5 hours of t15 juiced maps today alone, 70% MF and not 1 single drop worthwhile
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DISCLAIMER: I have over 600+ hours in POE2. I put 500+ hours into the earlier iterations before 0.2.0 alone.
Currency drop rate is atrocious, I can't even keep a decent stock of regals to rare my maps, Exalts are constantly depleted trying to make the garbage that drops on the ground worth while but every single time it ends up being a bricked garbage item with worthless stats, I've put at LEAST 100 exalts into gear that has been sold to the vendors. I am almost level 90 and have been mapping non-stop since around lvl 65 or so.. and I have not gotten a SINGLE good drop. Each map has like 10 rares that I can find, and a large majority of the time those rares drop NOTHING. Something is off with the loot, some rares are literally only dropping GOLD. THATS IT. GOLD. I am not sure wth is going on , but It didn't seem nearly this bad in the earlier iterations of POE2 before 0.2.0 Oh but those new runes you all put in? Got about 500 of those. Even on cleansed maps with towers that increase Rarity, Azmeri wisp makes an elite empowered? Oh guess what, it drops total crap, if anything at all. Is this the vision? Absolutely no reward for maximum effort? Last edited by smokesnugsYT#7752 on Apr 13, 2025, 1:15:07 AM Last bumped on Apr 14, 2025, 3:13:49 PM
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"Currency drop rate is atrocious"
I was so infuriated and confused when Jonathan, in Zizaran's interview, was surprised that we're barely getting any currency. And they STILL have not addressed it! WTF man!!! |
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" I'm really not sure how I feel about Johnathan to be honest, it's quite clear that he doesn't even play the game... so how are we supposed to rely on him to give us a fun experience based on his "vision"? I say this because it was mentioned by himself that he thought the ability to switch ascendencies was already in the game for this entire time, despite it being a top request of the player base from DAY ONE! It makes much more sense why he is stubborn on sticking to bad decisions, because he doesn't even have to experience his own bad decisions in the game it's self, it's all about what he THINKS it should be like, not what he knows the PLAYERS need. Last edited by smokesnugsYT#7752 on Apr 13, 2025, 1:32:42 AM
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theres a bigger issue with jonathons attitude, he states he wouldnt want to develope a game he doesnt enjoy and is having no issues. hmm OK
he appears to be playing a different game from many. but heres the issue as i see it he is a game developer and knows all the game systems intimately, if he is going to balance the game on his experience and knowledge then thats a huge problem wasnt the game supposed to be more accessable? yet here you have a dev designing around his personal experience. how does that help a new player who lacks all the knowledge he has? heres a couple more i find perplexing, doesnt want the game to be to easy or as he puts it trivilize things. proceeds to make trials and drops seem very lacking for alot of players, he most likely thinks too much loot ruins his concept of challenging Both of those issues you can totally circumvent, make them meaningless, skip you can pay for a carry to do the trial drops not happening, game too challenging, just use the currency you get to buy gear seems contradictory to me. Last edited by tarloch#1873 on Apr 13, 2025, 2:10:59 AM
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" facts... I mean I was on my way to endgame on my Huntress, but after the frustration of maybe only having 5-6 exalts drop for me, and i am at the end of Act 2 Cruel, I had to press pause. there was nothing wrong with the drop rates in 0.1.0, it was great and fun to craft and gamble a bit on gear you found, or even dismantling gear you found to get more currency. I have some incredible magic items in my stash that can be uber super gear, but.. icant even craft anything cause i have no exalts.. you say you had 100.. i barely find any, and i even traded 2 precious exalts for some better gear with MF, and on 70+% and still nothing.. white gear and a handful of magic items.. having to pick up every white or magic item and returning to vendors to sell for gold slows the gameplay down to a grinding halt.. i basically portal back every 4-5 mins to town to sell stuff... i cleared Cruel in previous league much faster then in 0.2.0, and it didn't even have all the "Act 3 is to big, we made them smaller" fixes.. Act 3 was big but it was do-able.. it take me longer now to clear an area, having to constantly port back to town.. it's frustrating |
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" Honestly, I've probably put less than 100 exalts into gear so far, but I was estimating.. It's very close to 100, more around 80 most likely... I got super lucky with 2 perfect orbs at the very beginning of mapping and haven't seen a single drop since then, and have been out of exalts ever since... Lol! I think those 2 perfect orbs were to lull me into a false sense of optimism |
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Yep, I reached level 90 spamming t15 with towers juiced with 3 tablets, 130% RARITY nothing freaking drops, i decided to quit yesterday.
I usually dont mind, like farming runes in diablo 2 for weeks with nothing, but grinding this excruciating soul like vision with lots of effort and attention for no reward aint it. |
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Did you play D2 LOD back in the day doing Baal runs? Tell me how many hours you spent with a sorc teleporting to the end game content for hundreds of runs and how many drops were good? We're talking MONTHS of grinding here.
This is a successor. Get used to GRINDING GEAR. As they have stated many times. This game is meant to be a Grind and I'm here for it. |
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" GGG:in PoE 2 we want players to slam currency all the time otherwise we have failed You:What you expect dude,its grinding game they want it that way... They are going against what they said they wanted and there is obvious lack of currency drops and gear,things like regal and alchemy orbs dont exist,ended up all the way to maps with maybe 3-4 regals and few alchemy orbs. |
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I have 18 exalts now after two days of endgame with 56% rarity on my gear. Can't spend any of them to solve my resistances issues because in the hope of more dps/higher tier maps/better drops(?) i have to save for a frigging greater jewelers orb, which also don't drop, that costs 23 ex.
This is not fun. What boggles my mind is that in 0.1. GGG put out a patch to fix the loot drops and after that things were fine, only to revert this in 0.2. I get that the higher exalts drops caused huge inflation in the economy eventually but that is a seperate issue. If they want to fix inflation then they must add more currency sinks/utility beyond their basic use case for campaign/early-mid endgame. |
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