GGG forces us to play chicken mode

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Wispo wrote:

It is for this reason that i havethinked of building an un-fun (for me) army of instable skeletons :/

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Finkenstein wrote:

Hi

One day GGG will hopefully fix these over tuned bosses, feels like most of the time players play any tier map and face a boss who is 5 tiers above the present map tier. It is not even like it is worth while to kill these map bosses since the drops are so heavily negated by RNG, you might die multiple times only to have a a couple rares and a bunch of blues drop:(

LETS BRING BACK THE BIG TREASURE BOXES, they were such a highlight of killing bosses, I still think about the days when Brutus had a phatty treasure chest to open after killing'im. There just needs to be better incentive to kill map bosses. I have met to many players now who simply kill all the monsters in map except for the boss.

cheers

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Col_Jessep wrote:

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Wispo wrote:

It is for this reason that i havethinked of building an un-fun (for me) army of instable skeletons :/

I would recommend to run a 2 or 3 link with your SRS:

Summon Skeletons + Spelltotem (+ Faster Casting)

Skeletons are useful as a distraction or to stop a couple of projectiles. The spelltotem casts them for you so you don't have to take care of it and can summon your spirits.

A good alternative are Vaal Skellies. Load the gem up and use them in the boss room. Plays havoc with boss and adds targeting and can keep you out of the line of fire. It's important to note that skellies will derp around at the location where they were summoned so you should be close to the boss before you summon them.

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Wispo wrote:

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Finkenstein wrote:

Hi

One day GGG will hopefully fix these over tuned bosses, feels like most of the time players play any tier map and face a boss who is 5 tiers above the present map tier. It is not even like it is worth while to kill these map bosses since the drops are so heavily negated by RNG, you might die multiple times only to have a a couple rares and a bunch of blues drop:(

LETS BRING BACK THE BIG TREASURE BOXES, they were such a highlight of killing bosses, I still think about the days when Brutus had a phatty treasure chest to open after killing'im. There just needs to be better incentive to kill map bosses. I have met to many players now who simply kill all the monsters in map except for the boss.

cheers

Ah, there was big tresure chests as rewards? Cool O.O
And this, while i am farming merciless Voll in the stupid hope to get a Brittle emperor (i have only one, and i am farming from days and days) and by killing him all i get are often WHITES -.-
The best unique ever dropped for me in 2 years of play? Rise of the phoenix, a 4 chaos unique. And there is still people that claims that this game is NOT unrewarding -.-

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goetzjam wrote:

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Wispo wrote:

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Finkenstein wrote:

Hi

One day GGG will hopefully fix these over tuned bosses, feels like most of the time players play any tier map and face a boss who is 5 tiers above the present map tier. It is not even like it is worth while to kill these map bosses since the drops are so heavily negated by RNG, you might die multiple times only to have a a couple rares and a bunch of blues drop:(

LETS BRING BACK THE BIG TREASURE BOXES, they were such a highlight of killing bosses, I still think about the days when Brutus had a phatty treasure chest to open after killing'im. There just needs to be better incentive to kill map bosses. I have met to many players now who simply kill all the monsters in map except for the boss.

cheers

Ah, there was big tresure chests as rewards? Cool O.O
And this, while i am farming merciless Voll in the stupid hope to get a Brittle emperor (i have only one, and i am farming from days and days) and by killing him all i get are often WHITES -.-
The best unique ever dropped for me in 2 years of play? Rise of the phoenix, a 4 chaos unique. And there is still people that claims that this game is NOT unrewarding -.-

Map bosses already have a rather large loot table, I've specifically seen the harder ones seem to have better ones then the easier ones, at least it seems that way. Even with like 20 rarity you should be getting lots of rares.

The large boxes were replaced by strongboxes in the main game. Adding a box to boss areas that is locked until after its dead is a decent idea, I like this because rarity doesn't affect boxes so they can balance map boss drops better around that, instead of worrying about full map parties with a MF culler.



What rarity and more importantly quantity do you have @wispo? It seems to me like you have either 0 or negative because voll has good drops, you might get unlucky occassionally, but doing dried lake runs nets great XP\hr and some decent amount of rares for the chaos recipe.

I find it hard to believe that the most valuable unqiue you've found is a ROTP, not saying you or everyone should find T1 uniques all the time, I just recently found my first one (taste of hate, about 2 weeks ago) but not finding mid level unqiues seems very off to me.

Your character tab is not public, so hard to guess your playtime\activity, perhaps you can let us know how often you play and a bit more about your character?

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Wispo wrote:

The only rarity that i "can afford" is that of chayula, otherwise i would not cap resistances :( Still, there are days "of all whites", and "days of many uniques". One day, in a simple white grotto map, TWO uniques dropped at distance of 30 seconds (!!!) one from another. OBVIOUSLY they were crap: my 7th kaom ring (just to be sure that i have one -.-), and that useless wand that fires one additional projectile in SOCKETED gems (the usual STUPID ggg's drawbacks). But really, only phoenix shield in 2 years, all the good uniques that i have (including a legacy coil) have been buyed from other guys. Edit: i forgot: i play all day (apart from 3-4 hours for seeing my gf, she too plays all day and never gets nothing)

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tryhardgg wrote:

I liek ze shicken mode .

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goetzjam wrote:

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Wispo wrote:

The only rarity that i "can afford" is that of chayula, otherwise i would not cap resistances :( Still, there are days "of all whites", and "days of many uniques". One day, in a simple white grotto map, TWO uniques dropped at distance of 30 seconds (!!!) one from another. OBVIOUSLY they were crap: my 7th kaom ring (just to be sure that i have one -.-), and that useless wand that fires one additional projectile in SOCKETED gems (the usual STUPID ggg's drawbacks). But really, only phoenix shield in 2 years, all the good uniques that i have (including a legacy coil) have been buyed from other guys. Edit: i forgot: i play all day (apart from 3-4 hours for seeing my gf, she too plays all day and never gets nothing)

That is fine to only have the 30 rarity from that, matter of fact most of my builds usually only have around 20 and still get a decent amount of rares.


You say 2 years, but how often do you actually play? Like actual time spent killing things in game, instead of AFK in town, what is your highest level character, how many maps a night do you do, that sorta thing. 2 years is generic and doesn't actually tell us anything.