Having leveled 6 characters up to 50+, the thing I’m always absolutely broke on is Glyphs of Hope. I’ll typically go 30+ levels with a character, struggling through with zero interaction with the crafting system and getting by on my pool of uniques and unupgraded items self-found. Then I’ll get to the point where they actually need more powerful gear to keep things rolling, and I’ll burn through the 25ish glyphs of hope they’ve found thus far to upgrade 3-5 items. I’ll continue finding roughly 1 glyph of hope per level which means that a given piece of gear, from 10 to 60, will often go 10 or 20 levels with no upgrades. Not because I have nothing I’m finding which could be used for upgrades but because it doesn’t have a reasonable chance to actually be upgraded enough to be better before running out of forging potential without glyphs of hope. And I don’t have enough glyphs of hope to justify their use outside major power spike upgrades.
This feels terrible.
The Glyph of Hope is a foundation of the crafting system; it’s the most basic, “default” glyph. Without one, given the extreme range and amount of forging potential used on affix upgrades combined with the number of tiers items typically need to be upgraded in order to reach a level appropriate power level, the crafting system is not worth engaging in. Which is tragic.
This could be addressed in a variety of ways, but the simplest, most logical, and easiest to implement is just to have vendors sell them. Just like Runes of Shattering, another foundational crafting component, they could carry 6 of them at a time, sold for 1k or 2k each. I’ve got 700k+ in the bank and nothing to spend it on other than runes of shattering, which will give me more shards I can’t use since I don’t have Glyphs of Hope, or Stash Tabs which I don’t currently need (I’m CoF not MG). Allow me to convert that into engagement in the crafting system. I have endless glyphs of chaos and other ‘advanced’ crafting components, but there’s absolutely zero reason to use them if I lack the glyphs of hope to have any hope of getting items worth using once the modifiers are rerolled etc.
I appreciate your time and consideration.