What Happened with Items

Disappointed in seeing this. I'm only on t13 at the moment, but I'm starved for basic currency such as(Vaal, alc, scour). Nothing seems to be dropping but the developer says its fine.

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relik155 wrote:

Rarity and Quantity...

So you want rarity and quantity to have more of an effect, not a problem in principle. How do I as a solo player apply this to my gear whilst still being able to run difficult content? I need to sacrifice defence for rarity? Have you actually fought some of the Archnem monsters? They one shot some seriously tanky builds. This sounds great on paper but it just isn't the game you have made.



Rare Monsters are more dangerous and rewarding...

Sounds great, but the difficulty to reward isn't there unless you happen to get a lucky RNG and hit a particular rewarding Archnem combo, and now pray it doesn't disable your build or one shot you. Sounds great in theory but it isn't the game you have made.



League content should be harder and more rewarding...

Agreed, but it's not. We are finding occassionaly 1 splinter in a breach, so again we need to go full MF'er to make this content worth running? Sounds great in principle but again this isn't the game we are all playing right now.

This is all true. You have some design philosophies GGG, but it seems all the mechanics are in your head instead of in your game. We're playing the game, not your fantasy of it.

Highly doubt this will make a change but here it goes anyway, since the atlas skill tree was introduced I've been using the Harbinger nodes to maybe get a lucky ex or ex shard, and honestly it worked, I had a safety net I knew even if I spent 6 hours farming maps and dropped no ex's eventually Harbingers would give me one and that would pay one little upgrade to the build time after time.
Granted it may not seem like much, for the average player that plays a lot of hours a day but don't actually know how to make mirrors crafting, it would most definitely make a difference.
Not only that option was taken from us with the change from ex's to divines, but Harbingers where made not worth the points allocated on the atlas tree, at the end of the day from all the fragments we can make 1 or 2 ex's that's 10 to 20 chaos this league. Earlier today I dropped a Memory :) an Harbinger Memory :).
In the 4 maps the Memory took me the net profit was around 10 chaos in currency shards. Harbingers nowadays are obsolete, not worth spending any points, and it won't change as divines don't have shards to stack and ex's are worth around 10 chaos after you put together 20 shards.
I don't really care if groups can drop 5 mirrors a day, I care that the low amount I could farm if I invested my time was taken from me with the changes, and then I read "For the average player this means no significant changes".
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And the apology tour starts again. Blubbering PR talk. Nobody cares about you "taking personal responsibility", people want this garbage reverted. Lack of currency, harvest changes, lie by omission (my bad it was uhhh.. bad proofreading!)

Keep trying to give off the impression the staff and you are listening through your PR blubber - most of us know you're not. You have ideas and a """""vision"""" you want to shove down our throat.

The game was arguably amazing relative to now, before 3.15. The "direction" youre going in is the opposite of what players ask (and always claim innocence in your apology essays!), in the name of ego and "vision".

I've never seen such a self-sabotaging company that has a fetish for shooting itself in the foot. This game needs a real competitor, so so so so badly.

PLEASE BRING PRE ARCH NEM POE BACK WITH OLD BEYOND FUN POE. FUN POE = PEOPLE STAYING LONGER POE!!!

GGG, please listen we as a community love poe we want whats fun, getting an insane amount of currency from one monster isnt what we want yes its super cool but its also super rare. The majority of players us averagers are getting one shot by damage mods we go maps without seeing much common currency like alchs and vaal orbs we cant progress maps because we dont have these things, yes it has got a little better but i played for 4 hours today and found 1 vaal orb...
Consistant loot in smaller stacks feel more rewarding and progressive then a massive 50 divine orb once in a life time when not everyone gets lucky like that.
And secondly, the crafting we cant craft anything when fossils, harvest, metamods, everything has been ripped from us, yes meta mods are a thing but whats the point in them if we cant get the gear to a place to even use them?

Thank you for not being pusc and caving to pressure from reddit!

>… didn't actually understand the impact of the change. It was mentioned to me in passing (that we were removing the league monster bonuses and replacing with just quantity), and I didn't ask any more questions.

This entire post just shows how disconnected Chris is from the community. It's absolutely unreasonable as the LEAD DEVELOPER to misunderstand the massive impact this change would have. Any end-game player, casual or not, understands what these changes meant for the game immediately. I guess this is what happens when you balance your game using nothing but Excel spreadsheets hahaha.

>We play the game too

lmfao. Thank got pre-patch is next week. what a waste of time.

Come on, this changes nothing monsters don't drop anything only random garbage and rarly at that and no currency besides whetstones and armour scraps, there is no loot, and on lake from reward chests we get a single chaos orb at most

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But they still find ridiculous amounts of stuff. I have seen parties in this league get multiple mirrors per day, or find over 50 Divine Orbs from a single monster.

This is delusional, this only happens in 1 out of 50+ maps when the stars align and you find that Solaris or Kitava touched mobs. There is nothing "fun" or "enjoyable" about this for the vast majority of players.

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For regular players who are just alching their maps and adding difficulty where they feel they can handle it, we think that drops are in a pretty good place after this week's changes.

"We think/We feel" are not quantifiable arguments over half of the population left the game in 5 days of the league. So it seems that what you guys "feel" and what the player base "feels" don't overlap very well.

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Our plan is not to gut the rewards out from Path of Exile.

It seems that the community thinks and "feels" like you did just that.

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Please keep the feedback coming. We are reading, discussing, and continuing to make changes.

The feedback from the community is overwhelming and I find it hard to believe that you guys aren't seeing it:
- Keep nerfing AN mobs or better yet rework it from the ground up - not an option it seems;
- Keep buffing loot or better yet return the old loot settings - not an option it seems;
- Be more transparent about your vision - this post is a step in the right direction.
- Fix crafting, listen to the community's top crafters (They've given you tons of feedback so far) and act accordingly.

I'm not a game dev and I'm "new" to PoE, but it does seem like most of your fanbase so far doesn't feel good about the changes. You will always have your addicts or people who genuinely feel that the current state is the best thing to happen to PoE, but they are a small minority, they don't produce content on the big platforms and they aren't the "face" of your game/community. The people who do are extremely annoyed, to the point that they've quit or think of quitting the game. This will be my last comment on the topic most likely and it's extremely subjective, but since we're talking about feelings, I genuinely don't feel "rewarded" for playing the game. I'm lucky that I've picked a spec that doesn't have major problems with the current state of the game and the few problems it has are being addressed, but this doesn't speak well for the future prospects of me returning next league or sinking any more money into it. I've made 3 purchases so far (at the very start of the league), because I felt that the league will be fun (based on my experience in 3.18 and the hype from the content creators on various platforms) long before I got anywhere near the issues and frankly I regret giving you my money, I can only imagine the people who've given you thousands of dollars and now they don't enjoy the game they've supported. Before anyone feels agitated by my comment, remember that this is an open forum and we can all express our opinions, I don't go out of my way to argue with people about subjective topics lie satisfaction from the gameplay, we all have our differences and we should respect each other. Good luck exiles.