Finished act 3 cruel without looting a useful weapon.

[The Real Fragamemnon]

All my weapons were from a vendor. Not once did i loot a useful weapon from a boss or elites. It's still in EA so I hope this changes for the better. Gear progression in poe2 is the worst i have ever seen in an arpg. I'm not asking for a link and the master sword moment, but getting useful upgrades from a rng vendor is sad.

[Scissorhands]

Yeah that part feels bad. If we are supposed to be crafting our gear, there needs to be way more options to facilitate that, than upgrading from white or blue, getting bad rolls, rinse and repeat. Too much RNG getting in the way of the user experience.

Need more drops and currency at 0 rarity bonus.

[Googledebunker]

That's weird. Almost all of my upgrades have been from dropped loot. Vendor is naturally going to be more deterministic because you can see the stats of the item before you buy it, excluding the gambling vendor of course.

The game doesn't do instanced or deterministic loot based on your class, so of course the drops for your class will be harder to come by, just like it is in PoE1.

[Drosta]

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

Yeah that part feels bad. If we are supposed to be crafting our gear, there needs to be way more options to facilitate that, than upgrading from white or blue, getting bad rolls, rinse and repeat. Too much RNG getting in the way of the user experience.

I agree with the conversation on crafting being in a poor state, at least early on. but not that last part about rarity. use the stat. problem solved.

[thawn4444]

loot progression is pretty good in my opinion.
crafting system is pretty banging to

I think people are over complicating the crafting system.

my attack based characters, warrior merc monk, all only care about 1 thing on weapons highest phys weapon damage possible.
anything else like +to gems, crit, attack speed, or leech is nice but not critical.


on casters it is spell damage for spells or spirit for minions
anything else is nice, but again not critical for higher dps.

[Volfuric]

Originally posted by Drosta:

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

Yeah that part feels bad. If we are supposed to be crafting our gear, there needs to be way more options to facilitate that, than upgrading from white or blue, getting bad rolls, rinse and repeat. Too much RNG getting in the way of the user experience.

I agree with the conversation on crafting being in a poor state, at least early on. but not that last part about rarity. use the stat. problem solved.

i would agree that early game was in the poor state for crafting but i feel like the last update fixed that a lot. Though some people do focus to much on item Levels rather then stats to much

[Drosta]

Originally posted by Volfuric:

Originally posted by Drosta:

I agree with the conversation on crafting being in a poor state, at least early on. but not that last part about rarity. use the stat. problem solved.

i would agree that early game was in the poor state for crafting but i feel like the last update fixed that a lot. Though some people do focus to much on item Levels rather then stats to much

its still far too RNG. you're not really crafting as much as just gambling.

[󠁳 ⁧HardLimiter]

Originally posted by Prince Cera:

That's weird. Almost all of my upgrades have been from dropped loot. Vendor is naturally going to be more deterministic because you can see the stats of the item before you buy it, excluding the gambling vendor of course.

The game doesn't do instanced or deterministic loot based on your class, so of course the drops for your class will be harder to come by, just like it is in PoE1.

For me too.
Nearly at end of act 2
No drops.
Everything is from vendor or market.
All uniq items (7) are for witch and ranger.
Golden items? Ask me if I kill 20 golden enemies or 10x a boss.
Maaaaybe I get one golden item from them.

[Kostil Vyaliy]

looted like 10+ uniques but no one of them for my class

[Jyria]

I used a lvl 22 bonking stick as warrior all the way up to level 68
I used a level 3 lightning staff all the way to mid game cruel (only cuz I had a good unique one laying around at lvl 51 from warrior leveling)

Balance of items while doing 1-70 (pre-map content) is funky. One u roll something good like my lightning staff lvl 3 with +lightning damage nad + spelldamage +3 lightning skill you rarely find anything better till mapping

[onedudesmind]

75% through cruel act 1 and haven't gotten an upgrade yet.

[tnugent1986]

Lvl 65, have 1 more boss to beat to finish cruel act 3 and my weapon is lvl 22...

[ʎuuǝʞ]

Yep ALL of my current gears except the charms are all bough from the vendors. I'm also quite unlucky that I still use the same gear from when I'm level 20~30 because I can't find decent replacements