The ugly truth about lotteries

5L my armor and get 1 exalt! I will link after every fuse!

Sounds familiar? It should, the trade chats are full of these. My worry is that one day it gets to this point:

Make my armor GG and get 10 exalts! I will link after every chaos!



Although there comes problems with lotteries such as scamming, but you have to ask yourself... Why do people do them?

Is it to save money? The answer would almost certainly be "yes", but is this an issue, really? People will do anything to save money, so this isn't the problem, this is a symptom of the problem.
The real problem is, that the entire "crafting" system is a big lottery. You just insert your coins to the slot and hope the pictures align and you can get your prize.


So folks, enjoy these public lotteries, they're here to stay and only get worse because GGG wants them to.

P.S. yes I hate the joke of a system GGG calls "crafting". They should fucking admit they made a huge lottery system instead of lie to our faces and say it's "crafting", cos that's just insulting, assuming we're too fucking stupid to understand what a lottery is.

I'm all in ears listening to your suggestions how to make another system that won't be a random gambling in a game like this with online economy.

That stuff already happening dude.

Saw a fairly well known streamer offering a 6L lioneyes to scour chance a voltaxic rift for him and someone offering for eternal exalting a certain stat on item.

If people want to do it let them, if you don't want to, don't.

They do it because they think it's fun. Orbs have no value. Zero. Unless you're using them for fun, they're just wasted. I don't get it either why, but they do it for the fun of it.

I don't have a problem with lotteries, but I agree with you, the crafting is a pain.

I think it has to be a pain, there has to be some sort of big currency sink otherwise there is big inflation.


If the crafting system allowed you to use 1 exalt and choose what prefix you'd want, then everyone would have the best GG gear and the game wouldn't have a point.

I hate saying, but being in their shoes, I'd keep it the same as it is.

On the contrary I enjoy the crafting system, even though I have the worst fusing luck in history. You can look at my chars = I've never 5linked in a lot of play time. But when it happens joy upon joy. I've also had some great exalts in the past and these were among my favorite moments in the game.

My current projects:




That chest is gonna 5link if its the last thing I do on this game.
The staff I hope to do the same but also planned on getting +1gems, only about 1 in 1200 chance of that so I'm gonna need several mirror drops probably....unless I offer a mirror as a lottery (still very unlikely) ;/

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ckay27 wrote:

On the contrary I enjoy the crafting system, even though I have the worst fusing luck in history. You can look at my chars = I've never 5linked in a lot of play time.

My current projects:

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This is "not that good", imo

Ideally what you want is something like mine:



Notice it has 3 resists + life

Now your armor has 1 big resist + top end life.

In this game man, you want a crap load of resists on gear + the life. The MOOOOOORRREE the better. That chest sadly only has one. Of course it can probably roll other resists, but it's a gamble. Rather just trade for an already GG item that has all I want.

So your saying if I'm capped on resists I would want less armour? Less life? No I wouldn't. I have one strong resist and 124 life including strength and a fuckton of armour with quality. Also as I take 30% EVA nodes as part of my tree, astral would be completely wasted on me. I think your chest "isn't that good" for my character.

Edit: my hest doesn't have quality at the moment for obvious reasons. I'm also playing in a fresh economy, not standard.

a great solution for this crafting gambling would be tiering it, if you want a godly life/resist/resist/resist/armor/%armor 6 fecta item then so be it. each exalt will be 1 chaos worth, eternal 2 chaos.

The catch? this only works for item only to lvl 45. you will have lets say 20% max resistance roll and 50% max armor roll with 50 life rolls high end.

on higher tiers when /if you get rich you can still craft the ilvl 79 with their stats for the current rates.

and resists are available from the passive tree. many frown upon getting it from there, but it is a very valid choice: for few passive points (That after life buff are 'cheaper') you free A LOT of affix slots on your gear. that might mean ability of using GG unique in place of rare with resists etc

btw
6link eludes me, but i'll 6link it someday