I dont know if anyone else has found this to be the case but Im getting 70-80% fewer uniques than last season. Last season I had most uniques drop for me after putting in this amount of time. A lit of them had dropped 2-3times already. Now Im not getting anything. Did I miss something?
Did Blizzard massively decrease the unique drop rates?
Anyone else notice this?
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I dint get a second locran talisman until yesterday. Lucky my sacred one was good. The ancestral version isnt even that much better. 2.5% stats still really???
But yah I think less uniques are dropping.
I’ve found 3 Axial Conduits, about 3 Lorcran Talismans, 3 Lucian Crowns, and 3 of the Shatter necklaces. I’m sure there’s many I still haven’t gotten yet.
So yeah, drop rates are pretty low. Unfortunately, I got hit by the Seasonal reward bug that gives Sorcerers rogue only gear, so I didn’t have any of my uniques until about level 80, and I had to farm them the hard way (and all I was getting was that stupid Staff, that i’ve seen about 200 of so far).
The build Im trying to play needs 3 uniques to be able to push higher I haven’t had a single one of them drop even once at any point period. I cant push higher without them but I just cant get them to drop. Clearly they need to buff the drop rate on uniques a bit. At least back to last seasons rates.
Fewer than s4 for sure outside of the farming spots.
What are you looking for? I tend to keep a small stash of extras just in case I play with different builds/classes… I may have what you’re looking for.
I have tons of extra axial pants if you need one.
If it’s a 4GA then HELL YEAH! lol
I have some but they’re a mediocre roll with a minimum damage roll pretty much.
I think it’s what’s holding me back from pushing to T8.
idk, it’s raining for me.
But this season i’ve got only few ubers outside of maybe 150 or more tormented runs. 100 of them being duriel/andy, that’s pretty low comparing to my party, where everyone got 10+. I guess bad luck for me this season.
Ah yeah i forgot - winterglass, i’ve got only 2 this season, but killed zir and uber zir probably around 100 times at least.
Nah Chain just isnt a good build overall. Its why the entire server went to spear or fireball. I cant even do 7 yet. I dont have any GA ones. Im using a 2 GA one with resource and damage reduction.
I have some max roll main non GA ones though for free.
Yea Im not talking about uber uniques. I cant even get regular uniques to drop for me. Im trying to push higher but I need those build defining uniques to make my build strong enough to keep pushing. My build needs 3 uniques to really make it work and I haven’t had a single one of them drop even once. Last season I just wasnt having this problem. I didnt have great uniques but at least they were dropping.
I can do T7 just fine. I just gotta dodge the desecrators. I can probably do T8, but the boss fight will take some time and there’s a higher chance of getting 1 shot.
I’ll update my build to show what i’m running and post a link.
I made a weird hybrid spear / chain version with going masterwork crits on resource on axial and locran talisman and then mana on everything. 500 mana and I sometimes crit for tons but I still cant keep mana up. Going to have to get lucky hit gloves I think to use with lucky hit procs on resource. Then I use spear enchant to summon more of them as chain lightning makes so many crackle things. Also roll crit damage on everything and masterwork crits on either crit damage or max resource. Its my own homebrew and im seeing how far I can take it. 6 so far is fine but 7 I instantly die on bosses. Meta is meta for a reason. Im cool with not being able to do 8 if I cant. I just wanna crack into 7.
ITs kinda hilarious having 500 mana. I have 2 crits on axial pants resource and whn I finally hit 3 I can really see what the build can do. Problem is I need another axial pants to do this well or I have to save up an insane amount of mats to be able to make sure I can twice crit it again which is sucky.
It’s called a unique. Not a rare 
Unique drop rate seems lower, but I did feel it was too high in s4. I could fill my bag with uniques in 20 minutes without touching a ladder boss
https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/7d5r80cb
This is my current setup (exact gear).
It’s still a work in progress, but it’s doing good.
Note: In combat with buffs I have over 80% all resistances, it’ll be higher once I get Tyreals, I might need to drop a skull for a Diamon though.
Unique drops were definitely lower early on. Definitely picked up past level 80.
Also, don’t forget boss farming for specific uniques. They usually drop one from their list per run.
RNJesus hates you this season that’s all
Been there bud
Yes! Thank god because it makes it all the more fun once it actually drops. I’m very glad Blizzard dialed back the loot rain so we get less trash and better quality once something does drop.
It felt like the urn blessing for 20% increased chance for a legendary to drop in infernal horde chests actually decreased the chance for uniques to drop.
That’s stupid Blizzard.