I am lucky, therefore game is fine

Balance = biggest problem in PoE. All other issues, economic and otherwise, are at least indirectly tied to balance - among builds, gear, skills, playstyles, enemies, maps, you name it.

If GGG did a better job of balancing the game so that OP builds-of-the-month weren't quite as OP, so many other dominos would not need to fall. I'm not saying this is easy at all, because it isn't, nor am I saying I have some miracle answer, because I don't. I'm just trying to frame the problem more clearly.

With the new 4x tier 1 drop update, everyone is lucky now. You are all winners - pat yourselves on the back.

It's been less than 1 week since 2.0.3 reared its ugly head and in that span of time I have obtained Mjollner, Soul Taker, and Windripper.

[Removed by Support]that complained and complained and have utterly erased the joy and feeling of being rewarded that used to come with dropping one of these amazing items.

I hope you also realize this change is going to make it near impossible for the whiners to acquire mirrored gear and legacy gear. Now that shavs is dirt cheap, just think how many you will have to 6L and sell in order to acquire a mirror or a legacy kaoms. I am laughing all the way back to standard and my piles of legacy gear :D.

I suppose it's just a matter of time before GGG gives in to more complaints [Removed by Support] and eliminates legacy gear somehow, but in the meantime I will be raising all my prices - and no - I won't take a common shavs as part of payment - pure ex or mirrors only thx :D.

On the bright side - what are all the whiners going to do now - can't whine about the wealth ceiling holding you back anymore. Now make that build of the week, get to level 100, and slaughter uber atziri, because now, the only thing that is holding you back is your crummy build, or your lack of understanding of game mechanics. Get out there and do all that stuff that the lack of tier 1 uniques was holding you back from - lol

@AttackDingo: Considering that unique items tend to have build-defining mods which are not available anywhere else, and thus builds are not just "incomplete" but more properly "nonfunctional" until acquired, I am not against making such mods more accessible.

The issue I have is instead with the power of these uniques. I feel it is okay for uniques to be powerful and endgame viable, but I believe rares should always be BiS and, as a result, builds with all perfect rares should always have higher potential than builds which resort to uniques to do oddball tricks. People shouldn't be looking at uniques as being better for their builds than mirror-worthy gear; instead, there should be some understanding that, once fabulously rich, it might be time to spend a lot of Regrets and upgrade a gear slot from unique to rare.

Thus, I'm more concerned with things like Shavronne's Wrappings dropping at all, and a little less concerned with the specific rate.

I agree. Only builds BiS rare are CIs.

nothing comes close to 900+ ES chests
600+ ES shields
etc

As usual with all builds they use rare jewelry.

Unique should be a gap filler not BiS ( disfavour, shav, mjol, etc)

My CI gear is kinda tier 2 and still no unique can touch them.


thats the way it should be

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AttackDingo wrote:

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With the new 4x tier 1 drop update, everyone is lucky now. You are all winners - pat yourselves on the back.

It's been less than 1 week since 2.0.3 reared its ugly head and in that span of time I have obtained Mjollner, Soul Taker, and Windripper.

[Removed by Support]that complained and complained and have utterly erased the joy and feeling of being rewarded that used to come with dropping one of these amazing items.

I hope you also realize this change is going to make it near impossible for the whiners to acquire mirrored gear and legacy gear. Now that shavs is dirt cheap, just think how many you will have to 6L and sell in order to acquire a mirror or a legacy kaoms. I am laughing all the way back to standard and my piles of legacy gear :D.

I suppose it's just a matter of time before GGG gives in to more complaints [Removed by Support] and eliminates legacy gear somehow, but in the meantime I will be raising all my prices - and no - I won't take a common shavs as part of payment - pure ex or mirrors only thx :D.

On the bright side - what are all the whiners going to do now - can't whine about the wealth ceiling holding you back anymore. Now make that build of the week, get to level 100, and slaughter uber atziri, because now, the only thing that is holding you back is your crummy build, or your lack of understanding of game mechanics. Get out there and do all that stuff that the lack of tier 1 uniques was holding you back from - lol

Oh shit shots fired!! You make some good points

I'm not saying I don't believe people who claim to have gotten multiple T1 uniques a day since patch 2.03, I'm just saying that's insanely unlikely. I used to play almost no-life, and I didn't get anything close to a T1 unique a week! Players would kill for that.

Did the folks who are suddenly getting a bajillion T1 uniques used to get 1 a week pre-patch? That's tough to believe on its own. If so, you folks already had oligarchic control over the economy because I know nobody in-game who ever had drops close to that.

Just trying to put this into perspective. I guess it's not surprising people are trying to make some kind of point linking the 5 mjolnirs they claim they got in 1 day, but that kind of outcome doesn't remotely match the math of what GGG actually changed.

I hope that isn't me I don't even pick on you anymore lol

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I_NO wrote:

I hope that isn't me I don't even pick on you anymore lol

I'd actually like your input here, Apathy.
well... not sure I'll like or agree with what you have to say, but I think you can contribute.

I'm good I'm staying out of it lol