SSF drop rates

I've been playing the SSF style for the last league and this current release. It seems like the drop rates are very poor with Harbinger. Since I have absolutely no access to the people who play 160 hours a week, I think the drop rate should be adjusted a tiny bit to allow for lack of access to any kind of trading. I don't want to get a unique every second drop, but having no useful rare equipment and 2 rare jewels after about 150 combined character levels is pretty sucktastic.

nope

SSF must remain exactly like the base game

otherwise it shall be exploited

Hey,

I played SSF in Legacy too, and am playing SSF in Harbinger as well. I think you just got to be a little bit patient, and the loot will come to you.

Since you played SSF for all of Legacy (which was quite long), I won't patronize you by telling you how to eke out upgrades for gear with Benches/other tricks... but yeah, just be patient :)

Sorry you're having a spat of bad luck towards the beginning of the League.

GL :)

Best,
bwam

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k1rage a écrit :

nope

SSF must remain exactly like the base game

otherwise it shall be exploited

Not only that, but the entire point of SSF is the challenge of experiencing the base game without the ability to get help outside of yourself.

Actually the entire point of the SSF mode was that lots of people just couldn't put up with the appalling trading system and GGG decided to add a tag so that people claiming it was "all their own work" could be verified.

arnt the drops already tuned for ssf? Everything seems to be worth 1 alch or 1 chaos so they certainly dont seem to be tuned for trading.

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KaldrinXanthin a écrit :

I've been playing the SSF style for the last league and this current release. It seems like the drop rates are very poor with Harbinger. Since I have absolutely no access to the people who play 160 hours a week, I think the drop rate should be adjusted a tiny bit to allow for lack of access to any kind of trading. I don't want to get a unique every second drop, but having no useful rare equipment and 2 rare jewels after about 150 combined character levels is pretty sucktastic.

No. The problem with increasing the drop rates in SSF is the fact there is an opt out option. This means if the drop rates can be exploited, they will be, and thus defeat the purpose of an SSF league.

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Archwizard a écrit :

Not only that, but the entire point of SSF is the challenge of experiencing the base game without the ability to get help outside of yourself.

You could do this without the league. What the league does is add a competitive ladder (against other SSF players) and legitimization (basically bragging rights because there was no way to prove you were SSF before).

The core reason to go SSF is to play without trading. Now this could be for an increase in difficulty but this is a CONSEQUENCE of not trading and not trading is not a CONSEQUENCE of increased difficulty. If you want just increased difficulty you would probably play HARDCORE. Not to mention that playing SSF doesn't really add much difficulty, it really just adds an RNG gate to the gearing process (basically you overcome whatever difficulty you perceive to exist by simply playing more).

Now I'm not saying that SSF should have an increased drop rate, but the more I hear people say that you play SSF for increased challenge, the more I want to smack them. You play SSF because you don't want to trade. You play in the SSF league because you want bragging rights or you want to play on a more competitive ladder.

So you don't have time to play, but then you chose SSF which is essentially the most grindy choice of all? And now you want the game to adjust to you?

I'm gonna go with crazy idea here - play regular leagues. :o

RNG is RNG....

Yeah my RNG this time around is kinda bad... but thats RNG for you.

They shouldn't fiddle with drop rates or what not for the SSF... it's not what it's for.

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k1rage a écrit :

nope

SSF must remain exactly like the base game

otherwise it shall be exploited

How will you exploit something, that only affects yourself? There is no trading, no party play - nada! If drop rates become better, than only for everyone alone, not for anyone else.

You won´t be able to sell your items for real money like people do at non SSF. You can´t sell shuttle services for shaper either ... SSF is everyone for him / herself, therefore no exploiting possible.