I am not sure about the wording that @EHG_Mike used… I dont know if a Unique with LP is a guaranteed drop… Strickly speaking, by what Mike said, only the exalted items are going to drop… They CAN be used to make a legendary but not on their own… English is an odd language sometimes…
On this note… Uniques with LP seem to be quite rare… I did a quick half hour of farming in empowered Monos… got about 17 uniques (and a few of the new ones)… but only 2 with LP… and both ony had LP1…
Was easy to make them into legendaries but they are nothing to write home about…
I can see the possibility of reading it that way but he did say “To guarantee that everyone who completes the dungeon has some Legendary to make…” so it seems to me that he is explicitly saying that the boss will always drop a Unique with legendary potential and an Exalted that can be used.
That most definitely is not happening then… but it also seems like it would be too easy if you could make a legendary on every dungeon run without stocking up first by farming other parts of the game like monos… It took me a few minutes to run a dungeon - so if it always dropped something I could make into a legendary, i would have a stash full of them in a few hours…
It’s true that we can understand several different things and I was surprised to get really enough to create a Legendary each time, but this wording is rather misleading.
so what ? i’m really confused now. What do we get at the end of the dungeon ? Unique + Exalted ? Or i have to farm some uniques first in order to not get disapointed ?
As Llama said, it was intended for the boss to drop a unique and an exalted item that go together so you could make a legendary. But it didn’t make it in and we’re still discussing it.
Personally, aside from “unlocking” the tiers of dungeon I wouldn’t be attempting to access the cache without a planned merging in my backpack anyway. To do otherwise would be a prayer to the RNG gods, who I hate above all else.
For the future though, it would be nice to also get a “bonus” legendary with potential to stick in the bank for possible next time attempts after finding a nice exalt to pair it with. If that is introduced in a later patch, I think it would be a nice touch to keep us all smiley
It is definitely more of chase item. In the 10 hours I have played I have gotten 2 uniques with potential. One with and the another with only one. I just finished empowered ending the storm and got alluvion with 0 potential.
Is it normal for the sealed cache to not work at all? I put in the correct items for dungeon level 1 (sub lvl 50 unique + 4 unsealed affix exalted item), hit seal, then it disappeared. I clicked back on the eternity cache again and it shows the interface but no item, nor the two items I put just, it’s just an empty closed cache, no combined item came out. Is failure an outcome or did the game glitch?
little feedback from someone who has just been experimenting with this mechanism.
its a good idea but the execution is extremely brutal in my experience.
uniques with legendary potential are very rare drops. Getting one that actually is of the type you want or can make good use of is even rarer. and it is usually a legendary tier 1 only. Ive never had a unique with legendary t3 or higher drop, ever.
decent exalteds of the same type as the already very rare unique that is usable for your build, and that comes with an exalted talent that would improve your build is very very rare.
now you take this two things, and watch as the legendary affix chosen at random is almost always invariably not the one you really want. The odds are way against you.
how many hours is that gone up in smoke?
great idea but way too brutal with multiple layers of RNG upon RNG in practice. Almost punishingly so imo. Then there is also the farming of keys for the dungeon.
How to fix? No idea really - maybe make the focused farming of exalteds more doable. Or a way to reroll or add two uniques of the same type into the machine to reroll their legendary status.
just wanted to give my point of view after giving this system a pretty good try out.
