Please remove Quantity and Rarity bonuses for party play

Hey GGG,

I’d like to suggest removing the increased item quantity and rarity bonuses that currently apply when playing in a group.

Right now, grouping gives a significant advantage in loot drops due to the IIQ / IIR scaling. This pushes solo players into feeling forced to group for efficient farming, and creates a huge gap between solo and party rewards.

Please consider removing these bonuses entirely for parties, or at least greatly reducing them. Loot should be balanced around solo play, with grouping being a matter of fun and cooperation, not raw drop multipliers.

Thanks for listening.

They simply need to not allow rarity to affect currency. We all know the solution, nothing else needs to be done.

Removing all bonuses would make it terrible, you would never want to play with a group or friends. It's pretty fun to stack up and farm together every once in a while.

The problem is you can have "rarity bots" that stack rarity and that adds unneccesary amount of currency. Removing that would make it similar to Poe - 1, which is fairly balanced.

Boss-exclusive loot table is not affected by rarity, nor party bonus.
Party only increase quantity of raw currency and regular items.
So Party play is better only for Raw Currency (rarity) or white bases (negative rarity) farming.
Temple snake is perfect suit for that, and it is pretty much the only content that's "better" for a group.
Temple can be utilized by a solo to farm Atziri too btw.

So, as a solo, you farm Boss-exclusive items instead of farming raw currency/white bases.

Groups inflating the Currency value are effectively increasing the value of items from Boss-exclusive loot tables, which is balancing the issue.
Also - more divs in the pool - more you can actually use them to roll mods on an item instead of stockpiling for a buy.

With announced Temple nerfs you can sleep well already.

PS. making loot personal is not a solution as it raises question of how would this affect Boss-exclusive items:
- If it drops for everyone in the party separately, the party is in advantage as they paid for one key entry only.
- If it is unaffected like now, the party is in major disadvantage as it increases difficulty to divide the loot by up to 6 for no benefit at all.

If they are keeping rarity of items for currencies, it's insane at this point.

Literally 90% of the playerbase don't want this.