Anyone else experience this? Happens every season, ever character. Best drops as soon as I start seeing 925 content, sometimes even before. Then nothing.
Makes little sense to me, particularly given that I kill things so much faster and burn through so much more content far more quickly at 100.
Makes me feel like they have an algorithm at work on drops.
You start getting 925 gear at lv 55 doing nm dungeons. There is a point where loot is raining from the sky but a small % is an upgrade. The more you play the longer it takes to get something new and shinny.
Its like this is all loot base games.
I disagree based on the repetitive pattern I’ve seen. After level 95 or so it becomes next to impossible to actually find an upgrade, regardless of how fast I can blaze through every box in a helltide or farm 101 pits.
It’s like they are basing drops on some hidden gear score.
We will disagree on this. Leveling is a joke taje takes 4-5 hours. It will be less in S5. I found more upgrades post 100 then I did leveling.
I never have. Feels like some kind of curve. Hard to believe I’m simply a victim of that much bad RNG.
Back luck exists especially in games with RNG. Its just RNG doing its thing.
Seems excessive across every toon in every season. Makes end game feel kind of pointless when upgrades dry up so early on.
S3 was the worst for me. S4 I had the best luck since nov 2022.
Some seasons will be good, some will be bad. I find if you have a cat to pet its belly… if your cat doesnt murder you the RNG gods are with you 
It is possible to get the affixes you need, but being fully GG geared by level 80? I think not. Hard to even get all of the affixes by 100, let alone the greater ones.
I got a 3GA 2 hander at about 90. Never swapped it out. Getting the affixes I needed wasn’t all that bad. Trying to get GAs after that has been almost pointless. You can buy them if you have billions… lol
The well runs dry and the game feels pointless.
I noticed this too… I’ve played HC the past 2 seasons and, well, I am not great so I die a lot pushing without adequate gear.
From level 75-90 I get 1 or 2 3 GA drops or REALLY good 2 GA drops, every time (8+ characters in total). Weirdly, it usually tends to be boots or amulets. It happens without fail.
After hitting around level 95, the GA’s just stop dropping at the same rate. I haven’t had a single 3 GA at 100 across all of my chars, and very rarely get 2 GAs (Bare in mind, I have cleared 1000s of 100+ Pits and all of the farming needed to go along with the game)…
The best drops your character will see generally come whilst you’re levelling.
Yes i find that too,diminshing returns the higher the level…Just like d3 imagine that?
Yeah… if you already have the best possible item, then of course nothing you find is going to be an upgrade. What were you expecting to swap it for?
Helltide is much better for finding GA items because way more leggos drop. The level of the mobs doesn’t affect the chance to get a GA AFAIK.
What I meant to say there is that’s the last one I’ve seen. I’ve got a couple of 2GAs and some 1GAs and that’s it.
I can clear 2 and 3 zone helltides fully with plenty of time to spare. I’ve cleared pit up to 123 (could probably push further but the boss fights take too long). All the things that should allow you to maximize chances for gear. Nothing drops. All my decent gear was found before I hit 100. To me it’s a broken loot system.
It happens because the progression is too fast.
You get 80-90% percentile gear almost instantly. So that contributes to the feeling of not getting upgrades because you already got it.
Right but that’s one item - you got lucky with an early drop and then never got that lucky again. 3 GAs of any type are super rare. 2 GAs are not that rare, but ones with good stats are super rare because most of the good stats are rare in the first place. 1 GAs are common but they have the same problem: the good stats are rare.
So what happens is that when you are first hitting 925 gear, you are trying to find any item with the right stats. Tons of upgrades are possible because you aren’t there yet. Then as you find those items and temper them and enchant them and masterwork them, it becomes very hard to find something that is worth going through that whole journey with. You have to find the same base item with one of the stats as a GA and have it not be missing a rare stat that will take a fortune to enchant into.
It’s really just the natural progression of these games. The item hunt slows down quickly as you reach the top end loot because you’ve already found all the low-hanging upgrades.
That said, they could improve this a lot by giving us a way to build up magic find to help us get the rarer affixes, especially in higher-level content.
Nah. The majority of 2GAs I find are resist, life per hit, and rage per hit. Not stats anyone I know chases.
Just ridiculous for me to think that now that I have upped my chances to find something by being able to clear content 2-3x faster that I find nothing useful in a month. And like I said before, it’s gone like this every season.
Pit? How is more difficult content not more rewarding gear-wise?
Do they really want you done with your character at 95 or so?
Right, that’s exactly what I was saying. It isn’t that you get no 2 GA items, it’s that good stats are rare. That’s true on non-GA items too, but you get so many of them that you can find the good stats early on.
I agree that it should be, but they don’t have system in place to make it more rewarding. Even if you are farming at a level where it takes less than 2 min, you are getting fewer drops than by doing Blood Maiden and helltide chests.
They used to, and I think this is a vestige of that. They need to fix it so that GAs and rare affixes are easier to find from higher-level content or give us some mechanism to spec into certain affix drops.
Right. But it wasn’t like that before 100. That’s when I found my 3GA and 2GA keepers. I guarantee you I’ve killed more stuff at 100, especially elites, than I did the entire leveling process, with far worse results loot wise. Simply doesn’t add up.