Unique Chests in Content Update 1.1.3

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MackBesmirch wrote:

I don't understand the griping about making certain currency and uniques a little more likely to drop -- or at least giving more variety in the chance for such things to drop. This is not a real-money game or a pay-to-win game, so the "wealth" any player has in game has no real "value" ... other than it gives you more choices in gameplay to customize gear and to try constructing niche builds. So, if the challenge and fun in the game is to acquire wealth so that you can experience as much of the game as possible, there is really no good reason to begrudge players an equal (well, RNG) shot at say, getting a koam's heart or a bunch of cartographer chisels or a six-link or whatever.

The people who complain about good stuff being super-exclusive and only for themselves have too much invested in their own superiority. I can see how slightly increasing the chance or opportunities to find valuable currency and gear might be problematic if we all paid real money for something whose value is rapidly depreciating, but in this case, all I see are players who feel special for having what others do not and wanting to keep having while others have-not. It's petty and makes no sense. The reward for having amazing gear is that you have more choices to be creative with your build... essentially, you have more ways to enjoy playing the game. Is it fair (or even logical?) to seek to enjoy playing the game more than other playes? Am I missing something?

I'm not saying GIVE EVERYONE A KOAM'S HEART. There should be chance and challenge to finding all uniques... that is the point. But the super valuable uniques... Koam's heart, Shavronne's Wrappings, Soul Taker, Bringer of Rain, Alpha's Howl... They all somehow undermine or enhance basic game mechanics to the point of being able to do things with a build that are ordinarily not possible, and frequently exploitative or OP. These kinds of added/modified mechanics should not be immediately available to EVERYONE at all levels, but if say, on average every player were to find one of those super-valued uniques after 500 hours of gameplay with any characters level 70 or higher ... would it really be so bad? I mean, the more you play and the higher level your character, statistically, the greater the chance of you finding good stuff (or stuff that helps you find good stuff) anyhow, right? a player who plays 5 hours a day, 5 days a week with a character he or she has gotten to lvl 100 and plays exclusively in areas lvl 67 or higher, esp. maps, is going to probably on average have found a lot more good stuff than someone who plays 2 hours a week and has five characters in the level 30s who never play past Cruel areas.

Seriously, I want to know, am I missing something? Or am I correct in assuming that the players who complain about good stuff being more obtainable are either joking/trolling or genuinely petty?

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MackBesmirch wrote:

I don't understand the griping about making certain currency and uniques a little more likely to drop -- or at least giving more variety in the chance for such things to drop. This is not a real-money game or a pay-to-win game, so the "wealth" any player has in game has no real "value" ... other than it gives you more choices in gameplay to customize gear and to try constructing niche builds. So, if the challenge and fun in the game is to acquire wealth so that you can experience as much of the game as possible, there is really no good reason to begrudge players an equal (well, RNG) shot at say, getting a koam's heart or a bunch of cartographer chisels or a six-link or whatever.

The people who complain about good stuff being super-exclusive and only for themselves have too much invested in their own superiority. I can see how slightly increasing the chance or opportunities to find valuable currency and gear might be problematic if we all paid real money for something whose value is rapidly depreciating, but in this case, all I see are players who feel special for having what others do not and wanting to keep having while others have-not. It's petty and makes no sense. The reward for having amazing gear is that you have more choices to be creative with your build... essentially, you have more ways to enjoy playing the game. Is it fair (or even logical?) to seek to enjoy playing the game more than other playes? Am I missing something?

I'm not saying GIVE EVERYONE A KOAM'S HEART. There should be chance and challenge to finding all uniques... that is the point. But the super valuable uniques... Koam's heart, Shavronne's Wrappings, Soul Taker, Bringer of Rain, Alpha's Howl... They all somehow undermine or enhance basic game mechanics to the point of being able to do things with a build that are ordinarily not possible, and frequently exploitative or OP. These kinds of added/modified mechanics should not be immediately available to EVERYONE at all levels, but if say, on average every player were to find one of those super-valued uniques after 500 hours of gameplay with any characters level 70 or higher ... would it really be so bad? I mean, the more you play and the higher level your character, statistically, the greater the chance of you finding good stuff (or stuff that helps you find good stuff) anyhow, right? a player who plays 5 hours a day, 5 days a week with a character he or she has gotten to lvl 100 and plays exclusively in areas lvl 67 or higher, esp. maps, is going to probably on average have found a lot more good stuff than someone who plays 2 hours a week and has five characters in the level 30s who never play past Cruel areas.

Seriously, I want to know, am I missing something? Or am I correct in assuming that the players who complain about good stuff being more obtainable are either joking/trolling or genuinely petty?