Most drop rates are fine but....

My experience so far is unique are fine I have a whole sale thread full of them and doesnt even include my GG ones I am holding onto. Moreover with guaranteed drops from Atziri I think unique drops are in a good spot. Certainly enough to trade for others and gems you want. Maps are in a good spot. I've gotten a steady lvl appropriate stream always.

However there are some serious issues with mats.

If you ever want to craft a GG item you never will with current drop rates. I read that it took a guy 73 exalts to make his GG max life, max ES, max tri res boots. You'd have to play a lifetime (or more) to ever see 73 exalts. Don't y'all think say after 100 hrs game time you should be able to make a single GG item? Or 1000 hours for a full kit on a single character? I have way over 100 hrs more like 300 some have thousands. I've seen 5 exalts in three toons over 70 hardly enough to even get started making a single item. Buff crafting mats. That goes for fuses, eternal, and ex to actually make something decent after such time invested. Instead what happens is like my clan mates told me day one - never craft save mats and trade and flip for what you want. Is this what y'all have in mind?

Back to Atziri - why is midnights so rare? I collected over 100 vaal fragments, or what I like to call map quality boosters since they are otherwise useless without accompanying midnights... and only 2 Midnight ones. This is just frustrating to even look at in my stash like GGG is toying with us with such unequal distribution. Buff midnights or nerf the others to bring them inline with midnights.

Other than that great game, thanks.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Back to Atziri - why is midnights so rare? I collected over 100 vaal fragments, or what I like to call map quality boosters since they are otherwise useless without accompanying midnights... and only 2 Midnight ones. This is just frustrating to even look at in my stash like GGG is toying with us with such unequal distribution. Buff midnights or nerf the others to bring them inline with midnights.

Perhaps they were all meant to be as rare as midnights but GGG decided to be nice and allow others to drop more frequently for boosting maps quantity?

yeah, crafting is much too hard to do due to the rarity of orbs.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Don't y'all think say after 100 hrs game time you should be able to make a single GG item? Or 1000 hours for a full kit on a single character?

100 hours to make a best in slot item? That sounds significantly low. I have more time playing games like Morrowind, specifically because it takes a long time to make it

double

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Real_Wolf wrote:

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Don't y'all think say after 100 hrs game time you should be able to make a single GG item? Or 1000 hours for a full kit on a single character?

100 hours to make a best in slot item? That sounds significantly low. I have more time playing games like Morrowind, specifically because it takes a long time to make it

When there is infinite builds I don't see a problem with that. It would take you 1000 hrs then to have a BiS character with my prescription of 100 hrs per item @ 10 items. However we could up it too - Point being is now, with utterly pathetic mats rate, you'd never make one single item with in game finds and thats way too low. Guys making BiS crafts are serious flippers due to amount needed to make a single item no game play time can give. 50-100 exalts + eternal are needed. Have you ever found that many? Anyone? And thats just making one item. In effect game is a trading sim rather than playing for your gear.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

I collected over 100 vaal fragments, or what I like to call map quality boosters since they are otherwise useless without accompanying midnights... and only 2 Midnight ones. This is just frustrating to even look at in my stash like GGG is toying with us with such unequal distribution.

i know this feel. broke down and bought one in trade chat the other might..