Hi Folks… Would just like to ask another question if I may.
Been playing a while and I had a Skeleton Key that I acquired from somewhere earlier on. I got tot some mission where there was a ghost guy that opened a gate for me with the key I picked up. I didn’t go into the closed door as I wanted to go back to a store before entering. Anyway I saw the door close and I went back to the store to upgrade some things then back and now the door could not be opened. I assume this was because I used the skeleton key from before. Anyway I only had one key and I have the blueprint but for some reason no matter what I do (including restarting the game) will make the game make a key. You can see by my picture I “clearly” have all the ingredients and plenty of money but the ectoplasm and corpse dust is greyed out. I have tried to drag the ingredient es over, click on them in various ways… etc etc nothing will seem to make the game realize I have the ingredients.
This also happens very regularly on many shrines… I have the ingredients it wants but its always greyed out and never lets me drag things in. I don’t understand what to do here, or is this a bug? I have watched this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQhEizdsm8 ) and others and I don’t understand how these people can seemingly get it to work.
Also why is the icons for the ingredients different in the key creator panel and completely different in my inventory. Are there 2 different types of ectoplasm and 2 different types of corpse dust? I am a bit confused hehe.
Also… just while I am at it… I have never figured out what goes into the inventory box at the bottom right of the screen (the slot to the left of the belt slot)… I have tried to drag so many items into that slot but nothing ever seems to go in there… What dose that slot do? and are things meant to be dragged in there?
Anyway I hope someone could shed some light on my first question in particular.
PS. The key I somehow acquired the I stupidly wasted… is it possible to acquire another one by doing the mission/boss/whatever again? … If so can anyone recall exactly where that mission/boss/whatever was in terms of location.
You don’t have Corpse Dust and Ectoplasm. You have a PART of them. Components drop as PARTIAL components. You need multiple, and then combine them into a whole, and THEN you can craft the key.
And you get a new key from that quest in each difficulty, and each character.
a ah… no wonder … the difference in Icons did make me wonder that… but um… I have never really delved into the whole crafting mechanics beyond necessities… I did have a look through the crafting lists and have never come across any reference to ectoplasm or indeed corps dust. Is there a specific npc crafter person that can create these “complete” ingredients, also and for example how many regular ectoplasms dose it take to create a “complete ectoplasm”?
oh right so I stack them to make a whole component? Ill go try that next time I am playing… never thought to stack same ingredients onto each other before… ah… makes sense
if you need those components you could try farming ghosts/skeletons, you should always pick up every component that drops and occasionally hit the combine button.
If it helps, there’s also a button in your inventory, stash, and transfer stash to combine all components for you automatically. Personally I just dump all my partials into one tab of my transfer stash, and hit the auto-combine button, and the auto sort. Keeps things mostly neat and together, and allows all my characters to have access to it.
POE and D3 don’t have this mechanic, and those are generally the other ARPGs on offer right now…Though it kinda hurts to call D3 an ARPG now, it’s kinda more like a bad hack and slash.
hi again, thanks for all the extra advice folks…
and to the question if I play these sorts of games a lot… you are correct, no I don’t … well certain fps rpgs such as fallout/skyrim…etc and in recent years I played dragon age inquisition… so yea I have not had a whole lot of experience with rpgs in general. The amount of layers of options and mechanics are so deep I find that I often go through a whole game from start to finish while never fully exploring some or other features of the game… I guess my style is first and foremost exploration / seeing the sights… and LOOT… those 3 components I love, anything else I tend only to use when I really need to.
I do really love this game, even tho it is a tad rough around the edges, and I really wish it the very best for the future. I have not read up much in terms of its dev/community but my hope is they expand out the world map east and west with many new locations. that would be spectacular.
The A part of ARPG is generally the cause of what you are experiencing. RPGs in general can be deep or not…ARPGs are insanely deep, focused on providing a multitude of options for the players. We can choose where and what to farm, what skill to use, how to use it, what items to wear…We have MANY choices, and few of them are so bad that they out and out don’t work.
It takes time to get into any ARPG, because you have to learn how this ARPG in particular is giving you those options, how it works. Once you do, if you enjoy it, you’ll do what we all do…
You’ll become an altaholic, always distracted by new items you find, getting new loot and things as you go along and making new characters to use them…And repeating. Constantly.
That’s your relic slot , just click on the relic tab on your blacksmith , the same guy you are trying to make your key at , he will have a list of relics , you mostly need to find and learn the blueprints first , just check him out I’m sure he starts with a few
There is also a quest in Act 2 that can give you a relic. It ain’t super strong but it is quite usefull (I think it is like 8% All damage with 3 or 4 other buff) at least better than having nothing.
You need to actually not give back the talisman from that death rover…I did gave it back on my first character and got my first relic at level 58. Second char did keep the talisman for that relic. One version for each difficulty level.
