Crafting Exact Prefix&Suffix Service

[Sargon]

How about choosing freely one suffix and letting the other one be random? This would make getting double rare green bis gear still difficult, but possible. Of course, this kind of crafting should be much more expensive than the standard one.

[thailehuy]

I know you probably tired to hear this from me but random re-rolls -> save scumming.

If something like this would ever be implemented i’d like a system that would get you the exact affixes you want but for a high cost (10-20+ rare mats or so).

Or with a loss of overall quality like: you can change a random double rare affix item to have 1 rare and 1 magic affix of your choice, a rare + magic one to have 2 magic or 1 rare, etc.

This way double rare mi’s will still be those nearly-impossible-to-get-but-when-they-finally-drop-with-the-exact-affixes-you-need-you’ll-shit-your-pants type of stuff but you could make any weird/useless double rare combo into a specific rare+magic one which could be still bis for many builds (some magic affixes like of attack or of vitality suffix or the resist givig prefixes (impervious, warding, etc.) are pretty good it their own right)).

Just thinking out loud anyway.

And again, if people want to intervene with the game, they probably use something like GD Stash or Grim Defiler already, much less hassle than save-scumming.

At least a reroll feature will save honest people hundreds of farming hours. Especially when you get the MI with crap affixes

[system]

Actually greens affix system should be a bit simplified and more accessible.
The current design of this feature is for ONLINE game with ACTIVE & HEAVY trading community.
AFAIK Grim Dawn is mostly designed as a single player game, so the current design feels awkward.
Anyone who spent hundreds of hours farming MI/green items can tell you how ridiculously hard it is to get what you want or something close to it.

I voted “yes”, maybe not for the exact system the OP propose, but mainly for a rework of the current design of affix system.

I agree w/ this entire statement, I also voted “yes”, not necessarily for your fix idea but def a rework of the affix system.

neither I would increase the MI drop chance and the chance for rare affixes for the drop, esp for MIs that can drop from a single boss / creature only

I completely agree w/ this too! Here’s why…

Please someone correct me if this math or info is wrong. But, some quick math from some stats that I pulled from the website linked below shows from levels 60-74 there 333 possible prefixes (prefix link) and 273 possible suffixes (suffix link) which gives us 24,915 possible combinations (273x333+273+233). So, if the drop rate is roughly 25-33% chance of dropping an item that I roughly have a 1/24,915 chance of getting what I’m looking for I feel like that’s a bit extreme.

My solution…

1. create a “new MI class of gear” w/ a different color (maybe orange) which is for MI’s that can drop from a single boss / creature only. (IMO, in general, there’s way too much green garbage to dig through which makes it very easy to miss a piece of gear that might actually be quite important.)
2. up the drop rate on orange gear to maybe 50%
3. trim the fat down from 25k possible options to maybe 10k possible options.

With this solution you would still have to farm and you still have to pray faithfully to the RNG gods but it at least gives a little better odds without tipping the scales too much in our favor.

[Nssheepster]

Those links seems to be counting the suffix of various levels. AFAIK, you only have a chance to drop ONE kind of each pre- and suff, not all the different level varieties.

I do agree that upping MI chance, especially boss-centric ones, would be nice. And perhaps removing some less than quality affixes would be great. But I can’t support the crafting system thingy he proposed, so I said no.

[claudius]

I also would like MIs to be identifiable distinct from greens like patina said. Either text “Monster Infrequent” or a color.