Patch 1.3.2 Uber Unique Crafting Allows Players to Guarantee Desired Uber Uniques

Posted 2024/02/09 at 12:21 PM by Jezartroz

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Uber Unique Crafting

Developer's Note: Uber Unique items are highly sought after. With Season of Blood, we introduced target-farming Uber Unique Items with Uber Duriel to gives players another source of acquiring this type of item. However, we want to give players increased autonomy in obtaining their desired Uber Unique by addressing feedback that expressed how acquiring duplicate or undesired Uber Unique Items lessens that feeling of triumph. A new system empowers players to make use of duplicate and undesired Uber Unique items by salvaging them for a new resource which can be used to eventually craft an Uber Unique of their choosing. Additionally, the chance for Uber Unique Items to drop everywhere but in Uber Duriel encounters has been increased.

Uber Unique Items can now be salvaged to provide a new resource, Resplendent Sparks. Players can bring 5 Resplendent Sparks to the Alchemist and Transmute an Uber Unique of their choice.

The Refine Resources tab at the Alchemist has been renamed Transmute, and the option to craft an Uber Unique item can be found under that tab.
Note that the preview window for crafting an Uber Unique won't display the item's affixes.

The drop chance of Uber Unique items acquired outside of Uber Duriel encounters has been increased.

having five other Uber Uniques drop first

Comment by TOMRUSUseless as long as they do not drop at decent rate in first place...

Instead of this workaround they should have massively buffed drop rate of uber uniques across the board. 20% from uber duriel, 5% from everywhere else for a start for example...Comment by suppatankSweet now I just need 5 ubers.... So far I have gotten... none. Since day 1.Comment by SilveradoThe drop rate increase has to be pretty good because being able to craft what Uber Unique you need while it drops 1 Uber Unique per 3 seasons is not ideal and this change is basically useless.Comment by TheGoldenElmLol, good luck with that. I'll stick to assuming I will never see one of these.Comment by xxStraylightI think, instead of catering to the small crowd of people who are going to ever see 5 uber drops in a season, they should focus on actually bringing people back to the game.Comment by AnylahHahahaha 5 uber unique

Blizzard, I have run 412 duriel and I got only 3 Uber unique

And I have buy mat, people who farm without dupe will never loot 5 Uber unique

So d*umb for realComment by liotielawl 5 uber uniques. They are wildly overestimating how many ubers people get.Comment by DraygonaWhy not just up the mats needed to 50 and make any unique give 1 spark and an uber unique give 5 that why players can actually get one with enough time played and not basing it on pure rng/luck.Comment by PittePatI love it. Got in 200 runs 4x Shako and 2x Visage. - Iam playing an Lightning Storm Druid this Season and only wanted the Ring. So yeah <3Comment by PittePatlawl 5 uber uniques. They are wildly overestimating how many ubers people get.Comment by PittePatWhy not just up the mats needed to 50 and make any unique give 1 spark and an uber unique give 5 that why players can actually get one with enough time played and not basing it on pure rng/luck.Comment by FuryXHDFantastic, the streamers that still play this 20/7 will be thankful. meanwhile 99% of the population has moved onto other games lol.
What a useless and pointless patch.

At least have maybe the uniques have a chance on salvage to contribute to it.Comment by ChiddieNice chance for the 1% of people that play 10 hours a day. I have yet to see a UU since game launched.Comment by ZouraHahahaha 5 uber unique

Blizzard, I have run 412 duriel and I got only 3 Uber unique

And I have buy mat, people who farm without dupe will never loot 5 Uber unique

So d*umb for realComment by mallustPeople complaining about not having any Ubers is beyond me. I have almost one whole bank tab full of Ubers. You must not be farming the right content or high enough. Not getting the ones I want of course but still have alot to convert.Comment by jlaurikaPeople complaining about not having any Ubers is beyond me. I have almost one whole bank tab full of Ubers. You must not be farming the right content or high enough. Not getting the ones I want of course but still have alot to convert.uberComment by ipodsieBah. Why people still cry over this. Come Grasshopper, leave this horribly crafted game now, let it die in peace. Drawing this all out into a slow death where blizzard trys to make small changes, and is still failing to hold a community, is just hurtful to the Diablo name. Let it die, let it be known this isn't enough to maintain a player base. To many have already left, it's sad really but...Comment by Roadrage424I've done 550 Duriel runs with my TB Rogue at this point. I have found 5 Ubers: 3 Crests, 1 Andariel's, and 1 Skies. I do not have an issue with the drop rate. These items are game changers and should be rare.

HOWEVER!

To do 1 legit Duriel run requires 2 Grig and 2 Vashon runs. In order to get enough steel, approximately 30 minutes needs to be spent in Helltides.
550 x 2 = 1100 Grig Shards.
550 x 30 = 16,500 minutes OR 275 hours
1 heart, 1 head, 1 hand, and 1 femur are needed for 1 Vashon run. These can be obtained the fastest doing Whisper Tree events... while I have obtained them in seasonal content, Legion Events, NMDs, and World Boss encounters. The problem is that the amounts are RNG... I once got up to 15 Gurgling Heads without ever getting that Femur I so desperately needed. It took me about 2 hours to get those 15 Gurgling Heads. Still didn't complete a set to do 1 Vashon.
So we dedicate 275 hours of play for 1100 Grig Shards. And I would guesstimate about the same amount for Mucas sacks which doubles our time to 550 hours.
I am doing about 30 runs per hour. This adds up to be a little over 18 hours of just Duriel runs.
So for 568 hours of game play, you can get 3 Crests, 1 Andariel's, and 1 Skies. Now double these hours to 1136 of game play to add the 5 Ubers you need to salvage and to make the Uber you have been farming for that D4 won't give you.

OR you can buy Shards and Sacks on Ebay...

I'm all for Ubers being a challenge to get. 100%! It separates the "do it now" players from the "dedicated fan base." But all these crafting items to do runs must go. That's not an "end game." Thats the Destiny 2 model of "we don't have enough content so let's make a grind time sink to occupy the player base" game model.

For those wanting these items, I'd recommend that you wait until D4 drops this mechanic and you can farm them directly.

I really don't want to see the drop rate change. It's a good monotonous challenge for us item hoarders. But the SACKS AND SHARDS dries out the rest of the content, which isn't much of.

Anyway, my 2-cent novel....