[Bug] Something is seriously wrong with loot (resolved with 0.10.7)

First off, thanks Neon for acknowledging the bug and informing us it will be fixed. That is the most important part.

As to what you can do to prevent this bug:
- Dont use skelleton totem (or place the totem in your weapons and press x before killing stuff)
- Dont kill stuff close to walls/random impassable objects

From my experience doing the above seems to help a lot but will not always prevent this from happening. I have seen a few uniques drop less loot w/o any minions present. If you check my gear there is a reason why skeleton totem is on my wand.

However, there are some unique bosses in particular where u get this bug even when you have no minions alive. For instance Arcade (when one of the bosses pulls to the corner of the map) or Spider lair as mentioned earlier (if you kill the unique in the narrow passage before the room the boss is at you will again get less loot). The problem is it is a bit trickier to capture and I am afraid I dont have the time or the patience to do so but it happens a lot.

Anyways, thanks again for working on a fix and looking forward to it.

Edit: typo

this is bad..
i honestly hope for urgent fix..this is hurting more then any scammer or hacker all together..

Great feedback with many proofs supporting it, thanks for taking thr time to write up Boned !

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GGG_Neon wrote:

Thanks Boned and others, the problems have been completely identified, the information has been passed onto the programmer who deals with this and he is working on a fix.

Thanks a lot! this bug is almost a deal-breaker and should be fixed ASAP!

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Hilbert wrote:

Don't kill mobs close to walls.

It's not the only cause of the bug, it also happen in outdoor areas with no walls around the kills.

Holy CrAP! ive been wondering why my summoner only got maby 1/50th of the loot that my freezin pulse char got in the same amount of levels.... i was starting to think the last patch just had drop rates SEVERELY reduced... ive probably killed 30-60 rare/elite/champ/boss npc's IN A ROW without getting anything but maby a few white and blues....

i havent paid attn to how close things were to walls but i know that theres always zombies and skele's everywhere and maby they take up space, i try not to put my skele totem ontop of bosses unless i cant get them to spawn near them, but even then i see nearly no loot every time..


not being able to use skele totem is kinda rough....

almost everything i read in this thread has happened to me, the banners in solaris 3 seem to do that alot too - i was wondering the same thing, just WOW - first i started with FP char - broke my loot pinata's and now summoner, hid the space for the loot to fall... no wonder i keep thinking everyone is INSANE with their prices and why the hell i cant ever afford ANYTHING.... like ~100 races, FP char up past lvl 60, plenty of chars in the 20-30's and summoner now reachin up to 60 and all together i think i have less than 2 Exalted value TOTAL - and thats cause i just lucked out YESTERDAY and got my first actual exalted... before that i had only even seen 1 regal, 1 blessed, like 5 fusings, 1 chisel.. not good atall... (also when playing my FP char, i used zombies too... but only 3 of them)


As of now im using EVERY summoner node + Bones of ullr, they are DEFINATELY causing this problem - now that its been brought to light its as obvious as can be, i just have such shit luck in general i was startin to think i was just gettin fked and hopefully one day id hit a loot pinata to pay off all this loss... but now i see it was just the engine eating my gear!

really on my first char i saw a orb of random type about once every few hours, now its like i have a wisdom or portal scroll once in awhile.... .was really depressing...


Edit: suggested to try an /oos after then read in the other thread that someone had already been tryin...

Please fix soon, was wondering why i had near 0 currency and loot, pretty sad when you cant even afford skill gems that arent drop only...
Thx...

honestly,on my melee toon i noticed that something is horribly wrong with loot when i pop skeletons.

but then i thought its another iir iiq bug cause skeletons dont have any,but it forced me to stop using skeletons and loosing lots of survivability :-/

now after reading about this it all makes sense now..

Just been levelling up a summoner and wondering if a patch had globally done a massive loot nerf. Compared to the marauder (previous character) who saw nice explosions I saw things like a Vaal Oversoul drop 3 blues and a white.

So no loot nerf just a bug. Looking forward to the fix!

Congratulations to all summoners and skeleton totem users - this epic bug will be fixed in 0.10.7 !
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/340794
Well played, GGG !

Well I have to say this is damn impressive. From the moment this bug was acknowledged it was fixed within 4 days. Just wow.

Thanks GGG and dev team for the amazing response time.

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