Bad loot - a response

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Fennell wrote:

You're very lucky. Going mostly selffound, I never found any item even remotely as good as these - and I pick up every single rare and run with IIQ. Highest +Life I ever found was +20.

You're the outlier, not the norm.

(that said, you really don't need to trade that much - but the trading system is still completely screwed up and should be fixed)

I don't think I'm particularly lucky. The difference here is that you're on a level 67 character comparing to a level 86. There is a huge difference of time investment between those. Most of the gear was found doing piety runs.

+1 To OP

Im usually not posting a comment in forums. Everybody is free to keep playing or just stop playing without trashing the forums.
Since I really like(d) this game i still want the community know my opinion about the current status of the game.

First of all I think GGG created a indepth game without any comparable competitor atm. And if they would have considered some recent mistakes by THE ARPG developer named Blizzard POE would have become as good as Diablo 2 back then. I intentionally say "would have become as good" since im aware of the fact that GGG does not want POE be the successor of Diablo 2.

Here are my major concerns y POE wont become as popular as Diablo 2 back then.

Diablo2 had aswell a random RNG system implemented for rares and if u got really lucky this Uber Rare dropped. Most of the times it did not and it was okay since there was a really BIG POOL of USEFUL Uniques.

I think that is one of the biggest Issues POE is experiencing atm. Most of the Uniques u find are just good for leveling. Even the mid level Uniques are most of the time just good for this purpose. end game viable uniques are really nice but there is a tier of Uniques missing. Back in Diablo 2 there were end game uniques as rare as lets say BOR, Voltaxic Rift or Soul Taker. Items like this were Grandfather, arachnid belt, verdungos, windforce etc. Those Uniques were called Elite Uniques. Beside those uniques there were so called Exceptional Uniques like Shaft Stopper, gore riders, waterwalk boots, the mf boots called war traveller or the herald of zakarum for example. Those Items dropped significantly more often than useful Uniques in POE and creating this rewarding feeling of "oh jesus".

This fact made Diablo 2 a game enabling u finding ur own good loot in terms of end game viable uniques to build a new character around pieces of gear u obtained URSELF!

So Blizzard went ahead and developed Diablo 3. I played Diablo 3 myself for a couple of month. First of all i did not like the new skill system. I like the idea of rerolling a character and all the theory crafting about developing a new character and Diablo 3 is lacking a classic skill tree. Thats y i was really happy to see this being implemented in POE in a mind blowing manner. What made me stop playing Diablo 3 is the same reason y i dont log into POE too much anymore and i dont get how the developers of POE overlooked this huge fault Blizzard already did 2 years ago: Its the feeling of NOT ACQURING MY OWN LOOT FOR MY CHARACTER. The so much controversial Auction house in Diablo 3 in POE is POE.xyz.
You fanboys out there blame all those people like me to play selffound before complaining here. But isnt/wasnt that the big issue about POE/diablo 3. The RNG system is just too random in order to find a really suitable item FOR UR CHARACTER WITHOUT THE NEED OF TRADING!

As mentioned earlier Diablo2 solved this problem by a much bigger unique pool combined with a higher unique drop rate for so called exceptional uniques and even slightly higher elite drop rate.

So for me speaking being a normal person having a GF and a Job I want to play an ARPG for max a couple of hours a week having the feeling to progress without having to acquire CURRENCY in order to BUY better gear. And even if GGG just increased the drop rate of Currency leaving the unique drop rate as shitty would make POE a much better game. Just take those rings, the quiver or the rustic sash for example:

Id love to try to exalt them but since exalts are so rare and the RNG usually is not in ur favor i just dont. Same with other orbs. Even if i get a really good combination of pre- and suffixed with shitty rolled values i dont divine it since i first dont have any Divine orbs atm and seccond they drop so few I dont dare to challenge the RNG gods.

This being said i stop praying to the RNG gods and start praying for GGG to just slightly adapt this game in order to change this already really good game with some pitfalls to an AMAIZING game.

OP is silly. You assume that everyone is doing what you're doing, and if we're not then we shouldn't be having fun.

1. Not all of us play on Standard, where we can strap on 500 Rarity and run around blindfolded with a bunch of 900 dps weapons built on duped Mirrors and Legacy items.

2. I play in Nemesis, which is a much smaller community. If I can't come to agreement on the price of an item with a buyer, it might be a week before I have another person interested, or a month, or never. We have 1 active trade channel, and sometimes 2-3 public games open.

3. Not all of us care about drops being completely reliant on what drops for the community. I couldn't give a shit less what you found in your last 100 maps, if I found absolutely nothing. My good RNG doesn't make the guy next to me feel good about his bad RNG.

Should casuals have elite gear? Nope! Should a guy who has farmed for the last 500 hours go backwards due to bad RNG wrapped inside of bad RNG with a side of bad RNG? Nope! The reality is that players are leaving right now due to this, and all of your sweet items won't mean shit when we're all gone.

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nGio wrote:

Should casuals have elite gear? Nope! Should a guy who has farmed for the last 500 hours go backwards due to bad RNG wrapped inside of bad RNG with a side of bad RNG? Nope! The reality is that players are leaving right now due to this, and all of your sweet items won't mean shit when we're all gone.

Stop your whine. POE is designed to have non-linear progression and that's exactly what makes it fun.
There's nothing wrong with the system, it's nearing to become almost a perfect ARPG itemization.
The only problem is in your entitled head.

-mushioov

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mushioov wrote:

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nGio wrote:

Should casuals have elite gear? Nope! Should a guy who has farmed for the last 500 hours go backwards due to bad RNG wrapped inside of bad RNG with a side of bad RNG? Nope! The reality is that players are leaving right now due to this, and all of your sweet items won't mean shit when we're all gone.

Stop your whine. POE is designed to have non-linear progression and that's exactly what makes it fun.
There's nothing wrong with the system, it's nearing to become almost a perfect ARPG itemization.
The only problem is in your entitled head.

-mushioov

Entitled? This from the guy who's highest level char is 62? Honestly man, I played more hours in the 1w race than you have since CB. You don't know anything about late game progression, because you still haven't managed to reach it yet. Guess what buddy? The "perfect ARPG" is losing players and streamers quite noticeably, and we're only 2 months into release. Come talk to me about progression when you've hit your 1000th hour on any char. Shit, come talk to me when you manage to kill Piety in Merc.

-nGio

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nGio wrote:

Entitled? Guess what buddy? The "perfect ARPG" is losing players and streamers quite noticeably, and we're only 2 months into release.

-nGio

Yes, entitled. You think because you've spent X amount of hours on the game that you are entitled to get the best or near best items. Guess what? You are not. You might get lucky, but then again most people don't. And that's exactly how it's supposed to work and it's working like a charm.

Losing players? Hahaha, last time I checked the PoE playerbase was only increasing! Streamers playing 20 hours per day for 2 months straight losing interest? How shocking.

-mushioov

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mushioov wrote:

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nGio wrote:

Should casuals have elite gear? Nope! Should a guy who has farmed for the last 500 hours go backwards due to bad RNG wrapped inside of bad RNG with a side of bad RNG? Nope! The reality is that players are leaving right now due to this, and all of your sweet items won't mean shit when we're all gone.

Stop your whine. POE is designed to have non-linear progression and that's exactly what makes it fun.
There's nothing wrong with the system, it's nearing to become almost a perfect ARPG itemization.
The only problem is in your entitled head.

-mushioov

QTF

The problem is in the players who don't know how to properly play, not in the game. I hope GGG understands this and don't change game constantly in line with all these QQ.

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Mahesys wrote:

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mushioov wrote:

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nGio wrote:

Should casuals have elite gear? Nope! Should a guy who has farmed for the last 500 hours go backwards due to bad RNG wrapped inside of bad RNG with a side of bad RNG? Nope! The reality is that players are leaving right now due to this, and all of your sweet items won't mean shit when we're all gone.

Stop your whine. POE is designed to have non-linear progression and that's exactly what makes it fun.
There's nothing wrong with the system, it's nearing to become almost a perfect ARPG itemization.
The only problem is in your entitled head.

-mushioov

QTF

The problem is in the players who don't know how to properly play, not in the game. I hope GGG understands this and don't change game constantly in line with all these QQ.

I sincerely hope both of you are trolling.
in part, because I disagree with Einstein, and think human stupidity has a bound.

Path Of Exile's skill system and passive tree are an ingenious and much-needed refreshment to ARPG.
but the drop and craft systems are probably - forgive me GGG - the most fucking ridiculous piece of swine-flu-infected fertilizer I've ever seen.

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johnKeys wrote:

I sincerely hope both of you are trolling.

And I sincerely hope you were trolling with that Karui Maul since (OMG) APRIL 2013
because you could have got ilvl77 one and alt spammed Tyrannical and attack speed on it
since then.