Can you get in game items that sparkle, shine and glow or is it only microtransaction thing?

[donatas081294]

I've seen lots of players with unique items that sparkle, shine, glow and well are animated.
It made me think of old silkroad online and how late game items were like that.
So got me wondering is it even possible to get those items as in game loot, or those COOL items can only be obtained in the cash shop?

If yes, it's a shame, because I much rather have them to be lootable and instead have wacky hats like mario hat for hat skin in the game's shop. A lightsaber for weapon skins, big buffy minecraft body for armor skins, which make it stand out and out of the game's world/lore. Because the items are bought in the shop the game world rules shouldn't apply as it is cosmetic right? While those sparkling, shining, glowing and animated weapons and gear kinda look part of the world.

What do you think about the question and the rant?

[Stoned Henge]

Why should developers give shiny things for free? Would you do that? If you work hard on a game, will you give most beautiful items away for nothing? Do you think developers are only live for you to be satisfied and they can't even buy food to live on? This game is for free!!! Does this not satisfy you? Dream on and the world revolves around you forever.

[donatas081294]

Originally posted by Stoned Henge:

Why should developers give shiny things for free? Would you do that? If you work hard on a game, will you give most beautiful items away for nothing? Do you think developers are only live for you to be satisfied and they can't even buy food to live on? This game is for free!!! Does this not satisfy you? Dream on and the world revolves around you forever. :exalted:

Well you clearly haven't read all of the text.
The shiny, sparkling, glowing and animated items look somewhat part of the world and I suggested it why not have them like end game loot.
While instead for microtransactions have something that does stand out and doesn't belong in the game world/lore. Like a lightsaber, mario hat, other game outfits like a giant furry outfit stuff like that which you can tell it's cash shop only item.

[Houston]

From what I have found, yes, some unique items have animation.

[Illumina]

You can be aggressively bright with the right regular skills and items but if you want to be a disco ball you gotta reach for your wallet.

[donatas081294]

Originally posted by Illumina:

You can be aggressively bright with the right regular skills and items but if you want to be a disco ball you gotta reach for your wallet.

so the glowing items, sparkling items, shiny items and animated items are not all microtransaction exclusives?

What about my idea and suggestion?
the early I mentioned stuff like lightsaber skins or maybe a purple pimp hat, something that wouldn't make sense within path of exile world and can be clearly see that it is a cosmetic item from a shop. Like massive clown balloon with string in your hand or something like that.

[Astasia]

There are some fairly fancy looking and well made unique item models in the game, yes some that glow or are animated. The problem is most uniques in the game are quite bad for general use and will only really be worth wearing if you are designing your entire build around the gimmick the unique is adding. Further, you are unlikely to find anything worth using that matches. There are no free methods of transmoging the appearance of one item onto another. So realistically if you want fancy glowing/animated gear you need to buy it on the shop.

This is the monetization method GGG uses, to intentionally make free players look a bit goofy most of the time with simplistic and mismatched armor pieces, while people who spend money on the shop have much more impressive and powerful looking gear. Then they make you mingle with them in town hubs so you can see how much better your character could look after spending a few hundred dollars on the game.

[Sidian]

You can unlock some glowing, sparkling, shiny and animated skins by doing challenges in the challenge league (currently Sentinel). There you have about 3 months to do certain things to complete various challenges. They can go from "sell specific items to a vendor to receive certain new items" to "defeat this endgame boss while doing these things that make the fight more difficult".

[donatas081294]

Originally posted by Astasia:

There are some fairly fancy looking and well made unique item models in the game, yes some that glow or are animated. The problem is most uniques in the game are quite bad for general use and will only really be worth wearing if you are designing your entire build around the gimmick the unique is adding. Further, you are unlikely to find anything worth using that matches. There are no free methods of transmoging the appearance of one item onto another. So realistically if you want fancy glowing/animated gear you need to buy it on the shop.

This is the monetization method GGG uses, to intentionally make free players look a bit goofy most of the time with simplistic and mismatched armor pieces, while people who spend money on the shop have much more impressive and powerful looking gear. Then they make you mingle with them in town hubs so you can see how much better your character could look after spending a few hundred dollars on the game.

Yea that's kinda my issue, those items and gear should be lootable.
And make stuff that really stand out a game shop item. Like a long balloon for staffs, lightsabers for swords, anime girl skirt maid outfit for witch and so on. Something that you could tell is from a shop and not some cool as item which you can never get and it does look like something you should be able to loot in the end game.
Unlike for example oversized tophat or space helmet.

[vid23]

Originally posted by donatas081294:

And make stuff that really stand out a game shop item. Like a long balloon for staffs, lightsabers for swords, anime girl skirt maid outfit for witch and so on. Something that you could tell is from a shop and not some cool as item which you can never get and it does look like something you should be able to loot in the end game.
Unlike for example oversized tophat or space helmet.

I really dont think most people would like that, this isnt some korean mmo
and i think its really easy to tell whats microtransaction after a couple hundred hours in the game, most item look really plain and simple afterall
but the game does give away a lot of stuff, free lootbox here and there, twitch drops, and league rewards, especially this and the last one(and hopefully the future ones)
i personally dont think theres a reason to buy any mtx(apart from supporting the devs obviously) other than stash tabs, most people dont really care, and you wont really look at it during gameplay (not that you can with all that clutter anyway)

[donatas081294]

Originally posted by vid23:

Originally posted by donatas081294:

And make stuff that really stand out a game shop item. Like a long balloon for staffs, lightsabers for swords, anime girl skirt maid outfit for witch and so on. Something that you could tell is from a shop and not some cool as item which you can never get and it does look like something you should be able to loot in the end game.
Unlike for example oversized tophat or space helmet.

I really dont think most people would like that, this isnt some korean mmo
and i think its really easy to tell whats microtransaction after a couple hundred hours in the game, most item look really plain and simple afterall
but the game does give away a lot of stuff, free lootbox here and there, twitch drops, and league rewards, especially this and the last one(and hopefully the future ones)
i personally dont think theres a reason to buy any mtx(apart from supporting the devs obviously) other than stash tabs, most people dont really care, and you wont really look at it during gameplay (not that you can with all that clutter anyway)

Oh cool, good to know.

[Donoghu]

To put it in a simple way:

Anything that looks like an uniform full cool looking set with animations and effects are usually premium cosmetics with only a few exceptions. This is what makes the blood (money) flow in this game. For example, if you want your character to look in a specific way, but also uses the best items with the best stats, premium cosmetic it is then.

Anything that looks basic or uncoordinated is usually just a mix of unique items that might look cool in a specific mix, but that usually involves not aiming at combat in end-game content.

The exception are usually around the visual effect generated by particular skills like aura, herald, Elemental Armors, etc. that generate an effect on your character's body or weapon. Those are generally mild in comparison to the premium effects.

The League Challenge Rewards can be found on the news page on PoE website.
For the current league (Sentinels), the rewards is in this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWjPdkM6O-I

[Skadi_das_Unnutztier]

@donatas to be honest if they put in some whacky mtx that don´t fit the world like you suggested, it would be a huge turn off for me. I love the dark aesthetic of this game and I would probably play a lot less if people were running around with lightsabers and purple hats...

[bean]

It would be a sad day in Wraeclast if people started showing up with mickey ears on their waifu scions dual wielding lightsabers.

[R̷e̷n̷v̷e̷n̷a̷r 💀]

I'm surprised... A lot of people whose opinions I've heard, already dislike a bunch of the current MTX cause they're "too flashy, stand out too much and don't fit into the game-world". I do only partially agree with that, but hope, that they'll never add any more gimmicky stuff than they already did. I don't think that PoE is that type of (anime) MMO with all kinds of style-breaking silly outfits.

I also personally like how a lot of the actual equipment looks in PoE? - we're for a big part of the game stranded in Wraeclast and find armor to somehow get by. It makes sense that it looks the way it does ... and the EQ for the most part does get visually better in higher levels.