So I was pretty stoked about the new stuff this patch, and have come back to check it out after a bit of a hiatus. I have a big store of items built up, since I have had the game for a long time, and have well over 1K hours logged, according to Steam, anyway.
So I was quite shocked to see how LOW the forging potential on my Exalted items are. Some of them are as low as 7 FP, and some go as high as 16 or 17, but of several pages of exalted items not a single one is higher than 17. It’s as though all of my exalted items just got the Forging Potential of regular white items? If I’d known that, I’d have gone and done some forging the night before the patch launched, honestly.
Was this intentional, or is it something that EHG is even aware of? Like, I might as well vendor them. Just by way of example, I have an exalted belt with a T6 mod and a T2 mod, and 2 empty slots, and it only has 7 Forging Potential. Was it even possible for Exalted items to drop with that little?
agreed. i’m seeing very low FP on rares and exalted.
given that a combination of useful affixes is extremely rare i’m thinking that this is going to be a problem.
i’ve currently using my filter to look for items with 2 T2, that’s right T2, affixes, and i’m finding 1 useful item every 2 or 3 monos.
and then that “useful” item isn’t. it usually has at least one or possible 2 affixes that are totally worthless. that means before crafting, have to do an affix removal, and if that takes away a useful mod , vendor trash.
THEN, if it takes the undesirable affix, you are sometimes left with very little FP.
i do like the new system, but it definitely needs tweaking.
Well, that’s not exactly what I’m talking about. I mean these are exalted items that I found BEFORE the patch launched, and have done 0 crafting on.
Exalted items that I’m finding now have 2-4 times as much Forging Potential, while the ones that I had before the patch now have the same Forging Potential as white items would.
The devblog mentioned that this would happen. It’s because FP for old items is based on their existing Instability value, so there’s no benefit for rarity on converted items.
If they’re dropping as low as 7 that’s a bug. The absolute minimum for exalted items is supposed to be 24, and that’s unusual and not possible beyond a certain level.
If you’re talking about items that dropped before the patch, they were given an amount of forging potential based on their instability. If their instability was moderate to high they were probably given low forging potential because of that. In general new items drop with more forging potential than old items were given.
I’ve picked up Exalted items with like 17FP post patch though. So if there’s a hard minimum it might need looking into. I just thought I was really unlucky
I didn’t think it was an anomaly at the time so didn’t register details about it. But I’ll stay on the look out for instances if I encounter them again
interesting. i’m seeing low FP on rares and i thought exalted. now i’m wondering if those exalted were actually the ones in my stash and not the drops.
i guess i’ll have to keep a careful eye on them and make sure this isn’t just an RNG thing.
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Hi there,
here’s a woeful wand and catalyst I just got as a monolith reward that gives exalted wands. Low forging potentials. below the 24 minimum exalted forging potential you claim.
i “partially” retract my statement about low FP on rares and exalted.
i’m fairly certain that i was mixing up drops with what was already in my stash.
i’m finding fairly high FPs on exalts and even some rares.
i’m going to keep an eye out also, because FPs above 24 don’t appear to be that common for me, at least not on rares.
i’ve noticed though that they seem to be going up with my character level. I was finding fairly low FPs on rares and now i’m seeing some values as high as 30+.
Is FP weighted by character level as well as area ? or am i getting an RNG quirk ?
ok. thanks for that. however that’s precisely what i was wondering about, what defines “high levels” ? is a level 80 character in a level 66 mono going to find rare items with a higher FP than a level 70 character in the same mono ?
i ask specifically because my character seems to be getting drops with higher FPs while in the same mono area (black sun) as it leveled. As i said may have been a quirk of RNG.
Can confirm this is not the case… Getting quite a few that dont conform this is… Just had a level 45 exalted helm with two affixes drop with 14 fp in a Ruined era Mono map… on the same map I got 3 affix relic exalted lvl 42 with 29fp…
it seems to be generally above 20ish for exalted… (highest fp i have is 44 on a 4 affix rare dropped as a T12) but every few drops there will be an exalted that is below 20 fp…
EDIT: Another example that this is not as you say: Just got an exalted reward from empower mono run… 5 drops… 3 exalts with 4 affixes, 31, 33, 37 fp… 2 exalts with less than 4 affixes, 12fp & 19fp… From what I can tell, it looks like exalts with 4 affixes tend to drop over 24fp but any exalt with less than 4, seems to get relatively low fp by comparison…
