Please no SACRED uniques on Tier 4

This was an issue for some classes last season. Especially from Varshan and Grigoire.

Finally got the new Starfall Coronet in a world tier IV Helltide that I have been desperately seeking.

Oh wait, it dropped as Sacred.

Please no more seasons with this. Please.

Sorry, just needed to vent.

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Blizzard originally said that Ancestral and Sacred would be close and you might not replace your Sacred items until much later in your journey. They explicitly stated they did not want Tiers to immediatelt have you swap out all your gear.

Well, uh, good try? Lol.

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Blizzard also gave an explanation as to why they can’t increase the amount of stash tabs players have. That doesn’t magically make it good game design that can no longer be scrutinized or criticized.

This may be true for legendaries. EDIT: It IS true for legendaries, I should have said.

UNIQUE items are supposed to drop within your world tier. NOT from the tier before. I am used to looting sacred legendaries on world tier 4. The aspects you can extract can still be of use.

You are not supposed to loot UNIQUE gear from prior world tiers. So I fail to understand your response. EDIT: I mean no disrespect for this. Happened to notice though that you got a like for spreading false information.

Feels bad indeed.
I clicked an Armor chest - Helms in fact - and saw the Unique :star2: on the map.
I was actually excited for a brief moment.
Until I looted the 1 Steel, 2 Elixirs and 1 AMULET… 700ip Sacred Banished Lord’s Talisman that dropped for my then 92 Sorc.
A Unique Amulet from a Helmet Chest in a Helltide. Not even bothering to report this oddity on the “bugs” forum.

anyway iirc - they said Sacred ‘Rares’ will no longer drop in WT4 but Legendary items can. But this was a bit ago.
Not sure what’s been changed if anything in recent patches.

I have no issue with Sacred Legendary items randomly dropping in WT4 if this is the case and by design. They’re all mostly just Blacksmith food anyway no matter the Item Power unless it’s a good, scaled Aspect.

BUT - Unique Items should NOT be dropping “Sacred” in WT4. Certainly not for higher level Characters regardless of where they are.

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I wonder if the current issue could be due to the Ashes thing where you can instill ashes and get a chance for an extra drop in Helltide chests? I have ashes instilled in this ability.

Also, it was a RINGS chest I went to, which gave me the unique helm I was seeking but on the wrong world tier.

-Not sure I can understand why it is so hard to make sure in the code that no one on tier IV receives Tier III uniques? They keep having to fix this!

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That’s bad example already. They have no idea what are they doing. Every briliant thought they have is being corrected by the players. They never listen until few months later. Sacred items in W4 are just stupid idea that’s all.

It was same with renown they said we would need to refarm it but look now.

I’m level 87, I don’t want to see another sacred! Didn’t they patch this last season so only ancestrial dropped in wt4? Did they branch an old version of the game missing all of the beneficial patches e.g. loot duplication which they are currently working on patching now :joy:

Didn’t Blizzard say before Season 2 that sacred item will be not shown on T4, but be transformed into results of salvation?

i kinda hate the whole normal/sacred/what ever stuff

you still get a sacred in the reward window for nm100s but other than that- the 925 loot is amazballs. i dont even pick stuff up anywhere else unless its just for salvage.

IMO if you’re playing in WT4 you should never see a sacred drop. Just drop it as the lowest possible ancestral instead, then we don’t have to pay the extra cost of putting a sacred aspect onto an ancestral.

Sacreds should never drop on T3 for any reason. IF you still need or want sacred items then stay on WT3

normal sacred ancestral should never be a thing in the first place.
You should be able to get a good item in wt3 and potentially keep it for a long time. But that cant happen now that there is clearly defined item brackets where your are supposed to upgrade. It ruins the arpg feel.

You should be able to get amazing things at lvl 10 for example, but nothing of that sort exists. In PoE you can get divine orb or even a mirror of kalandra at lvl 1. It makes lvling more exciting knowing that you can get the top stuff early on.

Levelling in D4 is a slog because you cannot get decent stuff. Everything is placeholder until sacred, and then everything is a placeholder yet again waiting for ancestral. Its just baad.

our robot should pick up and autosalvage all the junk drops. program a loot filter for it.

I believe they said sacred items would no longer drop from mobs in WT4, I don’t think they ever specified that you wouldn’t get sacred items from chests, NMD runs, Tree of Whispers, etc…

You know, gotta keep players chasing that carrot.

I wish it would only just drop ancestrals its crazy to note that the higher you go in world tiers you still can get normal, sacred, ancestral triple the loot yes but 99% is useless. What happens if they introduce another WT? will we have divine? that then turn the list into normal, scared, ancestral, divine?

Uber Unique → Pet Support - Construct automatically gathers gold, materials, globes, and will autosalvage items up to distant under an item power number you set.
Construct will also automatically activate shrine, open doors, and destroy barricades up to close distance.

nope. i am running NMD valuts level 100 and everything is 925

but the lazy blizzard havent fixed dungeon completion reward :)))))

you u got ilvl 600 items