Increase or create synergy with LLD Farming/Crafting

Would be cool to see pvp uniques drop more often in LLD farming areas such as Normal difficulty piety and cruel mudflats. I think a way to motivate peope to farm would be increasing the drop rate of highly sought after items such as prismweave. Even with the prismweave recipe, its pretty RNG of who hits the hybrid they are after. If items like prismweave with important crafting elements dropped more often in farming areas the gear barrier would be lessened. I see many many people collecting as many prismweaves as they can and hoarding them. Would be cool to see more of the popular LLD uniques, that we corrupt often, drop in LLD farming areas too.

I also think T1 magic items should be more common in these areas. Farming for LLD is pretty boring and uneventful. Basically you are alt farming and if u get a good drop once every 500 hours you are doing well and way above average. I only have a few items after a couple thousand LLD farming hours. I do it mostly for alts/chroms but I have been so close to getting useable items. Crafting can be seriously scary and costly. I would like to see a larger reward for LLD farming, how about you guys?

More Prismweaves please.

Idk, I think the temp-leagues have shown already just how quickly elite LLDers can be equipped. The top temp dudes will come to standard and be just as competitive. If you live on perm-leagues there really isn't much an excuse not to be highly-geared as is. I'm not saying I wouldn't enjoy better rare drops from LLD farming zones, but I just don't see it necessary.

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bigfoot312 wrote:

Idk, I think the temp-leagues have shown already just how quickly elite LLDers can be equipped. The top temp dudes will come to standard and be just as competitive. If you live on perm-leagues there really isn't much an excuse not to be highly-geared as is. I'm not saying I wouldn't enjoy better rare drops from LLD farming zones, but I just don't see it necessary.

nothing was said about better rare drops.

I was about to make a thread talking about how having limited amount of LLD uniques and crafting materials like vaal orb/prismweave/asenath/etc will be limiting the grow of pvp. Right now on the whole BL server there are only 75 prismweaves and 42 not corrupted asenath gloves for example (forgeting about the fact that a lot of people will never come online since they have quit the league). This amount is not even enough for 2 people to craft top lld gear. The possibility is not there because of lack of enough resources.

Soon, the same will happen on Sc league too as LLD player base (hopefully) grow. LLD is fundamentally doomed to hit a limit when these resources go scarce. Obvious solution is increasing the drop rates along with the growth of LLD scene.

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mephisto_n wrote:

I was about to make a thread talking about how having limited amount of LLD uniques and crafting materials like vaal orb/prismweave/asenath/etc will be limiting the grow of pvp. Right now on the whole BL server there are only 75 prismweaves and 42 not corrupted asenath gloves for example (forgeting about the fact that a lot of people will never come online since they have quit the league). This amount is not even enough for 2 people to craft top lld gear. The possibility is not there because of lack of enough resources.

Soon, the same will happen on Sc league too as LLD player base (hopefully) grow. LLD is fundamentally doomed to hit a limit when these resources go scarce. Obvious solution is increasing the drop rates along with the growth of LLD scene.

Ya definitely. IMO the best way to fix it without affecting pve and HLD too much is just increase the drop rate of these recipe items. Preferably off piety, the ooozebeck or w/e Rhoa boss in cruel mudflats, as well as kuduku in cruel mudflats and hillock in cruel. If this game is an ARPG and GGG really wants to keep the gear grinding aspect apart of the game, then the loot system for LLD should better reflect that perspective. This suggestion correlates to the ARPG grinding mechanics.

Yea, it's a great idea.

crafting gear on hc vs crafting gear on standard sc is completely different.

On sc you have no troubles buying any crafting materials. On hc even if you overpay sometimes there are simply no people to sell the item/crafting materials. Id like being able to farm something on my own for once.

While I support the idea I don't think that ggg will do anything about it :/


ps. You'd be lucky to buy a few prismweaves on hc.

You're so right, HC is such a limited realm. I didn't even consider it. I agree - at least on hardcore leagues LLD uniques should be much more droppable. Standard always has 20x ppl online every day for any LLD unique so I'm not sure it's necessary for a change on that.

Well LLD should be easy to get into without disrupting PvE imo. GGG has removed the easier ways to get past the gear barrier and implemented something that doesnt affect PvE nearly as much. Their solution has increased the barrier to completing some builds. If they adjust their solution by increasing the rate at which prismweave drops in LLD farming areas, I think many people will start to farm solely because of this and possibly get lucky with some rares as well. It literally cant hurt the game unless GGG wants the gear barrier to LLD to be in its current state, imo very hard for newer players and new leagues. Not all builds are physical, I understand this. Would be nice to see some recipes complimenting other builds too, as well as a cool way to farm them : )