The loot system is frustrating, smart drop possible?

[SunlessDawn]

Hey there,
I've played 70 hours now with differnt characters and I wasn't very lucky with my drops in that time. Most of the Items that drop aren't useful for my character, it's like one out of 20 epics that i can use and around one out of 50 epics that is better than the item i already use. One legendary dropped so far and I couldn't use it. Even the legendaries I've got for finishing the story twice weren't made for my class/skill setup...

It's probably the most frustrating thing about the game when it's all about the loot and you don't find anything. I'm lvl 54 and still use a Lvl 12 armor because no Item with better sats dropped so far.

So my question: Is it possible to use a kind of smart drop where Items that fit your class and skills drop more often than Items you can't use?

Edit little update: Out of 119 epics I found I used 14 (+ now 5 Legendaries without any use for my char), so nearly 10%. 7 of them I still use even though they are mostly 10 lvls below my Characterlevel.
Why would it be a problem if you can use 25% of the Items that drop? That would be definitley enough for me.

[Jeckenn]

What i usually do before I start to play is check the regular vendors where I log in and if they have lots of green items for sale drops seem to be better for that run, if they don't have any just return to main menu and try again until you get like 4 to 5 greens on a regular vendor.

[Protean1]

What on earth level 12 item are you using at level 54?

You should have access to some gear from the faction vendors at this point.

[Luzzifus]

Try not to think as one character, but take items you find as an inspiration for new builds to try out.

I see smart loot having its benefits, but I wouldn't want to have it in Grim Dawn. I made so many new characters because of some gear I found. Trying out new things just makes the game more interesting.

[Tiranoslav]

Sometimes yellow item demands 12-20 lvl and 700-800 of stats. That's wierd and I hope will be fixed someday. Very often good yellow mid-end game items have a low level requirements (from my experience).

[SunlessDawn]

Well, I'm no big fan of vendor farming but I gave it a try but still couldn't find anything better than what I have:
+4% elemental dmg
+16 spirit
+3,5 energy reg
+4% xp gained
9% reduced attribute req
+11% all res

Nothing came even close so far.
And I can't get more damage out of an item for example with +45% fire dmg and +54% aether dmg (elemental is my main dmg type fire and aether are secondary) but it's the best I could buy from the outcast vendor.

And yes I will play other Chars with other skills just because I want to use every great Item that I find but it would be nicer to find the stuff you want to use with the char you are already playing.

[Warlord]

Itemization is awful, I agree.

As a Shaman 90% of the drops I get are ranged weapons and shields.

[kNIGHT]

I have soooo many green and blue two handers, one handers, pistols, rifles, shields, caster gear, heavy armour, wands, etc. for everyone on a single run through the game on vet that it's awesome. what are you on about? I literally almost always get duplicates of the same item at that level so can pick whichever has the better randomised loot. I think once or twice I was missing a gear at the level so I crafted a chest like 4 times and got a green one with good stats as well.

TLDR: super happy with loot.

Storage totally full!!!!!!!!

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[Skyhaster]

NO to dumb loot! i do not want GD to be stupid D3

[SunlessDawn]

Weapons aren't the problem, that's the most I find. But armor of any kind is very hard to get. And jewelry. I just realized I still use a lvl 1 ring just because it gives +1 to my main skill and I never found another one :D

[kNIGHT]

Originally posted by SunlessDawn:

Weapons aren't the problem, that's the most I find. But armor of any kind is very hard to get. And jewelry. I just realized I still use a lvl 1 ring just because it gives +1 to my main skill and I never found another one :D

How is this possible?

You could buy rings if you're not getting them, but plenty of quests have almost guaranteed green ring drops that are decent. Let alone almost every single major boss dungeon should give you 3-6 decent rings of which probably 1-2 will be relevant (might not be better than currently equipped, but I've always found them relevant).

[Der Lachende Mann]

I don't get any gear drops anymore, only partila components, at curretnly lvl 24. I see items drop, only they don't show at all and I can't pick them up. Any ideas what the reason for this could be or how to fix this?

ooops never mind, found it,somehow i switched off auto show loot, was playing for a couple hours now without gettign loot =o

[kNIGHT]

Originally posted by Tomwyr:

I don't get any gear drops anymore, only partila components, at curretnly lvl 24. I see items drop, only they don't show at all and I can't pick them up. Any ideas what the reason for this could be or how to fix this?

Bottom left (immediately left of your HP) of toolbar there's a little rectangle thing that you've clicked on it cycles between normal, rare, epic, legendary visible loot etc...... click on it a few times.

[Jeckenn]

Originally posted by Tomwyr:

I don't get any gear drops anymore, only partila components, at curretnly lvl 24. I see items drop, only they don't show at all and I can't pick them up. Any ideas what the reason for this could be or how to fix this?

You likely accidently clicked the toggle option on the UI to show only rare or epic items...check the UI and you should find where that is and change it back..

[Freely]

Diablo III needed Loot 2.0 due to how the game is structured with Classes and limited Trading. Besides, how are the odds of someone enjoying all the classes in D3? It wasn't just drops that are more frequent for your class, but the stats involved.

D3 before Loot 2.0 was worse than anything in any aRPG. They also worked on that system for a long time before they put it out. It's not a simple thing of a few numbers and let the engine handle the rest.

It's annoying at times to come across items that won't be of use to you, or a lvl 25 Blue, epic looking blade, but it has worse stats then a lvl 12 Yellow, plain looking blade. That's actually my biggest gripe with GD - Not that items aren't dropping for my particular build, but the higher quality items have worse stats then low lvl uncommon.

[Der Lachende Mann]

Originally posted by kNIGHT:

Originally posted by Tomwyr:

I don't get any gear drops anymore, only partila components, at curretnly lvl 24. I see items drop, only they don't show at all and I can't pick them up. Any ideas what the reason for this could be or how to fix this?

Bottom left (immediately left of your HP) of toolbar there's a little rectangle thing that you've clicked on it cycles between normal, rare, epic, legendary visible loot etc...... click on it a few times.

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Originally posted by Tomwyr:

I don't get any gear drops anymore, only partila components, at curretnly lvl 24. I see items drop, only they don't show at all and I can't pick them up. Any ideas what the reason for this could be or how to fix this?

You likely accidently clicked the toggle option on the UI to show only rare or epic items...check the UI and you should find where that is and change it back..

Exactly this, thanks a lot to both of you :)