What Happened with Items

So everything i read was just "sorry, not sorry".
Still getting absolutely nothing as a casual alch and go player who does not have a party or the time to hunt for solaris touched AN and actually get something. the base loot is still horrible and barely give any return to keep progressing atlas into red tiers. i got to a point where i didnt even had any alchs to run them. is this a 7% reduction in rewards as you stated it? i dont think so. its much, much more than that. U guys still dont get it. the miscommunication happened, you apologized for that. but for the drop balance we still getting a thousand transmutations and one chaos orb.

It was a good text...
i agree with all philosphies the team has.
good job taking the blame and shielding the team.

- The game is indeed in a better place now compared to launch. even the loot feels better. (still kind of hard to sustain atlas alch and go, but i didn't play atlas enough this league yet to really tell).
- Only AN still bothers me and i still think it's overtuned, but it looks like you agree since there is a patch on the way to address this.

For now it is good to see you did agree with the majority of players, and are working towards a compromise / solution.

keep it up
cheers

Sadge

The only right thing at this point is league re-launch.

You know what, Chris? Show us all YOU can play the game in this state and doing good. Take a day off, go on Twitch, and make us all go silent with your talent. Show us, the stupid plebs, how you play the game, how this game is meant to be played by the master of THE VISION.

I'm sure there will be tens of thousands of people eager to learn from the master how you can kill an AN rare in a red map using only some shizzy rares dropped by RNJesus for you, because you beat the crafting to death. And the loot. And, most important, THE FUN.

Until you do that, I will consider that either you have a massive (nice abused word, btw) lack of "weights" in your undies, or you love to lie to us again, and again, and again. No offense, of course.

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Iggy5150 wrote:

Eveything souds good on paper, but results are completely the opposite.

"I have seen parties in this league get multiple mirrors per day" By running maps? I would recommend your staff to take a closer look on how these people are making such amounts of currency by drops, in case third party illegal tools are being used. All the feedback I get from experienced players running max juice maps is that the more they invest, the less they get, either playing full party or solo. I have the same experience as an MF player.

"...or find over 50 Divine Orbs from a single monster." We are aware of that, but is that a good state of loot balance? To rely exclusively on finding a single monster with solaris-touched + a few other AN mods, after you've hit a couple of eldrich altars with chance to duplicate currency? Where is consistency?

The truth is that mapping feels horrible now, most streamers look like their dogs just died, and we don't see you addressing players' main concerns.

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Also regarding Harvest, why did you remove reforge keeps, reforge much more likely, jewel implicits, and socket colors. What is the point of all this?

Many crafts still required many harvest tries + several other non-deterministic steps, such as elevating mods, awakener orb two bases, blocking mods + ex slamming, using aisling and blocking again, etc. Harvest was in a very good balance in terms of power, but along with solving the itemization problem you created a bigger one, which is that very few people are crafing stuff now. Many great players ended up swithing from SSF or HC SSF to trade league this patch because of that change alone.

Can't improve what is said here. THIS is the key.

Last Epoch is looking really enticing rn

Sentinel leauge was the best state of the game EVER imo, just revert the loot affecting changes, making the core game more rewarding is all good but dont GUT the leauge content because of it. It felt good before, not OP not insane not over the top, just good so obivously breaking the balance that existed for the last 2-3 leauges would break the AMAZING state of the game we had, i dont get how this is hard to understand.

And as well you didnt actualy buff "normal" content, you just made 1/1000000 mobs drop what should have come from 10000 mobs. Before you were incentived to actualy PLAY THE GAME and interact with at least all of the rares and magic mobs now you dont even want to touch 999/1000 rares because they can instagib you with bareley any loot at all even though the 1/1000 mob will give you stuff. The best way to play atm is litteraly to just not interact with the content that isnt "the loot giving" part because normal mobs and even most leauge content is just not worth interacting with if you want to actualy improve in a resonable amount of time.

Most people dont have 40 hrs a week to roll the dice and just never get the actualy "improved" loot that you talk about and as such we just have NOTING LEFT and it feels more like playing a slot machine to improve rather than consistentley playing content we enjoy to improve our characters. We are now pidgeonholed into speedrunning rare maps looking for that 1 mob that gives us currency rather than playing the lauge content we enjoy or fighting all of teh monsters the game has to offer.

Multiple mirrors a day ? 50 Divines from one single mob ?

i'm at almost 2000hrs playtime in PoE and this sounds like a fever dream to me.

So... If I would sum up what's happening here :

It's an Archnemesis League and not a Lake of Kalandra League right?
If we get "special bonus rewards" only from Archnemesis monsters and that you keep untouched the loot break you did on everything else.

I do thank you for all your text and the effort you are making here.
But the problem is still there and it feels that GGG can't care at all and want to keep this problem on.

PS : I apologize for what I'm gonna say, professional deformation.. but...
So much text is not user friendly at all. On top of that you have tools to create a superb post with bold text, underline, images, etc...
Anyway...