Reforging is also best for getting an ancient upgrade for a poorly rolled ancient weapon. 15 minutes for a 2/10 chance of an ancient. Reforging is eventually best when there is one specific weapon you want to upgrade. You'll need those gem levels for augmenting and those XPs for paragon anyways.
You can switch between two or three with the cube slot for your worst weapon. Still pretty good if there are several different ancient weapons you would use. But success there usually depends on how rare any particular legendary is in your class weapon category. Eventually, you'll have so many shards that ancient weapons aren't too expensive either. 250 shards = 1 Legendary 2500 shards = 1 Ancient Legendary Speed runs of GR60+ = 250+ shards Speed runs can go as fast as 1 run per 3 minutes. Kadala will also provide lots of ancients for all armor slots.
It's a little outdated (it was made for patch 2.4.1), but you can use this spreadsheet to check each item's rarity. Probabiliy to get an ancient Wand of Woh through reforge legendary: 10%For armor and left hands, you can also try to see what Kadala has to offer.
Probabiliy to get an ancient Wand of Woh through upgrade rare: 0.3%.
Probabiliy to get an ancient Karlei's point through reforge legendary: 10%. Probabiliy to get an ancient Karlei's point through upgrade rare: 5%. Some legendaries are far rarer than others so your chances to get them upgrading rares are low, while reforge legendary always has a 10% chance to produce an ancient item. While in Diablo 3 originally there was a slight benefit for killing every monsters in the form of extra rolls on legendaries, with Loot 2.0, there is a built in system that ensures players get.ฤก1:59 AMPosted by Is my best chance to get ancients for specific items to use the reforge legendary cube recipe? Depends on the item.