New Low-Level Uniques

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105731337 wrote:

Also they sell for a decent amount of alch scraps sometimes.

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x_KOR_x wrote:

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105731337 wrote:

Also they sell for a decent amount of alch scraps sometimes.

1/20 (5% of an alch) to 5/20 (25% of an alch) is not decent, it's a very small amount, even more so when we have such low unique drops per/time.

And when you finally get the Alchemy Orb, you use it on a piece of gear to get crap rolls every time, and vendor it for another very small amount of Alteration Shards. Go figure... -__-

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Kagari wrote:

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Peripherally wrote:

I can understand why some might be upset at adding more low level uniques to a pool of stuff most regret seeing drop when they're mapping. After all, the grind of maps is the hardest of all and seeing the effort rewarding by a drop that's good for a char 50-60 levels lower is a bit of a letdown (ok maybe a big letdown).

Probably these new low level items will be fun to look at for the first few weeks, then once people have leveled they'll become redundant and space filler. Seems like an eventuality, but I do have a suggestion that might be able to change all of that.

Suggestion for GGG:
What if every unique was tied to a specific drop table limited mainly/especially by level? For example if a level 20 unique only drops in level 17-23 areas, and so on. I imagine this would lead to much less frustration for both higher and lower level characters, since they'd be more likely to find drops that are relevant to their progression. To help compensate for the resultant limiting of uniques that could drop, the overall frequency of uniques dropping could also be increased for every area. This might also lead to high level chars farming some lower level areas as they may want to build around a certain item, accomplishing the same goal as GGG stated for their Divination cards: that is, to encourage people to farm certain areas in order to find specific items. You could solve a ton of problems people have looking for uniques to enable builds, and for especially powerful ones, their scarcity could be still be regulated even if overall unique drops were to be increased for each area level.

I'll make a post for this in the Suggestion forum as well, this seems like a legit idea (barring stuff I haven't foreseen).

I like this idea !

While i really like the addition of uniques at all lvl ranges, i have to agree that dropping low level uniques in maps are a really big problem. The self found argument doesn't work as the drop rate of low lvl uniques in low lvl areas is too low to count on this. Ok we can have them for rerolling but it doesn't help the frustration to drop them at high lvl maps.

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105731337 wrote:

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x_KOR_x wrote:

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105731337 wrote:

Also they sell for a decent amount of alch scraps sometimes.

1/20 (5% of an alch) to 5/20 (25% of an alch) is not decent, it's a very small amount, even more so when we have such low unique drops per/time.

And when you finally get the Alchemy Orb, you use it on a piece of gear to get crap rolls every time, and vendor it for another very small amount of Alteration Shards. Go figure... -__-

No, you don't get crap rolls every time, Unless you are implying that all rare items are crap?

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105731337 wrote:

No, you don't get crap rolls every time, Unless you are implying that all rare items are crap?