Please remove player increased item rarity from the game

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

Having this suffix is quite a difference. It competes with chaos res and all sorts of recovery. So it comes at a significant cost. Also at this point players overpayed for good items with rarity, so it would be a hornets nest if they would just remove it like that...

I do t11/t12 rn with 100-120 rarity but i would give up on it to progress if needed...no big deal, already have to skip quite a few bosses because i am set up for mapping.

you are right, MF being on rares is much better than having it on uniques but what you said doesnt really hold true as long as there is cookie cutter 1 button builds that can clear the whole screen because at that point defense becomes pointless, at least for farming maps with MF gear

If the endgame was more difficult then the sacrifice of defense would have to be considered more seriously

Rarity is the new magic find, they deleted all Quantity stats off gear in PoE 1 in favor of this new system. So this is most likely intended to stay for a while. 6-man MF groups are gonna print mirrors in day 2 of every league, completely inflating the economy. It's just what happens, the only way to combat it as a solo player is: copy the most meta,fast build you can find and then farm whatever content has the most divines per hour. Currently carrying trial of the sekhemas ascension seems pretty profitable, you get like 20-40 exalts per person that joins and if you can carry like 3 people per run that's like 100+ exalts every time guaranteed. This is just 1 strat, I'm sure many more will exist as more content gets added to endgame.

Came to forums to post exactly about the same thing, glad to see already many people gave the same feedback. Rarity feels mandatory, and playing without it just downright pointless. And it's against the core concept of the game, I should be trying to make my character stronger to farm higher content. Rarity says "make your character weaker and you'll get more stuff".

I think rarity should be tied to map level and mods. More map level = higher rarity. More map mods = also higher rarity. An equal playground for everyone, so everyone can do what an ARPG is about = making your character stronger.

Agreed, Increased rarity of item found or MF, whatever you want to call it, isn't fun and isn't fair with a lot of builds.

This affix should at least be removed from the gears, because as it currently stands, this affix is far from being optional.

If trading is crap today (Trade a piece of sh*t for a Divine), MF is one of the reasons for that.

+1 No work around it. just delete it

Magic find and Light radius need to go.

One is virtually mandatory and shouldn't be a choice, the other one takes a spot for useful stats.

Outdated concepts.

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vzmNitie#2139 wrote:

rarity as affixes are bad gamedesign. Just due to the fact it can be only in two states : broken op or useless. And in both scenarios it's not fun.

All those "bad game design" people should band together and release their great game design game.

I like rarity competing with player power

naaah who cares

Classic "lose - lose" situation where you either can't enjoy the game because your strong build drops 20 times less than other people's builds, or you can't enjoy the game because you're stretching your build to be as weak as possible in order to have drops.

Idk why GGG keeps rolling their face into that again and again like bear to the honey, I guess "it was in D2 so we copy it blindly disregarding all logic" is good enough of a reason.

+1

Get rid of it completely. It doesn't belong in PoE. Rarity for me right now is the #1 priority stat and I have it on every piece of my gear. It's mandatory and just too effective. More better drops, more currency = more opportunities to craft BIS gear.

I feel like they took 1 step forward in terms of game design & gameplay but 2 steps back with loot & stats. GGG, get it together