I am basically not picking up items anymore

Hello,

I am playing endgame with several different characters and with none of them I am picking up items, only currency and unique items, but that's it.

That is because none of the items I can pick up are ever useful to me. With all my characters I aquired gear from the marketplace and this gear can't be beaten with the item drops I usually face.

I suppose the only way to ensure some high quality item drops better than my current gear would be to "juice" maps to the limit.

But then I usually die a lot. Anyway, even if I did manage to survive, is that really balanced correctly? Do I need to "juice" maps to the absolute limit just to be able to hope to aquire some better gear than what I have at the moment?



In kind regards

my best money maker right now is plain, simple normal rarity belts. They drop everywhere and depending on league are worth 1-5ex each. Barely matters what class of belt, just needs to be above ilvl 55.

Thats just one example. There's dozens of simple things like that that are either used for chance orbs or crafting bases.

If you think nothing is worth picking up, i strongly recommend using one of the "proper" loot filters that will highlight little gems like above for you.

I dont, because im a bit lazy and dont care that much about trading, but it is highly recommended.

In terms of maps, I dont juice. the last rare mob is guaranteed to drop a map so you dont need to worry about running out, I just either regal (if already magic) or alch (if plain) and run.

All that time spent contemplating whether your IIR is high enough, or perfectly rolling maps is time you're not actually killing stuff getting loot. There's certainly benefit to it, but just the process of juicing has diminshing returns for your time and enjoyment.

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Naharez#3496 a écrit :

Hello,

I am playing endgame with several different characters and with none of them I am picking up items, only currency and unique items, but that's it.

That is because none of the items I can pick up are ever useful to me. With all my characters I aquired gear from the marketplace and this gear can't be beaten with the item drops I usually face.

I suppose the only way to ensure some high quality item drops better than my current gear would be to "juice" maps to the limit.

But then I usually die a lot. Anyway, even if I did manage to survive, is that really balanced correctly? Do I need to "juice" maps to the absolute limit just to be able to hope to aquire some better gear than what I have at the moment?



In kind regards

Hihi,

So the best way to do this at the current moment is to actually pick up base items and utilise Perfect Orbs in tandem with Omens

Solid example of a strong craft atm is to pick up Ancestral Tiaras (The highest ES base), Perfect Orb them until you land one with a Tier 1 Energy Shield mod, force prefix regal omen > force same modifier type omen > perfect regal > force prefix exalted omen > force same modifier type omen > perfect Exalted. There's your 3 high ES mods to get an expensive start

Slap a regular exalted to get a crappy suffix > force essence affects suffix omen > Essence craft some kind of resist, Greater/Perfect Exalt x1 > Desecrate > Reroll Desecration choices Omen > Unveil


And there you've got a potentially 30 div helmet for the cost of 5-7 div, an approximate 328% profit, to which you can then use half of the funds to craft yourself an equivalent piece and continue flipping bases and so on

Gamble with 7 div is a wild solution to suggest XD

My personal opinion is that the SC trade is just boring. (for me)
The game doesn't have any challenges(like poe1) to do and chasing just gear upgrades is just boring for me, especially when talking about trade.
That's why I started SSF mode and HC(why not..) and I enjoy the game much more, all I have is drop/my craft and I just have a better time with the game. So currently due to the lack of challenges, ssf mode is better for me. (just my opinion)

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Naharez#3496 a écrit :

Hello,

I am playing endgame with several different characters and with none of them I am picking up items, only currency and unique items, but that's it.

That is because none of the items I can pick up are ever useful to me. With all my characters I aquired gear from the marketplace and this gear can't be beaten with the item drops I usually face.

I suppose the only way to ensure some high quality item drops better than my current gear would be to "juice" maps to the limit.

But then I usually die a lot. Anyway, even if I did manage to survive, is that really balanced correctly? Do I need to "juice" maps to the absolute limit just to be able to hope to aquire some better gear than what I have at the moment?



In kind regards

unforunately, once your build is past the stage of, you have every slot of your characters gear is worth a div, up to like 10div's per inventory slot.... and you are over lv like 88....

in this economy... at this stage of endgame and everything... that is actually in the game....

the chance of you finding something on the ground to replace it, is in the under 1% range. like. sub 1%. .0123% kinda level type stuff.

you can try to focus farm items to craft.... ie: you play minions. pick up every _____ sceptre. you wear evasion gloves? pick em up, and try to craft em. and try to upgrade that way. which during abyss league is sort of easy. with how good/powerful the abyss mods are on gear, and how crafting is alot more 'deterministic' now. and in the process, you might craft some things worth selling you cant use. giving you currency to buy things you do want.

or you can just juice maps. grab some poor aurabot soul and blast. join some public parties. slam maps. get your friends and trio for a hour or two. dont wanna do any of that noise? put on headphones. and solo maps till you run out of code red. and just farm straight up currency and liquidate anything of value. to save up, for your upgrades.

just remember.... it doesnt matter how much you juice your map if you die. (or the carry dies. or the aurabot..dies... etc)

you want to farm juiced content as juiced as possible,... that you can / party can actual handle. that 103% item rarity 6 w/ abyss mod corrupted t16 waystone on a 89% item rarity atlas map node with breach expedition a boss abyss delerium 65% pimple popping juice of a map +1 monster level nexus..... is worth a wisdom scroll, if you die on the third pack. because you ran a map with -55% energy shield recharge... w/ monster crit/ms/as.... temporal chains... and extra monster fire dmg added. while running a ES caster.

there are other things you can do... like farm citadels... farm the trials... etc. things not everyone does. or can do. or wants to do. those rare drops from those fetch alot of currency on exchange due to their rarity.

or you can things like essense farm. and corrupt every one you see and farm hysteria/insanity. rituals for the countless omens/divs/really good gear rolls in tribute... you can add a ton of wisps to a map boss or rare or exile.... and watch the loot explosions...

there ARE alot of things you could do. its a matter... to you, or anyone else. if they want to do them :)

in poe1... when i got to this point.... where im not picking shit off the ground, i dont want to craft, and i need hundreds of divs to upgrade... or w/e number i need...

id honestly just Blighted map/run maps with blight in them... until i have enough gold/silver/etc oils to get that number.

im afraid of what blight will be in poe2.... seeing how abyss worked out... i can only imagine if they over spawn blight... like they did abyss...

unfortunately, everytime i get to this point you are at... in poe2. ive unisntalled after a week or so attempt at an alt that i get to 90+... and in the same exact position as the first char.... maybe there will be a patch that i dont.... we will see.

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Asmosis#7365 a écrit :

my best money maker right now is plain, simple normal rarity belts. They drop everywhere and depending on league are worth 1-5ex each. Barely matters what class of belt, just needs to be above ilvl 55.

wow a fellow belt enthusiast

I'm actually an idiot and I'm still picking up items while being around 90 lvl and yeah, I feel like an idiot.

I shouldn't really feel like an idiot wasting time for picking up items in hope that I find something nice.

Don't get me wrong, deterministic crafting of endgame gear is totally fine, it should stay - but items falling on the ground while you do T15s should not be 99,999% worthless, maybe more like 90% worthless at least.