Impossible to get RRRGG on a pure evasion armor?

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arare wrote:

That's the whole point, getting an item such as this and then having them all linked is as close to end game gear that you can possibly imagine.

It is the "holy grail" of items that people want. No shit it is going to tough as hell to get.

How about dropping more high level gear with awesome properties and having no problem to socket it the right way every time? Then you can actually change your loadout more often and grind for better gear and not stick to your one lucky piece that has worse stats than what you find, but you need the sockets so you can't change.

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arare wrote:

That's the whole point, getting an item such as this and then having them all linked is as close to end game gear that you can possibly imagine.

It is the "holy grail" of items that people want. No shit it is going to tough as hell to get.

Can I disagree with that?

It was a level 48 required chest with mediocre stats.
I don't think a level 48 5-link item can be considered end game.
Though I agree the itemlevel was 61, but then still.

Yes, I feel your pain. I posted a couple months back some suggestions and one was to make it so only the gem sockets that did not have a gem in it would be rerolled when a Chromatic Orb is used. Now that you have tried over 100 times to get a specific color combination and failed my previous suggestion is looking better than ever. Alas I doubt that the devs care that they make experimenting with orbs a little more user friendly. Right now in OB I see fewer more powerful orbs being dropped which is very disappointing.

Hey PoE devs. You tout PoE as better than all other arpg's in that you can take common ordinary white items and through the use of orbs can make them into powerful rares. That is all well and good but if you don't give us enough orbs with which to experiment with reforging an item then you are no better than the crappy loot system of D3. I was happy with the rate I was getting orbs in CB and now you have nerfed it too much in OB. Same for gems. I finally get a character to make it to Sarn and I have less than a dozen gems total with only 2 support gems. How can all the wonderful combinations be used if I never get any support gems to use!

Please don't turn PoE into another D3 where farming for 100s of hours yields little to no useful gems. I called it "real life steal" last year for the time I wasted playing D3 and getting slapped in the face by the devs not providing a decent amount of rewards for the time played. Yes, you want PoE to be tough and I know you have players saying that PoE is too easy but you will always have some hardcore players in any game saying it's too easy while the majority of players are feeling that the time requirements are too steep for the rewards given. I think you nailed the balance perfectly in CB and have now nerfed it too much in OB.

edit: typos

Actually quite a while ago I concluded that this game would be much better if chromatic orbs worked as pure RNG, meaning .33 odds for any color instead of color bias (i.e. a full strength armor has heavy bias towards red color). However I didn't post it on the forums because people suddenly think everything is debatable and I have opiniophobia (fear of the opinion of others), rly nn lowbob opinions.

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Arrowneous wrote:

I think you nailed the balance perfectly in CB and have now nerfed it too much in OB.

Judging by the feedback of alpha members GGG also nerfed a whole bunch of other interesting things and builds that don't work anymore on top of nerfing drop rates.

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Arrowneous wrote:

How can all the wonderful combinations be used if I never get any support gems to use!

Oh and don't worry. Once you get the support gems you still won't use them, because you won't have the slots you need until lvl 90.

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overpowdered wrote:

by the way it'S

3^5
not
5^3

Yeah I know. :(

I had a derp.

Getting the ability to change the socket colors should be hard to get so that when you do get them, on that rare occasion, you think twice before using them. Now you take RNG out of it, but you introduce things like "Do I really want use this ONE gem I have for this piece of gear."

Making the ability to change gem colors really hard to get, still makes it really hard to get. I think that outweighs the chance the of making good gear worse thanks to RNG.

RNG is great for some things in this game, but making items worse because of socket mishaps shouldn't be one of them, imo. If you want to risk it with item enchants or magic/verses rare ok.

Just my thoughts.


Happy Gaming!

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overpowdered wrote:

by the way it'S

3^5
not
5^3


Math for

RRRGG is

p(R)³*p(G)² * amount of combinations that are similair

Or generally, I think, you could do.

The probability of any given combination is:
NS=NumberofSockets


1/(3^NS-NS!) [Assuming equal weight of all possible combinations]

If I recall my high school math correctly you'd get the probability for any given sequence in any given order.

Like RRRGGG is equal to RGBRGB, or any permutation of the sequence.

So the probability for any given sequence to appear is the total possible number of sequences minus the number of permutations of one given sequence.

URGH; delete post plz.

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Fluttershypony wrote:

This isn't !@#!@ing diablo 3 or world of warcraft.


I want to make a heavily armored guy who wields lightning. NO SORRY YOU NEED BLUE SOCKETS

I want to make a fencer so skilled he is almost untouchable so I spend EQUAL amounts of nodes for dodge instead of health. LOL SPELL DAMAGE AND 3k ATTACK U GOT 1 SHOTTED

Same for someone who invests in so much armor and blocking ability. SORRY SPEND YOUR NODES ON HP NOT ARMOR OR BLOCK

I want a ground slammin hammerman who relies on pure stun and dodging ability. NEED 4-6 RED SOCKETS TRY ANOTHER GAME

Yep, this game doesn't allow for diverse builds.

I think I will stop playing it soon because of this, if nothing changes.

Yeah, a lot of truth in these posts.