poe.xyz.is = The "auction house" that everyone thought we didn't need?

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gr00grams wrote:

The problem of the trading, xyz, all of it could be remedied a bit with one move that is in most modern ARPG's;

Drop Significance.

See, I have farmed the shit out of this game, and can say with 100% certainty, that good stuff DOES drop. Orbs drop. The problem is not the rate of drops, but the likelihood that it is usable by that person.

I.e.

I play summoner.

In all my time farming, I've had about 3-4 truly summoner specific unique items drop, 1 Ullr and the rest Queen's Decrees/sidhebreath's (surprise, surprise, no high-end ones, midnight, mortis, skullhead, etc).

That is fucking ridiculous with a capital 'this blows donkey sack'.

However, I've had about 50+ stash tabs full of kit for other players and builds drop. Good items, not shit, items worth several exalts, plenty of them. TONNES OF THEM! But fucking nothing ever drops FOR ME.

This is the problem. If drops had that modern drop logic that looks at what a player is trying to build, and had say, a 50% chance to be useful to what the player is trying to do, while the other 50% could be random loot for trading or whatever, I'm sure people would have a much more positive experience.

The Sacred series was absolutely wonderful for this.
It really sucks the wind out of the sails. I don't care how many good items I get, how many billions of exalted the are worth, etc. I want to find shit for me. Find shit, for me.

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gr00grams wrote:

This is the problem. If drops had that modern drop logic that looks at what a player is trying to build, and had say, a 50% chance to be useful to what the player is trying to do, while the other 50% could be random loot for trading or whatever, I'm sure people would have a much more positive experience.

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gr00grams wrote:

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vulcanfury12 wrote:

Drop rates are pretty shitty as is right now. If it weren't, I wouldn't have had to go to xyz to replace my Mightflay after 22 levels of using it. 3 months of playing and I've only seen an exalt once, and 5L four times 2 crappy base armors and 2 crappy base 2h swords). And eith the existence of Poexchange, your precious ARPG is now essentially an economy sim with a side of mobslaying.

The problem of the trading, xyz, all of it could be remedied a bit with one move that is in most modern ARPG's;

Drop Significance.

See, I have farmed the shit out of this game, and can say with 100% certainty, that good stuff DOES drop. Orbs drop. The problem is not the rate of drops, but the likelihood that it is usable by that person.

I.e.

I play summoner.

In all my time farming, I've had about 3-4 truly summoner specific unique items drop, 1 Ullr and the rest Queen's Decrees/sidhebreath's (surprise, surprise, no high-end ones, midnight, mortis, skullhead, etc).

That is fucking ridiculous with a capital 'this blows donkey sack'.

However, I've had about 50+ stash tabs full of kit for other players and builds drop. Good items, not shit, items worth several exalts, plenty of them. TONNES OF THEM! But fucking nothing ever drops FOR ME.

This is the problem. If drops had that modern drop logic that looks at what a player is trying to build, and had say, a 50% chance to be useful to what the player is trying to do, while the other 50% could be random loot for trading or whatever, I'm sure people would have a much more positive experience.

The Sacred series was absolutely wonderful for this.
It really sucks the wind out of the sails. I don't care how many good items I get, how many billions of exalted the are worth, etc. I want to find shit for me. Find shit, for me.

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Boem wrote:

The game has no way of knowing what drops will be "significant" for your character.

Just saying, that idea is flawed from the basis upwards.