The Zizarian Interview. GGG, that was impressive. You're wrong about drops.

For those that haven't watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImBtU3amXE

GGG,

As a new player to the GGG world. That interview was incredibly impressive. I mean - I've never seen any company present themselves, live and on top that you addressed the questions as directly as I could ever expect.

BUT!

You're wrong about the item drop thing lol. SO WRONG. You spoke about sockets - THEY ARE NOT DROPPING. You must be playing on a special server lol...

Not only sockets - quality buffs are not dropping either. The sharpening stone, or armor fragments. I break down nearly all of the items I get that would give them. The drops just SUCK HARD. You are turbo super bad wrong here.

I've not received a SINGLE item that I can use from a main story boss drop.

"Gear upgrades"? hahaha - you're disconnected man. I was wearing level 12 gear until level 30.... Yeah, we're NOT switching gear often... what the heck man.

What is coming out of your mouth talking about gear and drops - couldn't be farther from reality. I'm not sure why you think that.

They need to add sockets and some crafting currency in quest rewards.

Obviously there shouldn't be exalts or regals in act 1 because it would promote botting, but maybe 2 Act 2 quests should give exalts. Then people can't complain they end up the campaign with 3 exalts.

Personally I think item drops are just fine. I have no issues with regals or exalts at the moment, but artificers are quite hard to get by and I disenchant all rares and salvage all quality/socket items. Blacksmith Whetstones are extremely rough.

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As a new player to the GGG world.

Yeah that's pretty much it. You probably need to accept that being a new player means you have things to learn.

Artificers are easily one of the most common orbs you can get. Now whetstones on the other hand? That's my problem.

But the fact you're defaulting to artificers tells me you're not picking up socketed drops and buying socketed items from the vendor to break down. Or not doing it often enough. They were hugely buffed to be more common especially in the shop compared to 0.1

I'm 35 hours in and hard stuck on Jamara. I have no more currency to upgrade anything. I've had plenty of sockets. I've played around with some currency upgrading this or that either to use or to try to sell. I've gambled for upgrades as well with very little luck. The gold drops seem like they are half of what they should be in the early game. Quality items are very hard to come by as well.

… Jonathan just say you don’t play the actual game enough to know wtf you are talking about, or show us the data… and/or let’s see him stream his entire of the camp and what his gear drops are and how much he switches gear… something

think the opposite needs to be shown

I wanna see all these players supposedly using act 1 gear in cruel. Theres just no way

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Satharune#4954 wrote:

I'm 35 hours in and hard stuck on Jamara. I have no more currency to upgrade anything. I've had plenty of sockets. I've played around with some currency upgrading this or that either to use or to try to sell. I've gambled for upgrades as well with very little luck. The gold drops seem like they are half of what they should be in the early game. Quality items are very hard to come by as well.

I have done the campaign twice now, once as a huntress and once as a warrior. As huntress the whole way felt extremely rough using rake, whirling slash, and disengage (I didn't switch to stomping ground memes until later).

As warrior everything felt just right, but maybe slightly too spongy, until I got to Jamanra and he's basically two times too tanky and after that monsters feel like massive damage sponges and I need like 40 perfect strikes to down the monkey all of a sudden. The HP curve on bosses is kind of off after the end of act 2 IMO, and it isn't necessarily a loot issue.

If so bump this forum post up so they see it :)

post title- How to Improve currency use and white items

I picked up and salvaged literally every single socketed item I found throughout the entire campaign and still did not have enough artificers. They should make salvaging socketed gear give more scraps