I was running PIT with 2 friends- chatting, laughing all good. On the second day I realised I only get half of pit materials when I am in a group.
Why the fk someone would implement this idea? Party play is punished? Because I don’t spend ‘‘unlimited pit mats’’ which I have 300+? So party pit is pointless now, and solo is boring…
Its so stupid- wonder why d4 devs hate us playing the game and will do anything to stop us:D I can’t think of any other excuse here
To stop whales buying carry.
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Are you serious? screw everyone for that? advertising d4 as its almost mmo but taking half of mats if I play with friends? 
NO- you not allowed! You have to play solo!!
One of the controversies on this board is the fact people can do Uber bosses with 1 person’s mats. Some think it’s unfair, so their answer to the solution, at least for the pits, is to give party members who didn’t start the pit, only 50% of the materials.
At this point the only real solution would be to have people insert the appropriate materials while grouped so everyone gets the same amount of rewards. So all 4 group members would have to put in 3 shards each for Pits for example.
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Or, hear me out, you could take turns opening the pit.
thats funny because whales will simply buy double amount runs
you think whales will purchase logically? if they do they wouldnt be a whale
take turns opening the pit:D imagine that, loosing 2x50% mats just because its not your turn:D
Grind is BIG as it is and there is no chance I will play with friends for half amount of mats… I dont think I will handle pit to max out my gear, as it is very limited content end game… nevermind taking punishment for 50% mats…
Have everyone contribute mats to enter the Pit and uber bosses. Or give the option to not contribute but be penalized on loot.
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Why is it fair that a group has to use one runeshard and everyone gets 100%? That would be screwing solos.
Runeshard? everyone has hundreds of them my man:D I didnt even realise I use them to open the pit until I found out this 50% mats nonsence… I have 300+, my friend has 900+ runeshards, I can open double shards I dont care, just allow me play with friends. By the time you run out of shards- you will be vomiting from pit, you will not want to look at it anymore
that was typo I meant of one you uses runeshards. But yeah they should just make it so everyone has to put them in and all get the same rewards.
Wasn’t D3 like that with GRs? Why did they go away from that?
Blizzard apparently believes that two wrongs make a right.
Solo balance is terrible in most content, so lets make it somewhat bad for groups in one activity as well 
Just balance solo and all group sizes as close to equal as possible.
Starting with everyone having to pay the entrance cost if they want rewards.
But also ensuring that the difficulty of the content is close to similar with the different group sizes. Like, it should not be realistic for a group to split up in a dungeon and do 1/3 of the dungeon each. Then clearly it is too easy. We should need to play together in a team. Otherwise what is even the point.
Exactly. In the PTR it was only the person that open the Pit got mats. This is blizzard’s compromise. Whales will still buy a run regardless. Just as long as they got their mats.