First thoughts on Expedition rewards

+ League mechanic doesn't outclass other mechanics by far compared to previous leagues
-> thus incentifies doing delve or heist / other stuff
-> not feeling bad/time waste for doing delve / heist is great


+ League mechanic appears to be a little off in regards to risk/reward
-> very strong enemies for generally speaking small rewards
-> expedition contract drops seem really rare (got 4 or 5 until lvl 89)
-> expedition contract loot seems okay, risk/reward still difficult since expedition enemies strong compared to other enemies

For the past lvl I started to only do the league mechanic for the Haggle guy, as for other 2 vendors the risk/reward seems not worth it.

Would like to see only slightly improved rewards for the league mechanic as well as a solution for delayed chest opening, which i find tedious, as well as auto-pick up for shards/fragments (e.g. once all expedition enemies are dead, the loot of the chest drops and I can walk over the fragments to auto-pick, or even direct to inventory and amount displayed next to character).

Thank you for the game / trying out significant changes and iterating on it.

Fully agree.

But my guess is there is a bug with the chest rewards. These bad drops from the chest can't be seriously intended.

The league mechanic is completely unrewarding. The chest drops are just bad. The last expedition I did before bed, literally, the monsters I killed didn't drop anything. Then the first three chests in a row, click, click, click, nothing, nothing, nothing. No artifacts. No currency items. No rares. No useable item bases. Just a bunch of white/blue crappy item bases, all of which were hidden by the loot filter. All said and done, out of the 9 chests or there about, I netted 1 fusing orb, and a few crappy, low tier artifacts.

And most all other expeditions are the same. Then add to this the expedition vendors screen time sync which yields nothing. The whole thing is like why am I doing this.

One can argue the currency haggle can be rewarding. But at the same time I can argue it's not rewarding. My personal problem is, a re-roll of the screen, rolled an Exalted Orb, with a listed price of approximately 360 grand artifacts, of which playing the game has dropped me like 20'ish. So, I'm blocked. At the current drop rate, it will take forever and a day to get anywhere near the number of grand artifacts required to purchase the Exalt. So, do I throw away the Exalt and re-roll the screen so I have a chance to get other currency rewards? Or do I continue to not re-roll the screen and continue to pray I will eventually get the ridiculous number of these grand artifacts to haggle the Exalt.

I have been starring at the Exalt for 2 days, which has made the currency haggle screen completely worthless for the last 2 days. Everything else of value that was on the screen was purchased already.

The mechanic is way to dependand on the reroll currency, in maps you get basicly nothing from the chests or some artifacts that have 0 use untill you can reset the vendor again.

Logbooks are fun, i actually really like them but they are way to rare.
Altho again the artifacts found here also have 0 vallue unless rerolls.

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jackof8lades wrote:

The mechanic is way to dependand on the reroll currency, in maps you get basicly nothing from the chests or some artifacts that have 0 use untill you can reset the vendor again.

Logbooks are fun, i actually really like them but they are way to rare.
Altho again the artifacts found here also have 0 vallue unless rerolls.

All true. I finally found a 3rd log book. Start of game to T4 maps. And only 3 log books.

It does seem to me is that the chest and monster rewards aren't too good, because the main reward of the league is supposed to be trading artifacts with npcs. Gambling is a crapshot, but you at least get a ton of rerolls, and extra currency from haggling is always nice, but I think that Rog's crafts have the most potential.

So, in every encounter I'll just try to go for extra artifacts from monsters and chests to maximize league currency and rerolls, the other rewards are bad anyway.

I feel like i do not want to play the league mechanic at all. Take some time to set it up and then i even have to think about what is useful to do. Take so much time not actually "play" the game. Have never seen this in any league in the past (especially compare to the rewards i get).
Although i need it, because no currency drops at all when playing without it (and even with it, it is not enough for creating even an "okay" build).