amazing).
Aquamarine (Great helmet for Rainbow builds, with its sp, health regen, and most importantly mana regen.)
Myelin (Great thunder damage helmet, a bit glassy but it's basically sparkling visor with raw spell)
Neuron (Sparkling Visor but with mana regen)

Chestplates:
Fishscale (Basically Vacuum, but mana steal, and for W/F)
Ahm's Remains (Amazing Earth spell chestplate)
Calidade Mail (Amazing T/F tierstack chestplate)
Smack Jacket (Calidade Mail but E/T and no -hpr downside)

Leggings:
Struggle (Great piece for heavy hybrid thunder builds; one of the best armor -tier pieces)

Boots:
Pro Tempore (Hey remember 1.19 virtuoso? Here's that but with less of a downside.)
Curador Boots (Mana steal, life steal, sp, and health regen all in one boot? Hell yeah)
Boots of Blue Stone (25 SP for rainbow isn't bad, especially with some damage to boot. Still is out-performed by capricorn in most situations but it's good)

Rings:
Ataraxy (-tiers and Spell damage/Mana steal. Shame it increases your 3rd spell cost.)
The 8/9 sp rings: (Finesse, Impudent, Soldier, Reminder)
Photon (Baby's first summa. Also it doesn't have -hpr which makes it quite good for specific builds, especially if you're unwilling/not high level enough to grab a summa)

Bracelets:
The 8 Sp Bracelet family: (Power Bracelet, Pedometer, Latchkey, Example, and Multitool)
Esclavage: (Unironically good sp, 10 Sp for certain builds is pretty sick)

Wands:
Sequoia (Seems that most good poison weapons for each class are going to be uniques)
Drumstick (Cool off-meta choice for cancelstack mage)

Daggers:
Pencuri (Would be cooler if Sreggad didn't exist and was just an objectively better version, still kinda neat tho)

Bows:
Island Sniper (Unironically okay for tierstack archer)
Misconduct (Way more damage than it should have, but that's mostly due to being hyperoffensive superfast with the ability to abuse powders)

Spears:
Diaminar is okay, right?
(idfk)

Reliks:
SILENT BALLET WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Spleen splitter (Okay I lied about poison weapons for each class being mostly uniques I guess it's only wands and reliks)

 

Yahya's Nail Clipper. Don't ask.

 

Azurite, Aquamarine, Neuron, medeis, yang I use really frequently. Theres more but Im too lazy to name them.

@oinuk volcano

 

Those are true to a certain extent but when you're comparing a unique to a master hive item and your takeaway is that they're about on par and are good for different things you have a #1 pick. Though I think Bcata/Grookwarks kind of nullifies some of the positives of anima

I probably should have clarified that this list is uniques compared to other items in their slot (yang compared to other rings not to medeis)

They were two of the other candidates for #5, along with Aquamarine and Curador boots

Anyway seeing just how many items I didn't even think to consider for this thread reminds me of just how great the balance can be sometimes in this amazing system

 

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On the contrary, bcata + anima allows for even less investment into intel so you can afford to use more dex/def