While RMT/Botting is the trend, lets share our magical solution and vote on them

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Gobla wrote:

I think it completely misses the point of why people complain about loot and crafting.

It's not when you have an item with all the right mods in the top ranges, you just don't have their values maxed or the item 6-linked. Which is all that suggestion is aimed at, taking an already great item and making it perfect.

It's about finding items that are 'just' good or decent for your level range. That's the problem this game has. Loot isn't keeping up due to ever increasing layers of RNG. Finding items that have a decent amount of sockets and a decent amount of links and close enough colors to what you use and a decent amount of affixes and affixes that are mostly useful to you and affixes that are mostly level-appropriate and a base item that's close enough to your level and a base item that has the defensive stat you're build for is the problem.

We don't need certainty for top-end items. We need certainty for decent level appropriate items.

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thedestroyerofkids wrote:

At the end of the day one thing is certain. Large amounts of players have already quit playing the game because it is completely unrewarding when you consider time spent versus rewards gained. The current state of the game strongly encourages RMT because the entire loot system and itemization is designed to thwart RMT and botter efforts. What this does to the average player is makes 99.999999% of all items absolute garbage. Try to do it solo/self found and that figure becomes 99.9999999999999999999%. It is completely demoralizing.

Right now, meaningful progression and a sense of joy from finding an upgrade gets walled behind trade entirely too early. You can find incremental upgrades only up to about 30-40% of the maximum power curve, after that point it is almost impossible to even craft an upgrade let alone drop one. This is a problem because it gives only 2 options for continuing progression: Either drop that character entirely or resort to RMT or trading/flipping.

I personally think that the nice steady gear progression should begin to hit the wall at the 75-80% mark on the power curve. This would allow more people to feel powerful and it would allow more builds to become viable in end game.

The only way that equipping items in the 30-40% range of the power curve even feels remotely viable in endgame is when you are using a super basic cookie cutter build. And at the end of the day playing the game is frustrating because that feeling of being godlike never comes for most people except for the most hardcore flippers or RMT users.

I have probably around 2k hours invested into this game and I have had not even 1 BiS item. I have only ever found 1 unique in the same tier as kaoms, but because RNG likes to constantly fuck me it was this POS(no offemce charan but this should not be dropping anywhere near merciless, especially since it cant even benefit from being ilvl 50+)

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Hell, I even tried my hand at the trade sim. I set up a shop, set buyouts for the things i was able to price check and just told people to offer anything for things i wasnt too certain of the value. Did I make enough currency to accomplish crafting any sort of GG item? Hell no. If the only things that drop are all complete and utter shit that nobody wants then of course you can never make a sale. The few good items I did manage to acquire I got nothing but flippers offering me half of what my buyout was just so they could turn around and profit on it and my buyouts were already low as shit, priced to move is what they say, but even then i couldnt make enough sales to feel any meaningful progress.

So in summary I think the magic solution really IS to make all orbs drop like fucking candy and anything that gets an eternal used on it becomes account bound. This would still allow traders to have a market while still allowing solo/ self found people to enjoy the same endgame as the traders. Also, under absolutely no circumstances would it be ok to limit the upper end of crafted items simply because there is no floor to the power level of dropped items.

You guys may not agree with me on this and understandably so, many players have already built "wealth" in accordance to the current system and any changes that help the solo player devalue the previous work of the economy players. One thing cannot be denied though, the current system heavily favors scamming and RMT and is driving away large amounts of regular players.

And no, this isnt about instant gratification or any of that bullshit, 2k hours is nowhere near instant.

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RogueMage wrote:

Introduce a new set of account-bound deterministic crafting orbs. That's right, crafting rather than gambling/currency orbs. These orbs would drop as rewards for vanquishing the fiercest opponents in the game. Each orb would have a small chance to drop from Rogue Exiles, Act and Map bosses, and would bind to your account as soon as you picked them up. With no trading, there's no RMT, clean and simple. Once a crafting orb is used on an item, it too would become account-bound. Here's what the orbs would do:

Intrinsic Orb: maxes the implicit stat in an item.
Extrinsic Orb: maxes the next unmaxed explicit stat in an item.
Embossing Orb: punches an additional socket in an item.
Embracing Orb: links the next two sockets in an item.
Purifying Orb: turns the next socket white in an item.

These crafting orbs would enable players to perfect endgame items exclusively for their own use. They would not work on Unique or mirrored items.

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Sexcalibure wrote:

So far 30 person are failure at properly reading a question and 26 are immature XD

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anubite wrote:

RMT is the trend according to whom and with what evidence.

It's all hearsay. A lot of people accuse popular streamers of RMTing lol.

You can get a crazy amount of wealth just abusing the regal/chaos/alch recipes AND PLAYING THE GAME, which people DO.

Stop being lazy and play. Stop whining and you'll suddenly be much richer, because you're spending your whine time constructively.