What Happened with Items

Can you just revert to 3.10 please?

Hard pass

Something happened to items? Didn't notice...

Which game are we talking about? Can't find it in my library anymore

We're getting about 38-33k people logged in from a peak of 185k. This is only the first week.

Steam numbers keep getting worse. Even after the patches and changes.

Looks like this season was a failure. Even if there's a fall back to the old loot system, the game lost too much momentum. If you're going to make a viable change that will bring back players, it should be done soon. But now there's too many logged out to care.

Less players online, less items to trade. Less items to trade, less interest in playing. It's a loop that gets worse especially since the changes this league made it harder to craft, and trading and crafting is the soul of this game. You guys seriously missed the point.

God, its awfully [Removed By Support] system right now - been playing whole day - finally got my solaris touched rare - it suddenly jumped out of strongbox... and almost immediatly DIED.It was dead under 2 sec, I noticed it for 0.5 seconds then it had like 15% hp... I was unable to call mf culler and leechers, and instead of getting my divine explosion i go 2 chaos and 2 alchemy...

PoE LITERALLY PUNISHES U FOR PLAYING RIGHT NOW. IT FEELS S**T.

Here, take your jackpot. You failed to react after 8 hours of grind? Just grind 8 more for another attempt!

I really cant comprehend the need to change the dificulty in the game, im sure there are a lot of people like me in the game that just wanna run maps/league mechanics without struggling that hard, let people have fun, all these changes pushes the game into a state that almost nobody asked for, is the game made for the devs that probably not even play the game or for the player the consumer of your product? you really should not only listen streamers that play 15+ hours a day because most people dont have that time, poeple want to log in and have a few hours of pure fun, that what path of exile was all this time wasnt it? if you want a hard game create hardmode and not just mess with the whole game, nobody asked for this.

but i trust in ggg that they will end up doing the right decision, everyone has his ups and downs lets not forget this, and hating on ggg wont help anyone, its just a game at the end of the day not a life or death situation

Hello,

I have played this game since 2013, December 2013. I have seen the rise, and fall of everything in the history of this game. Double/triple dipping DOT damage, Snap Shot minions. I've been playing when there were 2 league mechanics (one softcore, one Hardcore). I have been playing a VERY long time. The way these drop rates are, reminds me of back then, 2013-2014, tough grinds for gear/currency, and that was ok, because back then, there were no maps. When maps were introduced, you had to use them in the solaris temple, right hand side. Where the lady that calls you a "cockroach" is in ACT3. That is what this feels like, where a 300PHYS DPS bow was god tier item.

Now, i have responsibilities, wife, kids, 60 hr work weeks, house, typical adult BS, in a league, on average i get to play MAYBE 30-40 hours. It takes me 14-18 hours to get to level 90, and i'm fine with that, i enjoy this game. by the time i hit 90 on my first character, i have all the currency i could ever need to make myself something that i want to play. with all this being said, the question i have is..


What do i do? I'm not getting the small currency i need to make this enjoyable, and i don't have the time to play like i used too to grind it out i would like CONCRETE answers. What do people do that have real time constraints.

Do i have to make a MF character like you used to back in the day?

There are a lot of "i's" in this response/question, but i play this game alone, so all i have is what i am seeing and feeling.

If this is something that the company is doubling down on, i don't think i have the time available for this to be enjoyable for me.

This league is zero fun.... @GGG did you even test your kalandra boring 2 hour zero loot mechanism once? Or tried to sustain maps on a solid level without a metabuild or party play?

It is slow and boring af as soon as you hit maps you just get annoyed. Nothing drops it takes ages to get your late game gear and crafting maps is pure pain.

The archnemesis are totally [Removed By Support]. Fight for ages to get 2 fusings. or get one shot for no reason by overpowered bs that does not drop anything either Oo

Meeting a solid archnemisis that has huge drops needs you to spam maps and clearspeed.

That are diametral goals: fight longer get good loot (which does not apply) and have to spam maps to meet the good archs. Hence you have to skip all content and just respam boring map runs until you hit them. That meets not your "philosophy" (which are totally understandable) at all. It is indeed against your "philosophy" statements.... logic bruh? sup?

Also this new league favours immensly group/guild etc map rotation due to the need of faster map spams to get looty archs. As a sociolgist I can just tell you if you plan development on numbers and NOT on player behaviour (TESTING! Qualitymanagement?!) you will end up with a lot of further failure. It is beyond listening to the community. Get data on behaviour every structure demands players to follow a pattern. Test the pattern and if you did that why end up with kalandra AT ALL ;D

That leave solo players in a terrible boring game.

Last league i farmed a 100 ex gear and finished with a pure ex bought mageblood with ease. Now i got already bored after lvl 92 and dono why to even bother to keep playing.

For real get that archnemisis loot fixiation on rares out of the game.

GGGs archnemisis are indeed their archnemisis. Ironic :D

and for the record i freaking love this game and company for over 10 years now. This is really a disappointment on many levels. No communication, zero testing (you can not seriously come up with that failure on drops and map / gear sustain if you tested this like for 3 days come on..). The average player is not a full time streamer with excel sheets to plan strategies. People have jobs, family and even other more important things than farming 200 hours. All recent late game patches were amazing and well thought out. Brought granular mapping, boss strategies, deterministic loot, better crafting. With archnemisis being the most important drop pool for general loot you killed the whole game with one mechanic.... come on.

Pretty Glad u are happy with the state of the game considering all the useful and fast changes. But if pushing away over 50% of the player base was your strategy then it worked like a charm :) But surely we'll be all coming back for Poe 2 if it's getting simular to the shit u are presenting us here :)

GL tho

I think i understand the intentions on loot... the company its called Grinding Gear Games and not Swimming on Gear Games. Also slowing down the game let it expand the times between expansion from 3 months to lets say 4 or 6 reducing the amount of workers needed. Its hard to be profitable.
In sum its not working very good for now but i believe that with some tuning GGG will get the sweet spot where its not too easy to get items but not also too hard.