Loot Drops are unrewardingly low

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MeanBob_Games#6853 wrote:

Ran a loot party tonight. 4 overlapping towers with 6% quant irridated + breach tablets, and all points in waystones and precursor explicits, and 4 points in breach w/host having ~180 MF. dropped over a div worth of loot per map easily and consistently.

So, the rules are the same as last time but i would be shocked if the drop rates were not just simply cut in half from last league and no change in the effects of rarity sub 200%. If you ran hundreds of hours in endgame last league and then a hundred in the endgame of the current league, this seems fairly obvious.

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Wilmots#7633 wrote:

i was complaining few days ago. Meanwhile i got used to it and good drops, like a greater jewel yesterday feel much more rewarding then before. This is weird, but i think its not that bad. All you want is way more patience.

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MeanBob_Games#6853 wrote:

Yes overall drops are horrifyingly low. I'm totally cool with nerfing rarity and the bg group loot bot sessions but end game has been nothing but a slog. I've gotten to 20 towers and completed 10 nexus and have dropped 1 divine and very very little loot of any value, nor found a citadel, have had enough splinters to get either simulacrum or breachstone, and I've done 4 logbooks with no Olroth

I was excited about the recombinator but in the words of Mark "They seriously fucked that up" too. It's a shame they wasted some employees time designing that last minute to cram into the game.

Forget about waystone sustain now the issue is currency sustain. Running exalts and alchemy's in maps to try to get more loot is expensive and rarely seems to provide any reliable boost in the loot. I understand RNG is a thing but if I increase rarity of items and quanity of items and rare monsters, the rare monsters should drop more quantity of rare items, bit this is like mmore augments/transmute and more low tier rare trash.

I do enjoy the content itself, the new maps and mechanics are all good sadditions for the most part (besides wisps, they suck) but it doesn't feel like it will be worth playing for too much longe.

Id give the patch a 2/10 on launch and it's been whittled and chaosed up to a 5/10.

Will GGG have enough splinters, and artificers orbs to take to the currency exchange so they can get a divine to try to reroll their patch again?

Find out next week

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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JDSJustDude#4003 wrote:

I was just thinking that they seem to have tweaked drops. Im still in the campaign on cruel and I have seen rare monsters drop a white flask and that's it.

They changed something and didn't tell us. I feel like they said fine, we will fix this and that, but they took half the loot away.

You know, stuff like this is more often tinfoil stuff, BUT in this case, GGG already did such a thing in the past.
They heavily nerfed loot and didn't tell us until the community gathered enough data to say "GGG, we can prove that something is wrong - what have you changed!?", so GGG had to come out and tell us that they "oopsi whoopsi, we changed drop rates UwU, but the changes are not so huge - you only have a wRoNg feeling about it - it's not that bad trololol".
Yeah... only "not so bad" that we caught you in 4k.

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herrofattbar#3226 wrote:

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MeanBob_Games#6853 wrote:

Ran a loot party tonight. 4 overlapping towers with 6% quant irridated + breach tablets, and all points in waystones and precursor explicits, and 4 points in breach w/host having ~180 MF. dropped over a div worth of loot per map easily and consistently.

So, the rules are the same as last time but i would be shocked if the drop rates were not just simply cut in half from last league and no change in the effects of rarity sub 200%. If you ran hundreds of hours in endgame last league and then a hundred in the endgame of the current league, this seems fairly obvious.

The knowledge and time/work to get these kinds maps going only to get some sort of loot is ridiculous. Imagine a "normal/casual" player trying to set this up, they will give up halfway already.

I am pretty sure GGG are dependent on a wider playerbase to finance PoE2. At the current state I feel like the majority are giving up before endgame even begins and those who get there give up short thereafter.

In D4 loot rains on you from lvl 1. In PoE 2 you get no loot whatsover. There must be some sort of middle ground.

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Skyvortex#7923 wrote:

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MeanBob_Games#6853 wrote:

Yes overall drops are horrifyingly low. I'm totally cool with nerfing rarity and the bg group loot bot sessions but end game has been nothing but a slog. I've gotten to 20 towers and completed 10 nexus and have dropped 1 divine and very very little loot of any value, nor found a citadel, have had enough splinters to get either simulacrum or breachstone, and I've done 4 logbooks with no Olroth

I was excited about the recombinator but in the words of Mark "They seriously fucked that up" too. It's a shame they wasted some employees time designing that last minute to cram into the game.

Forget about waystone sustain now the issue is currency sustain. Running exalts and alchemy's in maps to try to get more loot is expensive and rarely seems to provide any reliable boost in the loot. I understand RNG is a thing but if I increase rarity of items and quanity of items and rare monsters, the rare monsters should drop more quantity of rare items, bit this is like mmore augments/transmute and more low tier rare trash.

I do enjoy the content itself, the new maps and mechanics are all good sadditions for the most part (besides wisps, they suck) but it doesn't feel like it will be worth playing for too much longe.

Id give the patch a 2/10 on launch and it's been whittled and chaosed up to a 5/10.

Will GGG have enough splinters, and artificers orbs to take to the currency exchange so they can get a divine to try to reroll their patch again?

Find out next week

In no world did they make this a 5/10. 3.5 maybe. Remove stuns and its a 5