I think it is interesting that the shields are 600 purples and not legendary. Prior to this patch any shield that hit 600 using a stop watch went legendary. This seems like a stealth nerf to me. My craft rate on legendries was about 1 in 4 even with 598-600. I crafted about 35 stop watches and probably had 8 or 9 legendries out of them.
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You crafted 35 after brimstone update? and got legendaries finally? but also purple 600gs items ur saying?
im just glad I crafted this before patch. Now its litterally impossible to get a 4 perk shield going forward
Theres also no Great sword INFUSED orb craft lol its the only one missing
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Their version control is really bad. Like, stuff they fix gets broken in updates all the time. And reverted. The only cause of that is version control issues.
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I think it’s less stealth nerf and just out right version control bug.
Gypsum caches are having the exact same issue right now.
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So yeah sounds like a stealth nerf or a bug that that doesnt seem to bother them.Pretty sad imo.I had saved 60 stopwatches to craft shields.Glad i saw this so i dont lose my mats.
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As for those many of us who have lost an abundance of materials… the only solution would be for them to finally add a new crafting perk (+5 whatever crafted level) to rings. Then bam 600 gearscore is possible if you get all your ducks in a row. But still gotta fight the system to get that BiS 3 perk exactly as you want.
Nope, all my crafts where pre - BS patch. That’s why I called it a stealth nerf.
Oh i see.
These two faced AGS developers even had the AUDACITY to mention during their developer stream that they “understood our frustration and will aid how they can”, but yet just only throw more hidden scam nerfs without stating it out loud like a proper developer team should. Just tossing our mats in the trash can and then also removing legendary crafting under the radar is not okay.
We deserve ring perks that increase crafted item levels +5. We are sick and tired of the bs not being able to just craft higher odds of legendary. The runestone stopwatch is a failed concept entirely, 1 per day? haha clearly these developers haven’t tried obtaining great or bis items because you’re not getting geared at all with the rate of 1 roll a day.
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Trust me, I’m not happy about this one bit. I just found out you could upgrade the shiny purple items to 600 to make them legendary, but found out today that flipping named shield that was dropped in Gen did not turn legendary… How the heck do i know if an item will go gold or not?
Check new world database to find out.
Mostly it’s everything except shield you get an extra perk.
You can’t craft legendary shields since the Brimstone update. Before Brimstone, you could craft with stopwatches, but now you need RNG gods to smile when you’re looting chests and bosses. So they’re still lootable (super rare), but not craftable
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They removed the ability for legendary to exist ingame anymore to my knowledge. This would be why you’re not able to make any.
bring back legendary shield crafting!
I think the never really intended for shields to be legendary, the ones that drop in the open world are most likely a fluke. When they introduced stop watches I believe there was a way to craft them, but they patched it out.
Very early in the game some shields did have gem slots, but again they never meant for those to be like that, hence they were removed.
Could be wrong, but, 7 perks for leg sword and shield seems abit OP 
Just so the developers are aware:
Legendary shields aren’t impossible to obtain, apparently mutated dungeons can very rarely drop them. I seriously believe that shield crafting is just bugged and they actually have no idea that it’s broken.
RE-ENABLE LEGENDARY SHIELD CRAFTING
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