Forcing hidurares instead of uniques

[Crystalion]

And besides, most people wouldn't want rares instead of uniques.

I can think of many exceptions. But using gambling to make it more likely is such a minor effect for the time investment involved that it isn't much more than a curiousity, eh?

The primary case would be that some exceptional uniques suck, but a high ilvl drop might generate a nice cruel++ rare suitable for upgrading instead.

And here are a couple of very far fetched ones, just for illustration:

a. a bot runner sneaks into your game and views thousands of gamble screens, just for the joy of possibly depriving you of some of your unique drops over your next couple hours of play.

b. an item farmer in classic, for whom normal uniques are total irrecoverable junk, uses a bot to prep MF run games so his act boss kills will drop slightly more high ilvl rares for conversion to LoD and upgrading later.

Ignoring the silly bot/prep issue, #b is somewhat interesting, as the limited affixes/items in classic sometimes make certain drops and gambles "better" there than in LoD. For example, I suspect certain triple resist rares are easier to get in classic.

Certainly if you want white exceptional throwing weapons for imbue and then upgrade classic shops with a mid-level character will offer them (nm/hell) whereas LoD will not.

There are so many oddities in the game, most of them not very important, like the hidurares trivia in this post. ;)