[Icy-Veins] This Diablo 4 Simulator Reveals Just How Expensive Masterworking Really Is

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A Diablo 4 player has built a custom simulator to help players understand how much it really costs to masterwork gear in the game. Average cost of Masterworking items
byu/Icytroll93 indiablo4 Reddit user Icytroll93 shared their project on Reddit, where they explained how they wrote a script to simulate common masterworking strategies. The script runs thousands of gear upgrade attempts to calculate average material costs and the number of resets needed to get ideal results. In Diablo 4, masterworking is used to boost item affixes. However, players often reroll items multiple times to land upgrades on specific affixes. Icytroll93’s tool simulates different scenarios, such as needing 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 3 upgrades to hit the desired affix, across both unique and legendary items, the latter with tempering included. The post includes a set of histograms (shared via Imgur) showing the distribution of material costs for four common upgrade goals:

• 2/3 hits on a 4-affix unique
• 3/3 hits on a 4-affix unique
• 2/3 hits on 5-affix legendary with tempering
• 3/3 hits on a 5-affix legendary with tempering

A fifth figure (show below) summarizes the average material costs for each case. The simulator is supposed to give a general sense of expectations, not precise predictions, so take it with a grain of salt!

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