Is anyone else running into a veiled crystal bottleneck in the endgame? I am having a hell of a time getting enough to experiment with gear. I farm for an hour and get maybe 2,000 and then blow it all upgrading 1 amulet. WTF blizzard. I think this needs to be addressed. It costs 45 every time we do anything. This needs to be reduced by half. I am basically pigeonholed into one build and can’t branch out without farming for a week straight. Literally. Am I the only one seeing this?
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Yeah the masterworking rerolls will do that but I like it how it is since it forces you to think. Doing some Torm boss runs and salvaging all items fixed the problem.
Not really. Maybe for 1 item. But try reworking all your gear. And then come back and tell me what you think.
Yep, for those of us that want particular rolls… veiled crystals are an issue. Anyone that is not running into the issue is not seriously rerolling.
Why Blizzard does not simplify the mats or come up with some sort of exchange system for mats is beyond me. I am not sure they playtest any of the endgame.
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They either need to pick one - make the grind about the resource sink or the RNG. The mind-numbingly frustrating tempering/masterworking system just encourages people to stop playing the season after 200+ rerolls of garbage and all the farming to get disappointed (yet) again. I stopped early into season 5 on my first toon because of this and I’m usually a 4 characters/season type of nutjob.
me too, already posted about it…they seem to ease up on some mats and then toughen up on others and it just goes around
exactly that, all crystals go into rerolling , and i’m salvaging all the gear i get, still not enough
This is insane.
They finally raised Rawhide and Iron Chunks… events yield 100x of those now, but will give you only a handful of veiled crystals, which are used for everything: tempering, enchanting, rerolling, masterworking, etc.
Salvaging a whole inventory doesn’t get you enough for masterworking from 1 to 4.
You go farm obducite on Hordes or Dungeons… and you get stick on effing crystals!!!
Insane.
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I am done with this game! All I do is farm, farm and farm! Blizzard is tone deaf to the issues in Diablo 4! Tempering is another huge issue. Their half attempt to fix it is still not enough! With the low drop rates of GA items, we have to pay stupid amounts of gold for items, and then to just loose the item because of their broken tempering system! Nah man really I am done!
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What shortage?
https://i.imgur.com/mL7A1F7.jpeg
100K is nothing… spent 40k in two days trying for a triple crit on a pair of pants. Got one double crit at 21k veiled spent and another at ~35k. Both times they didn’t triple crit. Another 5k spent and not even a double crit again and then had to stop to go farm bosses for more veiled since I ran out.
Now try masterworking a full set of armor. Try playing an alt, or another build, or anything else. You very quickly run out of crystals.
There’s also the fact that crystals are used in nearly every facet of the game - transmuting boss mats, crafting incense imprinting, enchanting, crafting caches, tempering, and masterworking.
It’s another bad bottleneck that should be addressed.
If you’re wasting your mats endlessly on Triple Crit attempts that’s on you, not the game. Double Crit is more than enough for a good build. Double Crit also costs next to nothing and is SUPER easy to do assuming you always reset on first rank until you get the Crit you need.
Did you even read what I wrote?
It took me 21k crystals to get my first double crit on the pants. Then another nearly 15k to get a second double crit. So even with your flawed logic, it’s still very expensive. 100K isn’t even enough for full upgrades on armor. And that’s only for one build/class/etc.
And that’s with your attempt at gatekeeping how others play the game.
“If you are wasting your time on double crits, that’s on you, single crits are more than enough for a good build and cost next to nothing.”
“If you are wasting your time leveling, that’s on you, you don’t need to be max level to play the game.”
“If you are wasting your time playing the game, you don’t need to play the game. That’s on you, mountain climbing is a good enough hobby.”
Truth is, you are wrong. If SB wasn’t broken because of bugged interactions, you would need proper rolls to push content like pit 100-150. All other classes need to optimize their gear to make progress.
Sorry dude but you’re either doing something wrong or you’re lying to defend your argument. I’ve managed to double crit everything I’ve needed to and even hit 2 triple crits. I’ve changed gear multiple times throughout the season and I still have over 100k veiled crystals in spite of that. So either you’re wasting your mats, or you’re just not actually spending any time farming.
I don’t really care if you agree with me or not. You can try to fight with me all you want. What your spending vs farming just doesn’t add up. If it did, I too would have no veiled crystals.
Yes, I am doing something wrong because “RNG” decides to not give me a double crit in 15K + mats. Sound logic there bud. It’s not like Blizzard already attempted to hotfix this same issue, and even brought it up on their most recent campfire. Nor does a quick forum search show others running into this very same bottleneck. Oh wait…
Also, nice job doubling down on your gate keeping.
Ok you’re getting ignored. Bye now.
That’s okay, reported you for harassment.