Loot is actually great. GGG knows what they are doing.

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fityfirity#3100 wrote:

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Bilbologna#3059 wrote:

The mistake would be developing with the intent to placate said players in lieu of creating a balanced game with its own identity

Lmao
That is exactly what is happening

Well that's good news!

EDIT: I may have misread your post. If you're implying that the mistake is exactly what's happening, then what are you so upset about? Lol

Loot is great how? 10 runs of chaos trial boss yields nothing useful, that's a total of 30 trial runs to collect the fragments assuming the fragments drop evenly.

What? If I drop 15 div in 4 hours period. There would be no "inflation bracket" left up to the items that are actually time intensive to get.

You have Omen on top. Have more than 1200hours in poe2 now. And did a lot of rituals. Did not see a single purple omen. Not one.
They need to flood the market with these. Same for greater essences.
Then the ground loot as is has value.

It looks like they calculate droprates based on the market value. That is so backwards, if currency is the only crafting material you have.

Edit: after you edited, now Im confused. But yeah, still backwards. No rewards for playing the game. Just a flashy online casino with a legal way to cheat. Thats how I perceive this game atm. Loot would change that big time.

I'm sure it is exciting to drink a glass of water when you've been lost in the desert for a few hours. I still wouldn't voluntarily wander out into the desert without a map just to make drinking water more exciting.

It doesn't matter how balanced it is. It's simply not fun.

Picking hundreds of item pieces, sorting them, crafting them (with basically 0 agency), re-sorting them, reforging etc. just for 99% of it to come out as trash is absolutely tedious and boring. It is the opposite of fun and as long as the entire loot system revolves around it you'll have more and more people quitting the game.

This is real simple.
Since the last patch, no one is getting any drops and if they are it is rare as..
Nearly all the serious player base i know has moved to Last Epoch. The player base is down massively. The game is in Beta but my memory is of a really enjoyable game that is now like wading through treacle. No drops, therfore minimal trade options.
Big reason many are giving up.
It is such an easy fix before everyone gives up on it.

As mentioned, I know it is beta but if this issue is not sorted out soon, i believe many will not return as the memory will be real bad.

Loot acquisition is pretty broken, and it doesn't require particularly high intelligence to see why:

1. A dearth of deterministic ways to get loot for your build, outside of trade.

2. Terrible build balance, so everyone is playing the same few things, so when you end up with a non-deterministic item that isn't good for you but should be good for someone else, it's worthless 99% of the time.

One of the above (or both) needs to change.

I've made a research after patch 0.2.0. I searched to find items better that those i have in my gear. Unfortunately in market all the items now are way lower quality.

Where are those good days that made you count your Divs one by one to buy one good thing?

Currency system drop it's different from item system drop. But one's change doesn't destroy the others balance.

Items drop should be rewarded in top Tier boss. Otherwise what are you doing in the game?? Try to reach 100 level?

Pathetic....

No loot is bad. Not only because crafting currency is used to trade for item but also:

Anything that drops and looks good but is not for you makes you go on poe trade, check stats and see how much is worth, or drop it in ~price 50 exalted, get spammed or nobody will ever msg you about it.

Loot in unid, loot filter is limited.

Loot table will only get bigger, its nice that a rare mace dropped but I need wand. Oh rare xbox with decent stats, nice... wish it was a wand. *Finish map* lets try to sell these for nEX/DIV and go on poe trade to get my items. Getting good loot from website is not great loot.

It feels good to get raw div or good item because its way to rare. Way to rare should be items like old temporalis, mirror of kalandra, or old ingenuity belt. Something that you work for and push your build to absurd point.

Play SSF to T15 maps with anything other than LS and report back when you have some perspective.