Question: could it somehow made possible to just ‘one-click’ - Relics buildups? Assuming you have everything in your stash for it, so that the huge number of steps needed to get a relic created is shortened a bit?
Nice idea for GD2, not sure if GD’s code is able to do this. Imagine being able to click an igredient and it would show its recipe though, of course if it has one (mostly relics and components).
Yeah it can be a pain to go through all the recipes but removal of partial components as well as Search function did improve things. Also it’s good to just have a stock of a dozen or two of Molten Skins, Dense Furs and Rigid Shells. They are generally useless as components but often used in blueprints. Having a stock of these three contributes a lot to reducing the crafting tedium.
Yeah it just depends on what all I find along the way. Yellows get turned off pretty fast for me and then it’s just Green+ (RNGesus bless Ye Olde Monster Totems) from there on out. I go for the Greens specifically because of all the resists they provide tho that certainly isn’t the only criteria for what Greens I use and there are times where I need to use those components to cover gaps.
Some devotion constellations lean a certain way as well i find, like Sailor’s Guide leaving out Fire resistance sometimes necessitates catching it back up with a Molten Skin. Or Solemn Watcher leaving Fire/Lightning behind are 2 of my most frequent. I see it on occasion when brainstorming budget builds and with those 3 components being easy to make and pad out armour components alongside Antivenom Salves, I sometimes end up making use of them.
I think a better understanding of the relic you’re making would prevent you from
A: wasting the materials & time needed to craft it.
B: be surprised by it “underwhelming” performance.
Besides the relic might fit the build perfectly but the components, the skills and devotions are all in opposition to it working as good as you think it should.
It’s not just the “trying a relic out part” where it gets annoying though. I agree with the OP. Even when you’re equipped with the tippity top end-game gear you want, your relic is often the one place where you can look for improvements due to the variety of completion bonuses the relics can come with. If you’re looking for one specific one, you may have to craft 5 or 6 mythical relics before you get the desired completion bonus. Few are going to bother doing that when creating a single mythical relic can take like 3-5 minutes.
Even if straight up creating the relics with a single click if you have the mats for the intermediates can’t be implemented, just the ability to click on a component or relic in the recipe and having the crafting interface navigate you to the component or relic in question would be helpful. Or better yet, being able to craft the components from the recipe interface itself, if it can’t be done automatically.