Drops are still bad

Now way I can hit act 2 and 3 on multiple characters and still have no exalted orbs. I have tons of ones to effect white and blue items that are completely useless after the start of the game. No I can’t craft them because it takes 10 yellow items to get one and I still won’t be able to add more modifications to it because those DONT drop either. Like is the purpose to have us play with bad and underpowered gear or what? And no matter what class I play on all that drops are shields and quarter staffs even though I can’t use them. Is it so hard to make the gear drop for the class we are playing on, relevant gear drops in Diablo for the class your on so why does it not here? The gear system is terrible.

If you enjoy the Diablo system so much, perhaps just stick with that?

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DeekyGosama#9562 wrote:

Now way I can hit act 2 and 3 on multiple characters and still have no exalted orbs. I have tons of ones to effect white and blue items that are completely useless after the start of the game. No I can’t craft them because it takes 10 yellow items to get one and I still won’t be able to add more modifications to it because those DONT drop either. Like is the purpose to have us play with bad and underpowered gear or what? And no matter what class I play on all that drops are shields and quarter staffs even though I can’t use them. Is it so hard to make the gear drop for the class we are playing on, relevant gear drops in Diablo for the class your on so why does it not here? The gear system is terrible.

You are comparing it to Diablo, but you are talking about 3&4 who have an abysmal itemization. I love the fact that the drops are not class linked as they were in the best game of the Diablo franchise: Diablo 2. This is the way!

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DeekyGosama#9562 wrote:

Now way I can hit act 2 and 3 on multiple characters and still have no exalted orbs. I have tons of ones to effect white and blue items that are completely useless after the start of the game. No I can’t craft them because it takes 10 yellow items to get one and I still won’t be able to add more modifications to it because those DONT drop either. Like is the purpose to have us play with bad and underpowered gear or what? And no matter what class I play on all that drops are shields and quarter staffs even though I can’t use them. Is it so hard to make the gear drop for the class we are playing on, relevant gear drops in Diablo for the class your on so why does it not here? The gear system is terrible.

PoE 1 and 2 do not have Diablo's smart loot.

Ive got 21 exalt for a whole campaign Wdym. BTW im on maps rn and farmed around 130-140ex today for a 7-8h session. You might be doing smth wrong my dude.

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arpgaddict#1346 wrote:

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zakalwe55#2432 wrote:

PoE 1 and 2 do not have Diablo's smart loot.

Yeah. It's stupid loot

ok that was a good one LOL ty

PoE 2's smart loot in the campaign is praying at the altar of the gambler/vendor.

Ignoring the Diablo part...

Yes, drops are still very bad. The campaign felt horrible even with the buffed rates, you were punished for spending the very few crafting materials you did find.

They need to introduce Exalted Shards for Campaign just so you can continue to craft leveling gear, make the shards no longer work past a specific threshold or something.

What am I suppose to use 75 T14 Skill gems on? Stop giving me skill gems.

Mapping feels horrible. Giant maps with little POI, long runs between rare mobs and the drops still feel extremely limited, even when you are juicing maps.

Maybe this gets better later, but if you are a character fresh out of campaign and into T1-3 Maps, the game hates you.

Loot in general in POE2 is pretty lackluster, it's like it's trying to be 2 systems at once (D4 & POE) but failing to really do either very well.

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halen21#3797 wrote:

Ive got 21 exalt for a whole campaign Wdym. BTW im on maps rn and farmed around 130-140ex today for a 7-8h session. You might be doing smth wrong my dude.

8 hours dang did you sleep or poop ??? or anything in between??? i hope to the rng gods you got something for playing 8 hours lol.. alot of people have an actual life and dont play 8 hours straight ......

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halen21#3797 wrote:

Ive got 21 exalt for a whole campaign Wdym. BTW im on maps rn and farmed around 130-140ex today for a 7-8h session. You might be doing smth wrong my dude.

I'd love to know how.

Post buffs to currency finishing A6 I got 1 ex the entire time. I've since pushed to T4 maps and have seen maybe 10 across those maps.

I simply cannot afford to juice every map and I take the time to full clear and the currency coming in pales in comparison to anything like 100 ex in 8 hours.

So assuming I am doing something wrong, what is it your doing that is right?