Item drop rate is awful

[Qu1xotic]

After completing the game 4 times with extensive exploring I found out that I had to compile a long list of mostly armour set items that I was still missing. I've already killed so many of the enemies that supposedly drop the particular armour set items. And the last step to complete everything is hours of boring farming?

Just been trying to get the Sin Piercer Helmet. Using the pumpkin mask to boost item discovery, 25 charmed paws and after an hour the helmet still did not drop. I have more items to acquire. Boost the damn discovery rate, because this is just absolutely terrible.

[Abysswalker]

Yeah, sadly hours of farming is required, even with high item discovery. For me the worst types were the invisible archers in revelation depths and fief of the chill curse. Sin piercer can be farmed the best in the Abbey, at the seed checkpoint where Stormund usually is. There is one in the back and ahead on the stairs which can be killed quickly. Or if you are in the Adyr Ending post game, there are 3 sin piercer at the hushed saint boss arena before the beacon.

It will also be a pain in the butt to figure out what you are still missing cause inventory management is bad in this game. So you have to go by names and pictures comparing fextralifes wiki to your inventory. There are a few armor variations that can drop from the same enemy.

[BawlerLeKid]

Wait t’ill you farm sanctified huntress lol

[Abysswalker]

Originally posted by BawlerLeKid:

Wait t’ill you farm sanctified huntress lol

For me she wasnt that bad. You can burst her down with that radiance beam spell in 1 second. I did only need 1 piece of her armor from the Empyrean version though since I got lucky with the boss drops during my 3 playthroughs.

[Qu1xotic]

Originally posted by Abysswalker:

Sin piercer can be farmed the best in the Abbey, at the seed checkpoint where Stormund usually is.

That's where I was!

Originally posted by BawlerLeKid:

Wait t’ill you farm sanctified huntress lol

Thankfully, I don't seem to be missing any items from this set.


Prolonging a game for acquiring a couple of armour set items with poor stats that aren't very useful is not a good thing imo.

[Lazy]

Yeah I'm in your boat, already did everything except for all armor. I spent two hours just trying to get "Blessed Carrion Knight Helm".

And that's with 4x item discovery most of the time.

[Qu1xotic]

That was a terrible experience. Hours of mind-numbingly boring farming. I had to kill 500+ corrupted pilgrims just to get a pair of trousers and a cape. And that's just one type of enemy. It was the same thing with many other types of enemies.

Even with 4.14 discovery rate it's bad. The discovery boost just seems to affect the drop rate. So you'll just be getting salts, nuggets and brio / mana stones all the time.

[Abysswalker]

Yeah I think item discovery does nothing for armor pieces and weapons. I basically noticed no difference in drops with ot without it. I still had some of it (only 1.8) and got everything with it. The Pilgrims dropped their stuff pretty fast for me. Its all RNG.

[Jay]

Been farming for 6 hour just for a 1 single delium shard. And now the game stop dropping items period. Every time I play this I think to myself did the developers bother to play there own game. So many broken features like when you swing your sword you move forward a good 3 feet. Enemies on the edge of cliffs, I'm afraid to attack them due to falling off over & over. There's 40 percent of this game thats awesome & 60 percent that is just horrible. Like the game starts off easy, then you get to second level & it's on uber hard. On every playthrough that I've had, at this point in the game I have to farm for a good 8 hours to make the game fair. Don't want to be one shotted over & over. I think there plan is to get you to play longer. But this feel cheap

[RinzlerRules91]

The loot randomizing modifier helps.