Drop rate of aspects is way too low

[Dantou]

Hi there, before anything i have to tell that i love this game, and i played around 600 hours so i know what i will talk about.
In 600 hours of gameplay i droped a total of 3 aspects, 2 times the fire one, and 1 time the ice one, i never saw the lightning one.
This is waaaaay too low to me, not everyone is going to play that much time, a lot of people will play like 50 or 100 hours and that's all. This means that a lot of people will never see any aspect in the game, and won't even know they exists.
I think it's an interesting feature of the game but we should see it a bit more often in our runs.

[Aachen]

Why?

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

These aspects since they go into the equipment slot are pretty useless. I don't really mind their low droprate for that.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by *P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*:

These aspects since they go into the equipment slot are pretty useless. I don't really mind their low droprate for that.

Agreed. Wake of Vultures just makes them almost entirely irrelevant anyways.

[Zeddy]

Originally posted by Dantou:

This means that a lot of people will never see any aspect in the game, and won't even know they exists.

Given that they don't appear in the logbooks and devs don't even seem to acknowledge their existence this seems to be the point.

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

Originally posted by Dantou:

This means that a lot of people will never see any aspect in the game, and won't even know they exists.

Given that they don't appear in the logbooks and devs don't even seem to acknowledge their existence this seems to be the point.

They mentioned them back in their presentation at PAX18 tho and that they have a ridiculously low droprate. I'd say it's some sort of remnant when they were experimenting with ideas of the Elite Skills. Probably subject to change anyway.

[Dog]

Ive seen an aspect once in 200 hours.

[Eternal President Uncle Slam]

Very interesting, I was not even aware such items were in the game.

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

Originally posted by Eternal President Uncle Slam:

Very interesting, I was not even aware such items were in the game.

They are actually easy to miss. I got the fire aspect at roundabout 50hrs once and it was simply a yellow/ orange orb that they leave behind. Could be easily dismissed as a chunk of meat or money.

[Kiddley]

I have seen 2 aspects. My friend got a fire one, and I got the ice one. Simply put, they are pretty OP with Commando, Robot, or Engineer. Fire stacks, causing massive damage if you do enough of it, and Ice slows enemies down to the point they can't fight back. They are extremely useful only if you have a high fire rate class on your team.

[The Ultimate ⑨]

I've had roughly 5 or 6 in 120 hours of gameplay.

[Dantou]

Originally posted by *P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*:

These aspects since they go into the equipment slot are pretty useless. I don't really mind their low droprate for that.

Fire and Lightning aspect are very very far from useless, they give you a 100% chance proc that works on every of your hits, and it's very strong

[Moschusbock]

i´ve seen 2 aspects so far. do they stack with wake of vultures at least?

[Terratrox]

They're permanent Wake of Vultures. The Fire and Shock ones are the most disgusting things because it gives you permanent burning on attack or permanent shock AOE on top of your normal damage. It's absolutely gross. You also get useless fire trail, burn aura, and extra health from fire, half health to shields as shock. But the shock AOE is ridiculous so it's fine.

[UNLIMITED POWA]

Dont think i've ever got one of those but i like the idea of really rare items dropping from enemies and what not. I'd like to see a lot more of that kind of thing. Maybe very rare and new item drops for all enemies. Like each enemy has its own very rare item.

[Heavouslicious]

Originally posted by KiddleyWiffers:

Robot

Ah, my favorite ROR2 survivor.
"Robot."