I think at this point everyone who’s played this season since launch has gotten frustrated with some aspects of the new season. Don’t get me wrong I’ve gotten further this season than any of the previous ones it’s just that spending a week(s) grinding towards a goal that seems unattainable with little to nothing to show for it is extremely disappointing and irritating. So here’s my suggestion: make masterworking reset doable by tier rather than only going back to zero. For example if you go to 4/12 and don’t hit one of the desired affixes you can pay 1mil to reset. Tier two maybe 3mil and tier three 5mil. That way if you get good rolls on the first and/or second tiers you don’t have to start all the way over to get your gear the way you want it. Refunding some mats would be nice too but one can only dream right?
As for tempering there has to be a better way. Every time I’ve tried to temper a piece of 2+GA gear that’s actually good for my class it’s bricked. I bricked a ring trying to roll a 2/3 and rolled the third and only unusable option six times in a row. Maybe make it like the occultist enchanting where you have two choices? Or at least make it so the same thing can’t roll back to back. The whole selling point of the new system was being able to have more control over your gear but 2 and 3 GA useable items are so rare that the probability of bricking them makes the whole process very upsetting to those of us trying to take their chars to the next level and spending countless hours grinding for mats and farming for gear only to have them turned to trash the second we finally find them or wasting time over and over running the pit just to have masterworking hit the same worthless affix over and over.