Hi, I was hearing that there was post today stating that we will be able to upgrade Epic 590 named items to Legendary with an additional perk (unlocked apparently as the item already has a legendary variant)
I have not seen anything of the sort posted by the devs. The last I heard was that any 590 gear can now be upgraded through to 625 with shards but none legendary items do not get the extra perk if upgraded to 600 to stop Legendary gear being devalued.
Who can clear this one up ? Cheers
Doubt it would be senseless and hurt legendary items crafters. And make legendary craft worthless. Legendary items must be special, and upgrading items to 600 should not give u extra perk. It is ur choice with upgrade purple items.
You can indeed upgrade 590+ named epic gear to 600 and it will become legendary. Here is a video showing that it is possible on the PTR:
Guess crafting is just dead. Nice.
Not sure how crafting dies, these named drops aren’t very common. I’ve ran lazarus 60+ times and still haven’t gotten a lazarus bow. I think this is a great addition to the game. These named drops are there for a reason and many are intended to be BIS, so why not allow them to be just that?
I think it is a Bug on the ptr
The guy in the video claims the dev’s said it was intended.
Anyway wont bother me because the stats on most named items are complete garbage.
This is the worst way that AGS could have fixed the problem. If this goes through it would make all the grinding I did in Gen and Laz completely worthless. Why not just do this instead:
If you get a named item under 600 gs, the odds go up for you to get a 600 gs next time. This repeats until you can only get the 600 gs version.
Please dont make all the time I spent running Gen and Laz a waste of my time.
This would be so a big Hit in my face, grind normal dungeon will be never usefull because lost people Do it for the 600gs named.
Know they crash all who got some good one on 600, because every one can Do it, i got so much of this tiems with gs >590.
Ags dont Do this please, legendärys would not be so good anymore, named legendärys
Kay a developer has confirmed its intended. A good thing IMO. I want the Lazarus bow, but detest continuously doing the same expedition.
Honestly as a crafter i didn’t like it at all as we are left out completely and nobody will need buying bis gear rather just spamming chest runs or farming mini bosses. There are many mini bosses dropping named items quite often even more than chests. The fact they are becoming bop means the market won’t be exactly flooded with upgraded items but then i don’t understand why crafters can’t upgrade their items they become bop anyway. And crafting something with dozens of asmos etc cost more than sitting in a spot and killing same enemy dozen of times…
This is already showing dramatically in the market and getting worse by the day. Crafted weapons and jewelry are being killed off.
What’s the point of ever crafting a life staff ever again when Will of Ancients BiS is easily upgraded?
And then make it impossible to roll “refreshing” at the crafting table??? WHY?!
True craft of life staffs, bows or hammers is pointless.
Perhaps for Weaponsmiths this might be true, but for armorsmiths… there is not named armor so they shouldn’t be affected.
On their discord I think… there is a link in the description of the YouTube video above ^^
Another good example. Why would anyone ever craft another bow? (other than the people who don’t want to run Laz)? And then why go and make it impossible to roll keen/vic/ench at the crafting table? Not like it’s easy to roll anyway.
How is it wasted? You have enjoyed having a BiS item ahead of everyone else. You can immediately try to upgrade it to 625 when the patch drops.
Look at this as a simple catch-up mechanic.
Though I will admit 4 months after launch is a bit too soon for this.
I love this, work hard to get the named drop, then work hard to upgrade it… what’s the problem? i’ve done 50+ laz runs with no laz bow drops, luckily I have received 1 590 will of ancients… which I am excited to be able to upgrade. If these named drops were more common, and dropped legendary more often, then sure this wouldn’t be needed but as it stands now, this is a great change I fully support.
not a bug, it is intended. has been confirmed by staff.