I recently read a guide on what to do as Void Knight. I’m new, enjoying the game, and I just got to gearing. I saw the following item in their BiS list. I thought - well, I’ll just get to farming! I look into how a legendary item is actually created, and well…it’s not good:
You need to drop the actual base item from the source, at a reasonably high level to begin with. In this case, the chest hasn’t dropped for me in 4 kills.
You need to drop it with enough LP. In my case, that’d be 2, but 4 is next to impossible.
You need to have an Exalted item with the EXACT affixes you need, and the EXACT same type of item.
3.3) That Exalted item better not have too many other affixes on it.
You need to roll the affixes you need when combining.
This system is an atrocity, and has completely killed the game for me. I spent about ~70h so far, really enjoying myself, only to find out that all I’ll be doing is gambling, with absolutely nothing that can help me, if I just worked hard enough. I’m fine with some gambling, but when hardcore gambling is the only way to get these items…uh…something is wrong.
Please tell me am missing something, and it’s not this bad.
You do realize this is the only ARPG game where you can alter Unique items and actually make them crazy good even if they were already good and/or make shit uniques good because of the LP you can get on them. This is not even close to an atrocity it is something so creative and fun and it is something to look forward to as you farm.
You seem to be just impatient. I too need to farm the item Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros with at least 2 LP on it. Did not even drop it once after about 5-6 boss kills from where it drops. I do not mind though cause this is what these games are about. Farming items. You can try to go Merchants Guild and see if you find your item there. Party with your friends if you got any that play LE and maybe one of them drops the item and can trade it to you
My question was about whether or not I’m missing something about the crafting system, not what other ARPGs are doing and so on. I would titled the thread “opinions on the crafting system, anyone?”, if that’s what I wanted.
I believe a simple yes/no will help a lot of people who will have the same question as I did.
Well in that case the answer to a a simple question that you managed to get 3 paragraphs out of it is “no”. You are not missing anything you got the basic idea on how to craft a legendary item.
To be fair, PoE also lets you double corrupt uniques, so it’s not the only game that lets you do this.
Yes, BiS gear is really hard to get. Maybe CoF would help with that, although I think it’s much easier to just join MG, buy the unique you want with enough LP (and maybe also the exalted item) and then try your luck.
On a sidenote, make sure that you can get the drop with the current corruption you’re farming. Some boss-specific drops require higher corruption.
It’s not just the drop chance. Some items will only drop from bosses at corruption 200+. So if you’re farming them at corruption 100 they will never drop it, even if you run it thousands of times.
You don’t need the exact item in exalted. Only the same base. So any exalted gloves will work for your unique leather gloves with LP.
Secondly, you can forge the exalted and get it close to ideal before you paste it on your item to make a legendary. GL having a system as kind as this in games like Path of Exile. Or even considering it in Diablo.
I think it is the perfect level of challenge and I have been so pleasantly surprised by the balance team on Last Epoch! Many QOL improvements that other ARPGs do not have. Excited for what they bring us in the future!
You are talking about an already insanely powerful item. Making that “even better” is not necessary in the first place. This is only aspirational and in no way requried/mandatory.
Getting 1LP Wings of Argentus requries a lot of dedication and ideally you would want to craft this with an Exalted Item that has 4 usefull affixes for your build, so that regardless of what affix gets transfered it will make the item better.
Just because something exists, doesn’t mean it needs to be achieveable (2, 3 or 4LP Wings of Argentus).
