Legacy Items In PoE2?

I have yet to see a forum post about this but, I noticed a lot of updates to unique items in the recent patch. Some of the stats of certain uniques you already owned prior to the patch can be updated using a divine orb. I am certain most players won't bother doing that since a lot of the items are not worth using a divine.

I know GGG made a forum post many years ago in regards to why they can't remove legacy items from the game due to long downtime where no one gets to play at all whether it could take days or weeks. But since this game is still new, that shouldn't be an issue. And they can't use that as an argument anymore until it gets to the point where it actually does.

I am not against the idea of having legacy variants in game, but I am thinking that this is what GGG intends to do for every unique item that requires some rebalancing or stat modifications in future patches/updates.



But is this something that we need?

I am curious as to what GGG thinks about it and what their stance is.

What are your thoughts?

I have always thought that items in permanent leagues should maintain their original stats.
Legacy variants can end up with a pedigree so to speak.

Mostly the league system takes care of that.
However, I am certain our EA characters will at some point be retired to a void league, possibly repeatedly, and not flow into what will eventually be the PoE2 standard league.
Or maybe they will, not like many people would care.
It's early access, they are testing things out, and I sure hope they have different priorities right now.

i don't mind legacy items being in the game, although it does conjure up some toxic behaviour related to ppl thinking everything is bad if they don't use broken op legacy stuff.

but that aside, i'd love if we could have a small "Legacy" text anywhere on those items tooltip? pls, that would be great :-)

Having a super OP unique item (that is no longer attainable in that form) gathering dust in my untouched standard league stash is my final endgame.

That 80% ingenuity is my trophy of a bygone era, an item from ages past in the time of long long ago... or 2 months w/e. Even though I'll probably never look at it again, I like knowing I have one.

I really hope EA gets voided.

All of it.

I really want the names that ppl got >.<

Also, EA should not be standard not ever.