D2: Resurrected - The Best Normal Uniques Worth Upgrading to Exceptional

[@greyfox1012]

There are a ton of vids on upgrading uniques and this is by far the best one in my opinion. Thanks for making this.

[@AkRogueToe]

I second this.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Wow! Thank you!

[@TitusRoman1989]

Great video! Been playing for over 20 years and never really bothered upgrading normal uniques.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thanks!

[@janpopelinsky2611]

excellent video, rly had fun watching it, even though rune words are superior, after you beat the game running unique char only is fun!

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thank you!

[@frankenstein3163]

Great shear. TY I have never used the exceptional to elate formula as I don't play that much making it to expensive for the exceptional to elate. I did do goldwrap belt.

[@TheTulioChannel]

I think sash from Death set with cannot be frozen is the best to upgrade for early melee chars

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Solid choice!

[@dredd6696]

Total agree on the steel driver, I like to use it while leveling a barbarian damage is insane for nightmare and can take u into hell easily (find a little life and mana leech and find some crushing blow for the bosses) the 40% IAS makes for a whirlwind killer

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Agreed! Steel's DPS is nuts. I've even taken Steel and Bonesnap as Normal as far as Act II Hell.

[@flamerollerx01]

One item you missed was The Hand of Broc, which provides dual leech and low requirements, though the extra defense is pretty low and the original defense is almost non existent. The runes required are pretty easy to farm though, so it's not a big waste of materials, especially if you have lots of them.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thanks for watching! Let me know what your favorite Normal Uniques, or even Set, items are for upgrading are down below!

[@iugoeswest]

I love upgrading perfect uniques.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

There's a cerain satisfaction to it

[@seilah8]

Thanks for the info

[@JSchocker]

Wow, how have I never seen your content yet? Great stuff; well done! Liked and aubscribed. Great video!

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thank you!

[@miquelsubira3076]

Super cool video!

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thank you!

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Excellent video:)

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thank you!

[@interstellartravel]

Awesome vid!

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Thank you!

[@pauliusgecas472]

Hotspur are sick boots and f-in difficult to find.

[@igorfiuza144]

I know it's not an unique, but Arctic Furs gets the craziest scaling in the game!

[@themystik_]

Some of the upgrades are nice if we're throwing the items on a lvl 30, lvl 45 dueler

[@interstellartravel]

I would just choose insight over any upgraded polearm though.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Granted you have the Runes and a solid base yeah. The pole upgrades were mostly desperation upgrades.

[@Zippwnage]

Are u going to do a exceptional > Elite version?

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

I'd definitely like to

[@qjmihuq100]

Are you insane? Bloodfist are one of the best pair of gloves in the entire game. 30 FHR and flat 40 life bonus is amazing.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

@@qjmihuq100 Oh totally agree! I was saying they’re on the lower end in defense boost, not affix value

[@dargaard3339]

blyaaa you havent mentioned butcher's child... why only 2h?

[@Sawubona2007]

Eth upped Bonesnap is great on an LLD charger

[@frankenstein3163]

Ween you say affixes carry's over are you saying the ones you didn't list will not carry over ?

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

More or less yes. The one I highlighted were mainly the better affixes

[@frankenstein3163]

@@LuketheGamerDuke I was thinking same. TY :)

[@josephpowers7155]

Ribcracker upped is sick on a fury druid

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Indeed! But Ribcracker is already Excpetional

[@alanrivademar3564]

Hay armas que si es necesario upgrear por que las opciones estan buena y despues de upgrear pegan mas obviamente y mejor si es Etereo :)

[@XLOBAXCIONX]

You forgot tarnhelm, wormskull, twitchthroe, darkglow, hawkmail, iceblink, boneflesh, silks, wall of eyeless, hand of broc, bfist, gfoot, and treads of cthon. Just saying. Awesome video tho, i know a lot of people dont know or even think about this stuff lol

[@WooliteMammoth]

There's no point in upgrading any of those though

[@XLOBAXCIONX]

@@WooliteMammoth yeah there is. If you don't have high runes, there's much need for upgrading

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

The primary reason I excluded many of those is the upgrade Defence was more on the lower end. But hey, if you find value in them, go for it!

[@XLOBAXCIONX]

@LuketheGamerDuke imo any of them are worth upgrading. The runes and gems are easy to obtain. Basically anything is worth upgrading at beginning of ladder

[@WooliteMammoth]

@@XLOBAXCIONX There's really no point. Extra defense is useless in this game, but definitely on things like a tarnhelm. compared to the use of the upgrading items, the utility of upgrading any of those doesn't hold up. Hand of broc and treads, iceblink and darkglow are literally trash, you're going to be using stealth if you're a caster or treachery/lionheart/hustle if you're melee. MAYBE some use case with CBF for hawkmail, but certainly not worth upgrading for a bit more defense.

[@GO-nf5bp]

Why not sets to

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

@@GO-nf5bp In due time, my friend! In due time

[@mauricek.7380]

I mean everyone is playing mosaic builds in some elemental variations but for a physical centered kicksin upgrading Gore Riders should be mentioned.

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Gore Rider would be a good one to upgrade. But Gore Rider boots are exceptional already.

[@mauricek.7380]

@@LuketheGamerDuke Yeah but i really mean to elite for boots kick damage. Not a must as the downside can be less vit/life but a more offensive option.

[@JeanAndGrey]

what website did you use for the voice?

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Oh that's my voice. I'm not much of an AI user

[@JotBeAusDe]

undead crown changes its look to crown of thiefs.. and this sucks

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

@@JotBeAusDe Yes, the upgraded Unique will take on the physical appearance of its new base’s Unique. But I mean, it’s not thaaaat bad is it?

[@mojo8940]

dont show how you make it ....

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

I didn't have all the Runes available to upgrade everything

[@saltitude]

The materials used to upgrade either weapon or armor was shown in the beginning

[@Powermongur]

Ribcracker?

[@Zombgetsu]

Was looking for this one. It is legit the best unique to upgrade by far. How could he miss this?!?! Literally an uber carrying wepon 😂

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Ribcracker is a great one to upgrade. But Ribcracker is already exceptional; this was highlighting Normal -> Exceptional

[@Zombgetsu]

@LuketheGamerDuke ah true. I forget cus it is kinda like on the verge, almost normal.

[@Chris-td4cv]

I like upped ribcracker with a shael

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Ribcracker is a good one! But it's already exceptional. This was highlighting Normal -> Exceptional

[@MarcoIsing]

in my opinion upgrade is not useful while leveling , just a big waste , and ur using runewords anyway if possible

[@XLOBAXCIONX]

It's useful af. If you don't have access to certain runewords then you gotta upgrade. Also, there's only runewords for armor shields helms and weapons. Lenymo, gwrap, nightsmoke, lenymo, are great upgrades. Gobtoe and tearhaunch are great Duskdeep, face of horror, tarn, coif, undead, and wormskull are all great

[@MarcoIsing]

@@XLOBAXCIONX if that works for u , i am fine with that , iam on normal only about 20-30 minutes for me its useless

[@Zombgetsu]

​@@XLOBAXCIONXthe best to upgrade by an entire mile to combat anything being said about rune words is... Ribcracker. Literally will carry you to ubers. 🤌💯

[@LuketheGamerDuke]

Well it depends on if you have all the Runes and bases readily available. If not, you can't make Runewords

[@MarcoIsing]

@@LuketheGamerDuke u farm stealth and maybe leaf on normal and wlak than ur way , not that hard , than u get spirit and lore and pldge of the ancients or rhyme . all easy to get easy farmable by doing countess runs a few times and than continue

[@ColaOfKoala]

Did that guy just say “hailbeard”?