Please stop buffing drops

GGG please. Buffing random drops will not make the campaign suddenly feel better. Its the inherent RNG you introduced in PoE 2 that was mitigated in PoE 1 that is the main issue.

PoE 1 - RNG mitigation

1. Crafting recipes (added in closed beta) - You can guarantee a required stat trough the leveling process on items. All crafting recipes used are from common items and can be built up from other crafting recipes (vendoring for alch shards/transmutes)

2. Bench crafting (1.2 in year 2014) - No matter how unlucky or lucky you get, the bench has your back. It was never the optimal choice, but it would allow you to clear a minimum bar of required stats on your gear to make a build feel playable. Again multiple tiers and common crafting materials made it impossible to not have access to the bench crafts (even vendor recipes, chaos/alt)

3. Essences (2.4 in year 2016)- In PoE 1 they guarantee a stat of a specific tier. You can save them for later, and even upgrade them into a higher tier. Once again, if you go on an unlucky streak of drops, a single essence from early on can still still hold value.

4. NONE of the above are destructive crafts. All crafts in PoE 2 are ultimately a dead end street. You roll your dice, and if you are unlucky you can basically toss the base item away.


tl:dr
Buffing drop rates in PoE 2 will have little effect, because its not just about the amount of loot we get, its about what we can do with the loot we get.

Edit; added dates of when the methods of crafting were added to emphasize that these were really early additions to the game which was important for the itemization and solved issues inherent to the games progression.

What loot? The most efficient thing you can do during campaign is to check the vendor every level

Great assessment, especially point 4, not destructive. Boost currency drops and make the crafting more than one-shot roll of the dice.

Yeah bring back 0.1

Zero multiplied by any number is still zero.

This game has more and bigger problems than just loot amount. Yeah it needs to be buffed but the very design and direction of the game needs to actually understand the meaning of the word "fun".

OMG OP is a master troll. Dont buff loot. Prob secretly works at GGG.

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rhalbhub#0570 wrote:

OMG OP is a master troll. Dont buff loot. Prob secretly works at GGG.

Maybe if you read past the title you might understand what I mean. Hell, not even the whole wall of text, just the first sentence and you would understand what I mean.

Check this out

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3770583

It explains why buffing the loot won't help and why people feel like poe1 loot was better (which i think stills being a flawed system).

Loot does NOT exist in this dojo, does it ?

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

Zero multiplied by any number is still zero.

This game has more and bigger problems than just loot amount. Yeah it needs to be buffed but the very design and direction of the game needs to actually understand the meaning of the word "fun".

"Fun for me" you meant?