I’ve never progressed much in a season but trying to do it this time and have question about upgrading gear. I use the mystic to reroll stats on gear and generally start with the best piece based on the maxroll stat priorities. But what do I do with the other pieces? Do I just dust them or is it worth putting them in cube to convert set item to see if they roll with better stats? Or is there something else useful I can do with those set pieces that I otherwise will not use?
Depends on the item itself, doesn’t it? Since you were so vague, it’s hard to provide a more specific answer, but usually one salvages the old item. Stash space is limited, after all. However, there are reasons for keeping items too.
There are many ways to upgrade your gear:
- You can gamble shards with Kadala for specific items
- You can use the Cube, recipe #2 and roll legendary items in hopes of getting a better one or an ancient one using bounty mats
- You can use cube recipe #3 to upgrade a yellow item for a legendary and sometimes an ancient item.
- Grind, Grind, Grind, Regular rifts and Greater Rifts.
As for items that are not that good I would salvage them for mats. Mats are king. If you upgrade your items you will need lots and lots of mats.
Hope this helps
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Yes, that helps. Sorry if I was not specific enough. I am running the Typhon Hydra build right now and when set pieces drop I check the stats against the maxroll guide for what stats I want on each piece and I pick the best one to reroll at the mystic based on the stats each piece starts with. Then I have a bunch of extra (for example, I have four helms). It sounds like the best thing to do is to salvage those helms, right?
Pieces you are not using…well, I am a pack rat. I try to keep one copy of anything with potential to be useful and put one copy in the cube. But a lot of stuff is not ever going to be useful, so feel free to dust those things immediately. Mostly try to keep the ancient items (or non-ancients with maxed special abilities).
You are going to get into cycles of running Nephilim rifts for keys and GRs for legendaries/bloodshards with bounties thrown in for mats need for the cube recipes.
Mostly only gamble bloodshards on 25 cost items and preferably on (a) key items for your build (b) item slots with low number of legendary options to maximize your chances of getting things you need. You want ancient items because those can be enchanted with the cube to hold more of your primary stat.
Cubewise, you can shortcut your weapon/offhand acquisition by upgrading rares as usually there are not a lot of different weapons in a given category (e.g. one-handed maces). You can get the rares by drop or crafting them at the blacksmith (level 70 required). Once you have two (one for keep, one for cube) you can consider the more expensive option of reforging to take a legendary to ancient (primal if you get lucky).
Rings are the devil. Not wise to gamble them and upgrading rares is unlikely to get you what you want. Wait for those to drop and reforge as necessary.
While you want bragging rights for completing high GR, functionally you will grind level 90/100 for quickie item generation/bloodshards (If you can do 100 in roughly the same time you do a 90, do 100, otherwise do 90).
But hey, I am no pro at this and take advice which comes along in the thread from one (check profiles) if one deigns to reply.
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Might keep one for reforging purposes, but yeah…mostly get rid of the spare ones.
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Normally , yes you would just salvage the rest. However, for this season, I’m assuming you are trying to complete the altar. In that case, have you already sacrificed a set helm to it?
Yes, already sacrificed a class helm. Trying to get the ancient hellfire amulet. : (
Just be aware that the “convert set item” cannot result in an ancient item.
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Only exception to that “keep one spare, salvage all other spares” is that you want keep many spares of item you plan to upgrade to primal. That’s because you want to salvage all the ones that have wrong stats. That way you can get small refund and you don’t end up wasting primordial ashes.
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I can see that you’re using Stricken gem now. In early stages and when running reasonably fast greater rifts, Bane of the powerful is much, much better. Stricken only works on one single monster at a time no matter how many you’re fighting (and then the extra 25% on the guardian and bosses).
You should also roll resistance to intelligence on the Guardian bracers.
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