Currency Item Drop-rate

50% of the fun is from crafting... nerfing drop rate of the crafting orbs is nerfing the fun and buffing the boredom :(

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nugstash wrote:

I dont understand the low drop rates in a test situation, we should be able to craft more, rather then relying on shops and drop armor.

We're testing in a real-world environment, as if the game were released. The alpha test is where the crazy stuff can happen to test outside of normal play limits.

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Darko wrote:

50% of the fun is from crafting... nerfing drop rate of the crafting orbs is nerfing the fun and buffing the boredom :(

+1

less items, more currency!

+1

Since the nerf, my mind set is to craft as little as I can and save everything for end-game. The more rare something is, the more people will want to hold onto it.

If there's more going around, people are willing to experiment without fear. I love crafting and since the patch, it hasnt been as fun. I'm also scared to craft because I dont know when I'll get more drops since I have so few as it is.

Conclusion

Currency nerf = less fun and experimentation.

I'm also going to chip in here. I understand currency items should be rare enough to have value, but how do you value something if its rarity is disproportionate to its function? Sure, it's great that I can upgrade this +20% quality item into a rare one, but if I'm level 30 and I've never seen one of these orbs before, something tells me I should probably just stick to all the other rares I have.

Nerf rarity increases! And buff orb drops, please. Feel free to nerf transmutation, everyone has a lot of those.

I don't really mind good orb not droping, because they are the only way to get the best items.

However transmutation, augmentation and transformation should be a lot more common. I can give two reason to do this :
- promote the use of magic item
- you can't get the best of the best gear with them, so having masses of them wouldn't break the game. But we could still have some crafting fun.