260+ hours and I have seen 2 Divines orbs in all that time

Would love to see a change in the system regarding currency. I have no real issue with any of the other Orbs, but Divines are just impossible to get for me.

Yes, yes I have the seen videos and inventories of people with thousands upon thousands of the things. And yes, I follow all the important steps to increase every likelihood of getting the stupid things. I keep up with people like FubGun, Raxx and others who know so much more about it than I do.

But at this point it's just a vicious cycle of "I need this and that for that and this" but I don't get the drops needed for this and that. Thus it is harder to get this and that.

I know people have Divines dropped in Normal Acts, in Cruel Acts. Multiple before ever hitting level 60 etc. In the meantime I'm level 92 on my main character and in 260 hours (as of writing) of playing I have had 2 divines drop.

Maybe my luck is that insanely terrible, but it is extremely disheartening to play like this. I love the game, I bought Liberator of Wraeclast for a reason. But with all these hours I put and I can barely even get something back to help me grow stronger as a character is painful. I need better gear to run better stuff, crafting is a casino and has never rolled me anything better than what I can find on Market. To run better stuff I need better gear, but I don't get the currency needed to get that better gear.

Putting in all these hours without getting results (i.e. Divine drops) is a terrible experience.

Same OP

I got both of my divines in trials, not seen a single one drop in normal play

I think 2 has kept 1's drop rates without having the myriad ways to increase earnings potential that came with the atlas tree

Last night i started to juice maps and in 3h got 8 div + random drop. Try new ways to farm

Yes cranking up rarity is going to help quite a bit but it's not very interesting

I've seen 4 drop. I've traded for maybe 4 more. I can't buy new gear with exalts and I can't progress without new gear. The cheapest improvement I can find is all 4 of my divs and it will cause me to need to fill back in the missing resistances.

300+ hours and I'm not seeing anything that sells for divs. I've crafted a few things that supposedly goes for 1 div or more but nobody bites. One prismatic ring I crafted has all good suffixes with mid to high tier and looks to be worth about 20div. I've continuously lowered the price over time and am in single digit now. Nobody can afford it and those who can have better.

My hope is they are working on a big patch. One that fixes major community issues, botting, RMT spam, and trading in general. With it should come a reset(new league). Right now it feels very bad once you hit the "need divine gear" wall.

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Strangehill#1736 wrote:

Yes cranking up rarity is going to help quite a bit but it's not very interesting

item rarity does NOTHING for the divine orb drop chance. Orbs don't have rarity, they are all basic currency with fixed drop rate. What helps is more monster density in a map, monster rarity (more rare and magic monsters), more monster modifiers and item quantity. More kills = more chance to drop it

The drop rate of the higher end currencies are ridiculously low. In 300 hours of gametime i've seen 3 orbs of annulment and 1 perfect jeweller's orb. I've been lucky compared to you in that i've seen roughly 12 or so divine orbs drop but thats 300hours gametime, its still bad. ridiculous drop rates when you consider they said that they want you to be crafting all the time. the drop rates needs to be considerably buffed for those.

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Lilianda#8332 wrote:

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Strangehill#1736 wrote:

Yes cranking up rarity is going to help quite a bit but it's not very interesting

item rarity does NOTHING for the divine orb drop chance. Orbs don't have rarity, they are all basic currency with fixed drop rate. What helps is more monster density in a map, monster rarity (more rare and magic monsters), more monster modifiers and item quantity. More kills = more chance to drop it

Not what was stated in the Q&A? Currency is tied to rarity according to devs

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Strangehill#1736 wrote:

Not what was stated in the Q&A? Currency is tied to rarity according to devs

I'd like to see that post cos it didn't in POE 1, why would they change it in POE 2?

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Lilianda#8332 wrote:

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Strangehill#1736 wrote:

Not what was stated in the Q&A? Currency is tied to rarity according to devs

I'd like to see that post cos it didn't in POE 1, why would they change it in POE 2?

It's in the Ghazzy post patch reveal video, buried somewhere or other