When does the good loot start?

[DoNotAimAtMe]

Hello,

I am now level 86 and for a few days I have somehow felt not really made any progress, except to sell or disassemble things.

Noted I'm still in the standard monolith not yet in the empowered.

Now I wanted to ask when it actually really goes off (because is slowly boring without progress).

I still have a monolith to make before I can activate the Empowered.

I think it really starts only when the corruption is higher?
If so, I already have the feeling that the power for the bosses is missing.

Thanks in advance.

[Ravenkid9266]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSpBd-j_COM

Loot is mostly extra.

[DoNotAimAtMe]

That has nothing to do with my question :)

[Ravenkid9266]

You asked when does the good loot start, and it is mostly extra. If you want better extra loot you need to move onto empowered monoliths.

[Idlemind]

Don't you need to craft it yourself?

[[LWT]Karpiu]

There's a very easy to understand and intuitive crafting system in this game for a reason. Try crafting on what you have until you drop something better worth crafting on or/using (like useful for your build uniques). There's also dungeons like Lightless Arbor that gives you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of items based on the modifiers you choose based on how much gold you spend. There are other dungeons that have better exalted items drop rates than monos. There are timelines that are used to target farm specific items for many builds.

There's no way you're level 86 (i assume you're at least on 90 level timelines by now) and you don't have any upgrades, haven't happened to me for any character. Instead, try saying what you've tried to do to make your character stronger so we can find the issue.

[DoNotAimAtMe]

Originally posted by LWTKarpiu:

There's a very easy to understand and intuitive crafting system in this game for a reason. Try crafting on what you have until you drop something better worth crafting on or/using (like useful for your build uniques). There's also dungeons like Lightless Arbor that gives you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of items based on the modifiers you choose based on how much gold you spend. There are other dungeons that have better exalted items drop rates than monos. There are timelines that are used to target farm specific items for many builds.

There's no way you're level 86 (i assume you're at least on 90 level timelines by now) and you don't have any upgrades, haven't happened to me for any character. Instead, try saying what you've tried to do to make your character stronger so we can find the issue.

I've found few things to get through the standart monoliths but followed this guide and have trouble to find that things, maybe need to grind more on empowered later on:
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/elemental-nova-sorcerer-guide

[fredbsd2]

Runes of shattering.

Set up loot filters w/ rules to find what you want. If it's not perfect but has some affixes, then rip them off with runes of shattering and use said affixes to craft upgrades. That's the neat thing about this crafting system, you can tailor your pieces to your build fairly easily.

[Wylfen]

So far my crafting easily outdoes any loot I find. Other than shards, I rarely pick up anything.

[DoNotAimAtMe]

Originally posted by fredbsd2:

Runes of shattering.

Set up loot filters w/ rules to find what you want. If it's not perfect but has some affixes, then rip them off with runes of shattering and use said affixes to craft upgrades. That's the neat thing about this crafting system, you can tailor your pieces to your build fairly easily.

That's what I have done, but I don't find that piece with many forging potential that I can rebuild it like I want it :/

Often the forging potential doesn't have enough even with using hope. Best way is for me to find that piece/weapon I need with few good affixes and then look ahead.

But the problem is if I use removes runes it uses forging potential to and removes random.

Maybe I make something false, can you maybe explain me how exactly you done that.

I have already set the loot filter from maxroll build.

[DoNotAimAtMe]

Originally posted by Wylfen:

So far my crafting easily outdoes any loot I find. Other than shards, I rarely pick up anything.

But you need to find for example that weapon with some good affixes to craft that good.

There's no way to get that weapon in a shop with anything so that I can craft good?

[GhostFS]

For now I'm "collecting shard mode".
I'm pretty happy with loot/crafting system to be honest.
The main reason of why it's difficult to find new interesting loot is mainly due to the fact that you can take decent loot and make it better with this powerfull crafting system... and so equipment turnover is very slow.

[uber_sped]

Every character you make will hit a loot wall. Even when you get to empowered Monoliths. You will go for those one or two drops from a boss or the shade. After you get those it is agonizingly slow to upgrade gear unless rng smiles on you. I feel it is more about getting to that slow upgrade level, then go start a new character and play something different till you hit that wall again. Good Luck.

[Dante]

The hands of the mods are pretty loose, any criticism will be quickly deleted, right?

[Ayk-]

Good loot starts at empowered monos, and after you push corruption there a bit. Empowered monos start with 100 corruption, I started to see T7 exalt drops and uniques with 2-3 LP after reaching 200+ corruption, so it will take some time to get there(depends on how fast you and your build is).
Also, you don't need crazy good loot to push end-game farming unless you will go extreme , let's say 500+ corruption. Capped resistances and %100 critical strike avoidance with 2k hp more or less is enough for end game-defenses, get a cleanse on potion use belt, and high movement speed boots and you are good to go.
Characters already take most of their damage and power from skill tree and passive tree in the current game state, gear is just there to boost your defenses and play the endgame carefree.