While it is true that certain items are programmed harder to get than others eg, Rimeheart, wand of woh are about 1% chance while Leorics crown is about 5% and others are guaranteed to be in bounties, nothing is lower than that except for finding Princess Lillian.
There items that will drop earlier in the game as you're not expected to have the full set yet. Pig sticker can roll up to 30% dmg against half the enemy types in the game, Tyrael's Might rolls with up to 20% dmg against demons which is what RG's are, so between those 2 items you have a healthy dmg buff against 3 quarters of the games monsters including RG's.
I believe if you want an item you just can't seem to get hold of you need at least 16 rares and mats worth (400 of each) and upgrade all of them in a row so you give RNG a chance to get around to what you want. I've found if you break the upgrade sequence and come back to it again then you will get the same easy to get items up first again.
I tell people the same sort of advice. As a comparison, I did about 80 upgrades of 2H mighty weapons to get the one I wanted in ancient.
I wouldn't upgrade rares with the aim of getting ancient, I'd go just for the item and then re roll it half a dozen or so times to make it an ancient.
I believe if you want an item you just can't seem to get hold of you need at least 16 rares and mats worth (400 of each) and upgrade all of them in a row so you give RNG a chance to get around to what you want. I've found if you break the upgrade sequence and come back to it again then you will get the same easy to get items up first again.
I've noticed also that I've had a terrible time of trying to get numerous items, I just keep getting the same things over and mostly non ancient. Is this part of the nerf?
While it is true that certain items are programmed harder to get than others eg, Rimeheart, wand of woh are about 1% chance while Leorics crown is about 5% and others are guaranteed to be in bounties, nothing is lower than that except for finding Princess Lillian.
There items that will drop earlier in the game as you're not expected to have the full set yet. Pig sticker can roll up to 30% dmg against half the enemy types in the game, Tyrael's Might rolls with up to 20% dmg against demons which is what RG's are, so between those 2 items you have a healthy dmg buff against 3 quarters of the games monsters including RG's.
I believe if you want an item you just can't seem to get hold of you need at least 16 rares and mats worth (400 of each) and upgrade all of them in a row so you give RNG a chance to get around to what you want. I've found if you break the upgrade sequence and come back to it again then you will get the same easy to get items up first again.
I've noticed also that I've had a terrible time of trying to get numerous items, I just keep getting the same things over and mostly non ancient. Is this part of the nerf?
Poor Devil, I've already scrapped 4 of them and no the only one I have now is the one I'm using, if I get another one I'll put it on the forums.