So, I’ve been playing Last Epoch for a while now (285 hours), and I seem to have different ideas on how to go about using Loot Filters and Crafting to get the gear I want compared to the rest of the community here.
I don’t know if it’s just play time, but when I see people posting build guides and things like that, they always gear pieces that are like, T17+, or manage to have a T6/T7 Affix right where they want it.
My experience has been that this is so incredibly rare that it literally hasn’t happened for me yet.
All the Exalted stuff I see is mostly stuff that’s completely irrelevant to my build, and on the very rare chance that I do see an item with a T6/T7 affix that would be useful, AND it’s got implicits I want, I usually manage to strip that affix off with a Removal Rune instead of the random useless affixes that accompany it.
As for crafting, again, there are so many affixes and so many combinations that at best, I’ll occasionally get something that has a T2 affix I want, with nothing else in the way. And then I’ll craft on that and get up to about T13, and then it fractures and I use that for the next 50 hours.
The best crafts I’ve ever made were 2 T16 items. Most of the time I’m bumming around with T12/13 in most slots.
So I’m left wondering, since clearly I’m having this issue more than others, what it is I’m doing wrong? Do I simply have too high expectations for the quality of gear that drops, and I just need to put in more time? Or am I being too restrictive in my Loot Filter, perhaps over prioritizing getting maxed resists/crit avoidance? I’ve also noticed a lot of builds have way more health than I do, so that’s something for me to look into as well.
I can manage Corruption like ~110, and I’m just not sure where I’m going wrong.