POE= Ninja looting game?

The countdown on items needs to be at least 10 seconds, probably more on gems/currency/rares/uniques. It also shouldn't start counting down until you've entered viewing distance of the item.
you are right about that. But in d2 i remember as a ranged character, i would still go right into the fray, if i really wanted the loots. This was done in the last seconds, when the boss was close to dying. That way i had a chance to grab the loots.

im not against adding one more second tho. Cause it would be nice.
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engqvist85 wrote:
The countdown on items needs to be at least 10 seconds, probably more on gems/currency/rares/uniques. It also shouldn't start counting down until you've entered viewing distance of the item.


I actually logged into the forums to post about this today, behold I'm 6 or 7 pages late!

Yes the timer is the only issue, if your going to implement such a thing at least make it more than 2.5 seconds, even in groups of friends people just instinctively camp until its fair game. Either that or lower the % of assigned rare items, have them drop closer to the Player who killed the enemy unit...anything could be an improvement over the near instant timer and rare drop camping.

Keep in mind this is an open beta, having skimmed through the pages I'm seeing alot of whining and comparison to a decade+ old computer game who's name I will not be mentioning. There is plenty of time to fix these minor issues.
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Last edited by SissokNagazi#5646 on Jan 29, 2013, 9:44:52 PM
Yeah seems like all the scum from D2 who botted and ninja'ed the shit out of the game found a new home in PoE and traded their D2jsp forum gold for gold supporter status and promoting their retarded ideas about "fair loot" here.

Hate to break it for you guys but GGG will bent over and bite the pillow under the massive load of social gamers coming into this game who will criticize this crap system.
Last edited by MrMeowMeow#1120 on Jan 29, 2013, 9:55:39 PM
What is the best way to ninja loot? Is being a melee enough, or do you need to have speed stacked too?

I know I gotta go heavy dps to get the xp and the loot. But I am not sure what to build to do that.

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Baja wrote:
What is the best way to ninja loot? Is being a melee enough, or do you need to have speed stacked too?

I know I gotta go heavy dps to get the xp and the loot. But I am not sure what to build to do that.


Frost Wall will probably be your best tool for such activities.
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MrMeowMeow wrote:
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skjutengris wrote:
I never amaze to be suprised, but how can a game who is centric on items allow ninja looting all the time?
Why should I be playing with people who Ninja loot all the time?
why should I even recomend a game as such when for example Diablo 3 got it all right?

I would assume a game would support a team based game as long your not into PVP which is a whole different thing.

I you know play for fun and seeing such behaviours being supported by a developer kinda miss the point.
Naturally there might be a hidden fix been worked on or the developer plays the game with friends all the time but I for one dont like adhd kids running around getting stuff that drops for me.

You got a ton of things right, and then miss the one thing about a RTS game?

Loot pickup?


You obviously never played an ARPG prior to diablo 3.

d2, if you were not nut hugging the boss when it died and ( chose a spot on the screen to spam click ) you were getting nothing, not even a white for as many runs as you wanted to run.

diablo3 is terrible it "gives" you loot


Dumbest shit I've ever read. NO ONE except bots play public Diablo 2 anymore. Every fucking Baalrun made by legit players is organized with a fair lootsystem which rules are made up by the group itself.

In 2013 though, we have a new game, that has all the means in the world to stop making public partys a retard fest, but we decide against it because we need "competitive grabbing".

JESUS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU RETARDS SMOKING?

How about this suggestion: Allow party leaders to choose a loot system between grabfest and instanced loot. I bet my left nut, no scrap that, I bet my dick 99% of public parties are gonna use instanced loot because it's fun for nobody if just one guy tries to kill the monsters while the rest tries to reach their loot in time, resulting in hostility, slow as fuck runs and an overall bad atmosphere in the game.

Jesus you fucking rpg-grandpas should stop defending retarded system because you're nostalgic of them and probably run a private group anyways.


You have some good points.

You just need to learn how to make them civilly.

Please take this time off as an opportunity to brush up on your internet social skills.
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TheSN wrote:
*sigh* here's another example of someone who's never played DI and DII. Go play both of those to give yourself a little perspective, then you'll be able to better judge what's good and what's not. If this game isn't your style, don't play, maybe you just don't like H&S, I don't know. But yeah, it's a part of the game.


What a defeatist mindset. "It's just part of the game. It could be better but this is a hack and slash so it sucks."

If it could be better it should be better.

When given the choice, I'm sure that no less than 95% of the playerbase of this game would choose to have a system in which so-called "ninja looting" isn't happening. It would be better for the community because it would foster trust to have parties in which people didn't constantly "steal" from each other. And yes, just because the loot has my name on it doesn't make it "my loot" when the timer goes up, but that's how many people perceive it and it's hard to tell them "No that's not how it is."

For the life of me, I just cannot think of one REAL reason why FFA or short-timed loot systems are still OK.

I love you GGG don't be angry at me.
Last edited by teacherpeter#1699 on Jan 29, 2013, 11:34:31 PM
yeah, the looting in open beta is an all out scumbag fest, i wouldnt be so pissed if items with my name on it actually would get picked up when clicked, but nope, ill sit there clicking a chaos orb 100x but as soon as the timer goes away some scumbag picks it up no problem
the item system NEEDS to be fixed, whether it be doubling or tripling the timer or completely instancing it
It is getting annoying... i always get ninja looted because of my FPS and ping. Either remove the timer completely or lengthen it, its quite pointless at the moment.

At this rate the community is going downhill cause its making me ninja looting at any possible chance cause everyone is doing it... really fouls the gaming environment,
Last edited by dest1ny#7703 on Jan 30, 2013, 12:05:28 AM

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