This would make it easier to find good candidates for crafting. Filter for open affixes (or prefixes/suffixes specifically) to find something you won’t have to RNG and burn forging potential to remove undesirables before crafting.
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Dont… Just dont do it… Really…
In my experience its better to find 2 or 3 desired affixes on an item and then use Chaos to change the other(s) and hope to get lucky. Its called Chaos crafting and I have used it many times to get T20+ items successfully - even though its more RNG I find it much better than manually crafting high level items.
Discovery Runes are also imho, better at filling empty affix slots and chaosing after. Manually adding affixes has proven to be pretty hard to do because of the chance of a high FP cost roll.
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This really depends on what you are trying to craft. Glyphs of chaos only make sense if there are multiple affixes that it could roll in to that you would be happy with. If you need one specific affix in particular, especially if it’s a rare affix, chaos can be a bad option compared to removal or sealing.
Yeah it’s a shame you need to hope for crafting luck instead of beeing able to farm good loot killing enemys. I can’t remember the last time when I found a good rolled base with 4 affixes on it that were good for any build… realy I can’t ^^.
Nah Chaos Crafting for the win in every situation and I have tried them all.
No matter which way you look at it, Removals are horrible as they either remove the affix you wanted to keep OR they use up a chunk of FP thereby negating any hope of a decent high Tier item. I honestly just dont even use them anymore. I would rather try and Seal an less desired affix than use a Removal and truth be told I value Seals more than that. Manually adding affixes has a similar problem - it may allow you to add a desired affix but the chances of loosing a large chunk of FP makes it really bad for higher tier items vs finding a good item to start with.
I never use a Chaos to try for the #1 affix I am looking for. From my experience finding good crafting items is absolutely the most important step. For better or worse LE doesnt intend that you to craft from blank items - items would need at least double the FP to make that work - at least for high-end game items.
The key for me is finding an item with the specific affix you want on it already - thats #1. If you find a 2nd or 3rd affix then great but not essential. Next is FP & the base item implicits. i.e. if its got the perfect affix but the base item is crap or its got no FP, then I shatter. If not, I Discovery to fill in the missing slots & then Chaos the ones I dont want. If after that I still have decent FP, then I pray to Lady Luck and Hopes through round robin till I run out of FP.
I have my lootfilters set to find items with specific affixes and highlight them. However, my most “lucrative” filter is set to find ANY items with a combined Tier # of affixes above a certain level (based on my chars current level) … e.g. After the campaign I will only highlight items that have more than 10 tiers of combined affixe levels. As I get further into endgame I increase this to T12, even up to T15 for my BiS farming. I have found that this method gives me the best chance of finding items that are potentially great for crafting.
Note, I am mostly talking about end game crafting here - aiming for minimum T18 preferably T20+… Crafting for levelling or items sub lvl 60 doesnt really matter that much imho. Its easy to get an improvement at those levels and there is no need to aim for godtier items that early for almost any method of crafting will work.
I am luckier in this regard… Honestly, dont have that kind of problem - but then again, I have a different approach than I see lots of people do.
I have found that going for higher tier items as crafting bases is far more lucrative and less restrictive in terms of improving item progress. E.g. I will highlight anything that drops for a specific affix I need, BUT I mainly look for things with a combined high tier of affixes - irrespective of what they may be.
This means I end up finding LOTS of items that are T12+ with high FP so I drop them in the forge, chaos the wrong affixes and more often than not, I end up with a T15+ item with all affixes I need and 20 FP left to go for broke on a T20.
Its sort of getting a bigger pool of good items to run against Lady Luck rather than waiting for a perfect item to drop.
It works well for me… Its not perfect or deterministically easy, but I have plenty of T20+ items that are either BiS or close to it and I dont really struggle to get them cause I know I have another 100 items in my stash to try again.
No problem finding lots of items T12 items, sadly I have no luck with the slot machince rng. Most of the time I end up with an item that has 2 good affixes and 2 that are terrible while the LP is to low to make anything out of it.
I still look into item systems of other Hack and Slays but so far I still think LE is the biggest slot machince on the market in a very bad way.
Pretty sure it’s Hack and Slash
It is, except in Germany (I think, could be wrong) apparently.
Sure… Not saying I dont end up shattering a lot of failed forges, but for me its a volume thing so it doesnt bother me - I just roll the dice again and take another shot at it , no real hassle.
It was always “Hack and Slay” since D1 in Germany and where I’m from. Hack and Slash makes no sense to my because you would need to call it Hack and Cleave and Hack and Bash depending on weapon choice but that’s just my point of view.
No idea why it’s Hack and Slay and not Hack and Slash… never thought abaout and google isn’t suggesting if I ment Hack and Slash. So no idea who is right here or if it’s just a regional thing and on top of it I don’t care because I most likely will never write Hack and Slash because I’m not used to it ^^.
edit I just looked it up it’s either or in germany as it seems ^^.
That’s very interesting, I didn’t know
Me neither that’s why I looked it up because i was curious ^^. Most english speaking people might not be confronted with it because it’s not even shown as an option if you use english system settings and region settings because in english speaking regions there is only hack and slash used as it seems. I’m so used to hack and Slay calling it Hack and Slash makes no sense to me at all it makes me laugh because i feel a bit narrowminded right now but it simply feels so wrong.
Not gonna lie, Hack n Slay is burning my eyes a little bit 
It was always hack & slash in the English speaking world since D1.
Yeah I think this was changed because of methodology of hte german language. Hack and Slash would’ve say just hacking and slashing eithout anything else in mind. While slaying incorperates all forms of actions to slay something no matter the weapon group or if it’s a spell… slay can be used for a wider range of actions while slashing is just slashing with a cutting instrument.
I hope I make sense here while I stumple over words trying to shed some light into it ^^.
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Yeah, it means exactly the same in English, it’s just that’s what was chosen as a descriptor and anything else instead of “slash” sounds really weird.
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Yeah I get it but same goes for me 
anything but Slay sounds weird. Then again I don’t know why but the whole matter amuses me a lot ^^.
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