Oni-Goroshi in Current League - are You gonna farm it or drop it?
" Well I have farmed 3 of your beauties, and I have never seen a skill gem drop. ~ Adapt, Improvise and Overcome
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" It is interesting. PoE RNG is just plain weird for sure. One of my girls has OG, Last resort fist, Araku Tiki (x2), BrambleJack, and last night also found a Silverbranch. Second one has just the Crown of Thorns and didn't find movespeed boots until she had almost finished level 7. She also had no amulet and only one ring until sometime after she hit level 8! Third just has the Blackheart ring Fourth just has OG with the low crit roll. They also have had widely varying luck on finding flasks and wisdom scrolls. Hard to equip that nice rare weapon upgrade when you can't ID it! At this point, most are using rare claws (All have claws, a few are still magic) and have all medium flasks, 2 life and 3 mana. I have a few chance orbs and am watching for normal rarity wool shoes to drop, lol. |
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I had quite a few problems with that in one of my scions - was really struggling to get anything IDed. Meanwhile, the other one, with more experience and less time played, was sitting on a pile of 20 ID scrolls :)
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" I have the same problem on a 3 OG farming rotation (1 Shadow, 2 Witches). The Shadow was getting ID scroll drops frequently but the 2 Witches nothing much until level 7.5+. I could easily say the starting random number seed created when the exile is created is bad. That would then lead to thinking that rng in PoE that is based upon the version of C++ GGG uses has a flawed pseudo random number generator. But I could just as easily chalk it up to bad rng (because it's R-A-N-D-O-M) and I'd be just as right or wrong in my thinking. There really isn't any way to tell what causes the streakiness of good or bad drops, only that it happens with alarming regularity across the entirety of playing PoE. I do understand that the hardware item in the computer that is used to get a starting point for the "random number seed" is not completely random, hence it is viewed as pseudo random. It used to be by reading the PiT (programmable interval timer) in the clock circuit timer (a 16 bit register in the 8253 timer IC that starts at 0 and is decremented approximately every 55 ms. The origianal IBM PC had a 1.1931817-MHz clock signal that was used to decrement this 16 bit register and as such the value of this register was decremented every 54.9254 msec. so when read it returned a value from 0xffff (65535) to 0. That was usually a sufficiently random number to use in the C++ seed function for generating random numbers. But that was way back in the 1980s so what is used today is probably totally different. "You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..."
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration. The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070 |
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What's all the fuss about? ;-) |
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In Betrayal I farmed for one for 16 hours over two days.... Never got it.... I stopped.
Never again. Last edited by Buffo on Mar 13, 2019, 8:51:56 PM
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So hows You addiction run exiles? Im really enjoying my current not OG build ;)
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" That's the frustrating/agonizing nature of farming for anything. You can get the UH encounter early as Lord_Bakaxan shows with 4 Synthesis OG swords (assuming he farmed them all which we can't ever know), or like me in Betrayal:
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It was the best of times, it was the worse of times... STOP... this is truly only the worst of insanity times! This is the end of TSB farming for more than 1 per expansion. Even my aspi Oni farming insanity has been thoroughly ground down.
My first Betrayal Oni-Goroshi came at:  After the first UH kill, UH #2 is really staying in hiding as I had to go the full time grind distance yet again (damn... I keep swearing to myself "Never again! Never again!" yet here I am on the beach pounding more sand).  Uber Hillock... Uber Hillock... Not again!!! Please don't be so shy. Please come out and play. Oh drat, where are you?!... Why do you stay in hiding for so long? Finally!... Oh no you don't pull a Charan sword on me!  UH is dead again... HURRAY!!!  Oh the pain, pain, pain of the grind. Sheer madness I tell you!
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   A quick reroll and... Oh damn... I don't have any Divine orbs... {SIGH!} Ok, I have positively verified the earlier discussion about UH not leap slamming if you face tank him. I face tanked UH completely and double striked him to death in < 1 minute. He leap slammed me once and only once at about the 10% health mark. The few awakened that spawned were easily dispatched and UH died quickly thereafter. So now we know, a melee facetank UH kill results in just one leap slam. 1st Betrayal Charan Sword = 1 hour 28 minutes (very nice) 2nd Betrayal Charan Sword = 11 hours 44 minutes (brutal to the max) RNG in PoE has always been a bitch and always will be. "Working as intended" by GGG. We accept this to play here or quit. "You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..."
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration. The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070 |
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Hi,
I needed 13h for my first sword. Used 2 chars only, a witch and a scion. The skill gems dropping are always the same 2 for each class. Witch clears faster with fireball than a scion with spectral throw. Because of 2 chars only I killed 2/3 of all mobs each time to have no downtime. 3 chars would have been better but I had 2 chars left only. Currency from mobs started to drop at L7, but maybe a little mf at this time helped too. It is like a 6L 2hd sword with a lower range. The sword is ok, but don't expect wonders at the beginning when you can't use 6 links usefully. | |
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If ggg will listen to every cry about rng. We will end up like d3. Decked out in 2 hours of game play in a gear grinding game and then what
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