I've had a feeling for a while that my unique variants don't really have a unique look or feel about them. Sure they have some statistical differences, but since the general philosophy of the game is to keep those sort of values hidden its very difficult to tell exactly what is unique about them. Thus I suggest that unique variants of weapons should have some sort of minor particle effect to distinguish them from their brethren.

These effects could either be randomly assigned upon the creation of the unique variant or could correlate the particular variant that the item has.

Feel free to post if you have any thoughts in this line of thinking.