Loot drops only 258-290?

[Athena]

Hi,

Did they change loot drops? I opened 5 champion level emperor chests and the highest level item I got was a 290 trinket with the lowest item being a 258 item*. While my power is fully maxed out, I'll add.

What happen?

* Edit: Found a 258 item that came from that batch!..

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Min to Max power levels are now tied to container quality. The only way to get max power items is from the highest quality containers. You can mouse over containers to see the expected power level of its items.

[Athena]

Nooooooooo... Glad I got everything 300 before this patch xD

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Idk why everyone finds it so weird. They made it so you can't get end-game gear from early content, imagine getting to use level 30 gear by farming level 10??

[Nekros]

Guess you need legend chests now for 300 garbo. If it ain't red tier then who cares what it is.

[Dymaxion]

what ppl are finding weird is high level chests and vaults that use to drop 300 99.9% of the time are dropping subpar crap. I opened a vault yesterday and got some low 290's weapon.

to Nekros point, all my stuff is either red or orange with the perks/traits I want so I don't really care anymore about the loot - I was thinking bout newer players. something feels a bit wonky with the distribution.

[Athena]

Now new players who want to gear up their characters have to go into Legend difficulty and above. We all know how much sweaty high-difficulty players enjoy playing with less skilled people. This is going to be great. /s

[Evilsod]

Pretty sure they've just royally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the rewards for both crafting and chests atm. I'd refraining from opening any till it looks fixed.

[Nekros]

They wanted to prevent chest hoarding only to promote chest hoarding. Lmfao

[Houligan]

Originally posted by Dymaxion:

what ppl are finding weird is high level chests and vaults that use to drop 300 99.9% of the time are dropping subpar crap. I opened a vault yesterday and got some low 290's weapon.

to Nekros point, all my stuff is either red or orange with the perks/traits I want so I don't really care anymore about the loot - I was thinking bout newer players. something feels a bit wonky with the distribution.

As someone without all red/oranges. It hurts. Enough to kill motivation to play the game.

[Evilsod]

There is no reason at all to have loot drop or be crafted at below 300 power once you hit max.

I don't understand why the devs would continue to enforce such a stupid decision. It adds NOTHING to the game.

[𝒦.ℒ.ℬ.]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

There is no reason at all to have loot drop or be crafted at below 300 power once you hit max.

I don't understand why the devs would continue to enforce such a stupid decision. It adds NOTHING to the game.

cause they... are lazy... don't play ... and don't care.

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Hoooh-brother.

It's always brain-cell suicide inducing when people smack talk things they hardly understand.

Kay, let's play a game:

I introduced a friend to Vermintide 2 a few days ago, he's played like 7 runs since then. What do you think his equipment power level is?

It already averages like 180! (Plus 140 for being level 14) Yall are whining about slower progression when they made it like 2-3 times faster, and the final TINY LITTLE BIT slightly slower. He'll be less than 5% away from the max possible damage boost you can get from equipment power within like 10 more runs.

Yall are literally INSANE.

[Emilia Tempest]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir Knight:

Yall are literally INSANE.

Have fun getting him to 300, here a screenshot of what I get by crafting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3365848091

Unless you get legend chests youre not gonna reach 300 and you cant even use crafting anymore to get "whatever weapon you want", now you gotta rely on RNG because just look how unreliable crafting is

So yes, the beginning goes faster, but they quite literally just switched the grind from being frontloaded to backloaded, nothing changed and it might as well be objectively worse
Especially for people who were at max level pre-update, because now they have to open chests for an RNG chance then craft 4-5 weapons to get a 300 power version

[Lucien Lachance]

Does red gear automatically get max power by default still?

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by Emilia Tempest:

Have fun getting him to 300, here a screenshot of what I get by crafting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3365848091

Unless you get legend chests youre not gonna reach 300 and you cant even use crafting anymore to get "whatever weapon you want", now you gotta rely on RNG because just look how unreliable crafting is

So yes, the beginning goes faster, but they quite literally just switched the grind from being frontloaded to backloaded, nothing changed and it might as well be objectively worse
Especially for people who were at max level pre-update, because now they have to open chests for an RNG chance then craft 4-5 weapons to get a 300 power version

Yeah... And???

You completely glossed over the point I made about it taking like 20 runs to get within 5% of the max damage boost from equipment power.

It's hardly a grind with such an inconsequential reward. Once your weapon power is like 275+ (which will take VERY little time), the jump to 300 will be less than 5% more damage!

Edit: It's the same reason I tell people not to fret over getting reds. The difference in stats is fricken TINY!

I for one love the idea of the grind being back-loaded, because it means I get to get ever so slightly stronger for an extended period of time- even if it is so minuscule I won't even notice.