They need their own unique drop tables including rare chase items that only drop off of that boss. I know they have some kind of target farming attached to them, but I’m really hoping there are new boss-specific uniques being added to their tables.
I could easily see them adding ‘target farming’ insomuch as x boss will drop boots, y boss will drop weapons, z boss will drop legs, etc. This would be a travesty.
OP, I’m having a hard time understanding your position on this. Your post suggests that you want the Bosses to drop specific items, but you end your post with “This would be a travesty”, which contradicts your stated position. What am I missing?
I’m saying if they just make the bosses drop specific item slots then it’s a failure. The bosses need specific, new, thematic items attached to their drop tables. Mephisto’s Hammer of Big Damage or Andarial’s Ring of Giant Stats or whatever. If the bosses only drop the generic items we already have in the game then it’s a failure of implementation.
The thing about Target Farming it was an aspect of Diablo 2 mainly. Bosses and Super unique mobs would have X% chance higher to drop certain items for the respected Loot Tables. That was in due of the monsters rarity.
Diablo 4 doesn’t seem to have things called “Loot Tables” you can pretty much get any item from any mob. With Uber Uniques being 85+ monster level. Not really sure their plans as to “target farm” but I do know some players don’t mind killing a boss over 1000 times to chase loot. Look at mephisto runs back in D2. Then again that game has an economy in trading where as d4 does not.
Right so far no mob in this game has a loot table. It’s just one horrible, generic loot puddle. I would very much like rare chase items to be added to these bosses IN ADDITION to bossing being the best way to find the existing uber uniques.
I haven’t logged in or updated since 2 weeks into preseason and I will gladly keep playing the POE league if the implementation of 5 new bosses isn’t amazing.
Oh man, that brings memories of endless Baal runs. Sorry OP. No thanks.
See, the Blizzard company really did great making money. So they happy with that regard. But this year alone, Blizzard owns three games, that all have horrid critical reviews: Diablo Immoral, Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4. D4, they sold. So the reality is how to garner better press, how to garner positive feedback from the streaming community? They will add the Bosses at the end of certain Dungeons, we farm them and hope for a better chance at Uber Unique Items. Everything about this game is based around greed…
I would say any change to itemization would be a step in the right direction as it is pure poo poo
I like the idea of farming more than one boss for some pieces of gear, but if they can have the garbo “if x then y’s”, I can’t help feeling it will still feel the way it does now.
This is among other things in need of improvement, of course. Arguably, it all needs to be done as a whole, or it will be clanky at best.