Some accounts luckier or unluckier than others?
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Hi all. Just liked to give closure to this post and everyone mentioning MF or RNG.
I created a new account and purchased a new game. My new account drops endless transmutation/augmentation orbs whereas my original account would be lucky to get one of the above within 10 maps. Im now level 21 in act2 with 4 exalts and 100s of low cost currency within 5 hours. |
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" Except there are have cases where "RNG" is only part of the equation, and there are often times where there is more to it than a simple string of bad luck. I've been convinced there are account bound seeds for drop rates specifically so they can manipulate the accounts of Streamers/Ecelebs and give them hidden "boosts" you see in a lot of these types of Live Service games (the same boosts they might openingly sell you on their in-game store for X amount of hours per use) where the accounts are stored on the company's servers specifically. The funny part is that Magic Find is already a system in the game, and it would be extremely easy to juice a Streamer's account to help "sell" the game to their viewers, and the Streamer wouldn't even need to be aware it was happening to pull it off, since they can just do it on the company's end. People have also theorized a lot of these types of games give you hidden bonuses for purchasing MTX, and frankly seeing the state of the industry as a whole, none of this would be surprising to me at all. I have no proof to support this theory, but F2P titles have long since proven they are anything but. |
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My original account had heaps of MTX and skins from poe1...few new stash tabs in poe2. Think nothing to do with MTX. Perhaps some accounts were assiged with bad drops so not everyone can be winners and beat the game.
Anyway the people consistently blaming rng and drop rate havent experienced bad drops for 150 hours. I was shocked when my mate had 800 exalts drop to 50ish exalts in the same amount of time. I always thought were orbs of transmute and augmentation were rare so id have to join multiplayer and pick up crumbs to stock those up...sad. |
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" I can confirm that there is a drop issue on my main account, as I only got 10-15 augmentations after 70 hours of gameplay. Because of this, I decided to try purchasing the game on a new account, and this solved the problem. I can't recommend this method to you, but apparently, I am not the only one who managed to resolve the issue in this strange way. |
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Didn't Ziz confirm one league that GGG gave streamers priority? Pretty sure he did, so it would be safe to assume streamers get better drops as well so the game doesn't look like a gambling simulator.
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I mean technically yes. But its not the account. Its the person. Luck is luck. You either have good RNG or you don't.
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" Ziz doesn't need to confirm the priority for that one league. It was a massive deal in the PoE1 community. There was such backlash GGG flat out said they would never do that again. I think its more safe to assume after all these years that would have come out. |
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Sent a ticket regarding my original accoun and lack of drops. Hope it gets fixed so i can go back to my OG account.
So far new account is fantastic, just reached cruel and got over 20 exalts 3 chaos. I just slam exalts on random stuff now because i finally get variety of orb drops regularly to keep the fun going. My OG account dont even drop transmutation/augmentation orbs with 100++ mf. |
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Another mention is runes and support gems. I remember my first run support gems were insanely rare and i only had 1 iron rune drop the entire playthrough from act1 to endgame. Now my new account also drops runes on the regular...
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Beginning of game, there was a Rarity stacking bug, that also increased the amount of currency drops @ higher tier currency too.
So it is possible. Also as far as your map device. its like Minecraft, everyone has a random generated seed. |
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