The loot in necropolis is noticeably less and is bad

Started in Necropolis. I opted for story progression rather than using the league mechanic.

Now, for context: I am on the lower echelon of players, a bit above the bottom of the barrel. I'm not a "super crazy meta juicer zomg poggers" type of player... I just understand mechanics and use whichever builds I find fun at the time. For me this league, it's cobra lash (And what a mistake it was to league start cobra lash)

For a player like *me* on the lower end, if even I am noticing the huge reduction in loot, then there is probably also a problem at the upper end of things too.

During my playtime of 8 or so hours, the only worthwhile loot I found is the following:
1 chaos orb (zomg!)
Triad Grip gloves
Mokou's Embrace Ring (died several times trying to shoehorn it into my build due to lack of other options)
Shaper's Seed - Actually useful kinda sorta but not really

In addition to the noticeable player nerfs and/or monster buffs, the lack of loot makes the game feel very bad.

95% of the rare items I found were garbage.

Did loot secretly get nerfed again? Please highlight it in the patch notes with big red text so we can know in advance that we are throwing away our time.

Just my two cents... this seems like one of those "I don't feel too bad about skipping this league" kind of leagues

yeah loot is noticeably bad...everyone saw this coming though. i just dont get why they go from one extreme like affliction to the next where there is almost no loot whatsoeve. why not meet in the middle?

Level 46 tonight, haven't seen a single alteration or chance orb yet. Probably going to be my last day playing this tomorrow.

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Dale4200 wrote:

Level 46 tonight, haven't seen a single alteration or chance orb yet. Probably going to be my last day playing this tomorrow.

You are doing something insanely wrong if this is true lol.

Zero loot filter on and 100% true.

i;m in act 5 and i still havent had any regret or scour orbs...maybe had 2 alch drop so far. had to sell junk to get more alch

Welcome to crafting league, where the way to make currency is to gamble for garbage that's just appealing enough to sell.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Welcome to crafting league, where the way to make currency is to gamble for garbage that's just appealing enough to sell.

You really don't have to do ANY crafting though? You just have to actually play the mechanic and use your brain... there are golden mods you'll see all the time which make enemies kick out extra currency, or give quadruple experience, etc. I turned all of the bats in the lvl 2 mines into gemling legionnaires which were guaranteed to drop quality skill gems, several of which sold easily for multiple chaos. And that was act FOUR.

I always find it confusing when people who insist that league mechanics aren't worth doing during the campaign always get to maps slower and poorer than me. Can't you tell just from observing what's happening to you that you're wrong?

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Welcome to crafting league, where the way to make currency is to gamble for garbage that's just appealing enough to sell.

I turned all of the bats in the lvl 2 mines into gemling legionnaires which were guaranteed to drop quality skill gems, several of which sold easily for multiple chaos. And that was act FOUR.

I got gemling berserkers in roughly the same place. I ended up turning that whole zone into an absolute slog, because I made the mistake of giving them +50% maximum life. Add the fact I'm trying to play a zoomancer build so they were able to easily kill my skeletons, and yeah the fights took longer than you might think. In complete fairness to me, the icon the monster turned into didn't give me the impression they would be beefed up legionnaires with a bad attitude. I was legit expecting those trash gemling mobs.

Know what I got for my trouble? A generous handful of quality gems I can't even sell for 1c each. And believe me, they're sitting in a 1c public stash tab as I write this.

You may have gotten lucky. Not everyone is the same.

its just normal drop rates. Affliction was a lot more even in acts when you casually gathered 500-1k juice the amount of currency dropping was quite a lot more than normally.