Ultra Rare Economy

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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Docbp87 wrote:

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There are tons of different strategies out there for getting rich

None of which involve actually playing the game, which is stupid. I've made about 20-25 exalt -ish this league by playing and selling. That is absolutely trivial compared to the currency you make flipping and ripping people off and sniping.

IMO it's the worst aspect of the game.

Chancing every sorc boots I find too and nada. Even decent chests are worthless unless 6 linked. SO ya, OP has a point. You can play for hours and get nothing but small currency and yellows for chaos recipe. It's taxing on your patience and makes you wonder why you even bother.

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Head_Less wrote:

agreed with op but most players are part timer or neglect their family in order to play 6+ hours days.

That s the crowd you talk with. GGG cater to them that s why you need that much to farm gear in this game.

It s not a game for family caring men or big workers. Most take weekends to play start of league instead of going out with their Gf/wife.

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ClickerPro wrote:

I'm curious what the design mindest was to make so many build enabling unique's more or less unattainable beyond having pure dumb luck?

At the onset of PoE the idea was to make every build require 1-3 uniques with special abilities but rare's would be the dominant gear type. And I feel you have accomplished that. But when jewel's like Primordial Might and boots like Skyforth's are so hard to find and even harder to purchase, I question what I'm suppose to do in the face of that kind of adversity as a new or returning player.

I know from 650'ish hours that I'll get it eventually if I focus solely on that one item. But do you really want me spending 100 hours in a league trying to get a single item? I mean obviuosly you want me to play the game for 100 hours, but after that much time of just getting fuck all I really don't feel like I'm going to accomplish much else. I spent over a hundred hours in essence with almost nothing to show for it, trying to get a single Carcassjack.

The point is I really want to do something other than fire totem on a league start, or some cheeky build that requires no unique's to work and doesn't even really get better with unique's. Because unless it's a unique that is more akin to the plague, I will likely never find it myself. Which means I have to resort to getting currency from poe.trade, which means I need perfect rares, which is more dumb luck.

I want to earn my stuff, I just don't want to feel so defeated when it's been 100 hours and I don't have much of shit to show for it when people who play just as much as me have 30Ex and perfect gear. Fuck those people.

TL;DR I'm frustrated at either A)How unreasonably unlucky I am, or B) How rare every strong unique in the game is. I'd rather them ruin the economy and up the drop rates of ultra rare uni's.

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Ageless_Emperion wrote:

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ClickerPro wrote:

I'm curious what the design mindest was to make so many build enabling unique's more or less unattainable beyond having pure dumb luck?

At the onset of PoE the idea was to make every build require 1-3 uniques with special abilities but rare's would be the dominant gear type. And I feel you have accomplished that. But when jewel's like Primordial Might and boots like Skyforth's are so hard to find and even harder to purchase, I question what I'm suppose to do in the face of that kind of adversity as a new or returning player.

I know from 650'ish hours that I'll get it eventually if I focus solely on that one item. But do you really want me spending 100 hours in a league trying to get a single item? I mean obviuosly you want me to play the game for 100 hours, but after that much time of just getting fuck all I really don't feel like I'm going to accomplish much else. I spent over a hundred hours in essence with almost nothing to show for it, trying to get a single Carcassjack.

The point is I really want to do something other than fire totem on a league start, or some cheeky build that requires no unique's to work and doesn't even really get better with unique's. Because unless it's a unique that is more akin to the plague, I will likely never find it myself. Which means I have to resort to getting currency from poe.trade, which means I need perfect rares, which is more dumb luck.

I want to earn my stuff, I just don't want to feel so defeated when it's been 100 hours and I don't have much of shit to show for it when people who play just as much as me have 30Ex and perfect gear. Fuck those people.

TL;DR I'm frustrated at either A)How unreasonably unlucky I am, or B) How rare every strong unique in the game is. I'd rather them ruin the economy and up the drop rates of ultra rare uni's.

Here is how you get rich in the game:

If you have a moral compass => Shitbucket the first week of league and lock down the market on in demand goods by running the build that will get you to endgame day one or two, earn massive profits before prices stabilize

If you don't have a moral compass => Flip and scam your way to success throughout the league

If you are unwilling to do either of those then welcome to the candy store window where most people spend their time looking at the awesome builds they CAN have but likely never will.

I know that feeling of frustration well, it hits me every league I play when I optimize my build and any improvements come at the cost of 30+ex. I also know since I didn't shitbucket that league I won't really have a chance to get those. The game is designed to reward those who treat it as a job.

Whether this is a smart decision in the long run, I don't think so. I play this game to have fun and not to be reminded how closely its economy mirrors the shithole that is the American economy with it laughable wealth gap.