I have gotten my ring to rank 4 masterwork 4 times and every time it hits rank 4 it gives the 25% increase to the same stat when there are 5 possible stats to buff. It reminds me of the bug when enchanting where you could only roll 2 stats. I don’t wanna spend the resources to keep upgrading it and resetting if it is bugged but i cant be positive that it is bugged without wasting more resources/time, I could have just gotten mega unlucky.
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Got the same thing after 2 tries as well… talk about gold sink.
I spent 10 mil and mats to reset it twice, got the same stat 3 times in a row. How is that possible?
Hi. I can confirm this is a bug. But there is also something else going on here.
I reset a pair of bracers 4 times, which had hit one of the tempered stats. Every time i masterworked it again i got the same stat. Ok thats 1/10000 or so so not a proof.
For the fourth time, however, I thought lets log out in between. So i paid the cost to reset, check that the item was 0/12 and logged out. When i logged in the item was 4/12 again and the 5 million gold was still missing.
To test this again, I reset again for 5 million gold, went and killed Duriel a couple of times with gloves 0/12, I then exited the game with 0/12 gloves. When i logged back in they are yet again 4/12.
So somehow the item remember its old crafting, and I believe this is what is happening when we recraft them. They just go back to their bugged imprinted forever state.
Would be really interesting to hear an official response to this. I wouldn’t mind the 30 mil or so back but its much more important to get it fixed.
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The same thing is happening with Tempering. I havent quite gotten to Masterworking gear, but when I temper an item that is already tempered it gives me the same Tempered Affix again. I could chock it up to bad luck but it has happened to 3 separate pieces of gear a total of 7 times, so I’m going to say both Tempering and Masterworking are bugged. I think you’re on to something with the game just remembering the piece of gear instead of giving you a new one with a different stat.
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weightings + devs wanting players to play longer. probably intended.
The item being reset and not masterworked when you log out and when i log back in, it has gotten back it’s masterwork surely cant be intended?
To be clear. I did not even go to the blacksmith again. It just magically got its masterwork back.
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JamesTKirk the same happened to me. I also got the same masterworking result 3 times in a row and when I re-logged after resetting the item it was back to 4/12.
And there is another interesting thing: If you reset your masterworked item and check your stats tab it will still show the masterworked stats added.
I assume the item just resets visually but the state of the item and therefore the stats remain the same and that’s why the same affix ist masterworked again.
I definitely will not engage with this system until this bug is fixed.
As a workaround for now I reset the item, log out and back in to see that it is not remembering its masterwork. I’ve had success this far. Not success getting what I want, but at least it works as intended and rolls differently and not magically reappearing as masterworked.
Unfortunately nothing works for me. Leaving the game, logging out, quitting diablo IV. My item always reappears as 4/12 after joining a game.
I already put 20 mio gold down the drain and do not want to try further.
Yes, I have identified two items for me that keeps it masterwork even after reset and logging out. I did get benefit from upgrading it to 8/12, but sadly can’t reset it.
What I meant was, instead of spending 30 million gold on rerolling a bugged item. A horrible, but still somewhat useful approach for me, is to reset, logout and see if the item is bugged or not. If it resets correctly I can spend more gold and resources on it. If it doesn’t reset, then I know I’m stuck with whatever it rolled.
Sadly it cost me 5 million to find out.
This just happened to me too. Reset masterwork on an item 5 times and kept getting the same affix upgraded. This affix is the same affix that was upgraded the very first time I masterworked the item.
Searched Google and found this topic. Tried logging out after resetting it a 6th time and logged back in to it at 4/12. I am unlikely to find another copy of this item with these affixes, so I hope this is fixed at some point so I can stop upgrading dodge.
So we know that an item CAN be locked and that reset stops working on it.
Can we try to figure out what causes it? I have a pair of gloves and a one handed mace. Playing barbarian. I can’t say that I have done anything different what I know with these two items.
If we can find the cause then we can at least try to avoid it from happening since it doesn’t happen to all items.
I just had two more items locked. An amulet and a ring. Reset the two items at the same time. Lost 10 million gold. Logged out and both are 4/12 again. Luckily i won’t spend more mats and gold on them but it also mean I cant get a better proc than overcapped resistance on the items 
This really needs to be addressed.
I’ve also had this bug on multiple items. This also happens with tempering
Does any1 know if masterorking 4th time, can “crit” on tempered stats?
Or only the standard stats?
It is not really the topic of the thread nor a proper question for a bug report section. But I don’t mind the bump on the thread.
Yes, it can crit on any of the 5 stats. Tempered included. It can’t affect legendary aspects.
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Rerolled my Rank 8/12 pants 4 times.
Each time I got a double-masterwork on INT.
The first two times it was funny.
The third time, it started to feel odd.
The fourth time, it crossed over to creepy, and I googled in case there is a bug with items not resetting properly because 1 in 390.625 starts to be very-very unlikely.
More than 5 times more unlikely than getting 2 Harlequin’s Crest in a row from regular Duriel in two kills.
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I’m now at 5 rerolls with the same stat. This is a joke.
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This bug is NOT fixed.
They have fixed the issue where resetting the item and logging out caused the item to still be masterworked (see earlier posts). The problem is, it is still locked into the same stat.
It seem they have fixed a visual bug of the item being locked in to one single stat. But even still, resetting the bugged item will result in the same stat being masterworked, over and over again.