Masterwork / Tempering Gamble

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Hello everyone,

I would like to provide my feedback (pain) for masterworking and tempering.

So, overall changes to d4 s4 were so required, and most of them are great, but it seems devs that implemented brick tempering system and masterwork slot machine just don’t respect player time at all. Getting an item with 3 greater affixes you want is not an easy deal, but when it can be bricked it’s just ridiculous.

Tempering is not that huge pain with pity rolls (when you roll on bunch of similar trash items and then slap on the right one), still it’s a dance with tambourine - not guaranteed. We definitely need some way to add more tempering rolls!

But fine, let’s assume you are all decked out with perfect gear and perfect tempers - then it’s time to focus masterworks for the best results, and this stage is killing me inside - it’s just not fun.

I’ve spent more than 1b gold and Lilith knows how many masterwork materials to get 3 procs into one affix in a row on one item - desired result is not achieved.

I can’t push pit 135+ due this issue, and I have less and less desire to fast run pit 100 for the mats. It feels awful to work towars something when it all comes to rng. There should be some way to weighten odds of getting what you want as an affix!

What’s your experience and how do you feel about it?

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I feel exactly the same way. I think this needs to be reworked to encourage more game play - and not less.

Getting that perfect 3GA affix on a piece of gear is already hard enough, you shouldn’t be punished by layering a bricking mechanism on top of it. It just feels super bad and when the norm is to actually brick 9 out of 10 pieces of gear if you’re looking for specific attributes from tempering (which I assume almost everyone is) - it feels super frustrating

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There is a crutch solution that seems to help with tempering - when you temper trash items waiting for ~4 tempers in a row with something you are not looking for and on the 5th you temper your proper item, and in most cases you get what you want (there is a rumor that’s how “pity” mechanic works). But man, this masterworks focus crit on one affix just blows my mind. Found a reddit post about average cost to x3 crit on one item. What a time dump running for Neathiron! I would prefer to choose what to masterwork for higher prices than to play that slot machine. At least Neathiron should drop somewhere else, cause I’m going crazy with useless pit farming for nothing - I still have no items with x3 masterwork.