Ah so this is the method you were eluding to over here:
You’re method is to not engage with the shops at all unless something worthwhile shows up… sounds an awful lot like “waiting to get lucky” to me (and likely not just me)
Maybe I’m not seeing something here so please correct me.
Let’s be real for a sec though: you’re advising to not engage with the systems unless it gives you something you want (aka get lucky).
Yet you say that the locks are not the issue:
But you don’t engage in the systems that are defined by making you waste your resources due to the fact that the most vital aspects are influenced by the existens of said locks!
Your claims and your actions/advice don’t seem to align, hell they are contradicting each other.
Buying greys in bulk from the armory wouldn’t be such a bad idea if you were sure that once you got that 370+ grey with the correct distribution actually turned into what you wanted. What stops this from being a reality? Not the fact that they have RNG stats (it doesnt help but you would eventually get a 370+ with the right stats) but the fact that even once you have gotten that coveted 370+, it can still turn into shiny, expensive garbage because of its random rolls that you cannot change
As much as this is “good” advise, it doesn’t help the OP at all. Why?
For one: what if it’s his first lvl30 thunder hammer? Is he just supposed to run around with something he doesn’t wanna use because he didn’t get it the precice moment he leveled to 30?
It completely ignores the desire of the OP to make his Thunderhammer in that very instance of time + it also ignores the fact that he might have to wait MONTHS to finally see this item in any shop!