Has the new mechanic for experimental afffix crafting rendered experimental items obsolete especially the pre-monolith drops from exiled mages? I believe the glyph that could be obtained from converting experimental items is no longer in the game. I have nearly an inventory page of boots and gloves with experimental affixes on them but they are not as useful to me while leveling and they are lower level boots (sub C-Level 50). Am I correct in my thinking?
Both the rune and the glyph related to experimental affixes were removed from the game (which is a shame, because a guaranteed experimental sealed affix was handy in a few situations).
Yes, the new mechanic made the mages mostly obsolete. The only exception being when it drops the item as exalted, which might save you some crafts.
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Thank you. I didnāt know that experimental items could drop as exalted as well. I donāt have any exalted items with experimental affixes on them. Sounds like I will be vendoring some stuff.
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Theyāre rare and will happen more both for CoF and at higher corruptions, but they are like any other item, so exalted is an option.
That being said, most players feel like itās not worth wasting time fighting the mages for the odd exalted drop. Especially with the new echo for guaranteed experimental affixes and runes of Havoc.
The mages are actually worth to kill when you have the weaver tree causing champion spawns with them. And lizards from champions. But otherwise theyāre basically useless, yes.
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Oh that is pretty nice domino effect spawn. This gives me something to look forward to.
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Try to kill magicians at a higher level of corruption. One of the useful affixes [Ward per Missing Health]. Keep T6 and above, it will come in handy.
Also the mages are the only way to get the woven echo that lets you interact with experimental crafting. Mages are still definitely worth killing, but their experimental drops are alot less valuable. Though if you get a decent T7 with the right experimental you can Rune of Havoc shimmy onto it, so its not entirely worthless.
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They do need to add the original experimental crafting items (rune and glyph) back into the game. The Woven Echo is not enough and not available early enough.
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What even is this? This topic is confusing to me. Unless itās the current league mechanic or something, then I guess itās not supposed to make sense to me. (I play standard.)
Weāre talking about the experimental affixes that Exiled Mages drop. The new woven echo that allows you to select an experimental affix made them mostly obsolete.
Also, as a sidenote, there are no ācurrent league mechanicsā in the sense that they are only available for seasonal characters. Everything they added in Season 2 (woven echoes/tree, Uberroth, etc) is also available for legacy and offline.
Devs are still adding core content to the game, so new things are available for everyone.
Ah, I see, thank you.
So those items are easier to find, you mean. Not obsolete, but maybe you meant ātrivial to findā?
I wish I knew that! But now that I do, I might be able to get a good pair of gloves and get a good Havoc. From what I understand, I still have to get a lucky 50/50 with the prefix that gets gutted, but thatās not too bad at all.
Not find, craft. As long as you have that woven echo, you can add an experimental affix and you choose which one you get. Which, obviously, is better than relying on a random drop from mages.
Not sure what you mean by that. Are you talking about a rune of removal? That would depend on how many affixes you have.
And rune of havoc, if you make all non-exalted affixes the same tier, is a 33% chance to hit.
If you have 2xT7 and 2x same non-exalted tier, you actually get a 50% chance to hit the one you want.
If you have a T7+T6+2x same tier, though, that lowers the odds to 1/6.
I looked it up earlier (before my post), and I thought that it takes one of your prefixes and turns it into an experimental one. It also takes the average(?) tier of them to determine the tier of the experimental affix, meaning you want double t5, meaning you wonāt be able to just pick your 2nd prefix freely.
Thatās why I said find. Iāll need to find a bunch of gloves that are candidates, meaning they have a t7 suffix, and Iāll have to pre-craft them to be ready for the experimental craft.
If thatās how it works, that is.
Actually optimally you want double T7, so you get a T7 experimental, which is quite powerful.
But itās a 50/50 chance, yes. Another RNG layer like all the ones we know of 
I have literally never seen a double t7 item drop.
My plan was to get t7 suffix so that itās safe, then Havoc it after gaining the experimental.
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In higher corruption as CoF you see them relatively regularly. Still rare though.
You can even find 2 T7 + T6 as a absolute top-tier item, but those are extremely rare.
In MG youāre darn happy if you find a T7 + T6.
This is why I get upset over my corruption pushing, instead of just āplaying until I donāt wanna push anymore.ā
Iām currently 719 corruption. I could honestly push it more, Iām sure, but I dunno how much more. I dunno if itās actually an exponential-type of increment when you go up from here, or if it diminishes (whether like an armor formula, or because itās a linear & additive formula). But I donāt know what corruption is the point where I can expect to see LP3ās (or 2ās for these timeline bosses), or multi-t7ās, or whatever else.
In 719 corruption you shouldāve seen several double T7 items.
Iām playing at 350 for easy shade farming and see them even.
As for LP itemsā¦ they can drop with the same chance in 100 corruption as in 1000 corruption. LP is separate from corruption, they got a fixed percentile. Corruption only changes the amount of total uniques you drop.
Maybe Iām just unlucky. Iāve had some 7 + 6ās, but yeah, no double 7ās.
I think I have a 766 in my āprized possessionsā stash tab, LMAO.
Just checked. I actually do have one 776, and I have a 666. I think those are my only two items with triple exalt and/or more than one 7. [shrug] To the grind, then.
Sad news though about the LPās. Thatās kinda awkward, cuz I picked which timelines to pump based on the bosses I needed uniques from. Guess thatās a bust.