Playing merc bot Luminary this league made me appreciate the builds that almost exclusively use rares
Some items are easy enough to get (Kaom's and Rathpith require quite a bit of wombgifts, but even that feels completely fine).
Tecrod's gaze and the clam amulet on the other hand, I've killed 50+ liches (spent all the scarabs I've acquired over time) and done ~10 tabs (voyage locker) worth of voyages/charts, and haven't got neither yet. I haven't chased uniques like this ever since the Omniscience amulet grind back when it dropped from regular exarch, mostly played builds that benefit a lot from some rare uniques like jewels (stormshroud, unnatural instinct etc), but those are pure luxury.
Sure, clam amulet and Tecrod's are not needed at all to get the build going (I've been playing it for a while now, and killing most stuff is not the issue anyway), but they are such a massive upgrades.
Grinding for big rare crafts (influenced crown, +2 wands, +2 amulet etc) felt infinitely more fun for me, you gradually try for it until the craft succeeds, while these uniques are just spinning the wheel indefinite amount of times without any payout waiting for that sweet jackpot. (btw clam shelf chart doesn't exist, got two characters lvl 99.20 and 98, found two of those charts, juiced their quant and then juiced voyage for 20% unique amulet drops x3, didn't get the amulet)
Guess it's just not my cup of tea, but I'll keep going, not giving up ofc. Thanks for coming to my ted talk