I said it last season and I’ll say it this season. GA rates are abysmal. Once you get past all the freebies through season rewards, the GA well dries up fast. You might find a few spamming bosses that are usually garbage, but finding useable GA items almost feels impossible.
And we’re not even talking about 2, 3, or 4 GA items. I have exactly one 3 GA item in my stash after playing the season for 50 hours. The drop rates need to improve. Some of us like to invest in more than just one character.
Realistically, Blizzard wants us to spend money on cosmetics in the shop. By turning everything into a ridiculous grind, I’m not as inclined to play multiple classes per season. Which means even if there is a neat cosmetic in the shop I’d use that was recently added the chances are good I won’t buy it because it’s not for the class I have to dedicate my whole season experience playing.
Everyone says D4 is just D3. No, it is not. In D3 I could fly through the first three chapters, get the seasonal set, fly through the remainder of the season by day two and then focus on enjoying the game and the item hunt. Itemization is similar in both games, but 3 GA legendaries and 4 GA uniques are rarer than primal ancients in D3 and they’re not even guaranteed to be good items. At least if a primal dropped that your build needed you knew you got a good item. There is no guarantee here that a ‘best’ drop will even roll the way you need it to.
Legendary is not far off the new rare. They fixed the floor on ancestral aspects which is good. Similarly with multi ga uniques.
Imo the roll out of potential gear upgrades is paced ok and the rest is coin, mat fodder.
They seem to have been consistent here with words said around ancestral rates (edit: assumed what you’re referring to) modest increase during campfires last season.
Not sure what sort of copium these responders are huffing. GA items are far too rare in most content. Seasonal witch areas? Helltides? NMD? Pretty much nonexistent. High Pits and boss fights remain the most common place to farm them, but the drop rate is still not great.
Meanwhile, we fill our inventories over and over and over and over again with pointless normal legendary items. It’s actually a joke to even call them legendaries. They’re more common than rare and magic items early in the game.
Make world tier 4 actually difficult and make GA drops far more common on WT4.
Yeah, the Ancestral drop rate seems fine in my experience. I just want some way to make non-Ancestral legendaries automatically drop as salvage materials in the way that Torment difficulty does for Magic and Rare items.
Yes doing pits/nmd/helltide/seasonal zone you don’t get very many GA items, but it is noticeably more than in the past.
But doing hordes or tribute of radiance they drop from the sky. I also get quite a lot of them doing rootholds. And a decent amount from whisper caches as well
I think GA rate is fine but there’re some useless affixes, so it’s low chance to get useful GA gears. I’ve posted a thread about useless affixes once or twice but nothing changes
+Damage : No one uses it.
Thorn : 7 seasons but no Thorn build yet is a proof that thorn doesn’t work well.
Dodge Chance : Even Dex classes, Rogue and SB, don’t rely on dodge chance.
Life per 5 seconds : It used to be Life per second, now they make it even worse.
Mana per second, Mana on kill : They’re useful in early game so keep it with early game, not endgame.
Some of you just need to understand how different drop rate could be for everyone since it’s rng.
In another post I explained how with one char I found NOTHING in 135 hours and with another I dropped all the gear I needed in 15.
Stop blaming others when they are just sharing their experience, bad luck can be frustrating. It’s normal to complain, this game is all about loot fcs.
yes, now we need to split this drop between valuable stats and like
U’ll soon find out that a lot of players are dropping useless stats, a lot of GA’s for sure, but really often 2-3 Ga are worthless and they don’t pop up so frequently, at least not for everyone. I already explained that but I’m gonna write it again down below
My experience is based on 3 chars.
135h nothing.
20h 2 GAs on few pieces, most of them are Uniques. Not the best but good enough to be efficient.
15h 2 Ga on every ancestral, 4 Ga on 2 Uniques, lots of 3 GA on ancestrals I’m not using with mainstream stats. A lot 2 GA on Mythics. Perfect char.
That should give u an idea on how it can be different depending on luck. I think my first char is the most common thing happening to those who are complaining on forum.
I hope that now will be clear why people are not crying for free but they are just unlucky af. I’m angry myself cause my first char is the one I care the most. But while I understand how rng could be fu***d up some people may not. We need to respect that.
I think what he’s getting at is less about an rng error and more about just the inherent variability that comes with rng, particularly over relatively small sample sets. I’ve seen it too similar to how he’s described it.
The answer to this is larger data sets. A lot of the bumps get ironed out with more play time. In math terms it’s about a statistically relevant sample size.
Since I don’t know how it specifically works and for sure u don’t either let’s say it’s f****d up and let’s go on.
I’ve seen weird things on this game and I believe that a lot of things here are pretty much weighted in some way. Ga’s drops seems random and purely based on luck. But, again, it’s my opinion based on my experience and it’s the only thing I got. I may be wrong and it’s ok.
No complaints here, just simple observation based on personal experience.
Apparently myself and others suffer from the “fell outta the tree and hit every branch on the way down” ugly, bad drops syndrome.
My Necro and farm-machine Barb are pretty mediocre-ly equipped.
Few nice items - zero 3 GA on them outside the snowflake 4GA FoF.
Barb is STILL rocking 750’s in all 3 jewelry slots.
Otherwise mostly 1 GA in all slots.
I HAVE found a bare handful of 3 GA items but…cold resist, rcr, % chance to heal …yea you get the idea.
For some, the RNG gals n guys don’t shine upon us so brightly.
Wanna know how many hundreds upon hundreds of Beasty Boi I have run?
Suffice to say I’m a meme with my Clan because I’ve not found a decent Barb unique.
Handful of 1GA in the wrong spots - yup, but nothing.
(p.s. a member who started 2 days ago is 3GA Barb unique and pretty much all bis 2GA. Rng loves him. Though he’s known for being a different end of the spectrum meme)
Is what it is.
I’ll survive and farm farm farm.
(p.s. Craft Random Mythic= 4 Doombringers in a row… glitch in the freaking matrix that! Lol)
Oh yea to add - not one 2+ GA Mythic.
Again, not complaining, just the Data from someone who plays A Lot to bordering on far too much and uses a character that farms ridic fast. maybe share some rng love and luck
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