Rarity and Quantity are old outdated mechanics. End it please.

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Praimsara#3423 wrote:

I challenge GGG to remove Rarity and Quantity completely and learn how to balance drops across the board so everyone has equal opportunity at finding something cool and fun.

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Praimsara#3423 wrote:

Hello Fall3nOne3

I like that the game is hard, from a strategic standpoint. Meaning it requires play skill to accomplish things. In fact, I would be the first one to say that they need to come down hard and nerf the current Infernalist Frost Mages destroying endgame bosses in 5 seconds on youtube videos. Also the stat stacking Monk Invoker basically doing it even faster.

I would like to see all the classes balanced in a way that none of them are capable of such high levels of dps. Players being allowed to pick the class and playstyle they enjoy, not the meta of the season because it does the most damage and makes the game EASY. I would like to see the integrity of PoE 2 being slow paces and harder maintained.

I've had this crazy concept in mind for a while that the devs set a damage per hit cap so there is just no way a build is live in a league that can surpass X damage in 1 blow relative to the life a boss has. Especially a boss capable of dropping one of the most valuable items in the game. The reward should not go to the players who can kill it in 5 seconds because they have a build that can do so. Instead the loot should go to the players capable of defeating the boss with the class and play style that suits them best.

It would be far more impressive of a gaming accomplishment if the fight was overall hard and impossible to bypass mechanics of. So players can be proud of their skill in defeating such a challenge, then being rewarded accordingly.

I am not against the Grinding aspect of PoE. I did say I would like less overall loot, but better quality in the surprise drops. Without having to stack Rarity in order to see that luck come into play.

Rare monsters in PoE 2 currently drop a nice variety of loot already. I am just saying instead of players having to spec for Rarity and put it into gear selection, the monster should naturally have higher Rarity in their currency drops or gear rarity (not quantity) based on each harder mod you apply to it. Which I believe is already a hidden factor. Just ramp it up so every player with the skill to beat it, is treated equally.

Let's put it another way, do you think the best strategy in a hard game, should be to build a gear set with high rarity capable of breezing through low tier maps and just one shot everything in their path to walk away with the best drops?

Personally I think the best drops and higher rarity of these drops should be achieved by completing Tier 16 maps and surviving them. Beating the hardest content in a difficult way should be how you see more Unique item drops or high value currency. Not running the easiest content or playing a build that is "broken" when I had the impression PoE 2 was meant to be different than before.

Or maybe I got it all wrong about what they intended with PoE 2, because it does feel like we are right back where we were already with bypassing boss fights and screens flooded with loot to sort while those few players complain about how difficult it is to loot everything on console and or with a controller.