I kept hearing about Harlequin Crest and how great it was. After months at level 100 I finally got one. And I was… underwhelmed.
One of the key specs of this thing was supposed to be +4 all skills, right? That’s what I read anyway.
Well nope. Not there. In its place they appear to have substituted “3% life steal”.
I would very much rather have the +4 all skills. The way it is now, it’s just another helmet. A good one, of course but I have two others that are more useful.
I think you got andariel’s visage if it has life steal.
Good joke. +1. Good luck getting it for reals.
Not a joke. Just a mistake. Lazyloaf had it right. I am looking at Andariel’s Visage. Which I’ve had for a while.
But here’s the worst part. I absolutely know I did have Harlequin Crest. I know it because I completely lost it when I saw it in my inventory.
I was going through my chest of stuff gathered during Duriel runs. I was adding equipment to scrap or enchant. I had a bunch of helmets. Andariel’s Visage was there and Godslayer was there and suddenly, holy hell, there it was. Harlequin Crest.
I immediately added to my inventory determined to make it my main helm. I added Andariel’s Visage too. figuring I would scrap it.
But I think I must have gotten the icons mixed up. Because the thing is, the Crest is not there now. Not in my inventory and not in my chests. But Andariel’s visage still is
Which means either I’m going crazy (I’m not) or I am the guy who scrapped Harlequin crest.
Yup.
Please kill me now.
Gotta flag those items as favorites and this won’t happen lol
I understand what you mean. I accidentally salvaged an almost perfect roll boots last night. I have spent lots of mats to get the roll right. It almost broke me.
A few mins later, I salvaged it by accident.
But, I guess salvaging a Shako would take the crown.
I was livid after salvaging a nigh perfect pair of gloves. But salvaging a shako takes the cake.
I think the devs need to seriously improve the ui and hot key assignments so that these things don’t happen.
For example, the default button for selling is right click. But if you press right click at the blacksmith, you end up swapping with what’s equipped. This is a recipe for disaster.
Idiotic design, imo.
the tools are already there. mark an item as a favorite = problem solved. Its not blizzards fault if you dont use whats in the game.
@OP damn, thats unfortunate. sorry for the loss of your shako. But hey, thats a life lesson, im sure from now on youll mark items as favorites ^^
If u can add shako cosmetic to a helm u salvaged it. Brutal. Sowwie
Don’t know it is nerf but I just drop my second Shako with clanmate 
had rather got Starless ring or GF . and clanmate had 2 starless and no Shako he still wish . too bad we can’t trade both . For info , 14 runs 2 players got Shako on 10th ( Andy last week on 8 runs 4 players )
lmao you had me for a second there. Good one.
That’s ANDARIEL’S VISAGE…
The Shako is almost impossible to get…
the shako is just as hard to get as andariels visage.
To check if you salvaged it, check your wardrobe and see if you have the transmog for it.
you only get the transmog if you salvage them.
I got a shako last week. after only 10 Duriel kills (9 if you discount the getting trapped under the platform on 1 run so had to quit the game.)
You’d think someone would check the name of the item before they go out of their way to most a forum post complaining about it, LOL
I’ve killed Duriel like 700 times…Only got Ahavarion so far…
I get that you’re a shill, but bad design is a bad design.
Have you ever taken a software engineering class?
What Blizzard has done here is called “operator overloading,” which is extremely dangerous in software engineering circles, so extreme caution is oft advised whenever using it.
More on this on O Reilly: oreilly (dot) com/library/view/sams-teach-yourself/0672324253/0672324253_ch21lev1sec4.html.
But yea, what the devs did was to put two different NPCs with very similar functions (I’d call them vendors) and overloaded the right click to do two completely different things in incredibly similar contexts.
That is bad design by any measure of software engineering principles.
And their bandaid fix is so dog turd; many people will not know about favoriting, because it’s not mentioned to the players from the get go. Furthermore, it is not protective against edge (or rather common) cases, because the difference between salvaging and not is separate by just a space bar which can be fat-fingered easily.
If they want to ensure safety, they should offer an option to lock in equipment to your character so that it cannot be taken off without an additional layer of confirmation.
At least D3 had account rollbacks. What does this game have?
It’s insanely hilarious how they seem to regress with each iteration.
Not to mention a host of bugs they’ve yet fixed like the infinite loading screen bug, Tibault’s bug, etc.
Oh, and the duping issue that continuously plagues this game.
These guys just suck at engineering.
If you have no idea what you’re talking about, just stay put.
You look like a buffoon.
That’s not operator overloading.
Operator overloading refers to making programming language operators (e.g. ‘+’, ‘-’, etc) have special meanings for special types in polymorphic languages. It does not refer to making keystrokes have different application functionality in different contexts.
Look, I’m the OP who foolishly salvaged the uber-unique helm that I’ve been waiting for forever. So I probably have more reason to be annoyed at this than anyone. But I’m not. Not one bit.
Because I’ve also been a software developer for decades. This stuff is hard. Really hard. It’s hard to make stuff work. It’s insanely hard to make it work intuitively for everybody in a manner that prevents unintended consequences, like say accidentally salvaging Harlequin Crest.
I don’t begrudge the developers their choices here. They’ve done an incredible job with this game. Maybe they can make it better but the heat they get is absurd.
Big kudos to you for taking this so calmly btw, i know for sure id have been super annoyed as well.
Hope this was the first and last time this happened to you.
Think of it this way. Your shako may be gone but we are nearing the end of the season anyways. It would just be stuck in the eternal realm when season 3 rolls around.