There are two uniques I have tried “target” farming for since I started playing this game.
Mourning Frost boots and Devotion amulet. Both of these uniques are labeled “common” drops. I looked up the strategy, Spirits of Fire empowered monolith for the boots and Age of Winter empowered monolith for the amulet. On top of those monoliths which spawn the specific type unique echos, I took the increased chance of unique drop rate blessing and when I was going for the boots I had the boot drop rate blessing, when I finally got those I am now using the amulet drop rate blessing.
It took absolutely FOREVER to get the boots, so long that I gave up looking for them on the build I was playing (and wanted to use them on) and began a new build just to find them randomly on that play through with no blessings and on the first monolith. By the time I finally found them I was already bored of the other build and didnt even equip them. Now, I’m desperately searching for Devotion amulet with the blessing for uniques and amulet and AoW empowered monolith. HOW IS THIS ITEM CONSIDERED COMMON??? I specifically chose builds that didnt have rare uniques so that it wouldnt be a terrible slog to get them but im going through that anyway. Sure you can get unlucky but how unlucky can you possibly get for multiple COMMON uniques??? It has been multiple days of doing the exact same thing over and over and over.
I challenge the devs to target farm a “rare” unique and see how fun that is, I mean I have like 5 unique stash tabs that are totally full. Should I just not play the builds I want to and choose a unique to play around so that im not stuck in this endless loop of repetition? when i first saw that you can “target” farm i was like wow what a breath of fresh air compared to poe card farming. In reality, I could have farmed enough currency for a mageblood in poe before I couldve gotten this amulet. By the way, im also using every rune of ascendance on amulets and praying.
my suggestion is, make the echos WAY more common for the self proclaimed “exclusive echo rewards” because everyone will die of boredom before getting their desired unique. An alternative would be that on top of the exclusive echoes, you also have an increased chance for that specific item type to drop in all of the other echoes of that monolith as well. Anything is better than this current “target farming”