Loot sucks

[Alvarez_Tiago]

I'm playing solo self-found and the loot sucks, it's very rare to find an upgrade, almost all drops are white and blues and the yellows or legendary I find are never for the class I'm playing with, I'm having to make it do with the few currencies I find to try and upgrade what I have.
I'm in Act 3, just beat Ketzuli and I upgraded weapons 3 times so far, and I'm using the same Mace from act 2.
Bosses are a 20 minutes + odyssey everytime cause even grabbing all damage nodes along the way on the skill tree, my gear just can't keep up.
And I refuse to migrate my Char to an open trade league, the game is supposed to offer me upgrades, not other players.
And yes, I'm constantly checking vendors out to see if they have something.
The one good thing I can tell is that most bosses can be beat by skill alone, which is rare in an ARPG.
but Mektul is a no go for me cause I don't have the damage to kill him before the lava takes over the whole arena and I don't have the fire resis to tank it, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND UPGRADES!
gosh, this is infuriating...

[dynatierchen]

Originally posted by Alvarez_Tiago:

I'm playing solo self-found and the loot sucks, it's very rare to find an upgrade, almost all drops are white and blues and the yellows or legendary I find are never for the class I'm playing with, I'm having to make it do with the few currencies I find to try and upgrade what I have.
I'm in Act 3, just beat Ketzuli and I upgraded weapons 3 times so far, and I'm using the same Mace from act 2.
Bosses are a 20 minutes + odyssey everytime cause even grabbing all damage nodes along the way on the skill tree, my gear just can't keep up.
And I refuse to migrate my Char to an open trade league, the game is supposed to offer me upgrades, not other players.
And yes, I'm constantly checking vendors out to see if they have something.
The one good thing I can tell is that most bosses can be beat by skill alone, which is rare in an ARPG.
but Mektul is a no go for me cause I don't have the damage to kill him before the lava takes over the who arena and I don't have the fire resis to tank it, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND UPGRADES!
gosh, this is infuriating...

ye the situation is pretty bad. i also dont want to trade, bcuz i just dont want to use their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass trade website they try to force up on players

esp when u hear about all those hacked accounts, which most likely are related to the trade portal

im above 200 hours now and lets keep it simple and short. altho i have 2 stash tabs full of uniques both my chars still have trash gear.

best option you have is use gambling and then try to craft them with currency, but that doesnt help aswell tbh

[RawMeatDiet]

SSF could have improved drop rate for currencies I guess.

[CriTical]

Originally posted by Alvarez_Tiago:

I'm playing solo self-found and the loot sucks, it's very rare to find an upgrade, almost all drops are white and blues and the yellows or legendary I find are never for the class I'm playing with, I'm having to make it do with the few currencies I find to try and upgrade what I have.
I'm in Act 3, just beat Ketzuli and I upgraded weapons 3 times so far, and I'm using the same Mace from act 2.
Bosses are a 20 minutes + odyssey everytime cause even grabbing all damage nodes along the way on the skill tree, my gear just can't keep up.
And I refuse to migrate my Char to an open trade league, the game is supposed to offer me upgrades, not other players.
And yes, I'm constantly checking vendors out to see if they have something.
The one good thing I can tell is that most bosses can be beat by skill alone, which is rare in an ARPG.
but Mektul is a no go for me cause I don't have the damage to kill him before the lava takes over the whole arena and I don't have the fire resis to tank it, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND UPGRADES!
gosh, this is infuriating...

yep its an loot game without good loot...
i feel the same second char on lvl 90 and he is still on lvl 55 weapon bcs every lv 78 which i got is bad af.
just like diablo 4 where lvl 20 items are better than lvl 100. LMAO
and i dont trade bcs hacker plague...
almost 300% Mf + % of the maps but every drop is so fk bad idk... Reroll also trash
also funny lvl 90 char is dropping 98% of the time 50-69 floot in t14-15 maps, but ya streamers didnt have the problem... 1 map 10 unique 5 of them 500 divs worth+++
so its looks like it is only a game where you should play streamer build, bought hes gear and play until reset...
so its not grinding gear game = trading gear game.

100% im gone with full release if there are no changes

[Alvarez_Tiago]

Originally posted by dynatierchen:

Originally posted by Alvarez_Tiago:

I'm playing solo self-found and the loot sucks, it's very rare to find an upgrade, almost all drops are white and blues and the yellows or legendary I find are never for the class I'm playing with, I'm having to make it do with the few currencies I find to try and upgrade what I have.
I'm in Act 3, just beat Ketzuli and I upgraded weapons 3 times so far, and I'm using the same Mace from act 2.
Bosses are a 20 minutes + odyssey everytime cause even grabbing all damage nodes along the way on the skill tree, my gear just can't keep up.
And I refuse to migrate my Char to an open trade league, the game is supposed to offer me upgrades, not other players.
And yes, I'm constantly checking vendors out to see if they have something.
The one good thing I can tell is that most bosses can be beat by skill alone, which is rare in an ARPG.
but Mektul is a no go for me cause I don't have the damage to kill him before the lava takes over the who arena and I don't have the fire resis to tank it, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND UPGRADES!
gosh, this is infuriating...

ye the situation is pretty bad. i also dont want to trade, bcuz i just dont want to use their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass trade website they try to force up on players

esp when u hear about all those hacked accounts, which most likely are related to the trade portal

im above 200 hours now and lets keep it simple and short. altho i have 2 stash tabs full of uniques both my chars still have trash gear.

best option you have is use gambling and then try to craft them with currency, but that doesnt help aswell tbh

They gotta do something about it, I'm having to trade good stats to stack pile some increased rarity of items found but to no avail so far.

[ministrog]

i wonder if they will take my advice and make MF activate later into the league (or season if you're new to POE). that way it can act as a catch up mechanic. also make it have less effect as you progress in game. so mf becomes more useful in lower tier waystones.

or just make MF a SFF thing. lol that would work too

[dynatierchen]

Originally posted by ministrog:

i wonder if they will take my advice and make MF activate later into the league (or season if you're new to POE). that way it can act as a catch up mechanic. also make it have less effect as you progress in game. so mf becomes more useful in lower tier waystones.

or just make MF a SFF thing. lol that would work too

in a thread with people talking about how bad drops are....

you want to tell them that they should turn off mf?!

[Alvendo]

Originally posted by Alvarez_Tiago:

I'm playing solo self-found and the loot sucks, it's very rare to find an upgrade, almost all drops are white and blues and the yellows or legendary I find are never for the class I'm playing with, I'm having to make it do with the few currencies I find to try and upgrade what I have.
I'm in Act 3, just beat Ketzuli and I upgraded weapons 3 times so far, and I'm using the same Mace from act 2.
Bosses are a 20 minutes + odyssey everytime cause even grabbing all damage nodes along the way on the skill tree, my gear just can't keep up.
And I refuse to migrate my Char to an open trade league, the game is supposed to offer me upgrades, not other players.
And yes, I'm constantly checking vendors out to see if they have something.
The one good thing I can tell is that most bosses can be beat by skill alone, which is rare in an ARPG.
but Mektul is a no go for me cause I don't have the damage to kill him before the lava takes over the whole arena and I don't have the fire resis to tank it, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND UPGRADES!
gosh, this is infuriating...

u need to buy Magicfind Gear for 50-100 Divine Orbs and then u can find plenty of currence and items....oh wait....u need Magicfind Gear in the first place....♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[ministrog]

Originally posted by dynatierchen:

Originally posted by ministrog:

i wonder if they will take my advice and make MF activate later into the league (or season if you're new to POE). that way it can act as a catch up mechanic. also make it have less effect as you progress in game. so mf becomes more useful in lower tier waystones.

or just make MF a SFF thing. lol that would work too

in a thread with people talking about how bad drops are....

you want to tell them that they should turn off mf?!

here's why, i play alot of poe 1, and the natural drop rates get better near end of league. it's kind of like a 'thank you for playing'. that's seperate from mf, and it's a tool that GGG always have in their back pocket.

not expecting you to know this since i think alot of new players are coming in.

[Baked Potato]

Have you tried the stat % Increase rarity of items found
If you have 0 %, its normal you have no loot... you need some.

[Kieden]

its kinda sucks to hear this cuz i was thinking the same thing but was not sure if i should say anything. its almost like its better to get a white item with a slot in it and just upgrade it from there to get something eve close to an upgrade, but still thats a big chance and takes time to get the currency.. thinking i might just try to save. there is of course the reforge try too but that can take some time to find the same 3 exact item types all for just at something a little better. also hanvt had too many uniques , the ones ive gotten are nothing too great. or not my class.

[Baked Potato]

Originally posted by Kieden:

its kinda sucks to hear this cuz i was thinking the same thing but was not sure if i should say anything. its almost like its better to get a white item with a slot in it and just upgrade it from there to get something eve close to an upgrade, but still thats a big chance and takes time to get the currency.. thinking i might just try to save. there is of course the reforge try too but that can take some time to find the same 3 exact item types all for just at something a little better. also hanvt had too many uniques , the ones ive gotten are nothing too great. or not my class.

You know that if you Disenchant socket gear you find, you get 1 Artificer Shard... at 10 you got an Artificer Orb ... way easier than trying to have the right socketed gears.

And unique items are more for diversify your build. You get some unique stats you wont have on anything else.

For exemple I'm using a unique helpmet that consume corpse every 3 second to restore 20% of life. A unique boot that trigger Decompose skill on walk and a unique chest that each time im not full life, I use 10% of mana to restore that amount to life... without those 3 gears, my build wouldnt work.

And I wont say this enough, but in PoE2 you need to stack % increased rarity of items found, or else loot will suck.

[ministrog]

Originally posted by Baked Potato:

Originally posted by Kieden:

its kinda sucks to hear this cuz i was thinking the same thing but was not sure if i should say anything. its almost like its better to get a white item with a slot in it and just upgrade it from there to get something eve close to an upgrade, but still thats a big chance and takes time to get the currency.. thinking i might just try to save. there is of course the reforge try too but that can take some time to find the same 3 exact item types all for just at something a little better. also hanvt had too many uniques , the ones ive gotten are nothing too great. or not my class.

You know that if you Dismantle socket gear you find, you get 1 Artificer Shard... at 10 you got an Artificer Orb ... way easier than trying to have the right socketed gears.

And unique items are more for diversify your build. You get some unique stats you wont have on anything else.

For exemple I'm using a unique helpmet that consume corpse every 3 second to restore 20% of life. A unique boot that trigger Decompose skill on walk and a unique chest that each time im not full life, I use 10% of mana to restore that amount to life... without those 3 gears, my build wouldnt work.

my guy that's not what they're talking about. it's about loot dropping frequently enough and whether or not they're useful for their build. nothing about trade or what you're using.

you'll read about horror stories on bad rng. people doing all the right things and still get no meaningful upgrades. all im saying, boost the natural drop rate of the entire game (do this sensibly) and make MF progressively ineffective for higher tier maps.

[Ray64]

yah I have a SSF warrior at lvl 76 using a lvl 45 weapon.

Eventually I just gave up and started a new character because I was just not having fun with that character at all. Although it could have been worse cause without that lvl 45 weapon being as good as it was I probably would have stopped playing that character way earlier.

I think the game has serious progression pacing problems, as it doesn't make sense that at least in SSF there is literally no means to get even minor upgrades for extremely long periods of time resulting what I call the gear progression lag, where you get to 'end game' and are still using gear from act 1-2 normal campaign because literally nothing better can be found nor 'crafted' since the game is obscenely stingy with 'crafting' resources.

[RawMeatDiet]

Drop rates are very good from my perspective. Could buff SSF but no reason to buff trade league drops.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by Ray64:

yah I have a SSF warrior at lvl 76 using a lvl 45 weapon.

Eventually I just gave up and started a new character because I was just not having fun with that character at all. Although it could have been worse cause without that lvl 45 weapon being as good as it was I probably would have stopped playing that character way earlier.

I think the game has serious progression pacing problems, as it doesn't make sense that at least in SSF there is literally no means to get even minor upgrades for extremely long periods of time resulting what I call the gear progression lag, where you get to 'end game' and are still using gear from act 1-2 normal campaign because literally nothing better can be found nor 'crafted' since the game is obscenely stingy with 'crafting' resources.

That does not make sense. There are some completely broken weapons that require lvl45 only, this is normal. This is not some MMORPG where you upgrade weapon every 5 lvls, it depends. I had a giga strong weapon from lvl40 to lvl80, it beat everything and had low requirements. And I had no reason to upgrade it, I would be using it until lvl90 at least.