I know my own history.
The ONLY reason I got any UU’s is because of friends who mass RMT’d and randoms I grouped with on rotas who, after seeing I was legitimately following said rota with my own mats and not dipping out, told me: “Don’t worry about it. We have loads and loads” to paraphrase multiple instances.
All of my own 100-odd ssfarmed materials netted me nothing.
The “C’mon we’re running Duri” from friends and the said randoms who just kept spamming their openly admitted RMT materials - that’s how I got items.
Still only got a few after all of S2 and hundreds of runs.
I cannot imagine legitimately farming that nauseating cycle that I’m forced to group up within for ‘efficiency’(and deplorably repeated with Malphas in S3).
Remove the items or make them attainable.
Do away with the whole mind fudge they infected everyone with pre launch.
They’re in the game and attainable at a reasonable clip with sane rates and if necessary “requirements” - or they’re not in the game at all.
Adam said on twitter last week that this (to redeem class-specific cosmetic rewards from the event) would be in the next patch, not today’s patch. Make your alts or just keep hoarding them for another week or two, it’s not like there is a lack of stash space lol
You can easily sell 3/4 gear with decent rolls for gold and then buy Duriel mats. I’ve sold a couple of gloves (sorc/barb) this season for 2b and 3b each, then you can buy 150-200 duriel mats easy. It’s not very hard if you run T90+ or bosses to get started.
To be honest this addition is meaningless to me as, statistically speaking, I have a much better chance of never getting one to drop than I have of even getting one to drop.
This system would have made much more sense if it had been created around uniques themselves and had nothing to do with Uber uniques.
Such a system would give those players, who suffer periods of bad rng drops, the opportunity to turn the hordes of uniques, that are useless for their builds, into the uniques they need for the builds they want to play, yet can possibly go entire seasons without ever acquiring.
I don’t care about useless carrots in the game if the base mechanics of the game kill the very joy of playing.
