Please stop buffing drops

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deathspenalty#0833 wrote:

GGG please. Buffing random drops will not make the campaign suddenly feel better. Its the inherent RNG you introduced in PoE 2 that was mitigated in PoE 1 that is the main issue.

PoE 1 - RNG mitigation

1. Crafting recipes (added in closed beta) - You can guarantee a required stat trough the leveling process on items. All crafting recipes used are from common items and can be built up from other crafting recipes (vendoring for alch shards/transmutes)

2. Bench crafting (1.2 in year 2014) - No matter how unlucky or lucky you get, the bench has your back. It was never the optimal choice, but it would allow you to clear a minimum bar of required stats on your gear to make a build feel playable. Again multiple tiers and common crafting materials made it impossible to not have access to the bench crafts (even vendor recipes, chaos/alt)

3. Essences (2.4 in year 2016)- In PoE 1 they guarantee a stat of a specific tier. You can save them for later, and even upgrade them into a higher tier. Once again, if you go on an unlucky streak of drops, a single essence from early on can still still hold value.

4. NONE of the above are destructive crafts. All crafts in PoE 2 are ultimately a dead end street. You roll your dice, and if you are unlucky you can basically toss the base item away.


tl:dr
Buffing drop rates in PoE 2 will have little effect, because its not just about the amount of loot we get, its about what we can do with the loot we get.

Edit; added dates of when the methods of crafting were added to emphasize that these were really early additions to the game which was important for the itemization and solved issues inherent to the games progression.

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

What loot? The most efficient thing you can do during campaign is to check the vendor every level

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deathspenalty#0833 wrote:

Edit; added dates of when the methods of crafting were added to emphasize that these were really early additions to the game which was important for the itemization and solved issues inherent to the games progression.

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Jabollo13#7217 wrote:

If you have problem with too much loot , just filter out valueable things and you will see only augments. Its good idea , let go people who like LOOT EXPLOSIONS. IM PLAYING LAST EPOCH AND I LOVE DROPS THERE !

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Obyrith#7888 wrote:

If people can get to maps in HC SSF then there is at most a minor problem with loot drops in the campaign.

Most of the complaining comes from lack of knowledge about how to improve gear and optimize your build while levelling so you can keep a reasonable level of DPS.