I gambled and lost. My views on PoE and its randomness

Drops are bad due to the heavy focus on economy and trading. I have no idea how the devs can make this better and at the same time continue their goals with the economy. The two don't work together very well which is why you see so many threads and players asking for a different league that has a different focus.

I love this game which is why I am here and have been here for so long but I'll be honest with where I see some issues. I think its a problem sometimes when players come into this game thinking that they can just grind normally without interacting with other players and find good stuff, whereas they eventually find out that to get good stuff you need to play the trading game.

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unicron a écrit :

But it does leave me with a bad taste in my mouth to consider how little luck I've had with currency items and the fact that I could have been 30% "richer" than I am and that I got nothing in return. I get it, a gamble, but to be honest, I cannot ever recommend anyone to use their currency, better to trade with it. I've be cautious with it and still I've trown away a good 6 Exalth worth!

This really has got to be one of the most disappointing parts of this game.

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Samantha a écrit :

I have passed this thread on to the appropriate development team members :)

+1

there is still hope. I feel the same as OP.



Additionaly i have feedback of my own :

Ah, soo glad to see GGG is actually reading in on this.

Sorry guys, that I only ever put in $20 so far. Been on the verge on putting in more for a pack countless times tbh. If I had any more disposable income and if I had no doubts about the game at all, it would have been so already. (But yes, too many degrees obtained, always been underpaid, the usual for academics)

But yes, like the reaction above me, my grand total since December 27, 2011 (just checked my PM messages) 1 Exalt (!!!) 0 Ethernal, 0 Mirrors (Still not sure if those actually drop or are a hidden recipe), 3 Divine, never had a 6 Linked item or any of the "over 15 Exalted" Uniques.
Sure, it can be nice to have really really rare stuff, but it does frustrate the hell out of people if Newbies join and find 5 Exalts and an Ethernal on their first char before level 50.

To be honest, why do I keep coming back to PoE? It is just soo satisfying to smash the mobs in this game. The number one selling point really is smashing groups of silly skelletons, zombies and the other "harmless" enemies with a flameblast, spork totem, leapslam, infernal blow, stun-ground-slam or arrow skill. Utterly destroying stuff is just so enjoyable. I get it that a lot of new players ask for easier Leagues rather than harder Challenges.

I'm a very poor player. on HC i have less than an exalt worth of gear in stash. I bought a kaoms primacy back in onslaught for dirt cheap, think it was like 1C or 2C. In preparation of the league ending I decided to finally divine my legacy 130% physical roll kaoms primacy into a 220%(!) kaoms primacy, with only a single divine orb. I did this just today in fact. I waited 5 months to do it for no reason and it completely paid off in my opinon.

Every single build I've played has been ridiculously poor until this last league, where I figured out what items I needed to get and when, and really understood how to build my own character and escape the throes of poverty. And to be honest most of the success is due to racing recipes. They're not only helpful in the mentioned environment but for new players they can be a game changer when the difficulty spikes, and the investment required from crafting out of severe situations is growing smaller and smaller without upsetting the economy in any way.

So please keep making cheapo recipes for all of your players lmao.

Right now mirrors are basically really low chance to drop but you get a very guaranteed result out of it: cloning an extremely powerful item. 99 percent of crafting is completely random, where calculated risk goes hand in hand with the market. I think we all know at some point an exalt recipe has to come out. In my opinion an exalt recipe should be equal to about 1800% increased quantity on maps being vendored. The way I see it map drops contribute the most to exalt values anyways with unique drops.

i have bachelor of science in maths but lol but this is not economy mate or investment management or something like that, this is just luck combined with some fun, hack and slash monsters.

you can't expect to get 5 mirror just because you play everyday.

haha u guys do smth wrong rly. started my dom char short after christmas last year, stoped the game after anarchy and onslaught league started. And found like 50ex stuff this time, more with all the maps i played, mayby 80-100ex. And played no mf at all, changed my gear a bit at lvl 90 and run now 150iir.

Game is a party game at all. just rush through the content, farm docks and start run 66maps. try to do all stuff in 6man groups. never had problems to hold maps to lvl 74.

U wrote u used 50chaos on ur maps, haha had few maps i used 20chaos on 1map to roll good mods.

well i never found an ex or eternal with this char and saw 1et drop and 2ex (et was in the 60is ledge farming, on rnmd guy got et, whole group goes crazy)

best item i found was marguls whatever the kaoms for zombies, sold it for 18ex.

y u do smth wrong, i dont know what mayby we should play toghether :P then i can show u the bright side of poe

Back in the days of Open Beta, I had the thought in my head that I'd try to always craft before trading. I spent lots of currency. LOTS. 100+ chaos, and if I linked you the gear you'd cringe. I was able to buy comparable (probably better) gear on Nemesis about two weeks in, paid less than 8 Chaos for everything. Most pieces had 90+ life, a 35+ resist, and maybe a stat or something. 2 fusing a pop.

Back in the days of Open Beta, I also had the thought of crafting my own 6-Link. I figured and knew it would be difficult, but I tried anyways. Bought myself an ilvl 79 Saintly Chainmail and went to town. After 500 jeweler's, I stopped trying to 6 socket.

I have found and rolled a handful of 5 links since then, and had better luck at getting 6 sockets, but I also learned the most important lesson of all:

Crafting isn't worth it. The only time I use orbs on gear at ALL is for sockets and links, and honestly, if I don't get 6 sockets within 60-100 Jeweler's I typically give up for awhile and try my luck again later.

I painstakingly farmed for weeks to finally make a decent farming build..I got up to 380%IIR 76%IIQ
Then I began farming. At first I noticed a lot more rates a few more alterations...

But what I really noticed after going through most of my map pool (running 2 for every 1 map dropped mind you) and finally running out and going back to lvl 70 and below maps...

Is that absofuc*kinglutely nothing dropped worth more than 1-2 chaos after an entire stash tab of maps...what kind of bullshit is this? I even ran 4 vaults of atziri back to back....1 unique...worms molt....

Why is there no reward in this game? Its reaching the point of unexceptable for me. I have played and donated since start of beta.