I’ always beeline for the amulet echos, I’ve tried using CoF to spam 50 amulet drops at once, but still. Nothing useful ever.
But that’s one of the other points of the post: CoF is just useless. It’s a giant trap for new players and people who don’t live on the forums and didn’t know it was useless. MG is so much better it’s not even funny. I completely gimped my character progression because I clicked the wrong button for which guild to join and had no idea the difference was so drastic.
Switch to Merchant Guild and just buy upgrades. Focus on your weakest item slot and keep going from there. You can upgrade most of your gear in mere minutes by buying targetted upgrades once you have enough favour (and GOLD of course).
MG is awesome.
I hit level 3 and just grabbed a couple of Twisted Hearts and Omnis that various Alts needed, less than 100k.
CoF is for the birds.
IDK I’m debating making a CoF character just so I can farm Despair Glyphs and Runes of Ascension.
You know what? I thought you were just rash because you were newer and were looking for advice on how to overcome your untrue complaints but now you pissed me off because me and others have spent our time tonight genuinely trying to help you. Instead you spit in our faces and just want to cry. You gimped your character because you would rather complain then take actual feedback and apply it. Have you even played in MG? No? So how can you even compare it? I’m done with this convo.
so just thought I’d add a positive note to this thread … my sorcerer just found an exalted chest piece in a 100 corruption mono that is a nice upgrade.
So don’t lose faith CoF players! Upgrades do happen from time to time…
Yeah I dropped CoF, we will see how MG goes. Luckily only my idols and one ring had CoF tags so my gear wasnt completely gone.
Some of the poor bastards in this thread: Feeling underpowered, dropping nothing, don't know what to do - #13 by Sarkman
are having very similar issues to me, but they can’t even switch because all their gear is CoF tagged and they’d literally be naked.
EEG REALLY needs to add a “warning CoF is super hard mode” tag onto the faction selection. Better yet, they shouldn’t even be mutually exlusive. Just add CoF buffs to SSF players so they get faster faction rep. CoF is nice idea in theory, and it’s quite nice to have basically a bounty board to encourage you to do other content. The problem is that the rewards don’t exist. It’s just more loot that’s useless for your character.
Here’s a really funny thing.
Before 1.0 there were no factions.
So everyone was basically CoF but without CoF benefits 
The drop rates definitely were higher when I last played a couple years ago and crafting was much better. Or I’ve just been insanely unlucky in this run. I cannot get anything to drop- no + skills items, crafting just takes the max negative roll every single time. I haven’t had a single proc of sigil of hope when attempting to craft, despite it’s stated 25% chance (ive used it at least a few hundred times no without success). It seems like everything has been nerfed across the board in terms of itemization.
The drop rates pre1.0 were equivalent to Rank 1 CoF.
The thing that makes MG drop rates so superior is that you will get drops that are viable for dozens of different builds and all of them will indirectly contribute to the build you are using for yourself.
This is certainly a “you/skill issue”. How tf are you still using a lvl4 amulet? That’s just complete bullshit LOL. This post shows that every new game that launches will attract dumbasses that gets mad about everything that gets in their way. Good luck in MG my guy, we’ll probably see a post of yours next week when you cry about selling your items lower than others because the market shifts every week. Keep crying.
Because I haven’t had a better one drop? I havent had an exalted increased healing effectiveness drop (of any kind), and I haven’t had any other jade amulets drop with the affixes I need- I’m even picking up the white amulets and trying to craft on them but the white items typically only have 15-20 FP and brick after a single craft attempt. The IAS from a jade amulet is worth more than any other affix except an exalted increased healing effectiveness, so I’m stuck with the one that dropped at level 4.
Currently the amulet is 10% IAS melee attack speed, 27% void damage (useless for me) 25% phys damage, 15% chance to ignite, 24% frailty (not particularly useful either but its better than resists or health given that I’m already resist capped and using ward).
Yes it matters. Because dead = no dps. Especially if you’re running with t2 jade amulet found at level 4. That’s on YOU. Find any decent jade amulet and craft on them. Just either slam ias or healing effectiveness at t5. That’s not hard. That’s you being picky and blaming the game for your incompetence. Is this your first foray into ARPGs?
I brick them after 2 crafts every time man, I’m not slamming t5 anything. I’ve tried over 100 amulets so far. -18 FP every. Single. Craft.
And no, I’ve been playing ARPGs since the original diablo.
No. You’re being dramatic. That’s numerically impossible. I can go on and find any random item and guarantee a t5 in 3 tries. Consistently. The numbers don’t bare out your “experience”.
I don’t know what to tell you man, that’s what happens. Brick after brick after brick.
And I’m telling you it’s highly likely you’re doing something off. There’s no way you’re consistently unlucky. Everything falls within the average after a certain number. You can’t be getting to 80+ without hitting t5. That’s really numerically impossible.
And yet here I am hundreds of crafts in and still using the stupid amulet I got at level 4, because every craft bricks after 1 or 2 tries. And like I said, I’ve still not had a single proc of glyph of hope in those attempts either.
That’s unfortunate, and considering your experience I think your opinion is valid. I know everyone has mentioned the loot filter, but I didn’t see anything concrete about it here so – did you by any chance include attack speed in your amulets filter? Because the filter allows you to select affixes that the item type cannot have, and while the jade amulet has it as an implicit, it cannot actual get it as an affix.
If that is not the case, what I would normally do is just filter for the base and make sure it’s a rare with at least 1 affix I want, then it’s just crafting from there. Things that can help include selecting the appropriate drop rate blessing from the respective nodes in the corrupted monos, like increased specific shard type rate and the one that increases amulet drop chance. For all my characters I typically have my entire set at T5 composed of all affixes I want by level 80, on base item types I prefer, though I’m not that particular with the accessories as I normally choose the ones that give defensive implicits. Beyond that it’s exalted hunting which is a loot treadmill.
I don’t have experience with the MG faction but that also sounds like a much better alternative altogether. Good luck dude.
Hold on, by level 80 you should have enough shards to basically build your target amulet from scratch. You could probably get a white or blue with one good affix jade amulet and just add everything you want. Are you using the rune of discovery, and not adding the exact affix you want?
Edit: the reason I ask is because there is one reddit post that is exactly that – was struggling with crafting because the OP thought you had to RNG roll all empty affixes using the rune of discovery, and wasn’t adding the exact affix needed.
Link your character. Lastepochtools has an import function. I’m really trying to help and not discount your experience. And I’m sure you’d rather have a fun time. And I’m like 99% sure there’s something off with either your loot filter or your judgment in choosing what is an upgrade or upgradable.
I can help you in detail once I get home tonight.