What's up with the rarity of alchemy/exalted orbs?
" u welcome. i forgot 1 thing. i was talking about high level crafting when u want to reroll an lvl60 item over and over again.. on a normal playthrou i usually always use an orb of transmutation on white pieces of the newest tier till i hit mods that help me progress. (if i hit nothing i throw them away). also now for example i do this on every white slink gloves i find in chaos zone hopeing to hit attack speed and another usefull mod. (i dont reroll a pair i just use transmutation on every white one and sell it if i hit nothing. thats much cheaper and they drop often) |
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Rolling alterations (transformations) is VERY weak.
Back in 0.93 or before (can't remember) when the droprate of regals was higher it was actually a viable option, and it seemed pretty balanced. But after the HUGE droprate changes reducing regal droprate, it became completely unviable to use regals with alteration. THEN TO MAKE THINGS WORSE... NPC selling was added, making alchemys extremely easier to get, making regals even LESS USEFUL for crafting, since people can just use a bunch of alchemy and scouring orbs instead. Even if you get a great suffix and prefix (pretty much the only good weapon suffix is attack speed, or in some cases a very high added damage or accuracy), the regal roll is still COMPLETELY RANDOM and will ALMOST CERTAINLY give a mod you don't want. I didn't do the number crunching (in fact, we don't know the mod weights to even calculate that), but I bet the chances of getting the other damage prefix mod is like 1 in 20, and then another like 1 in 3 or something to have it be a high one. I've only found like 2-3 regals from a ton of farming — aside from ripping people off, you can't get the number of regals required to even get close to crafting a good item without being very lucky. I just use regals on rings, since they seem to so rarely drop as rares for some reason, and alterations work kinda decent on them. Exalted seem to be just a bit too rare as well, but the issue isn't as bad as regals, because they are SUPPOSED to be very rare. Right now regals are as rare as exalted, which is really dumb in my opinion. Fresh cakes for all occasions.
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" Scourings are more rare than alchemy now... you can't really use alchemies as chaos orbs like you used to be able to. Also, with the vendor system, regals will be easier to come by... we already see people generating a few of them from triples (i've gotten 2 sets myself... expect to have more soon xD). IGN: Jerk, Princess
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" i sign this. i also got 2 regals allready from vendor system. also personally i would not use regal for weapon crafting because u have to hit ONE specific mod u can't get from alteration. (nevertheless i would give it a try if i have a lvl 60 weapon with cruel and high attack speed) i use it for jewelery, gloves and belt. (my rings and amulett with 3mods throu regal is better then anything i got from using at least 40 alchs) |
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I think orbs of fussing and the ones for colours of sockets, could have bigger drop rate. I found 10 of them in playing 35 lvl duelist, and spent all of them on just one item I got, cause lady luck wasn't there. Or maybe you could bring them to market, like for 3 socketed items one shard. also maybe shards should stack up to 10 for less valuable items. Although I collected 15 alchemy shards throughout the game. item rarity 84% boosted.
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"wait...? u have a lack of chromatics? It's one of the most common orbs if not the most common, due to the RGB-linked-recipe | |
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[/quote]wait...? u have a lack of chromatics? It's one of the most common orbs if not the most common, due to the RGB-linked-recipe[/quote]
rgb linked recipe? sorry, I don't know about what you're talking about. |
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when u sell an item with red-green-blue sockets linked u get a chromatic...and u get the items quite often ;)
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" thank you, but that would mean even more trips to town, oh, well. Thanks again, those trips to town are getting to0 much of the gameplay. Last edited by miasma#5821 on Jan 3, 2012, 6:16:55 AM
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I think a lot of people are getting hung up on small things..
1. If your weapon has 1 or 2 mods out of 5 that aren't ideal, it doesn't make the item worthless. 2. Obtaining gear that has all ideal mods should be extremely rare. 3. Complaining that random systems are random is just odd. People need to stop saying 'crafting' you aren't crafting anything, you are playing the lotto over and over and over.. nothing else, and buying 1/10/100 lottery tickets doesn't influence your odds of winning one bit, it just gives you one extra shot at being lucky. "the premier Action RPG for hardcore gamers."
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