I just experienced a Critical Success when using the Glyph of Despair on a T2 affix. My goal, obviously, was to seal that affix. Starting this attempt at T2 means I have 3 attempts.
Unfortunately, I got a “critical success”, which (unluckily) caused that affix to get +2 tiers, making it T4 and still not sealed.
It feels really bad to have a “critical success” that works against my goals. It ended up ruining my forging attempt (I subsequently failed to seal the affix on T4->T5).
Either a Critical Success on a Glyph of Despair should force a successful seal (maybe seal and +1?) or it should at least not cause the target affix to get the additional level.
The glyph needs to have a higher chance to proc too. In around 150 hours I’ve only picked up around 25 of them and out of 10 or so attempts I’ve only managed to seal one affix. Feels bad when something that rare doesn’t even work most of the time.
They glyph has a different ‘proc’ at each tier. Tier 1 is very close to 100% (i’ve heard of one person failing). and then it goes down the higher you get. it’d be unbalanced to have this be higher as everyone would be running around with sealed t4 stuff. I’ve sealed every T1 I’ve ever tried. Most t2s. I even have one sealed t4.
They should be rare the higher up you try to seal.
On topic though, I kinda agree with the OP, when using a Glyph of Despair you shouldn’t be able to get a crit success, or if you do, it should seal it AND raise another affix by 1.
The problem is they advance the tier when they fail. I’m fine with rarer at higher tiers, but let me exhaust as much FP as possible trying to seal that T4. Not just a 1-and-done at 10% chance.
Honest question, I’m not following what you mean here. Can you example it so it’s easier to understand.
Are you saying you want it to STAY at t4 so you can try multiple times to seal it as long as you have the FP? If so, I’m not sure I agree with that. I still think it’d make sealed t4s more common then they should be. If they did this then they’d have to make the ‘chance’ to seal it less as well.
Let’s say t4 is a 10% chance. If you’ve got say 30 FP left. T4. First one fails. 15 FP. Second one fails. 5 FP. Third try… all of those were at 10% chance. but you’ve gotten to try it three times.
Except in this path people would probably stop sealing t1/t2. Everyone would just only use them on t3/t4. So the rarity of a Despair is somewhat less problematic. Shrug. I don’t know. Maybe they can tweak around with it and try some of this stuff to see how it changes the availability/balance.
Yeah, I don’t know either. FP would be the real limiter, because you’d still need enough left over to make sealing that T4 worthwhile. Would there really be a difference between sealing a T4, but only being able to get a T2 to replace it…and what we have today?
Good point I imagine there would be some scenarios strategically that would make that ideal but it does seem sort of what we’ve got now. Maybe tweaks to the FP cost?
Aaaand the exact same thing just happened to me, and I bricked my t7 ring.
“Critical success” should be a success, not a failure! In case of Glyph of Despair it should seal the affix (perhaps with +1, making t5 sealing possible in case of a crit).
