Oh ok cool... so what about in general I mean wtf to farm since everything sucks

Also - are recipes even in this?? I was under the impression they aren't

Not sure what to make of your first question.

But to answer your second question: there are two dropped recipes that I know of: a "rare" belt recipe (super common) and a blue recipe for a mace which I have yet to see.

I mean when you play d3 and you want rare stuff what do you do.. play through that whole last quest and just hope stuff will drop along the way? or do you run specific parts of it or what

Well, there is a couple ways to do it I suppose. If you have a friend or you're patient you can guarantee a rare drop of SK with a new character. Or just do runs and salvage blues in hopes that you get the fallen tooth component which you average one in every 1-2 runs.