Bracer of Mastery crafting is straight up BS

[Tolimar]

This seems like an appropriate place to insert a few thoughts on crafting, again. I agree completely with Felonious C, and the title of his post on BoM crafting says it all! Further, crafting outside of ANB events is incredibly frustrating, and outrageously wasteful of time, gold, and crafting materials, in addition to the mind-numbing boredom and repitition of farming for said materials which will be thrown away with no gear upgrades to show for it. In a recent crafting session, I spent 50,000,000 in gold and everything went to the salvage bins. During this Silver ANB, however, I crafted 4 77’s; 2 were CT’d, one was a 77 gold/exp item so I did not care that it was ephemeral, but the 4th item was a Cape that is on my list of needed items for my main. However, as I had already used both CTs, the Cape has to be lost. I know about the 1/74 supposed rate for crafting a 77, but many posts seem to suggest that this will be evenly distributed among crafts (i.e., craft 74 items and one will be 77). I do not believe this to be the case. I know my rate of crafting 77’s is much greater than 1/74 during ANBs. And much less during normal gameplay. One could conceivably craft 740 items during normal gameplay and, yes, get 10 77’s, but get all 10 during the last 40 crafts. I love Eternium - it is 95% great fun and really well designed in most ways. But it is a game, and that remaining 5% plays more like a job of stale content and futile head-banging until the next ANB comes around. I know some of you will tell me that if I don’t like it I can just quit. But listen, I don’t mind drinking the Kool-Aid with you all, but we don’t have to guzzle every drop! We need new content and more productive crafting outside of ANBs. Have at me…

[Teebs]

Crafting BoM for a specific Bonus can indeed be incredibly frustrating.

I will typically start out (in ANB) crafting Rare. Though it uses the same number of MoT as Epic, the number of Essences used is way more reasonable (and I can reforge one stat with Gold instead of Gems).

50+ crafts seems like a very high number without the desired bonus though.

UmbraDei I believe is the data expert in this community on the crafting stats and might better able to provide you an answer to the "WHY?!"

... ktb

[Felonious C]

So the BoM is totally random on the ability it multiplies? It is easily the most resource consuming gear piece of any build, on top of the fact that I've crafted 50+ of them and got no frost beam multiplier, but on arcane bolts I get 5 in a row ? WHY?! This is an extremely disappointing aspect of play.