It’s far too difficult to get the unique you need. According to personal experience, when the build reached a basically functioning status in T3~T4, “none” of the unique gears was obtained from bosses but from seasonal journey caches. Boss fights are not rewarding that over 95% of the loots are sold or salvaged.
Adding horde uniques into current loot pool will definitely make the situation worse (C’mon, everybody knows that the horde uniques are trash unless a basic skill build is targeted).
Chaos armor may be a solution but it is limited to S10 and its rarity is yet known.
those 2,3,4 GA uniques are locked behind the Belial grind.
The point is getting a single GA unique with a “decent” effect number while gear progression. This rate is incredibly low now. Remember how many trash uniques ex: butcher’s cleaver dropped instead of those boss specific ones? That’s the point. Grinding Belial for multi GA is something later on.
We know Bartuc drops them well, it’s just a question of maximizing Aether gains to spawn him and of course getting enough Compasses.
Chaos Rifts in NMD spawned them, too, but that rift doesn’t seem to show up that often, in my experience. However, the sigils themselves did drop well from their usual sources and since I think pretty poorly of most of the sigils, I’d scrap all others in favor of those.
i think this part is already near non-existent because the devs have compressed the loots in initiate & greater lair bosses to being valueless, with the sole reason being to get the Belial husk.
grinding the exalted boss, Belial, is the only fruitful approach here.
That would make 1 of every 20 items an upgrade.
Or the duping that is way out of control.
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Not true. Over 95% means you have less than 5% loots dropping a decent unique you need. To be honest, it may be 1% or even less in my S9 experience.
Blizzard should let trash remain trash before re-working it or inventing some seasonal mechanism for it. Adding it into loot pool doesn’t make players use them but just significantly prevent players from getting the real unique they need. Just keep the butcher’s cleaver to its owner.
1 of every 20 items is a GA Unique. It is not an upgrade.
Only 1 guaranteed Unique from the Boss specific loot table combined with the low drop rate of GA Uniques means that the chance to get the targeted GA Unique is extremely low.
The way it works now is while trying to get it, there are likely to be a couple of mini Belial apparitions. With the collected Husks, doing Belial, we have a good chance to get the item, unfortunately not always with a good main stat.
Bosses are done to farm Husks, Belial to get GA Uniques…But, you can also buy the Husks and directly do Belial.
Exactly! The GA rate is higher than previous seasons but the rate of getting the targeted boss specific unique with a decent effect number is terribly low.
This is actually caused by one of those bad changes introduced in S8: changing boss loot drop rule and introducing 1 shot boss skills & life lock. The lock will be canceled in S10 and no doubt the boss loot rule requires re-examination and adjust.
As somebody may stand aside and say “hey just play longer” or “hey just grind Belial”, I played necro since S9 launch till S10 PTR and only got 2 decent deathless visages (all Belials choosing Varshan). That’s far fewer than the total myhtics (no matter needed or not) I got.
Most players are just ordinary people. I have to work, spend time with family, eat right and exercise to keep in good shape. Player satisfaction and high rating are definitely more reliable than total online hour to serve as KPI.