Masterwork needs a huge overhaul

Why would anyone want to farm 100k obducite to role an items for an hour over and over again. Then to not even get the 3 in arrow you need. Costing about 1billion in gold plus 3000 forgotten souls. About the dumbest thing in this game.

I wish i had 1 billion gold but that is not possible in SSF.

I have the forgotten souls tho

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I play SSF an managed to reach 1 billion gold. Did around 230 Boss runs last weekend. Burned all the mats I have been farming for weeks. Earned hundreds of million gold selling the hundreds of crappy Uniques that dropped.

Run the Undercity with all the Obducite Tributes I had (not that many) and countless NMDs. Collected around 50K Obducite.

Visited the Blacksmith to Masterwork my gear, just trying to go from 1 GA Uniques with low main stat to 1 GA Unique with better main stat.

End result: a double crit for one of my items, 600 million gold and 50K Obducite lost.

I don’t believe I will do it again.

I also have plenty of Forgotten Souls. That’s a mat I will never run off.

Let’s actually talk about what triple crit means.

If your goal is triple crit you should be on the final leg of your gear journey. There is no more gear. You are not picking up anything else. You do not care about other items. All else goes to the firepit no matter it’s rarity. There is only the thing you have that you intend to take to triple.

This also means that all that is left for you in the game is this goal. There are no other goals. You’re well beyond the monsters and the challenge is now all just you achieving a spreadsheet perfect result. You’ve maxed out all the aspects, or are soon to, that you would even care about, you’ve decided after 10 hours in that lesser game made for all the other plebs that you have no reason to do anything but this and achieve the greatness that is yours to take.

But this also means that you’re no longer playing “the game” as intended. You’ve left orbit. The developer’s watch in horror as you take it upon yourself to earn thousands upon thousands of the resource just to get this outcome praying for you to stop but you refuse. So in S9 they give a little potion that gives +15% more obducite to ease your wounds knowing that you won’t stop. They ‘respect’ that. They can’t really rebalance the system around you, triple critter, but they can try to help a little from the shadows.

So if nothing else you’re a masochist for no reason in a game that was never interested in taking all that from you. The highest difficulty requires no such thing and yet, without shadow of a doubt, you find that even having to spend a millionth of a second in a fight is beneath your infinite glory.

You are a Triple Crit.

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maybe you didn’t carry all those uniques from lair bosses and sell them?
i did and in no time getting 2bil.

Gambling addicts and the people who’ve convinced themselves if it’s not sheer RNG it doesn’t belong in a looter ARPG.

Don’t forget the min-maxers and streamers!

For me, it is only worth continuing to play if there is room for progression. Sometimes, when I feel there isn’t anymore, I just start levelling an alt.

My gear is still all 1 GA, main stat is not the best on my Uniques. I have a Mythic, Starless Ring, more than many, but could be better.

When you do 230 Boss runs and don’t get anything out of it, you just look at other options to keep progressing. I wasn’t expecting Tripple Crit, too expensive on Obducite, double would have been fine but I only got it one one item. Wasn’t worth the effort.

See, I’m with you on this. I build what I want and when I am done with it because I don’t think I can take it further I set it down and go live my life doing something else. I’ve never hit a triple crit on purpose in my entire career. I mean you have me beat on dedication; I don’t think I’ve ever done 100 boss runs in a season because I don’t think I’ve ever been that vested in a build idea.

Or, if I have, I never counted. Maybe that’s the secret.