I don’t see a use for them. Even if you find a great base you aren’t able to make anything of value even if u get a god roll and get 5 instability. I think it should either remove all affixes except one, or split it into two runes, prefix cleansing and suffix cleansing runes. It would make alot more sense if you could remove the suffixes or affixes on an item and then have around 10-15 instability. Then make them fairly rare. Curious what everything thinks of that. I feel like then if you find a nice base with a nice affix you want on it, you could cleanse the prefix or suffixes and craft something more tailored to your build.
I use rune of cleansing from time to time if I don’t need t20 of that piece (Mostly for ssf dodge gear) and weapons in general if I don’t need the suffixes. Crafting from white to t10 is very doable.
Mostly for weapons yeah.
so you cleanse then shoot for t5 prefixes and maybe 1 or 2 t1 suffix?
Pretty sure you would need luck on the cleanse roll, then on stability for first few crafts and on guardian for last few crafts, that could only be successful like 1 in 15 tries or something. I feel like you could find a base with 1 or 2 decent affixes and get lucky on rune of removal easier, that’s what I do. Or just gamble until something has no bad prefix and only one bad suffix or get lucky and all good affixes.
I use the rune of clensing from time to time but I think this rune is not that great.
I use it when I get something that has a great base roll like an Iron Sceptre with close to 100% increased Elemental Damage… I’ll then try for t10… Also good for quick testing if you are messing with skills & need to see which gear boost is better…
However, beyond this, I seldom use the Cleansing rune… or any of the others really except Shattering… They just dont seem to be very worth it and even the Refinement one never seems to roll in my favour…
Its generally not that bad.
I use them occasional early on if there’s a base that’s a decent upgrade and I’m to low level to craft it particularly high anyway. That and weapons as others have said.
I use them all except cleansing. Rune of removal can be extremely good if you get lucky with it, but obviously if you remove the affix you want the item is junk. I use refinement for t5 affix rerolls (you can use it with guardian and start around 40 instability and usually get several rerolls until you get a decent t5 affix roll) if I find a t5 crit avoidance I’ll use it to get 34%+ before i waste any other glyphs on the item. It’s very useful. (that way you only need 3 items with crit avoidance to cap it) So far the only real argument here is you could use it for early on or to make a t10 item (that is always gonna be worse than that same item if you rolled removal instead of cleansing and got the affix off) In my opinion this is proving my point. Removal is better. If you don’t care about suffix’s it’s still gonna be better u can use removal more than once. The only real case is finding a yellow or purple item with high instability but why would you want to use that for a base. If you are trying for a god tier item I really don’t think rune of cleansing is the approach.
Yes. But as I said in a previous thread, I craft a LOT. So I don’t mind low %.
During my very first playthrough I used the rune if cleansing. I thought I might be missing something because from the tooltip it did not look like it would be of any use.
So when I realised that this rune had no hidden mechanic and only did what the tooltip stated, I never used it again.
It’s pointless to try to craft anything useful out of a white item at endgame.
I saw some people mention they use it early/mid game to craft throw away items on good bases. But I don’t get why this should be worth the time spent.
At level 30 for example I don’t need min/maxed implicit stats. They don’t have any meaningful impact on gameplay. Why should I spend time (even if it’s only 5 minutes) to create an item out of a cleansed white item? The progress I make through leveling, outweighs the benefits of good implicit rolls.
I even have to admit that I don’t look at implicit stats at all during story. I don’t care if I have hp on my rings or dodge or whatever. I focus on affixes no matter what base they are on.
Theres enough time looking for implicit stats later when base items have higher quality. And at that level the rune of cleansing doesn’t work anymore because I’m looking for t15+ items.
As long as theres no way to make use of the rune for endgame like an enchantments system or runewords that need white base items theres no use for this rune for me.
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Yeah that’s pretty accurate. except the amount of time spent around lvl 30 is like 1% or less of the game so. I also asked in game chat and nobody said they use it. Personally when im low lvl I gamble for something I really want rather than use rune of cleansing because of the low cost of low lvl gear, I can usually find what I’m looking for gambling.
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It can be useful while leveling if you want to build upon a good base.
I can see it getting more used when the gambler gets a nerf or rework.
Right now it does it’s job, and that’s fine. Why not add other runes for other purposes? Not that I’m a big fan of a rune only deleting prefixes or suffixes. I think that would make crafting to easy.
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