24 hours, 50 Uber Duriel runs, 40 Andariel runs, 100 eggs and shards of agony, 100 shackles and dolls, 200 hands heads hearts and femurs, 500 living steel, 720 distilled fear and exquisite blood.
0 Uber uniques.
But my materials tab is cleaned out so I guess there is that. This doesn’t include the other regular or torments runs I have made throughout the season (Also 0 Ubers.)
That I have to exploit the seasonal mechanic to get the items I want in order to play the way that I want is honestly a big letdown. I have done it 4 times already plus got my sparks for Lilith and tormented boss kills meaning I got 6 sparks which itself seems pretty good, but it’s also shameful that I must resort to making two throw away characters when my char slots are full.
Now I could deal with bad RNG, and I have in past seasons if it was in one facet of the game, say this Uber grind, however this season I had bad RNG with the occultist, tempering and master working so many times that I have completely altered builds to play with the bad RNG the game continues to throw at me.
Count me among the disgruntled customers this season. I have been playing your way since the release of the season. When do I finally get the chance to play my way?
Ye I got you, it feels bad doesn’t it. I never got my uber unique until this season. And before people question how much I play , well, I play A LOT … not asking people to believe me, but I ain’t lying. I did my fair share of farming up until last week, I was finally able to obtain a shako (from crafting, 4 sparks), and 2 drops, melted heart and Starless from Uber tormented Duriel.
I still firmly believe there needs to be some level of bad luck protection on uber drops. I know ppl will disagree with me on this but whatever, it is my opinion. They did it with WoW and it works, no one complained.
Otherwise it just feels like your time is not being respected, and certainly If I had a insane farming sessions like you just did, and got 0 ubers, i’d probably uninstall the game.
I am not against RNG in itself, but at which point RNG becomes unhealthy for the game there needs to be a good balance. People will only continue to play when there is continuous positive reinforcement , thats just psychology.
Honestly, you should only be running tormented version if you are hunting for Ubers. The normal version drop rate is extremely piss poor low it is not even funny. Even the Tormented version isn’t all that great.
Normal this weekend all solo. A group of us did a dozen tormented last weekend with zero between the 4 of us. I also use up the iron wolves cache mat drops on each character once I pop that box in WT4 which is roughly another 8 runs worth of mats.
I know this sort of thing balances out over a season, but I am still waiting for the good breaks to work in my favour. Currently playing scuffed versions of blight Necro, ds twister Barb, tornado Druid and a combo blizzard/FO sorc because tempering and master working have also not worked out well. I want to move on to a custom rogue build, but to do that it will need a Shako.
Easy enough to get if I grind, but 4x IW rep grind was enough and I will have to do the 5th on the Rogue anyway, but still leaves me a spark short.
You have so many characters that you want to build certain way I mean that is great, But that sounds like insane amount of farming and play is gonna be required. If RNG sucks again, it’ll take even longer.
and he’s saying there’s too damn much RNG in the game. You can keep repeating this mantra all you want when people get pissed off enough they leave. It’s that simple
Of course I did. Got 4x from IW rep, 1 from Lilith and 1 from Tormented Duriel. They not the Iron wolves rep is repeatable. That’s how I got to 6 sparks.
The problem is not your bad luck, how can you play this dumb tier game for somlong, you dont need ubers or garbo to complete it, no uber is buil enable etc etc. Save yourself. Stay away from this game, offers nothing, no fun, no deepness, no challenge, no problem solving. Mindless shot grind.
I appreciate your feedback on the take. You have the right to your own opinion and, I see where your point stands. But for me, as long as I see a reason for keep playing, I probably will until frustration finally gets the best of me and then i’ll stop.
I don’t think I want to be playing 24 hours non stop anyways. I need a break from time to time.
With promises ‘‘This is just the beginning , epic awesome super cool stuff comes in the next expansion , after you pay for it’’
And guess what? All of those quad GA ubers, tripple GA lege items etc…will be obsolete in 2 months . If you think ‘‘well at least ill have good gear on eternal’’ think twice. Blizzard doesnt want you to play on eternal. They will find new way soon to make your gear ‘‘legacy’’
When you end up salvaging gear you paid billions of gold for ,after farming gold for months , and in return you get 3x Baleful Fragments , its gonna hit you and you will realize that there’s no point.
Don’t get me wrong, I have had my fun this season, but certain endgame activities like the pit and the gauntlet are not interesting to me. My fun comes from transforming what many people consider trash tier skills and making them into a useable build that is also fun to play.
I was playing blight Necro and FO sorc last season and they were fantastic. Likewise I played upheaval barbarian and flurry rogue in S2 and also had a great time.
Unfortunately however to make some of those builds useful you actually need some pretty hard to get items which means engaging with the RNG more times than is healthy or sane.
I used all the boss mats I felt like using on Eternal left over from S3. I’ll say 40 normal kills before I got bored. Had 2 hearts drop.
I’ve had I think 4 or so total ubers drop this season and haven’t been farming them. I’ve done each tormented version once besides Duriel.
Unless you’re waiting for the Andy’s change, Shako is the only one that is gonna feel any different for you, tempering typically outweighs the rest. Heart works well for DW bash too.
It’s been said many times here-Yes, they are neat items, but they are hardly as game breaking/changing as you think they are when you don’t have them. Other than for AoZ 20+ clearing, the most fun I have had with them has been on alts.
