5x currency divination cards are complete waste of everyone's efforts

my suggestion:
make a new forum section: "whining corner" where all threads about bad one time experiences go.

div cards are about supporters immortalizing themselves in the game, ggg getting money out of it, players getting additional small rewards and casuals some more currency to trade for better items if one of the rarer cards drop for them.

working as intended for me, it's all about the expectation one has about certain game mechanics.

this game is about the process of finding good items, not actually finding them.

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johnKeys wrote:

Divination Cards were a perfect place for GGG, to shove RNG.
since RNG is a good thing, we need more of it and we need it everywhere and pulling all the strings because it's so good and so economy-balancing and ...

Spoiler

FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

personally, I'm excited about what these two beautiful things may bring, when completed:

but dropping any of them is RNG (with terrible odds at that).
and turning in one of them is RNG (you have no control over the corrupted modifier of the Voll, if any. heck it can theoretically turn out Rare).
and these are actually the more "deterministic" of the lot.

see

for "full RNG card that will surely drive you insane with rage".

so, what do I think about Divination Cards as a feature?
please see spoiler above.

You are not trading, you argument is invalid. Yes, I'm done. Sorry man, but this is just silly beyond any measure. It has been said a million times now, but you keep repeating same stuff over and over again, whenever there is something to do with RNG.
YES, this is RNG.
YES, drop rates are low.
NO, you are not going to get these self-found any time soon.

It is not GGG's fault - you chose not to trade, so take all it comes with it, and stop with that non-sense, please!

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Perq wrote:

You are not trading, you argument is invalid. Y...

Most idiotic statement, unfortunately seen quite a lot around these forums.

Path of Exile is a free to play game that does not have any EULA requiring anyone to participate in any of plethora of activities within the game. This means people can play the way they want, including self-found, and can have and voice their opinions.

I believe lot of the disappointment with Divination cards is connected to bad expectation management from GGG. They let players in dark for very long time about the ways how Divination cards work and many players expected it to be a way for solo players to deterministically acquire valuable gear. This is completely wrong as current system is built to fit into trade-centric economy where each card is just another article for sale or purchase. Rarity of some cards is so high that you can't farm for them unless you commit ungodly amount of time to such endeavor and you may still not get what you aim for.

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Perq wrote:

Can we PLEASE have less of these threads please? If it was some valid points, sure, we can discuss. But there is nothing to discuss. You did no research, you have no valid points. Simple rage at getting bad RNG.

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Frankenberry wrote:

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Perq wrote:

Can we PLEASE have less of these threads please? If it was some valid points, sure, we can discuss. But there is nothing to discuss. You did no research, you have no valid points. Simple rage at getting bad RNG.

it's a legit request to demand less rng in the game if, for example, you can't beat it on any other way than investing a massive chunk of time. which would be unfair for those who can't invest that time and still want to enjoy the game. that's why there is rng to get those casuals some occasional luck streaks.

most players demanding less rng just don't realize that this mechanic is their friend.

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Perq wrote:

You are not trading, you argument is invalid. Yes, I'm done. Sorry man, but this is just silly beyond any measure. It has been said a million times now, but you keep repeating same stuff over and over again, whenever there is something to do with RNG.
YES, this is RNG.
YES, drop rates are low.
NO, you are not going to get these self-found any time soon.

I know you are sick and tired of me talking about RNG, and I can understand that.
but you must also know I am sick and tired of too much RNG in too many places, plaguing a game I care about, and enjoy like very few before it.
yes, Path Of Exile is up there with the best of 'em.
perhaps this coming from someone who played just about anything you can think of in 3 decades, would mean something to GGG.

but one thing just brings it down.
and the really sad thing is it's not some inevitable flaw or a bug. it's a decision GGG made, and therefore a decision they can revert.

you probably didn't read my reply in my "I'm lucky, game is fine" thread.
but you don't have to.
because I happened to stumble upon a better post, by someone else
HERE

better than I could ever phrase it.
read, and maybe you will begin to understand.

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realmoney wrote:

just traded a set of 5 of these cards for 5x currency. got 5x whetstones, so basically trash. whats the chance of even rolling something remotely feasible as currency?

Of course you know you won't get an answer, that would spoil the "fun". Basically, you've been trolled by a pack of Divination Shards. Now, think about how often that occurs in this game and you might start to sense a pattern...

People are starting to leave them on the ground, and I dont even bother to pick them after everyone get out of the map. These cards are a waste of ressource and time. I got fooled once with whetstones....will not happen twice.

I hate threads like this "this card that I basically got for free didn't give me 5x exalts" Do you have any idea what such a thing would do to the economy... of course most of the time what you get from it is going to be negligible.

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FULL_SYNTEC wrote:

People are starting to leave them on the ground, and I dont even bother to pick them after everyone get out of the map. These cards are a waste of ressource and time. I got fooled once with whetstones....will not happen twice.

It's really dumb to leave them on the ground when it takes you 1 sec to pick them up, 1 1x1 slot in your inventory, all of this to get a chance at a jackpot. But heh, people do whatever they want.