What is an Exalted Orb? :)

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Manator a écrit :

You cannot compare PoE currency to D2 because D2 valuable items were duped as hell and nobody knows their real value.
Actually you could find many Soj's if you know where to farm them.

i knew where to farm them and never found one, RNG is RNG even if some monsters had better chances at dropping them.

I played D2 for over 10 years, and I always got every other single unique ring but an SOJ, yes every other single unique ring but that one.

found 2 exalts before lvl 34 and bunch of chaos GCP and loads smaller currency.
found a 70% roll andvarius blessed it made it perf sold for 3.5 ex

I think I had found like 10-15 exalts in equivalent before lvl 45.
All on my 1st HC char.

I just died a 52 due to shitass dsync but I am gonna reroll and I'm sure I find lots of goodies again.

In short; its all RNG I found my 1 exalted and GCP on terraces at a race event. Good luck finding stuff!

I found 1 exalted, 3 gcp and 2-3 regal so far and have lvl 76, 75 and 47 characters. Guess the only way to find more is in endendgame, when you have absurd gear with + quantity. But thats fine for me.

The one thing that POE has to deliver is difficulty, so you have the challenge all the time. The balance between droprates, gear and difficulty should be always in favor of the latter imho. When D3 increased droprates and nerfed inferno they took away all the motivation for me.

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Starball a écrit :

found 2 exalts before lvl 34 and bunch of chaos GCP and loads smaller currency.
found a 70% roll andvarius blessed it made it perf sold for 3.5 ex

I think I had found like 10-15 exalts in equivalent before lvl 45.
All on my 1st HC char.

I just died a 52 due to shitass dsync but I am gonna reroll and I'm sure I find lots of goodies again.

In short; its all RNG I found my 1 exalted and GCP on terraces at a race event. Good luck finding stuff!

Now remove trading from that little equation. The equivalent value is worthless to those that are stating that trading is TOO emphasized in PoE, sure it's not hard to get geared up if you trade for the uniques that enable some fast levelling builds etc (lowlife ek/totems)

But FFS... If you base everything on the trading economy, the game becomes a lesson in trade to prepare to have fun as opposed to play to have fun.

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Hellkaiser a écrit :

But FFS... If you base everything on the trading economy, the game becomes a lesson in trade to prepare to have fun as opposed to play to have fun.

I wish I could at least trade.
I'm just sitting in a black hole with no way to get out, because of nearly non-existent currency drops. in late-game and end-game areas of all places.

do I have items in Stash worth an Exalt? maybe. will people trade me stuff for them instead of trading for an Exalt? no way. can I sell them for currency? I don't know. I get 1 reply for 100 "WTS" posts - so either my items aren't as good as I think, or I don't spam the trade chat enough. but I'll risk a ban if I do.

if I need to put on IIQ and IIR gear (which I don't have btw), head all the way back to Normal and start carelessly 1-shooting stuff for days on end like a Chinese Farmer, I might just leave this game (despite all I wrote previously).
sub-zero fun-factor.

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walentaz a écrit :

... Anyway, currency drop rate should be exponential, and reach it's peak at lvl 77 zone...

That's what i first thought when i started to play PoE. Now it's the biggest flaw in PoE "currency" system. It's so ridiculous i have no words to describe. I never played any other game, where you can just start fresh character, go out of town, BAM - one million of something and you are instantly rich. I never encountered such crap system ever.

Orb drops should be proportional to difficulty level, just for example:
Normal - mostly scrolls, whetstones, alterations, augmentations, chromatic etc.
Cruel - add alchemy, chaos, scouring, fusing etc drops.
Merciless and High end - divine, exalt and make them drop more often, so people will feel reward for getting into high levels.

Now its even not much sense to farm orbs at high levels because there's no difference, you just basically start fresh char, equip max IQ and roll normal, because other gear stats does not matter.
Things like mirrors should NEVER drop in areas below lvl 70, but let them drop in those very high maps a bit more often, so people will have actual goal to reach high lvl maps.

tldr; orb drop rates sucks balls and makes no sense.

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Cooley a écrit :

This game is definitely trade to win. The way GGG has balanced the game, you must play with an optimum build and have good gear to progress without dying.(dying equals hours of lost time on softcore, and hours and hours of time on hardcore) Finding gear decent enough to be usable for others is hard, and finding gear for yourself is nigh impossible.

I progressed all the way to maps without dying (Hardcore), without trades, without lucky drops (no uniques, only 4 link'd gear). Even solo'd some maps, before finally trading for a 5 link chest.

You don't "need" to trade to win, it just makes it easier.


Never seen an Exalted Orb drop while playing a 77 Witch, 58 Shadow, 49 Templar, and numerous more into the 30's and 40's.

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HenkCCAA a écrit :

I found 1 exalted, 3 gcp and 2-3 regal so far and have lvl 76, 75 and 47 characters. Guess the only way to find more is in endendgame, when you have absurd gear with + quantity. But thats fine for me.

The one thing that POE has to deliver is difficulty, so you have the challenge all the time. The balance between droprates, gear and difficulty should be always in favor of the latter imho. When D3 increased droprates and nerfed inferno they took away all the motivation for me.

Its actually easier to find them in normal since certain currencies like chisels can't drop yet meaning there is less of a pool of items to choose from increasing chances of exalts, mirrors, divines and gcps etc, I think fusings dont even start dropping until like cruel. I could be wrong on fusings but chisels for sure dont start dropping until higher levels.

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downstroy a écrit :

It looks like this:

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3 comes from drop and 3 because of a lucky andvarius drop some time ago.

looks like a stack of gold coins, used like a stack of gold coins, what's that line about ducks?

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xhunt3r a écrit :

You don't "need" to trade to win, it just makes it easier.

It's possible, but where is fun to play with shit gear like forever? This kind of game is all about gear progression. If you are not able to do that for long time - it's boring. Also big part of that fun is crafting gear, not just buying.

OK Chris, introduce AH system and make this game a second fucking Diablo 3. Poeple want here to make progress by crafting and finding, not by buying, understood???