Does RNGesus hate you too?

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Arrowneous wrote:

 It's obvious to me that GGG overlooks/ignores any player that doesn't want to play as the elite no-lifers do. GGG has it in their minds that their arpg is going to be a "hardcore" arpg and to achieve that goal they (PoE devs) perceive that PoE must be full of tiny empty boss rooms and one-shot boss mechanics (Piety laser beam of death for example) and that you must farm slave for 1000s of hours to get anything good/great to drop. RNGesus is just the term (and not of endearment) used to call the RNG mechanics that GGG has coded into PoE. Since all but no-lifers and/or PoE masochists hate the super low chances (similar to lottery chances) of getting a great drop or even enough quantity of drops such as divination cards without doing what amounts to brain dead zombie farming for many, many 100s of hours just to get enough quantity of RNG rolls to occur (and even that is no guarantee that anything good will drop) we slap a label of RNGesus on PoE drop calculations out of sheer frustration and exhaustion.

 Yet within every game (arpg and others) there are always a few % of players willing to devote 1000s of hours of their lives to farming for tier 1 rewards. That's great for them but for GGG to set the chances of getting a great drop to such an extreme low value the 99% (or most) have not the time or the desire to play PoE for that many hours and thus we post out of frustration that RNGesus hates us (as we hate the massive grind time requirements of PoE). Nor is it then fair to call me out as wanting to water down PoE and make it rain tier 1 gear or want 6Ls to be as common as 4Ls. That is also very bad (I don't want a Whimsyshire type arpg here, I have TL2 for that) and the opposite should forever be banned from Wraeclast. But for RNGesus the drop rates and drop quality is painfully low. It's amazing Wraeclast hasn't sunk into the ocean from the weight of all the white trash littering the landscape!

 But GGG has always (and probably will always) set the quality of drops super low and thus RNGesus will forever smite us down and consider our impure thoughts of a more rewarding arpg as blasphemy or that getting a better rate of return for time played is somehow counter to the PoE "hardcore" label and the first G of GGG. It is quite possible for us to be empowered with better quality drops and still provide hard challenges that don't involve either loot starvation to prevent uber builds or one-shot death mechanics. But GGG is lockstep determined to make PoE "hardcore" with bad RNG and most of us will forever suffer the wrath of RNGesus until permanent burnout.