The Sun, and other div card drop rates

I've decided to play a RF build for the next league, and when I saw ProjectPT's video about Solo self found, I felt like signing up. Now obviously, I need to find a rise of the phoenix to even make the build work, so I went on an old, fully decked out character and started farming the Solaris Temple for the card.

I ran 241 instances. Yes I counted. I found exactly 0 cards.

What the shit?

I've never complained about div card drop rates until now. Its a build enabling unique item which makes the build unplayable unless I have it, it is also quite shit for any build except RF, which means its value quickly drops in any new league to fuck all.

GGG can't expect me to run thousands of solaris instances to find my shit-tier build enabling unique.

Now I assume this is the same regarding many other divination cards as well, where the drop rate is astronomically high for any one player to actually farm, but you can still buy it off poe.trade for almost nothing.

I'm pretty bummed right now and will probably just play normal breach league instead and buy the fucking thing.

Opinions?

Div card drop rates are not particularly well balanced. There are a couple of sets that are farmable and not too bad, but most of them are stupidly rare for what they actually give you and not remotely worth targeted farming.

Yeah i have been looking for this card since 2.0 come out and even before that in beta and have found exactly 1 card since they started dropping. I farmed solaris for an entire day once for nothing so yeah the chances are actually better you will see the shield itself drop before even one card will.

Now there is in fact another option for you though to run RF SSF and thats by lvling Leo to lvl 3 and using the Reduced DOT mod which is a suffix BTW on a nice shield with high life and resistances. You will need to hit atleast 19% 20% preferably for it to work. This is also nice because you can have no ES at all when running RF which will help with sustain as well. You also may need to run Vitality as well for good sustain but it will work. Especially with an Empowered POF or POF in something like an Alphas Howl or Voideye. There are quite a few options to get the POF to give you more +1 fire res you could even take on aura nodes for more %res as well as empowering the POF for more fire res as well. but yeah the Leo Mod is a good option to get it going till you can aquire a ROTP shield from drop or chancing. Ive just found you need a bit more regen to make it work but you will also gain alot of regen once you do go to ROTP shield from Leo modded shield.

Is there any way to level Leo in SSF Leagacy HC? I can find no one queuing up for Leo. The sun is not farmable even with the league stones.

Edit: I found someone on global 820.

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TrichocereusSP wrote:

Is there any way to level Leo in SSF Leagacy HC? I can find no one queuing up for Leo. The sun is not farmable even with the league stones.

Edit: I found someone on global 820.

Did they fix Leo ???
I though that it wasn't possible still.


And yeah, 'The Sun' droprate is really abyssmal :((

Yeah... The Sun is trash for farming.

Ironic, given that it's supposed to exist to allow targetted farming of a specific item (Which is literally just there for RF builds really)

But yeah, I've ran a ton of Solaris Temple with Breach + Onslaught + Tempest for high mob density and IIQ. 0 cards.

Literally 0.

Meanwhile, I've incidentally picked up something like 4-5 Whispering Ice's worth of The Incantation just by doing one of the 3 maps that drop it occasionally when I got them...

Leo is the next best thing, but then on SSF he's a pain to level... There's like 1 Daily you can do alone for him and the rest you're stuck with if you're truly playing solo...

So yeah... Div cards, at least the build enabling item giving ones, could do with a drop rate bump. Even if just for SSF (To not impact economies)

I had a second today which I vendored.
For me SSF is playing as much as you can with high IIQ maps. This way I was able to find all the ingredients for my zombie build, including the baron, 2 violent deaths and montreguls grasp.
I also have loads of medium rare uniques by now.

If you really want to grind for a divination card I really would advice to run the map version of the card you want to find. Also add onslaught, tempest and breach to that map. Those breaches with extra IIQ tend to give me the medium rare divination cards reasonably frequently. The added chance of finding uniques, currency and splinters is also nice.

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Kaw wrote:

I had a second

today which I vendored.
For me SSF is playing as much as you can with high IIQ maps. This way I was able to find all the ingredients for my zombie build, including the baron, 2 violent deaths and montreguls grasp.
I also have loads of medium rare uniques by now.

If you really want to grind for a divination card I really would advice to run the map version of the card you want to find. Also add onslaught, tempest and breach to that map. Those breaches with extra IIQ tend to give me the medium rare divination cards reasonably frequently. The added chance of finding uniques, currency and splinters is also nice.

I have ran many temples with breaches (sometimes triple)&co .... and I have yet to see those cards drop from there.