Altars Overload

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Genuine question, what the heck is everyone doing with the amount of Altars that drop?

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what looks good and what doesn’t with these things. There seem to be so many variations and arrays that they almost always seem different but there’s no way I’d be able to store all of these things.

It’s way too early but something tells me I’m going to want to see a system that allows you to salvage these things and store their arrays then farm for mats and stuff to imprint the affixes you want and sink materials into upgrading them over time. Yada yada.

There’s just so many it’s a tad bit overwhelming.

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That’s a good question, I got a bunch of tabs but I have to go through them after. I think the ones in which you can equip multiple corrupted idols would probably be the best ones just given that you could get more stats/options etc. Then again I’m sure it could be seen as a ‘win’ more so I’m not sure.

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It’s way to many option and combination but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I stop to play time to time and sort stash and filter.

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Theres a filter for affixs but not names which is a bit weird so I just keep my eyes open for the one I want, tedious though.

Not as bad as their imprint nerf tho

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I quickly got to the point where I’m very picky about which ones I pick up. Most of them I don’t bother with unless they are either with 2 prefixes and 2 suffixes or have affixes that I think are worth it. Most I just leave on the ground now.

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I’m currently at two tabs and then really started to think, hold up, wtf am I doing with all of these. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to prioritize.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s a bad thing, but it’s new enough that I’m not sure how to be selective.

So are you just only prioritize based on your current build and needs? Not even worrying about potential other good ones for other builds? Do you think they drop often enough that when you do another build or character you’ll likely find one that’s useful for it and then you can target it? If that’s the case, I’ll likely set up a filter that only shows very specific ones for my particular build. It’ll make it a lot more manageable.

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make some time to go through them and sell if you dont want to store.

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CoF only. So that’s not really an option for me. But yeah, if I was MG I could definitely see doing that.

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I think I’m done for now with sorting altars.

If someone want i made altar filter for stash sorting. It doesn’t hide nothing but it can with easy edits.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/9QnaZG9A

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Oh that’s great. Thanks for sharing that!

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While this would be nice to have, ultimately altars are no different from idols. What do you do with the hundreds or thousands of idols that drop that you don’t use? You just leave them on the ground and have no way to reuse them.

Basically, like you yourself pointed out, the issue is that this is still new so players are still figuring out how best to filter them and which ones are worth keeping or not. Once they do, they’ll be no different than all those idols or even uniques (and even plenty of exalted items) that you don’t want. You just leave them on the ground or hidden by your filter.

As with all items, MG will have the option to sell and CoF will have basically no use for them either.

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What I generally do is a few things:

  1. I will try to look what are the single best mods for my build, then highlight these when they are like t5+
  2. Generally show all altars that have synergistic affixes (E. G. Multiple life or Ward affixes)
  3. See if any particular base altar effect is very useful for me. That one I will filter a little less strict at first and look at almost all that drop
  4. Show all altars with very high affix tiers and manually look at them if they have somewhat good affixes.

And then just hide the rest.

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i’m hoarding all of the ones with good affixes.
i don’t know what to do yet with altars, so many combinations.
i like this new idea, but for now it’s to much for my little brain to wrap around :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, this is what I quickly came to realize. Though I think it feels even more akin to a new gear slot because of the level of complexity.

With idols, the only real consideration are figuring out two best affixes than you hide everything else. With the new altars not only do you have the potential for, apparently, four different affixes you also have a new base affix as well as a ‘structure.’ Add it corruption and my head spun around a few times. :rofl:

I just wanted to get a little insight from what other people were seeing before I started ‘spring cleaning.’

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