Two Handed Swords and Weapons in general

[fe2o3]

Many affixes are unique, but not that awesome. An item with just two or three very good stats can be much much better than some double rare with an virtually endless list of stats.

Furthermore, double rares may be cooler and more interesting, but they are just awfully hard to get, if you want a particular item with a particular prefix and a particular suffix. With Etram Fald I’d say it’s much easier to get a particular legendary than it is to get some double rare, so you can more or less plan to get legendaries at some point. I’d never plan with some double rare.

Many magic or rare affixes are very limited. There may be some double rares and double rare MIs (and even some magic items) that are BiS for certain builds, but I’d say this is more an exception than a rule, especially when looking at skill bonuses and Granted Skills.

Take, for example, my current Vit Conjurer. Looking at important skills like SoC or Wendigo Totem, there are zero rare suffixes for Caster Off-Hands that are raising these skills. The best possible bonus a magic or rare Off-Hand can get on either of these skills is +1. On the other hand there are many epic or legendary Off-Hands with +1 to all Occultist skills or even +1 to all skills. Likewise the granted skills of many rares are very average when compared to their counterparts on epic or legendary items.

Well yeah, those items are difficult to find, that’s why it’s called the end game. It’s meant to be grindy and rewarding. Is it too difficult? Should there be another way to get those items like a way to reroll an affix or suffix at a cost? Maybe. But that’s another discussion, and if you were to make a thread about it, the title should be “is end game too hard / not accessible enough?” because clearly the alternative weapons and gears you are looking for at end game are already in the game.

The point is rare infrequent + epic + legendary cover pretty much all if not all class combinations. If you don’t find something for your character, you are not looking hard enough.

[Marcus]

Well yeah, those items are difficult to find, that’s why it’s called the end game. It’s meant to be grindy and rewarding. Is it too difficult? Should there be another way to get those items like a way to reroll an affix or suffix at a cost? Maybe. But that’s another discussion, and if you were to make a thread about it, the title should be “is end game too hard / not accessible enough?” because clearly the alternative weapons and gears you are looking for at end game are already in the game.

The point is rare infrequent + epic + legendary cover pretty much all if not all class combinations. If you don’t find something for your character, you are not looking hard enough.

I believe that was the original point of this post before it went off on the strange branch of weird class/element combinations. Physical 2H’ers is a niche…it’s not even a niche, its a major category of multiple cunning based builds…is not covered sufficiently in the end game 2H selection. This is the only glaring hole in the 2H itemization I can see and you can sail a ship through it.