I have a pretty decent setup and I've been going for 1 H Weapons trying to upgrade my crafted Devastator to a Sun Keeper. My question is should I just spend Shards on 2 H Weapons to try to get a Furnace even though it costs on average double the shards?
I would say toss your shards on any Firebird set piece(s) you don't have, since they cost less than weapons. Only after you're totally done with that would I say start spending 75 a pop for weapons.
I got the feeling that I should have linked my armory after I didn't get a reply for a while. When I say decent gear I'm comparing myself to top 100 Wizards.
The decision essentially comes down to, do I want a quick small power boost before a large one? The answer I've come up with since nobody really replied was no. My Devastator would be inferior to a good Sun Keeper by 10% at most.
And that Sun Keeper is inferior to the Furnace. Just getting a Sun Keeper is 10(just a number I threw, though near to the real number) times more likely. It comes down to if you want to risk it to not get anything good from Kadala for a long long time, as even if you get a Sun Keeper, chances are it's a bad 1. Would really expect you to go through at least 5 until you get a really good 1(7-10% damage and ability to roll the damage range or near max damage roll).
In the end it comes down to luck. You might use 750 shards on 2 handers and somehow you are the luckiest guy on earth and get a furnace, but the odds are against it by a landslide. In fact I think there was some spreadsheet that the average it would take to get a Furnace was 180k shards which translates to roughly 1,6k T6 rift runs.. Yes it would take a while. Chances are you find multiple by the time you get 1 from Kadala, but that is sort of the story for most weapons, on Armor it's a bit different as you can specify which slot you want, which decreases the pool of possibilities a lot, for example there are 20 different Gloves you can get from Kadala, but only 7 of those are Wizard drops. So getting something like FB gloves is really common from Kadala.
Long story short weapons are really really RNG to roll for as the pool you are trying to get the item from is every usable 1 or 2 hander for you class and that's only if it's smartloot(I think it applies to Kadala as well)
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The decision essentially comes down to, do I want a quick small power boost before a large one? The answer I've come up with since nobody really replied was no. My Devastator would be inferior to a good Sun Keeper by 10% at most.
In the end it comes down to luck. You might use 750 shards on 2 handers and somehow you are the luckiest guy on earth and get a furnace, but the odds are against it by a landslide. In fact I think there was some spreadsheet that the average it would take to get a Furnace was 180k shards which translates to roughly 1,6k T6 rift runs.. Yes it would take a while. Chances are you find multiple by the time you get 1 from Kadala, but that is sort of the story for most weapons, on Armor it's a bit different as you can specify which slot you want, which decreases the pool of possibilities a lot, for example there are 20 different Gloves you can get from Kadala, but only 7 of those are Wizard drops. So getting something like FB gloves is really common from Kadala.
Long story short weapons are really really RNG to roll for as the pool you are trying to get the item from is every usable 1 or 2 hander for you class and that's only if it's smartloot(I think it applies to Kadala as well)