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Very often u get rare items that are much better than a unique item. I'd use the rare item untill you get more items of the same unique "set", more of these worn at the same time will probably boost your bonus stats for the set. Some complete unique sets will have relatively low stats, whereas other ...

The official patch for DS2 solves this problem, amongst others, check the site for it, it's an 12 Mb patch I think! It also lists all of the fixes for DS2.