Why is there no loot?

[Horus]

Why is there no loot?
Loot during the story is almost nonexistent.

[NOD Flamer]

do you rush every map to the end or do you clear every map?

i've yet to encounter any loot issues. except for this league i barely have any upgrading materials to rare.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Because they want to artificially create challenge. Gears absolutely the difference between clearing and struggling, a decent drop is night and day difference.

[Jack]

Originally posted by NOD Flamer:

do you rush every map to the end or do you clear every map?

i've yet to encounter any loot issues. except for this league i barely have any upgrading materials to rare.

Not shure, to me it feels like rarity modifiers had a lot more inpact at early stages pre patch not just the heavyer diminishing returns they announced.

But it's all speculation from a singel run, maybe it's more likely that my luck was down.

[Haziza]

Craft your own gear, just make sure you use the right base.

[Horus]

I clear every map
I CLEAR a map and i get 3 pice

[Drake]

It's random. I've had runs where I never looted spirit gems in the campaign and others where I was looting only spirit gems and no skill gems.

I've had a run where I looted 4 times the same unique in the campaign.

The only thing you can be sure is that mini bosses always drop a yellow item.

[Dwane Dibbley]

You fight 95% white mobs with 0 mf.

[an_actual_whale]

Equip Item Rarity gear

[BEEP!]

I straight up got stuck in ACT2 with my Witch till I was lvl40 because I couldn't find any upgrades to beat the final boss of ACT2 my damage was simply to low, like I finally got to a lvl were I could finally kill it but my gear still sucked.

Like I was stuck with lvl15-20 gear because no matter what I did I could not find any upgrades what so ever even farming previous bosses for a good 5+hrs never resulted in a single yellow item just whits & blues which never had any of the things that would help me.

The only way I could find anything useful after spending 10s of thousands of gold was from the rando shop.

Hell so far I've played through the campaign with 4 characters now & only found 3 Uniques when before the 0.2 patch I use to find 2-3 Uniques per act per character.

Everything seems fine once you finish the campaign but during the campaign my gear was constantly under lvled by a lot like fighting lvl50 mobs with lvl25-30gear bad.

[PvWolf666]

There was so much more in 0.10. No issues at all til mid campaign, then I bought stuff. So the answer is, use gold, buy stuff.

[serotoninpack]

There is but there's a catch... that's why it's called "lootbox".

[Soulstinger]

Drop rates tanked. Its pretty bad.

[HolyCrab]

Check vendors every level up. I find like 2-5 rares in their inventory for sale, some of which are insanely OP for a shop item

[N3tRunn3r]

Originally posted by Haziza:

Craft your own gear, just make sure you use the right base.

with which exalts?

only 1 exalt dropped me until level 33 in DotH .. and i reveal and clear all maps completely .. my ranged Huntress is now in Act 1 Cruel, stucked at Asinia and so far only 5 exalts dropped for me in total. so while even melting through any regular and magic mobs by one and two shots in Act 1 Cruel, bosses still have way too much HP, absolute boring ..

i am now stopping again to continue to play as i cannot progress further .. just as it had happened on Act 1 non-Cruel Geonor ... 2 days later Geonor received a nerf and Huntress a buff ... so lets wait again ..

additionally to mention: in v0.1.x when i had reached Act 3 (non-Cruel) i had more than 100k Gold in my inventory .. stuff dropped which could be sold at vendors. in mid of Act 3 non-Cruel, i had about 500k Gold already ..

here in v0.2.x when i had reached Act 3 (non-Cruel), i had less than 25k Gold, as drop rates of rares are worse and i need to rng roll gear and especially spears ... less stuff to sell at vendors for gold .. especially since 0.2.0E, there is barely a progress and lesser a rewarding feeling and i surely wont fight a boss for 20 minutes just to become one-shotted when the boss has 2% of HP left ... heck, even Silverback was not able to one-shot me anymore .. and i did beat Blackjaw and my Viper in first attempt even .. as well as other bosses . . .

when i reached level 45, i still was using a level 24 rare spear with "4" modifiers .. and a rare level 4 shield as nothing better dropped, and not to mention being able to "craft", though i was still melting through mobs thanks to passives, but bosses? nah .. unfun

and "crafting" ?? impossible ...
all i can do is to upgrade from white to blue (magic) with 2 stats .. or to try my luck and to waste gold for a "handful" of rng rolls from vendors ...

i had even to sell most of my stash, reserved potential (rare) gear for other classes to get a bit more gold into my pockets to roll a freaking spear . . . bad luck .. of course .. in v0.1.x my luck was great in comparison

as mentioned about my ranged Huntress which reveals and clears whole maps completely .. she is around level 50 and i own 5 exalts, maybe 8 regals, and about 60 transmutations and 60 augmentations ... 1 vaal, 1 chaos and 5 lesser jewellers orbs and 3 different essences, so even as currency exchange is unlocked in Cruel, how many exalts would i get ??

https://pathofexile2.wiki.fextralife.com/Currencies

economy and drop rates in PoE2 are completely messed up and flawed, lets say "LIMITED", especially since v0.2.0E

[Muppet]

I did the hyena boss and no loot dropped. I cleared the adds that came after, paused and started checking inventory. Then 1 minute+ after I killed the boss, loot suddenly started popping out of him. I wonder if this is why we are missing loot running through?