Green Items are Unique

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

The ArenaNet update says the green items are "unique" if this is literally true then green items should be extremely expensive.

Even though the bosses drop greens, they will never drop a duplicate of an existing green, right?

Quote:
* Boss monsters in the new Sorrow's Furnace regions drop newly-introduced green "unique" weapons that are named after the boss.

Scaper-X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

San Francisco, CA Custom Title: Ninja Filmmaker

Agony Guild [Agny]

W/Mo

A quick glance around the forum will answer that for you.

Each drop their particular item. No variable stats. No differences. Notice that "unique" has quotation marks in your quotage of the update page.
-- Scaper-X

Levi Garett

Levi Garett

Old School Nub

Join Date: Jun 2005

ABQ, NM

Guildless

Mo/Me

That's like saying a gold 15>50 half moon 10/10 sundering +30hp Req. 9 can never be duplicated in another drop....Each is "unique" but they are the exact same thing.

There could easily be the exact same green item duplicated...

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

So each boss drops only the same perfect item, over and over? Or do they drop different perfect items every time?

Until two identical green items can be screenshotted together, they should be treaded as truely unique, IMHO.

Scaper-X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

San Francisco, CA Custom Title: Ninja Filmmaker

Agony Guild [Agny]

W/Mo

Again, yes.

All the Bludgeoners, all the Yakslappers, all like green items are identical to one another.
-- Scaper-X

Almighty Zi

Almighty Zi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Cheltenham, England

Servants Of Fortuna Victrix

They arent truly unique. I know at least 3 ppl that have the Yakslapper. All Yakslappers that I've seen have the same mods.

My-Excuse

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/Mo

does'nt this go against ANets mission statement to make each character unique? by allowing each player to easily aquire the same weapon with the same stats over and over (and not by chance or by buying it) they are contradicting themselves.

Mashekle

Mashekle

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

AR, U.S.A.

lol... thats so silly. You make no sense at all.. dont all armors of the same type have the same mods? omg Anet are hypocrites! Weres my tar and feathers!!

Sanji

Sanji

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/

Guild Wars is built around standardized equipment. This not a game to acquire a +5 Godly Gerbil Slaying Vorpal Sword of Thunder.

Aria

Aria

Sig Fairy

Join Date: Feb 2005

Once upon a time..

In games, one shouldn't take the definition of "unique" so literally. Many games have classifications of "unique," "rare," and again, those items aren't "unique" in the sense that there's only one, ever, in the game. They're simply tagged "unique" because they have a much lesser chance of dropping.

However, if one does wish to argue semantics, look up "unique" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Or any dictionary, for that matter. One of the meanings of "unique" is "a thing, fact, or circumstance which by reason of exceptional or special qualities stands alone and is without equal or parallel in its kind."

In that case, use of the term "unique" for a special, max item (exceptional in the fact that it possess maximum stats and is relatively rare) is neither wrong nor misleading.

Rieselle

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Melbourne, Australia

E/Rt

Whenever someone nearby asks "whats a green?", I reply, its a "named item".

Thats certainly a much better label for it than "unique".

Gerbill

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

The Frozen plains.

The Llanowar Legion [LL]

Me/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanji
Guild Wars is built around standardized equipment. This not a game to acquire a +5 Godly Gerbil Slaying Vorpal Sword of Thunder.
I feel loved =P

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

might as well get collector's

One and Two

One and Two

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

green looks cool. yellow is...meh.

Scaper-X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

San Francisco, CA Custom Title: Ninja Filmmaker

Agony Guild [Agny]

W/Mo

Yay, Aria.

Also, in case there's any doubt, green items are not "set" items. They do not combine with other green items to provide additional bonus mods. This is not Diablo II.
-- Scaper-X