i hate the fragments nerf, now the relic buisness will come again to scripters hand.
I am not a scripter.
But to be honest I cannot understand how a lot of people found it hard to get relic fragments before shame. Granted, I am talking about relics for personal use and not loads to sell.
There used to be 2 more or less easy ways to get relics prior to shame (and I am not talking of anything illegal here):
1) Simply enhance loot:
Ok, this involves a bit of knowledge and practice to see in a split second if an item will have relic intensity or not once enhanced.
And no, you dont need high monster loot for this. I find loot that can be enhanced to relics in Level 1 T-Maps and on monsters as low as water elementals, trolls and such (you will need to look for the 100% intensity mods on low level monsters).
After 2 or 3 hours of hunting (no matter what I hunt really) I have at least 10 items that will unravel to relics (1 or even 2) when enhanced.
If I do any peerless or champ I will surely find enough items for at least 10 relics (grizzle bows are very often relic quality without enhancing, shields as well).
I actually find relic quality items on the floor at banks from time to time because people do not know what to look for.
But this actually means one has to LOOK at the loot really, people don´t tend to do this anymore.
2) The ML recipe route (usually Knight´s War Cleaver with dull copper but also Guardian Axe with val):
Use a bronze runic hammer and craft Knight´s War Cleaver from Dull Copper (DC ingots are cheap, bronze hammers are also not that expensive, but you need 35 perfect emeralds as well and they do cost a bit). On my shard the cost for the above is around 600K if you buy it all.
Unravelled this will net you around 45 relics per hammer.
How many relics does one need per week? For personal use I mean?
50? 100?
You can make the money to buy a bronze hammer, the ingots and the gems in one hour. And this will give you around 45 relics.
I simply don´t see how this is hard...
If you don´t have a crafter, ask a friend...
The only advantage scripters have (with relics at least) is that they dont need to buy their ingots and probably also their gems. And if they script bods, they will have their own bronze hammers. But thats it really.
I have been making enough relics to actually sell them at a good price in my shop and I am not a scripter...
Hephasitos of Europa
Oh, and don´t worry, shame will still have many items that are relic quality, but now you will need to get them from harder monsters or you will actually need to enhance things from lower level mobs...
