POE: The Best of Games and the Worst of Games

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Lord_Kamster wrote:

I figured that once I made it to maps, currency would begin dropping a lot more, enabling me to play around and try to craft my own gear.

But nope... I swear I get even less currency now than when I was leveling.

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Sublime82 wrote:

Trade in this game is no different from Diablo 3. Instead of finding items, you find currency and trade for what you want.

All these people defending the present economy remind me of people who defended the auction house.

LMAO

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dhevil wrote:

Vendors don't sell rares because it's pretty trivial to make exactly the kind of gear you're describing yourself.

You can easily roll some fairly decent rares if you're willing to spend a couple alchs and can put up with 4l's.

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Melkrow wrote:

I think the RNG system needs to have some sort of ENTROPY mechanic. You know, if I keep getting shit orbs, after the 100th one, I should get a good one yeah? This especially applies when it comes to gambling, i mean crafting, items.

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CirePadela wrote:

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Randomzx wrote:

Not to mention, Vendor ONLY refresh their inventory upon level up. Therefore they quickly become even more useless as if they didn't already start to plummet in value as soon as you advance through normal.

With all those things you can't control in this game, I'm surprised GGG haven't implement this:
1) You have a random chance of obtaining 0-2 passive points on level up.
2) Each time you create a character, the passive tree is randomly generated.
3) Your body parts is randomly attached to your body upon character creation.

4) Each time you level up you have a 2/5 chance to delevel instead.

lol had to say it. back to business.

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

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Sublime82 wrote:

Trade in this game is no different from Diablo 3. Instead of finding items, you find currency and trade for what you want.

All these people defending the present economy remind me of people who defended the auction house.

LMAO

The funny thing is, that's exactly what this game functions on--poe.xyz.is, currency drops, and buying items rather than finding them. For a system that set out not to revolve around currency, GGG somehow managed to do exactly that, while trying to do exactly not that.

That takes a special level of ineptitude IMO.

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Mr_Cee wrote:

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Melkrow wrote:

I think the RNG system needs to have some sort of ENTROPY mechanic. You know, if I keep getting shit orbs, after the 100th one, I should get a good one yeah? This especially applies when it comes to gambling, i mean crafting, items.

There's no thing like guarantee in randomness - gambling is just gambling...

Its just the implementation of a currency SINK, like the gambling in D2 - and how many of who's knowing those mechanic would prefer the LoD crafting system (from more or less expensive/rare runes, which also dropped mostly by a hard RNG) over the gambling?

Take even MXL with a very deep and intense 'real' crafting mechanic: the results of its shrines, even while nearly completely aimed for endgame, are basically random and create lots of crap in the most time - even with its 10 chances on each try/shrine. The fact that they are very common, is just based on that there was no need to take care about a multiplayer environment...

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Sublime82 wrote:

Trade in this game is no different from Diablo 3. Instead of finding items, you find currency and trade for what you want.

All these people defending the present economy remind me of people who defended the auction house.

LMAO

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Yosakoi wrote:

Saving up currencies so I can buy end-game gear is not my idea of fun. Every alch used on leveling gear feels like a waste, because I can get the exact stats that I want via trading, and websites like poe.xyz make this much more accesible.

I would love to see level appropirate currencies, like tiers If you may. You could have Tier 1-8 currencies, and each tier would be harder to get, and only affect items of equal itemlevel.

For instance;

Orb of Alchemy T1 would affect level 1-10 items
Orb of Alchemy T6 would affect level 60-69 items

Obviously Alch T1 would drop much more often than T6, and only in T1 zones (levels 1-10). You could apply all existing currencies (except mirrors and chance orbs maybe) to this tier method.

Got a level 18 rare ring with great stats, but you want to roll life leech? Just use one or two Exalted Orb T2.

You still get the RNG'ness of random stat rolling, but at least it would feel much more rewarding finding and using said currencies while leveling.

Have the current drop rate apply to highest tier of orbs and make previous tiers mergable via vendor recipe. 10 T6 exalted orbs = 1 T7 exalted orb, make drop rates so that you have a higher chance of obtaining the T7 exalted than 10 T6 exalteds, so people would not feel compelled to grind lower level zones for currency. This way you could use all the orbs you find, and merge the extra ones you find to the next tier and keep going.