I’m really at a loss here. It simply can’t be RNG. No RNG on earth is this bad.
I finished the campaign a while back and didn’t play for a while. Came back to try to work on my eternal realm guys to try and improve them and move up levels and it’s just been ridiculous.
During the campaign, unique items dropped pretty regularly. Maybe once every 5 or 6 dungeons or rifts I ran.
Now in eternal realm? Nothing. Not one single unique in three weeks straight, running higher rifts and higher difficulty than I was during the season.
This simply can’t be a “random” thing. It has to be by design. I’ve never seen this before in any Diablo title, and I’ve been playing since D2. The first one.
Did that. Not one drop. I even did the underground run using the booster that increases your odds of getting a unique 4 times (That’s all of the boosters I had). Cleared all 4 at level 4 on Torment 3.
Bosses only drop Uniques now. You can’t have missed them if you did Bosses. By Bosses, I mean Lair Bosses: Varshan, Grigoire and the like, not the Bosses at the end of the dungeons. Uniques that drop from those Bosses are mostly regular (750) and more rarely Ancestral (800).
I dont play eternal realm but seasonal. I had googolplex (mabye more) distilled fear hunting for precious beastfall boots. I did not get a single one with GA Resource.
Then i focused on getting the reknown chests (the chests you repeatedly get after max reknown) and it did not take long and i had 2GA beastfall boots (1GA in resource ofc).
I say this with zero hyperbole. I am P275 on HC, maxed glyphs and still running all content, my gear is still almost exclusively one GA and I haven’t seen one single upgrade in at least 3 weeks.
Ask me why. I would say “hope” but the truth is probably closer to stupidity.
As others have stated Lair Bosses, and actually opening the chest after you kill them showers you in uniques. Quite literally it’s all that comes from those chests. You won’t get legendaries from them anymore.
Lair bosses can be a very bad experience even if you do everything right and target farm the correct bosses. You could have an inventory full of bosskeys and leave w/o an upgrade. Do reknown chests… (you get after completing reknown levels) and you have a better chance to get multi GA stuff that suits your needs. Or farm belial. He drops good.
For the sake of thoroughness, boss lairs are the best source of uniques, the gear with a cream-ish colored background, unique affixes and a special affect. Regardless if you are T1 or T4, boss lairs ALWAYS drop them, but higher tiers have better chances of dropping Ancestral uniques (GA gear).
You MUST open the chest after the kill with the corresponding key (12 hearts of varshan, 12 fears for beast, 3 shards for duriel, etc.) To get the uniques. Im more or less restating what others have said, but trying to leave zero room for mistakes. If you opening the chests and still getting nothing, then you need to submit a ticket.
Its all about RNG. I wasted (not if it was more fun) plenty of boss mats at the lairbosses only getting non GA uniques i could not use for my desired build.
