Well, finally after finding a build on YouTube that I felt I could play with I buckled down and worked hard trying to follow the build as best I could. I have a Warlord Eye of Reckoning build, and I completed the base game in Elite without rage quitting the game this time! I don’t have a problem poking fun at myself, because after all this really is just a game. Given that, I think I can handle constructive criticism or I would not start this thread by linking to my build. Warlord Eye of Reckoning Lvl 100. If you look at the build you will probably see right off, I am still running Rare weapons and that brings me to my first question.
Does the game know I am looking for Legendary One-handed melee weapons, and thrown a ton of either two handed melee with not enough firepower (for lack of a better term) or one-handed ranged weapons? I can run through some pretty good entry level Act 2 dungeons and go after all the totems I see. I do get legendary drops, but as I said they are just not what I am looking for. I will probably continue running the story line in Ultimate until I get totally bored or frustrated, but pointers in the right direction would help. I have four Tonic of Clarity’s and one Tonic of Reshaping, so if there were some changes that required that level of work, I am up to it so feel free to suggest whatever you think would help. I will look at all suggestions and go with what I feel are reasonable ideas. I like playing Crucible some, but Shattered Realm does not seem to have very good drops in the first 10 runs so I bail on that one usually. I probably don’t need to say this, but I will. I am a 72 year old gamer and love to think I can play decently for my age. I still don’t feel my age, and refuse to grow up. Thanks in advance for your ideas.
No, the game has no idea what you’re looking for, it’s entirely RNG.
And no worries about being an older player. I’m 68 myself. 
Thanks for the encouragement as another Senior in the game. As a retired IT guy, I was almost certain the coding would be a monster just to be cruel to the players. However, RNG is cruel enough is it not?
not dissecting your build as of now
i’ll just comment on the farming
First, as level 100 you should preferably be in Ultimate as it has increased monster density and drops
(that is ofc assuming your build can handle that)
The game doesn’t have smart loot in that sense, everything is random, you have a huge loot pool and the game will toss whatever rando purple at you RNGesus sees fit to
They did add something to help with that, so if you do same session farming, the game tries to not give you duplicate legendaries, ie the longer you farm without going to main menu, the bigger the chance of seeing purples you didn’t get already (in that session, it doesn’t keep track of past rewards)
as for farming spots
best places to farm are Roguelike Dungeons because end chest, Nemesis Troves (high quality chest), Monster Totems, and yes SR (or Crucible)
thing about SR is, it doesn’t give worthwhile loot until you get fairly high up, just like Crucible. The difference between SR/Crucible is, you can use more specific checkpoints to get you straight to that high range you want, and you don’t lose a ton of loot on death, making SR a great place to farm (assuming you can handle those high shard ranges)
Obv SR is hardest on Ultimate, but also gives the most loot there, alternatively you can do it on Elite (or even Normal) but will have to both clear a higher shard range and settle for less loot, ex being on sr75-76 Veteran you get about 6-7 purples when you cash out
As for the checkpoints in SR, you get waystone recipes at certain intervals in SR, so you only have to clear “all” of SR once (to get the recipes), you can then use those waystones to jump straight to X shard range and farm that.
SR farming is done by doing 2 shards(4 rounds each), and cashing out after the second boss room fight
Aside from that/previous mentioned avenues of farming you have hero/boss runs, a hero/boss drops a loot orb that has chance of XYZ loot drop, not the same high chance as the other places’ containers/chests, but in a pinch it’s a good start until you can handle skeleton key dungeons, nemesis or SR/Cruci on higher ranges
also, the game has tons of target farmable items these days, you can look up on Grimtools if there may be ex an MI(monster infrequent) for you
^comes with guaranteed stats (still variable rolls), and skill modifiers.
if an item on Grimtools doesn’t list a source it’s random drop can drop from anything (XYZ high quality container having better chances), but if it has a source it can be target farmed (note expansion tag is not a source just means it needs to be installed)
Source:
no source:
Judging by some stuff on your character would also appear like maybe you don’t have full reputation all places, that’s a good thing to start get up first too. Lets you buy augments, component recipes,
oh and you will want the high lvl/lvl 75 component recipes you get from random drop, they will boost your stats a fair bit better than regular components.
That is a lot of really good advise you just laid out, and you are giving examples I understand as I am typing this. I appreciate it more than you know. Thank you. I do have some items I would like to have, and just did not even look them up in Grimtools to see if the source is available. Perfect! Even the tip about the higl lvl/lvl 75 component recipes made sense, so I must be catching on to something in the game. I have been keeping my recipes lately instead of blindly doing a right click, because I am old enough to forget what I learned and it is hard to remember what component is that high level. Thank goodness for “hover” or “mouseover” in some coding terms.