@justjoey053 in the early game, you are stuck with what you find in loot. items with Luck and Gold Find are a good foundation for getting started on farming. when you find Legend items with those and Fortune affix, and when you put Hero Points in to the Fortune Skill, your loot will increase, and eventually you will have the stuff to make some of the items you found in the Forums.
one trick that is good for beginners is when you use Angelite Crystal on items, when you put the sixth affix on, it is automatically an Epic affix. so doing this, and using Kyanite to take a Normal affix (Yellow) off one at a time and replace it with an Epic affix. if you are putting a fifth or lower number of affixes on an item with Angelite, it has a good chance to be Normal affix, and it seems like a 20% to 25% chance to be Epic (Orange). once you do this, then you can start working on getting affixes that you want that are all Epic.
the good thing of doing it this way is you learn how to craft your equipment with low cost and easy to obtain Crystals, so when you get the more valuable Legend items and Crystals, you have a better understanding of what to do. this is how I learned to craft my items, and reading the Forums helped a lot too. 
