I don’t know if I’m only in this situation but the Tree of Whispers on WT4 gives me only Sacred or lower quality of items. Is it works as designed? What is your experience?
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That’s the problem with the loot on WT4.
I felt it was a bad design putting sacred items to drop on WT4 as it is not worth to pick up anyway
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This is their own fault really. Due to level scaling, and the price of everything moving with that scaling - they filled in the gaps with sacred gear. Early in T4 this gives the illusion of rarity with receiving an ancestral, but as you move along and especially in moving through NMD tiers, you’ll find a moderate amount of more ancestral items.
It’s apparent that the issue is that because everything scaled to cost, now you’re playing the gold farming game. A game which is absolutely dull and boring. Holding on to base items that you’ll hopefully find the right affixes for - or a better base than what you have. The small percentage increments make it worse, in that your chances on the RNG of finding a matching piece better than your best piece for base item are very small. Finding one that has all stats higher even smaller. So it’s this constant min/max issue in finding better base, finding better affix - meanwhile sorting all the junk (sacreds and ancestral that are just worse than what you have) for the sake of gold cost on everything else. Including when you do finally get your base and affix upgrades.
Horrible itemization and I can’t think of a worse grind. Despite the naysayers saying things like “Oh, never saw a lesser item drop in another game? hur hur hur”. It’s foolish. Of course we have. It’s the whole experience that’s boring - grinding for a minor increase. Ugh.
As for ToW, it should be dropping only WT items at your tier imo. That’s a grind in itself that should award at-tier items only.
What they can improve is made something like progressive drop range.
Let’s say you are on level 60 running WT4, it should drop ancestral but AT THE LOWEST range (724-730) with a common chance, higher item score CAN Drop but at a very lower chance.
Later on when you at level 70 you can get 730-750ish with 75% drop, 5% drop for 800, 20% drop for 751-xxx.
This way we can have a REAL progression instead of just random looting.
OR alternatively if WT4 can drop sacred make it that it will drop at least higher score from 700-724 minimum.