Loot is awful

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kumogakure#7381 wrote:

I'm only in Act 2 at the moment, and I don't mind the direction of leaning into crafting.

But as it stands, I'm not getting remotely enough materials to craft when I want to.

I clear all maps 100%, pick up every non-normal item for disenchanting, pick up socketed and superior items for salvaging. Yet I still feel an urge to save up my crafting materials and avoid crafting for as long as I can, because of how little of these I get. And that is not what a system focusing on crafting should feel like.

I feel these materials should perhaps be a little more accessible, without the need to interrupt gameplay just to haul trash back to town for salvaging and disenchanting.

Agreed, you have to constantly go back to town to sell your paltry sum of wares just for a few gold coins you can use to buy ... nothing, it feels so horrible

What loot lmao
You mean the 1 Regal Shard that dropped from the final boss of Act 3?

POE2 is obviously in its infancy yet, and GGG has a ton of bug-crushing ahead of them to reach stabilization before they can move on to anything else. It's clear that this game is a departure from POE1 in many regards, and that is exactly how it was marketed.

The loot so far at character level 13.5 has been 98% the same with very little variance or surprise factor, though I did get one unique in that time. What gets me is the painfully slow movement speed, and I have not seen any item mods to address it. Granted, POE2 doesn't advocate rushing through levels, which is fine, though I find myself anxious by plodding through the huge maps like my shoes are tied together. Just one pair of boots with a +10% movement speed mod would give me great joy at this point.

I viewed streams that pointed out the differences of the POE/POE2 stash tabs, and there is a lot of space now in the POE2 tabs comparatively. I'm sure more is coming in the future, but this leads to rewards being rather paltry and generically similar since the drop pool is much smaller than POE1. I have also been farming bosses, champions and uniques, as well as entire levels repeatedly, only to get a Scroll of Wisdom for my troubles, or maybe even just white drops to further activate the almonds.

Johnathan promised that we'd see enough exalts and regals that we could craft our own gear.
Not only do exalts and regals not drop (maybe one per act if you're Lucky?), base gear doesn't drop. Lol

Who ever thought a Diabo-like was about 'crafting'? What kind new school nonsense is this? This is a genre that's about loot. You kill a few mobs, you get a cool toy or two. Lather, rinse, repeat.

'Crafting'... Yeesh.

Yup nothing lie opening a chest and it drops 2 gold coins or beatting the act 1 boss and it drops 3 blue items. Loot system is the worst I have seen in any loot game.

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sephrinx#7591 wrote:

What loot lmao
You mean the 1 Regal Shard that dropped from the final boss of Act 3?

You were lucky enough to get a regal shard? Congrats!

Just farm that boss 270 more times and you'll finally be given the privilege and the opportunity to witness a regal orb!

I get it that there should be way less loot than in PoE1 and that you should craft your gear from the beginning. And I really like that!
But it's so incredible hard to get even some decent rares.

Proposition 1: Make the items at gambling a bit more likely to be rare instead of magic?
Proposition 2: Make the drop rate for currency for rare item crafting a bit higher in the first acts?

Those would both increase the chance of getting some decent rares, without more gear being dropped. Thank you

I agree. Im stuck at the end of act 3 (lvl 44). I cant kill the lava boss due to lack of damage and cant finish the trail to ascend... Im completely out of crafting materials, no more gold to gamble. I have no more options other than farming zones painfully slowly. Im super frustrated, I would like to progress but I just cant... I dont really see the point of rerolling because I found nothing good for other classes either.

Also the runes are kind of worthless because you need sockets on the item to use them and Artificer orbs are super rare. I found like 3 so far. So if you have a decent item you can't just "craft" anything on it since you need the artificer orbs.

If they want us to craft our items we need waaaay more exalts, regals and especially artificer orbs. 3-5 exalts per act is not gonna make any difference, its just waay too low to craft anything unless you are super lucky.

I wish exalts would drop. I am at the end of act3 and have seen 3 whole exalts in all of my gameplay.