What Happened with Items

I'm very sad about the state of the game right now. Loot is now just made of lottery tickets, a mechanic no one is enjoying. Bossing and deterministic juice is ok and fun, but mapping has always been the core of the true PoE experience.

Imo there are a few fixes that are pretty much mandatory to make this game feel good again:
1) redistribute the rewards of rare monsters. If a rare monster would drop like 50 divines, make it so every rare monster has a certain flat % chance to drop a divine orb, even a very low one. That would be very exciting to me! Knowing I can have a little chance to drop a Divine every time a face a Rare!
2) buff Beyond, simply enabling the Beyond mechanic to continue after you killed the first Beyond Boss. Maybe buff a little bit the Beyond Boss rewards, feel kinds whatever tbh.
3) give an option to save a certain atlas passive tree setup, and swap paying a discounted price of orbs of unmaking. Many people both like mapping and boss. Having to swap between the 2 setups have a very high opportunity cost, both in time and currency, and feels really unnecessary.
4) here is a bit of a mad idea, but you can make a new game mode called "Wild" in which all old content are available like they were pre-nerf, so full power beyond (just different art for monsters), pre-nerf harvest, pre-nerf delirium orbs, etc.. you could even drop, VERY rarely ancient reliquary keys to get legacy items, or new mirror-tier rare divine reliquary keys, to get random alt-arts from the past.

I killed a Lunaris touched mob during heist and it dropped absolutely nothing, nt even a white item! (yes I checked if filtered)
Bug or indented behaviour?

this post is pissing on people while telling them its raining ...

I'm usually not one for making dramatic posts about the state of the game, but this is far and away the worst change I can possibly imagine for a game like this. I don't want to hit the big jackpot once in x maps, I want some loot while I'm playing the game.

I don't know why you think everybody wants this game full of gambling to be even more full of the worst parts of gambling.

I'm done. Maybe I'll be back if loot changes.

Hey, Michael here (Filthy Casual).

Quick Summary:
Just my 2cc. I am also not happy with this league. Sentinel league was so much more fun and felt balanced. In this league I am seeing much less loot to build my characters and running the Lake is simply not rewarding. I have to run around to build out the pillars and then run through tiny little maps for what? a few rare drops?

I will never powerplay or super grind for the end game.

I look at one of Ghazzys minion builds (skeletons last league, Skulls this one) and use that as a basis for a fun, casual play.

With Sentinel I had a lot of fun. I ran the storyline and had some OH SHLT moments when I overpowered mobs. It was fun and I never felt I hit a 'dry spell' where a 2 hour play session did not result in advancement.

I must admit I don't understand all the math here. But playing 2 hours of POE followed by 5 hours of Diablo III and I felt so much more rewarded by my diablo playthrough.

I also have to say the negative videos around this league hurt my motivation as well. I am casual, so I need to look things up a lot. And when I am trying to understand how something works, I keep running across videos of why its broken, not worth the time etc .. makes me want to wait for the next league.

Well RIP

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Drukhi78 wrote:

If i want to play dark souls, well i grab a controller and play dark souls.

At least in souls-like games you can avoid the well-telegraphed incoming damage; they don't feed amphetamines to the monsters by the truckload like GGG does the shit in this game. You also have the option of running past the trash instead of fighting every single enemy you come across, because the devs of souls-like games don't do everything in their power to prevent you from skipping those fights, unlike GGG which shoves every bit of trash right in your face constantly. You also get infinite retries, not six portals. Also and again, unlike this game, your actual positioning matters in souls-like games, you don't have shit magically popping up right behind you no matter how carefully you approach enemies or position yourself. You also tend to get consistent loot out of encounters, typically based on their challenge, not a lotto ticket.

I don't particularly care for souls-like games, but at least they're fun for those who enjoy that genre. PoE, on the other hand, reminds me more and more of the worst sort of tabletop RPG experience, where a toxic game master thinks it's GM vs players; in such a setting, the GM can basically just say "you lose" and that means you lose, they're omnipotent, they define the world and the rules, so it's not even a challenge, let alone a fair one, and completely misses the point of that position: to facilitate a fun experience for everyone at the table.

I thought this league could be fun and I could have the drive to play more than 5-7 weeks but now, I´m already down. I feel like I don´t know anymore how you should play this game.
First of all, I was never good in this game, I`m one of thos casual gamers that just have fun trying something new, playing it for some weeks, forget about min-maxing as long as after a week the build is stable running and you can constantly level up maybe also breaking the "personal record" level of 93 thats enough for us, or at least for me. Every League start learning a bit more about the game etc. hearing new stories, finding some never seen uniques or currency. It always was fun for 1-2 month then taking a break and coming back to the league start, maybe spending some cash for skins etc. but now...

I can´t get items for chaos recipe, forget about exalted shards. The market has way less uniques and the items I need are expensive as hell and I can´t afford them, I permanently die on low level yellow maps because gear is missing.
Before you had the chance to farm exalted for gear now it´s not possible anymore, my body armor costs 5 divine orbs and its fucking hard to farm 850 chaos or 60 exalted if my best ever was around 50-60ex as I played from start to end of the league?

It´s not fun anymore T_T

I HATE LOOT GOBLIN TYPE OF LOOT SYSTEM.
I REALLY HATE, WHAT IS BETTER AND STRONGER WORD THAN HATE? YEAH THAT

Using the same build as last league(nothing about it was nerfed), have better chaos resist than I did last league....1 shots from chaos dmg non stop with 50 chaos sist. The offensive tuning isn't correct and needs to be addressed. Losing over half the population in under a week should really be a giant red flag that AN wasnt addressed correctly.
The best thing that could be done at this point is revert everything and take the next 3 months to look at where all of it went wrong.

Ex back to main currency, harvest reverted, loot figures reverted, AN removed and replaced by a sliding scale of difficulty so that blue and yellow rare mods are based on the mob type abilities...not on some arbitrary build-a-mob league mechanic stacked onto all the different mob types in the game.

I don't see AN able to be fixed to something playable at this point...its just broken and places like delve and heist have it the worst due to super high rare density.