Yeah I get oh you’re supposed to grind yadda yadda yadda but getting the crits you want is a 1 in 125 chance, and resetting it can be (depending on how high of a pit you can do efficiently) an incredible investment of time that can go up in smoke. Letting us pick level 12 sets the chances of getting the ones you want at a much more comfortable 1/25, and feels like a nice reward for capping a piece of gear.
Even if I’m not trying to get three specific crits…for example, my penitents (different math, a bit, as there are 4 affixes versus 5 on a legendary, but the idea still holds) I want movement and CC duration. I would accept any crit beyond that EXCEPT cold res which is a completely wasted crit for me. That chance of rolling it on level 12 when I’ve worked 4 and 8 to hit what I want is still high enough (1 in 4) that it’s a dreadful chance to have to redo 12 levels of masterworking mats again.
That, or, as others have stated, let us reset one tier at a time.
(Honestly I’d like to just pick all the crits but I doubt that will fly; I think either of these is a fair compromise.)
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You seem to have this misconception that the devs main concern is a good experience for the player. Nine tenths of their meetings probably revolve around “how can we make people spend more time in-game?”
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Oh no I am quite sure you are right lol
There would still have to be a balance somewhere that encourages continued play but tries to stave off burnout, but as we’ve seen, the D4 devs can’t balance ANYTHING. 
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I like the resetting one tier at a time idea. Let’s do that.
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This needs to be a thing NOW.
Also, there’s no need for traditional probability in this system. When a player resets a tier of masterworking, clearly they are trying to avoid the affix that was just rolled. Considering the gold and material cost of resetting, this system NEEDS to pick a DIFFERENT affix than the one that was just reset!
I’ve reset the same item 10 times now, and 7 of those 10 times hit the same affix. Over and over again. I’m on the verge of quitting this hamster wheel of a game.
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Resetting 1 tier at a time would be awesome.
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That would save a lot of mats and grinding work I am definitely for this if they change it
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I had another post on this too; currently I don’t think the crit is tied to the tier it was rolled on; but even so they could set it up so we picked the one to remove and it dropped us to the previous tier.
IE
9
8 (CRIT)
7
6
5
4 (CRIT)
3
2
1
is just 9/12 with 2 crits.
“I want to remove [whichever I pick]”
Item becomes 4/4 with the remaining crit.
I think it’s fair to have us redo the tier. I’d of course prefer just to remove down to the crit, but that’s even more unlikely.
yes, they need to somehow reward the players not punish them all the time and current resetting system does just that, frustrating the players…when one thinks how much he needs to grind again for a reset, makes u wanna quit the game
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Yeah, let’s say I can run tier 100 in 5 minutes (which I can’t.)
It takes 100 Ob. 260 Ing. 500 Neath. to cap an item. If I did my math right, it would take about an hour of this to take an item to 12/12. That’s if I get a new item, and I do not care about any of the crits.
Now there is some choice that comes in - if I only care about one crit, I’ll probably take it at least to 8/8 before I reset if I don’t get it, since that’s a very small expenditure of time.
If I want two, I’ll only take it to 4 - I’d rather the time spent to get it by 8/8 then take it to 8/8, reset if I don’t have one, and otherwise if I do, take it to 12/12 and pray.
If I want three - and I personally don’t - because of the time sink - I’m resetting every time I hit 4/4 and don’t get it. I’m resetting every time I hit 8/8 and don’t get it twice. And then I’m PRAYING at 11 that the crit hits and if it doesn’t I’m leaping off a bridge 
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I would bump this again now.
I spend hours of clicking on MW screen, not on farming, it’s hell absurd boring.
Please let us do more farming, not hours clicking on MW screen. Introduce improved resetting.
Even if cost 10k ob, it would be way better than now. It would make us free from hell MW clicking hour. TBH, 3-5k ob cost would be appropriate to reset 12g to 8g, I think.
Or add somthing random surprising result on each crit, but it costs devs time, so it would be little feasible.
thanks.
♪All right, Go back and click click click click reset
click clock flip flop reset
click click click click click click click click upset
click click click click mad mad mad!!!..
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Lets us get everything we want in 4 days like D3 so we can quit bored after 10 days in a 3 month season.
I like they “lock it in” per tier idea personally.