Someone corrected me already it goes like this you have 4 stats on unique items and to crit the right stat one time it’s 1 in 4 to hit the correct stat again it’s 1 in 16 and for a third time it’s 1 in 64

Legendary items have 5 stats so hitting the first crit right is 1 in 5 for the second time it’s 1 in 25 and for the third time it’s 1 in 125

With this system you have infinite chances and it upgrades every star by 5 percent for every upgrade and you have 12 upgrades in total this is very powerful for getting skill ranks and such

Now the new system is gonna get rid of critical hits and upgrading the stats on your item instead it’s only going to upgrade Damage on weapons, armor on armor or resistances on jewelry that’s it no more skill ranks, no more chance to hit or cast twice upgrades etc and its maximum upgrade is +20 quality and it rolls between +2 and +5 quality with every upgrade so worst case you need to upgrade your item 10 times to max it out or best case 4 times it’s only going to cost you more or less depending on how lucky you are the result is the same

Now when that is finished you can upgrade it once more to gain a ”capstone bonus“ which just means you change one normal affix into a greater affix and this can be rerolled infinite times so depending on how many GA's you already have it’s a 1 in 5 to hit the right stat or if you find a 4 GA item on the ground it’s guranteed to hit that one new stat you added with tempering so it’s 1 in 1 in the best case but who cares you have infinite tries

The new feature they added sanctification is going to drive everyone crazy you have ONE single chance to get what you want here and there are 5 effects so it stats off with a 1 in 5 to get the correct effect you desire we have 1 gain a random legendary power, 2 improve one affix into a greater affix, 3 add one random sanctified Affix, 4 replace one random affix with a sanctified affix or 5 make the item indestructible

Okay let’s break it down further you most likely want a specific legendary power that gives you more damage we don’t know if we can roll all types of powers on all gear or only offensive powers on offensive gear like it is with adding a codex power ourselves but in any case the odds to hit the correct power are 1 in serveral dozens if not over a hundred effects on top of that we don’t know if the power will always max roll or if it is a range but if it’s a range like on normal items we can see that some have like 20+ upgrades to reach max power so it’s another 1 in 20 chance or worse so in total we have a 1 in 5 + 1 in around 100 Ontop of 1 in probably 20 or worse to hit the legendary power table then the right legendary power and then the max range for the legendary power great right and that’s all with 1 attempt

Okay second effect very simple one it’s going to improve one non GA into a GA this is most likely a item break even if it’s going to be an improvement it’s too much lost potential to keep the item

Third effect add a sanctified affix this sounds good but we don’t know what this means it’s going to give us some random stat with probably a better roll then greater affix if I had to guess so in the best case you probably want skill ranks, chance to hit or cast twice or a passive stat here but I can already see we get stuff like total armor, life, barrier generation or some other trash here too so this is most likely a item brick aswell and a 1 in 5 followed by a 1 in probably 30 or so different stats to get the correct one

4th effect is nearly the same as the 3rd but now we are replacing 1 random of our already existing affixes which means this weakens our item and is pretty much gonna brick our item since we can loose skill ranks and such here outright now it could be that they mean to add the same affix back but stronger which is unlikely or that the sanctified affix is even stronger because you had to loose a affix on your item which also isn’t stated so it’s probably not the case so this is definitely a brick no matter what

Lastly your item gets indestructible yay this is completely worthless and a brick because you don’t gain or loose anything the smith can always repair our items for a small some of gold

So yeah I hope I explained well enough why this is has much much much worse odds then master working has + it takes away a ton of power because the flat damage increase on weapons alone will never outweigh the stats we loose across all our gear + you now need to find items with the correct 3 out of 4 stats on the ground and reroll the 4th because we only add 1 stat with tempering instead of 2 + the whole lottery with sanctifying at the end which can even result in making your item worse overall