Awful loot system

[VastGirth]

I really like the game, but the loot system is rubbish. It has obviously been copied pretty much exactly from the AC series and it suffers from the same problems.

Collecting loot is just not exciting because there is a metric f*ckton of it and most of it is worse than what you already have. The loot that is better is only marginally, so you are regularly swapping out loot for incremental upgrades which have no noticeable difference to the gameplay. Its a chore more than anything, and the UI itself is poor and painful to navigate.

It would have been much better to have have far fewer, but much more meaningful items.

[tempast2003]

My thoughts exactly the loot system feels like an asset pack release, why do we even need lockpicking or to bother with the easy puzzle when the loot is always garbage and not meaningful.

[VastGirth]

That's the main problem with the naff loot, it makes exploration/activities a bit pointless.

[Tachyon]

Honestly, what NOC would go to the bother of stashing 1 item of utter crap like this. I find a hidden location, maybe solve a puzzle to open it up, kill mobs, find a hidden door and/or another puzzle, solve it, find a chest... and it has a freaking hat or pair of glasses!!! It's easier just stealing stuff right in front of npcs because the loot is exactly on a par with the stuff in caves or whatever.

The thing is though, how could they improve the lot anyway? There's no point in picking up another wand or broom, weapons don't exist and the upgrades for gear don't seem worth the bother because virtually every 5 minutes you get new clothing of which 80%+ is vendor trash that's often not even worth carrying around to eventually sell it.. Big whoop.

[Medicles]

Its not a loot based game, which is the reason why the system is so basic. Same with many other rpg elements. There are also like only 30 different gear items that constantly repeat.

I mean, it was quite clear from the very beginning on what to do with this system. You level up and choose the item with the highest number, preferably a legendary item because it can get the highest trait, which actually makes a difference in power. Like in every game, its just about getting to max. level and get the highest item number you can find and that gets upgraded. Though you can already do that at lvl 20 tbh.

Item tier rarity is usually a bad system as well, not only here but in pretty much every other game that features loot. You want the highest tier anyway and as long as the game doesnt make the lower tiers have some sort of needed effect, like give mats to upgrade highest tier items, then they are pointless.

[Cpt Obvious]

The loot is mainly designed for the looks than the stats in my opinion. Worth gathering it if you like to play with your outfit.

[You Touched My Tralala]

the real loot are traits, it was rather early when I realized chasing secret treasures and solving riddles (hi, Merlin trials!) yield next to no reward and is just another time consuming "activity" to make player busy while the actual content would have been long completed otherwise

[Dagg]

I can find better gear when i loot and there are different looks to gear pieces to collect for transmog in my opinion that is waaaaaay better than what some games offer for their loot system. I would call it middle of the road to slightly above average compared to other games.

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Originally posted by LadyVodka:

It is truly awful.
Each cave layout is the same and the loot is trash.
Its not even worth to explore it unless its unknown gold loot chest.

On the other side, what you don't like, you can sell

[Simbolic]

I don't mind it

[Dreadstone]

Character Level + Traits > Off + Def

[VastGirth]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

The thing is though, how could they improve the lot anyway? There's no point in picking up another wand or broom, weapons don't exist and the upgrades for gear don't seem worth the bother because virtually every 5 minutes you get new clothing of which 80%+ is vendor trash that's often not even worth carrying around to eventually sell it.. Big whoop.

There plenty more they could have done. There could have been upgrades to your wand. Or Magical rings, amulets etc. Patches to sew onto your robe to give bonuses. It could have also tied into a house system where you collect stuff for your house to get bonuses to your character.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by VastGirth:

Originally posted by Tachyon:

The thing is though, how could they improve the lot anyway? There's no point in picking up another wand or broom, weapons don't exist and the upgrades for gear don't seem worth the bother because virtually every 5 minutes you get new clothing of which 80%+ is vendor trash that's often not even worth carrying around to eventually sell it.. Big whoop.

There plenty more they could have done. There could have been upgrades to your wand. Or Magical rings, amulets etc. Patches to sew onto your robe to give bonuses. It could have also tied into a house system where you collect stuff for your house to get bonuses to your character.

I've mostly given up exploring spider warrens, caves and tombs, because there is no practical incentive. I mean, anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes for a piece of garbage that I just destroy anyway...

[Megalithik]

I was just commenting to someone how i haven't seen a new better piece of gear all weekend. I'm level 30 surely legendaries should start dropping now. I know there are specific chests to farm that gurantee legendary drops . I may have to go do those and do the save/load thing until i get a piece of gear I want. But everything else i'm picking up out of chests always has the red down arrow. It's just sellables.

[michael.kiksadi]

Yo I needed this vent, thank you

[katzenkrimis]

Systems like this, where it's a revolving door full of loot, are not good.

The Dragon Age Inquisition system is good, including the crafting, because you care more about each individual piece, and you'll wear your equipment for much longer.