Diablo 4 - Insane Crafting Tricks to Improve your Gear

[@scottcameron5640]

Unlike every other KZbin video that has “Insane” in the title, this one - as are all Wudi’s videos - is insanely helpful!

[@ZeJuank]

Very cool mechanic!! I love how this makes you feel like you're actually building your own weapon, kudos to the folks at blizzar for these mechanics that people don't often see.

[@TylerWx]

Wow, that is a super helpful trick. Definitely worth paying more attention to the stats on each legendary now knowing that they can be changed to higher tiers by imprinting.

[@KamienTV]

Its not tied to the item being legendary but the item level itself.

[@voxii_13]

@@KamienTV You are incorrect here. The ilvl determines the rolls, the aspect allows for further upgrading. Normal > 4 upgrades / Sacred and Ancestral > 5 upgrades. Upgrading is another breakpoint in the item. So, in a way yes, it is because he placed the sacred aspect, making the item legendary. Which allows for the +3 roll.

[@KamienTV]

'Legendary aspect' only affect the aspect part on the item, you can upgrade and roll any rare ancestral without legendary affix on the name and get the skills up.. not sure what you are on about.

[@voxii_13]

@@KamienTV What I am on about was the tip in the video, or did you NOT watch it and decide to run your mouth for no reason? AS STATED IN THE VIDEO: Using a sacred aspect on a normal legendary, it allows you to increase the max amount of upgrades at the blacksmith.

[@KamienTV]

@@voxii_13 Just rewatched it to be sure and you are right, the aspect allowed that one extra upgrade due to the low item level and it being close to the threshold to the next 'tier' or whatever we wanna call it. My comment was about the skills on the items being tied to the item level and not the fact that they are legendary. You can pick up a rare and do the same.

[@KildalSC]

Great video with a great example. I felt I know how this works, but seeing it in practice like this I believe I probably hade multiple items i didn't see potential in wrongly.

[@evanwater3633]

probably way more than a couple here. always a bad feel

[@sepheul]

they need to add a breakpoint at 825, make it more exciting for those 800+ ilev items

[@WhatIfTheories]

Nah. I hate the randomized rerolls. What if you got a 815 item with 2 perfect rolls. You upgrade it and lose those perfect rolls. Hard pass. That means you won't be able to upgrade it.

[@zebedeesummers4413]

​@@WhatIfTheorieshow would you feel about some form of low roll protection system?

[@dhreed82]

@@zebedeesummers4413 I do not like that rerolling requires the forgotten souls (forces you to do helltides). I also do not like how everything in the game costs a crap ton of gold and resources, especially the enchanting, rerolling.

[@KingNiros]

@@dhreed82 The real question is why are you not doing Helltides.....

[@iamdopeasfcuk]

@@KingNiros helltides are boring because pack density is ass. you spend most of your time running around. i still do them for the resources, but they're not fun.

[@TickerSymbolYOU]

Incredible trick and actually pretty insane! Lots of value packed into this video. Thanks!

[@stevewong1615]

So many subtle/hidden mechanics you've unlocked for us!!! Thanks so much!!!!

[@zhai01]

Great video! I had no idea you could turn a regular legendary into sacred

[@aLoNeIQ]

more interesting is sacred to ancestral, as sacred are trash (:

[@Kristjan_N]

@@aLoNeIQ no they're not in this context: they're great as they are better than normal items which the guy you replied to meant. The fact that so many sacred items drop at high levels is a whole other issue where they should not be dropping.

[@xsaviour755]

@@aLoNeIQ ancestral is only better when the stats are better, getting all 4 stats right and have them high roll is very hard regardless if its ancestral or sacred. no point in having a half baked ancestral.

[@aLoNeIQ]

@@xsaviour755 really? g2k :)

[@None38389]

@@aLoNeIQ Depending on which item it is, if it's a weapon then low item power means you lost a big chunk of damage, but if it's a ring or amulet it really doesn't matter as long as the stats are good, since those gives you resists and resists are absolutely useless.

[@Simbobwayson]

this video was insanely helpful. something about wudi explaining things makes sense to me and my brain.. as soon as i hear anyone else talk stats and shit with d4, everything goes out the window.. wudi good at talking in layman's terms with d4 and i appreciate that.

[@writingryan]

That's because he's an authentic fan of Diablo. The rest are just puny content creators copy pasting everyone else's and passing off these "new builds" as their own

[@vectorfox4782]

Get a high power level item (725+) that’s sacred or ancestral. If it has 3 out of 4 good perks, Enchant it at the Occultist and remove the worst one with a more desirable perk. Then Upgrade it to max at the Blacksmith. Finally, imprint it with the best in slot Aspect for your build. For Gloves you’ll always want this: Attack Speed Critical Hit Chance Critical Hit Damage Lucky Hit Chance Or substitute any one of these for your main damage Skill

[@ryanfitzpatrick4927]

Can't get crit damage on gloves I don't think

[@Jason.m322]

@@ryanfitzpatrick4927 you can

[@KhalidTheGiant]

This was an amazing video man! I did not even realize you could do that with the aspects. Turn sacred into ancestral. Mind blown 🤯

[@reidyo5404]

Yah I thought the only difference was they wasted more gold lol

[@furypt5184]

the cost and the item power stays the same (base armor value), still very good to know.

[@patho977]

Thank you! I hope you create more of this guides.

[@kimkelvin]

what site can i see those affixes like showed @3:32 ? Thanks

[@Weidl01]

Thats genuis. I got some of this down already but this is beyond what i was aware of so far. So bascally all items between 700-724 with 3 desired affixes even if rolled badly, have high potential. Even if Sacred. Especially the possibilty to upgrade to ancestral will take me a while to work into my scanning routine - if i can manage at all. I already did scan until 700 itempower because i knew about ranges. But I was not aware that it could also be bis (besides low Armor obviously). At this point i'd rly like a lootfilter which could easily have those items stand out.

[@Batman-bh6vw]

Was a filter coming in the upcoming patch or is that just my hopeful thinking making me misremember?

[@jamesgarrett7844]

I almost spend more time sorting through my loot than i do actually playing the game, it drastically needs better filtering & sorting

[@Batman-bh6vw]

@@jamesgarrett7844 As somewhat of a hoarder, the amount of time wasted NOT doing Helltides etc...

[@Popmycherryyo]

04:26 what am I not getting here. The next breakpoint is 725+ (since you already went above 625 with the previous upgrade) why does it get 1 extra rank in the flurry and rapid fire? I get that 2x1,5 becomes 3 (I think that is the point here) but would that mean, that if this was a itempower 100 item, and it got the 5th upgrade ( lets say it was possible) it would also get it? It's just about getting that 5th upgrade, as each upgrade adds 10% of some kind of stat as you mentioned earlier?

[@HOLLLLLYCRAP]

yes, each upgrade is a 10% bonus, the 5th upgrade pushes it to 50%

[@shiftace11]

This is a great thing to keep in mind.

[@TheGreatestLewis]

The level requirement of the item will change to the aspect that was extracted so be aware guys. Wudi bricked an item in an earlier video.

[@pogtuber5146]

So if you have an aspect from earlier levels it's a bad idea to use it in this way? How can we even tell which of our aspects are "bad"?

[@lawlestest]

@@pogtuber5146 probably by looking at the "requires level x" tooltip on the aspect ??

[@pogtuber5146]

@@lawlestest Yeah I see that now my bad

[@brianhum8765]

@@pogtuber5146 No the opposite; earlier level aspects won't raise the level requirement of gear, the aspects off high level items will raise the level of the imprinted item.

[@biggusrichus]

Oh God... I'm gonna spend even longer scrutinizing the stats on my drops now. 😂 Thanks!

[@Lyra7745]

Oha, bin gerade froh, dass ich Dich gefunden habe. Werde mir die anderen Videos auch ansehen. Glaube rauszuhören, dass Du deutsch bist. 😊 Aber ich schaue es auch sehr gern auf englisch!

[@ToasterMcKinley]

One thing I can find information on within the community is: “are some enchantments impossible?” -that is, you’re looking for vulnerable damage on a 3/4 1h weapon, and you’ve re-rolled the “damage to stunned” 20+ times without seeing vulnerable. Are these two affixes incompatible for re-rolls? A list of possible affixes would be really helpful.

[@CaecoAequitas1]

some rerolling is just broken if you have seen his vid when he rolled multiple stat lines, multiple times. Also some other classes can get stat lines others cant, so if you have an alt you can manipulate things further for specific builds that wouldnt be possible on that character.

[@monsoonst0rm]

Yeah I would like to know this too, however, as the other person said re-rolling seems a bit weird at the minute... I'd been trying to re-roll a useless +skill to a different +skill and hadn't been able to, I gave up when it was getting stupidly expensive. No clue if I just needlessly wasted a bunch of mats/gold or if it's a repeat of the D3 "socket" rolls. I didn't actually see any +skill replacements as I was rolling which is weird because it was a +skill to begin with. There do seem to be particular categories of skill that only appear on particular items (e.g. necklaces), so there must be some system. I'm sure there will be resources like we had for D3 eventually (kadala cheatsheet, torment level breakpoints etc), new community tools seem to be coming out daily, but everyone is still trying to work things out atm. It's interesting/fun watching wudijo's stream and seeing the lightbulb moments as another little discovery is made. The maxroll guys seem to be working on figuring out builds etc ahead of season 1 for now - 99% of the questions Wudijo gets asked on his stream are about builds. They are possibly also waiting for the first big patch to see what bug-fixes come through. Blizz seem to be saving the more trivial bug fixes for the bigger patches and just fixing exploits/really broken stuff on the fly. It will probably come eventually, I'd imagine it will be quite a while though.

[@dawids3557]

in D3 they shown what a stat can roll into, no idea why it's not showing in this game.

[@nyosis_tv]

Be carefull with aspect imprint as the level of your aspect will change the level of the piece of gear where you imprint your aspect on. I dont know why it's even in the game, it makes gearing alts so difficult. I've been saving lots of aspects on my main to power up my alts, only to find out I can't use any of those aspects.

[@kingkuder8427]

I'm not saying this didn't happen to you but I imprinted all my 700-800 ip gear and nothing got leveled down. They were all lower level aspects. No change in stats, power, or level. Maybe you experienced a bug.

[@nyosis_tv]

@@kingkuder8427 I dont mean item power level, I mean the required level. If you extract an aspect from a lvl 80 item and imprint that aspect into lets say a lvl 60 item on your alt, the lvl 60 item will become lvl 80 and you wont be able to equip it. It's writtent on the aspect but I didnt pay attention. That's the mecanic I found not alt friendly at all.

[@seth5778]

So the imprint actually does matter! Nice video

[@seligaprv8669]

Is the last upgrade on sacred/ancestral items always +50% on the base stat or what? I didn't really understand that part tbh, why the skill ranks got another +1

[@TheCoaIa]

Thanks for explaining this basic mechanic

[@zoso11385]

So is it best once you find an item you like, upgrade it to the max and then re-roll the stat you want to change? Or does it not matter if you upgrade it before or after the re-roll?

[@Scorpac]

I'd wish there was an addon or mod which you can configure to automatically mark items as junk if they dont meet certain stat requirements. I'm kind of tired of reading through all items i get.

[@Ultrajamz]

If you reimprint it with a codex aspect after it remains sacred?

[@cfedey]

What's that tool shown at 3:31? Thanks.

[@xJay_030]

Bester Mann danke für die viele Tipps

[@stephenjohnson6841]

Super useful information! Thanks again!

[@james1202tw]

Cool! Got to keep an eye on the near breakpoint items. 👍

[@SimonStaxPoker]

Very cool. So I assume we just need to be keeping eyes out for rares that have the right stats but not the right rolls?

[@fiftypercentgrey]

I love these kinds of things in gear-dependent grind games like Diablo. ^^ Sometimes it works out, especially when you know about stuff like this. Sometimes it absolutely doesn't. ^^

[@dadususi9834]

Thanks a lot for the video , really good info !

[@Goondius]

is the 5th upgrade always + 50%? does it also work with ancestral imrpint(does it even exist?)

[@yamamotogenryusai7270]

daaamn , nice tips bruv , THANKS A LOT

[@Theportraitdude]

Awesome video and thank you for the example! Love the content

[@takensteak4485]

This is cool but what do i do if all 4 stats roll like shit and the piece drops at -200 armor.... My rng is so bad 😭😭

[@Tantemify]

take note. you can only change one affix. once u choose it u cannot change the other affix, only the one u chosen.

[@Toxxxic_]

pretty sure everyone knows this

[@RoninAlucard]

Jesus, thanks Wudi ... i didnt even knew, that i could imprint legys with other aspekts O.o i could have so much better stats already if i knew that earlier. Thanks man! Keep up the good work.

[@cliffordpike6850]

I had a similar puzzling moment when I upgraded and imprinted a pair of gloves for my ice shards Sorc. I found a sacred +2 to ice shards pair of gloves and imprinted and upgraded fully, expecting to see a +3 skill result. The gloves rolled +4 skills and I couldn't figure it out. Must have been an ancestral aspect in my stash. Another interesting thing was I imprinted the defensive shield aspect on hitting a ln elite (name escapes me) and I used my level 90 Necro to imprint it because my Sorc hadn't unlocked the occultist yet. The result was a massive shield value in the thousands instead of about 400 or so that my Sorc would have had access to at such a low level. Must be lots of tricks and accidental benefits out there.

[@Nagash-ol3oe]

Great video, awesome explanation, one question left ! Found an amulette (ancestral item app. 780), it had max movespeed, cooldown red and +1 rank to defense. I rolled less ressource cost on it (which was expensive) and then upgraded it 5 times. Knowing I could end up with only a +2 and thought I still have a chance for +3, but it STAYED on +1 ! How is that possible ?

[@nznige]

isnt that just RNG?

[@Nagash-ol3oe]

@@nznige its RNG if it rolls with +1 or +2 to start with, but if you upgrade a +2 five times, its allways a +3 in the end. But it seems like if you only have a +1 roll then its RNG if you get a +2 on upgrading or not. Curious to me, and I even heared people telling me you can get a +3 starting out at +1. No logic behind all of that IMHO. 😞

[@nznige]

​@@Nagash-ol3oe hmm does it say 1-3 on the roll chance?

[@noppis]

This change everything for me. Thank you ❤

[@dires]

Damn this is really good, thank you!

[@bryanJr8]

This is a great tip for going into seasonal.

[@NgocDungHoang-cp8jv]

maybe Im dumb, so basically we want to get whatever number (612, 613...) to 625 after reroll. Then, before slapping sacred aspect screen (imprinting). It does show the "expected result", I dont see it would upgrade into +3 (from +2) and in the video, the mouse is not hover to the "expected result" (doing so fast) So basically the expected result would show it +3 or not?, or this is a bug. Im quite confuse at this step... Really miss the day thing was written in text.

[@lennartmeyerstenfjeld9473]

Super cool trick! Thanks! Also, hoping the duplicate roll on the same item bug gets fixed.

[@DeOPe]

ui nice, thanks for that video! didn't know that - i think i have to keep more attention on upgrading my items

[@khaosghost3626]

hell yeah brotha!! good tips

[@_Tomon]

So that's the advantage of aspect being sacred/ancestral. Nice :)

[@vashu4895]

is it working both ways? meaning when i put sacred or normal aspect on ancestral item, would this ancestral item downgrade to sacred or normal quality?

[@mojojojo123]

Thanks for sharing!

[@nznige]

excellent info, thanks!

[@dhn2549]

Very nice info as always Wudijo. Thanks a bunch! =)

[@Forestdwellr]

This is really true and part of the fun of diablo item hunt. I actually had to go in game to check before writing this to make sure it was true but I got a lucky roll combo with a good enchant and I have boots on my lvl 76 sorc that are +3 frost nova, ice armor and teleport. Its my only +9 rank gear on any of my characters

[@xGR1MxREAPERx]

+ to ice armor does absolutely nothing. You want movement speed/resource reduction/frost nova/teleport. More ranks of frost nova and teleport actually reduce the cooldown. More ranks of ice armor just add a little ice dmg which is useless

[@capybararepublic]

wow! extremely helpful, thank you!

[@ghfhgfuuu]

Thank you for teaching me

[@masterstl]

Ah. That is awesome! I didn't know the golden ones were from Sacred and Ancestral strictly. That should help me improve my power a bit more.

[@nollie2k978]

Really helpful info. Although I knew about it before I always need to remind myself again that this all is possible, because mostly i just take a quick look over it and salvage or sell :x

[@stevenmielke1662]

Oooo, didn't know about the sacred imprint part. I had it happen but didn't put 2 and 2 together. Also makes me think maybe I should clean out a bunch of the normal legendaries sitting in storage for a rainy day. Hmmm.

[@jirikunc1956]

i love it like every D4 video has something like "insane, epic, ultra, mega, brutal" in titles xD

[@ManBearPing]

4:30 what does it mean, "upgrading gives you 50%"? how did you get them from lvl 2 to lv 3, but the other stats got minor upgrades?

[@MeatHuntr44]

Each upgrade gives you 10% higher stats I believe so upgrade 5 which was missing before the item was sacred was needed to get 50% higher from 2 to 3. 4 upgrades wouldn’t have worked

[@robertquick7468]

Not sure I followed the 5th roll, you said it increases the stats on the 5th upgrade by 50%? Did I understand that correct? The other % stats did not increase by 50%? Thanks

[@fonerbalear1102]

This was super useful!

[@Wix.7]

i didn't know u could imprint onto an item that already had an aspect on it, u learn something new everyday\

[@eyezwideshut]

So is it only one breakpoint? 620? or is there a higher one as well

[@xlpode]

Thanks! This video is so useful.

[@goodolarchie]

So you can fix the ranges by upgrading (and imprinting), just not fix the ilvl ultimately? In other words there's no difference imprinting sacred and ancestral, unless it's just to legendary?

[@marinpeev1315]

hi Wudi, can you explain some missing rolls on items, like shout cooldown reduction on chest piece, and resource generation on rings. I am lvl 63 barb. thanks. never seen these rolls at all.

[@AleXelerate8]

What are all the breakpoints? on maxroll?

[@rdsgaming3861]

Did you tried to logout or even end the game to get another roll result? or is thsi fix on every item?

[@GotdayumGaming]

I'm assuming that same process can work with putting lower aspects on high gear rolls? I didn't know you could upgrade reg leggy to sacred or ancestral with aspects. Thanks for the info!

[@lordicemaniac]

you can make ancestral unique from sacred rare by imprinting ancestral legendary power?

[@PimpMasterT]

Had no idea that's how it worked🤯

[@xGR1MxREAPERx]

What item power gloves do you need that are +3 to a skill to get a +4 gloves? I’ve never found a +4 to any skill glove so it must be upgrading the item that makes it go to +4?

[@MarcusFunk1990]

Can you imprint with ancestral and then roll for resource on rings? or does that not work

[@L1ven]

been running flurry rapid fire from the beginning xD It takes ages to get everything set tho but when you get all you need it just shreds through everything

[@marvelocitytoyreviews]

Wait, did I see that right? You can imprint essentially just the "Sacred/Ancestral" Part of the aspect, but it not use the actual skillls??

[@ThijsSchrijnemakers]

very useful, thanks

[@garylim5600]

May I ask if upgrade is always cfm a better roll then previous one? I got a 811 rare and I thinking if I shd upgrade as it has almost 65% stats I want except for one stat.

[@chaosdragun1608]

Breakpoints are such an interesting mechanic but leaving the last breakpoint in range of sacred gear definitely leads me to think a breakpoint above 725 either exists or was intended.

[@tay2250]

There's been some information found that hints at at least 3 more tiers of gems (after Royal) and Blizzard has left themselves a lot of room to expand upwards so I think you might be right.

[@xStreetKingx]

Hey there, great video by the way. I had one question though on the methodology. If I were to do the same thing you did, but apply the sacred aspect first, would I get the same results or would the 50% upgrade at the blacksmith not occur in the same way? Effectively bricking the piece of gear in question from obtaining +3. Thanks again by the way for all the informative content you provide to the diablo community.

[@devinem24]

does this work on sacred items reaching the breakpoint to become anscestral as well?

[@bind777]

If you use a normal aspect on a scared or ancestral item does it have the opposite effect and only give you 4/4 upgrade?

[@Fishio]

For Amulet + Rings, is there a difference at 725+ between Sacred and Ancestral?

[@MarcusFunk1990]

Yes, some affixes only roll on Ancestral items (Resource etc.)

[@citiesoftheworld7237]

Where can I find the sacred legendaries aspects? I can't extract them from the Occultist :(

[@MaxMining]

when u imprint an aspect on a rare, does it gain an extra attribute? rares only usually come with 3 extra stats, and legendaries get 4, so when u upgrade, how does that happen ?

[@ikoalosaurus]

Hey Wudi, what would happen if you imprint a sacred aspect onto an ancestral item, would the item remain ancestral or become sacred?

[@ntn8265]

It remains ancestral

[@typicalgoodguyclub4games]

It remains ancestral the only difference are the material you need, the more tier bellow it need more material

[@afterrhours]

I’m confused about something. Why are ranks an important addition if lets say you already have 5/5 on your skill tree? Is 7/5 stronger? Is there a limit? Can someone help please

[@seanyang3067]

The 1.5x stats when imprinting a higher tier aspect doesn’t seem to work anymore. Did they patch it out?

[@alonelytuba]

does the breakpoint also apply to 725?

[@blackkat101]

Rerolls happen at each breakpoint level. Tier 1 - 1-149 Tier 2 - 150-339 Tier 3 - 340-459 Tier 4 - 460-624 Tier 5 - 625-724 Tier 6 - 725+ Sadly there is no 7th tier, though it seems like there was originally planned to be one at 825, but was cut....

[@marsovac]

@@blackkat101 if there was one at 825 it would screw up many BiS rolles items. You dont want another one. Upgrading it from 820 to 825 would be a gamble. This mechanic is ok for leveling, not in the endgame. Either you would screw up perfect items or every item below 825 would become thrash. This is why they removed the 825. Since there are no means to farm 825, the blacksmith was a liability.

[@blackkat101]

@@marsovac Except that's only if they keep the current item levels. Yes, then it's fine. However it seems like there may be a World Tier V. With things like that, higher ipower levels, having the 825 breakpoint would make sense to be added. Breakpoints allow, like shown in the video, the ability to reroll items to hopefully better. You could drop something with terrible rolls, but the affixes you want. Now you have a chance to buff them up. I don't really think it would mess with rolls at all, but instead give other options. Since right now, you just have to pray to RNGesus that it drops with high rolls. This just puts the RNG on the reroll instead for the ranges while only needing to get at least the right affixes to drop. Thinking on it like that, I feel like it would give more options. 1. If it drops with a high rolls on all the affixes, you DON'T have to upgrade it past the break point. 2. If it drops with low rolls, you can reroll it by pushing it past the break point. This would honestly help make more gear possibly viable.

[@tunzen1697]

Awesome content as usual mate 🙂

[@bruceparkinson3859]

Does it also work in reverse though? Like if you take a sacred item and imprint a non sacred aspect does it downgrade it or no?

[@alvin6638]

what if it is the reverse? it doesn't matter if i imprint a non sacred/ancestral aspect to a sacred/ancestral equipment right? i will still get the max rolls

[@cainhurst_castle]

Would there be any benefit in this specific situation to use an ancestral legendary aspect instead of a sacred legendary aspect? Or do they both simply allow upgrades to +5 and allow that 50% boost?

[@wudijo]

No difference

[@Siphr0dias]

Dang! Thank you! 😊

[@JK-hf3tp]

you can imprint ontop of legendaries?

[@horyukinen]

Very interesting mechanic! thank you

[@pawelnotts]

How does this +50% thing work? Is it every Ancestral item going from upgrade 4 to 5?

[@jos3309]

What happens if you have an ancestral item and put a normal legendary aspect on it, does is stay ancestral?