I spent 180k Shattered Stone on amulets so you don't have to

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So, I just converted 180k Shattered Stone into Obols and bought 300 amulets. This is what I got.

  • 3/4 items for my build: 0
  • 4/4 items for my class: 0
  • 3/4 items for my class: 0
  • max rolled aspects for my build: 1 (Conceited so I could use it)
  • max rolled aspects for my class: 3 (Blighted, Rathma’s Chosen, Frenzied Dead lol)

I know it’s RNG but 300 is a large enough sample size to be relevant. It goes to show how terrible the odds are to get useful attributes on amulets. I should have tracked the number of items with contradicting stats, too. It feels like the vast majority has combinations like Summoning Skill Damage + Sacrificial aspect.

Don’t get me wrong. This post isn’t supposed to be overly negative. I’m sure the S4 patch will improve things. I just wanted to raise awareness.

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Yeah amulets are pure casino espec if you want specific passive node as well.

We can hope in S4 it will get trimmed a lot.

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Especially on Necro where you simply have to get a high roll of movement speed on boots and amulet. That alone devalues about 95% of drops.

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Blood builds are kinda ughhh because of this. You want to use Banished Lord’s Talisman but it doesn’t have +Movement Speed.

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True, I used an amulet with movement speed+movement speed after killing an elite+wind striker for farming on my BS Necro last season. Banished Lord’s isn’t great except for bossing or T100.
On barb, you hardly notice not having movement speed on that slot…

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I was level 85 and still using an amulet from world tier 1 because of bad itemization and guided rng, whenever I want to roll something I just take points out of what I want and it works every time

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i usualy use the “gambling” to get some missing aspects in to start a build or finished it, things like that but that doesnt seem possible this season, im getting everything what i not need … bad rng i guess :smiley:

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Yeah, I used to gamble for resource aspects like Umbral or Exposed Flesh. Those aren’t needed this season so a good amulet is the next best thing.

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PROTIP: You can buy GG amulets from the ring & amulet merchant. Check different towns. Never buy amulets with obols. Did you not play D3? :wink:

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Why shouldn’t I buy amulets with obols when there’s nothing better to spend them on?

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It is well known that you do not gamble gear with obols. It is for getting aspects only…unless you’re in T2/3.

Besides….why would you just not run vaults for gear? 925 gear in 70+ NMV drop like rain.

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Diablo 4 has good merchant merchandise. D3 it’s 100% junk. The trade off is you can gamble for primals. It would be like buying 400 caps here and getting a shako.

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I have all my aspects and full 925 gear. Those Shattered Stones where good for nothing else. /shrug

why would you just not run vaults for gear? 925 gear in 70+ NMV drop like rain

What do you think why I had 180k Shattered Stone?
Regardless, what you get from the vendor is representative of what drops. The point was how many of those 300 amulets where useful.

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Oh no. I get ya. The wasted stones issue is a bit disconcerting. They should have done something else than obols with them because those who have excess most likely have better or the best gear than what comes From the obols guy.

My only point was that gambling obols and expecting to get better/best gear is not appropriate as the purveyor is only for aspects.

The whole

Is 100% completely expected. If you got any usable gear from the purveyor i would have been more surprised.

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I just looked at the stats, which should be 100% the same as what you get from drops.

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Gloves is a good one to gamble. Lots of offensive defensive & utility. Stay in the lowest cost zone. Always have lots of keys too.

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You were right to gamble on Amulets.
Looking for a BASE ITEM - not Aspects in late game - Rings and Amulets are what Obols should ideally be spent on.
Gloves as well I suppose since IP doesn’t affect their scaling in any way outside of base armor(minus Aspect scaling ofc but that’s not the discussion).
There’s zero difference between Curio Vendor, Standard items vendors and world drops - just some arbitrary IP throttling.

It sucks to read that out of 300 nothing panned out for you.
That’s pretty atrocious item design with confetti affixes we know and love.

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Do you even need BiS to complete the season journey?

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Seems to me they could build a crafting solution that allows players to refine/build items at high cost. At the point of end game not much else to do but min/max.

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The what now? /20char