Fix the damn drops that is all i ask now

[kokonut]

I have had no real luck with the two normal runs i started.

First run was a melee fighter and every blue item was either a blue letter to make an artifact or staves while i wanted to only be a melee fighter.

Second run not much better, using staves because i wanna be a ranged fighter but i am receiving blue melee items or green items of no real value.

The only way i helped myself was to buy stuff out at the merchants.

I am disgusted really because it is breaking the fun in the game. All those tons of items you could get and you either get crappy ones or items that just does not help you really.

The game just gives you the opposite of what you need. Instead a building your character you end up having to loot every darn corner of a map in hopes to get a better item just to try to improve it just a bit. I think i will not even bother to try to play this game on epic and legendary because at this point it's not fun. My only drive is to get jacked up masteries at the moment, other than that, the drops don't help me much..it's like expecting to win the lottery and you only end up winning a free ticket on the one you just bought, not much of an improvment if you ask me.

I would have believed one run with bad drops you know, but i have played two runs now and i can see that the drop system does not work properly.

The drop system is seriously messed up because why after two runs i am still getting the complete opposite of what my fighter needs...

It's like the game sees what type you are and says : HE! HE! screw you! you ain't getting what you need!!!

And you are just like arrrgggghhh....whats the point of playing this cool game if the technical sides of things is so messed up all the times...

peace

[Infares]

Getting items that don't fit your character is why you have a transfer area in your stash.

Considering your history of complaining endlessly about various things, I'm kinda doubting the urgency of this thread.

I've gotten so many uniques with my Conjurer I'm running out of places to put them.

And doing a couple runs and using that as conclusive evidence that the drops are effed proves your impatience. Do 100 runs instead, record every green appearance, every monster infrequent, and every unique (blues and purples) and come back here and post your results.

Not willing to? Then kindly stfu.

This may sound harsh coming from me, and I don't mean it in a mean way per se, but I'm seriously thinking you need to put a little more research into your findings before you come here and post a bitchfest demanding Iron Lore to "fix" the drops when we still haven't had an answer to the rubber band snapping evident in Immortal Throne yet.

Please accept this criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. I'm not flaming you or anything, just cutting the crap and being honest.

[SoulSeekkor]

I fully agree with every point Infares made. I will add that the majestic chest drops and boss drops are strangely horrid, but everything else has been absolutely great and makes up for it...I have been selling my greens and have no room for my epics I've found so many already, and it'll only get better when I get to Epic and further into Hades. If you don't like your two (ehh) runs...then quit wasting time doing them and just play the game, it's more enjoyable that way anyway.

Boss drops later...performance issues now.

[Cironir]

When I swept through Epic Orient with my pet-centric Ritualist, I found literally dozens of green items. Some blues, too. Early in Epic Greece, she found two legendary swords. She's gotten various formulas as well. Most of the items came from trash mobs, not from boss chests. A lot of the boss chests don't drop well for my Ritualist, but then again, I open plenty of them and it's easy to forget the good ones over the dashed hopes. Below is a screenshot of the chest at Cerberus that my Guardian opened in act4/normal. That wasn't a bad chest at all!



I agree that perhaps the chests of first-time end boss kills should drop better than they currently do, but that is the only tweak feel might be "needed". I put "needed" in quotation marks because I am not unhappy with the current situation and can't complain about drops overall. I certainly like how trash mobs drop now, and I do not want a situation where you have to run bosses to have a decent chance to get any worthwhile items. I prefer slaying hundreds or thousands of trash mobs over running the same boss countless times.

[Poinas]

I made FOUR runs from the guy that asks you to save his horse all the way to helos and didn't get a thing! Fix the drops I say, and fix them fast!

[kokonut]

My point is that i want the game to be more interesting to me than just hack and slash. I want the game to give me something to figure out from a strategy view point.

Example: I got this blue item that does this and that and another blue item that does this and that now wich one should i use to jack up my dude properly and effectivly.

But i ain't having luck so i can't really use this in the game. The only strategy that i gotta figure out is when i get to a merchant and make sure i have enough gold to buy this new staff to help me out.

I am not asking a blue drop from every single bone pile or coffer but i would like to see more items from the game and see what they can do.

Ironlore said that the games contains hundreds of items, do you have to play the game over and over a hundred times to see those items?

From my point of view and from what i have played so far green and blue items are so rare that you would need to play this game a long darn time to at least some of the decent content of the game.

When i play i get drops but drops that are opposite to my character..when i said run i should have said i started the game 2 times instead of saying run or farming telkines.

I truly love this game , i do , i love the graphics even tough they are hard on my pc...i got a new vid card and a new monitor so it ain't as bad as it used to be so i am gonna STFU on that.

But i would like to see better drops. I killed the egyptian telkine and never got a blue item and plenty of gold. I would actually like to see less gold and more unique items in the game. Even if the items go up in really really small increments that you be nice.

peace!

[Paradox]

Originally Posted by kokonut

Ironlore said that the games contains hundreds of items, do you have to play the game over and over a hundred times to see those items?

I agree with this.. I didn't want to play the game over and over, mainly because I can't stand doing the same thing over and over.. it would have been nice to find some unique rares when I first played the game, I think the best thing I found was like, Obsidian Helm, I mean come on, where's the item sets, bosses should grant at *least* 1 purple item.. not everyone wants to farm bosses 50 times before they get an item they want.. I just wanted to play through the game once, have fun and find some cool items along the way.

Well i'm back now with IT and playing through the whole game again into IT with a new character.. maybe i'll have some better luck. I was hoping for the unique item multiplier mod to work for IT, then I wouldn't worry about finding uniques as I would set the modifier to x3, but alas it's not updated yet.

[Paratestes]

I can empathize with this to an extent, too. The first time I played TQ, I was at the end of Greece before I saw my first blue item -- then I started a new character and had 4 blue drops by the time I was lvl 9! As a repeat player, I can appreciate this kind of randomness -- especially when there's an easy way to transfer items to the characters who can use them. But I can see how this could frustrate a casual player, who just wants to have a good time without running the same boss over and over again.

There could be a compromise, though: the next patch could tweak the major bosses to drop at least one blue or purple item (as appropriate) on the first encounter in each difficulty level (i.e., when the quest is still active). This would be like in Diablo II, where Mephisto was always good for a gold unique the first time. Subsequent runs would have just the current probability for drops. That should keep the casual players happy (they would be guaranteed at least 3-4 blues on normal) while keeping runs worthwhile. If TQ already has a first-time bonus, then maybe it should be adjusted to be a little more generous?

I don't see how this would unbalance the game at all, especially when the first satyr archer outside of Helos can give me the Ram's Bow...

[Infares]

Firstly, "Paratestes" is the funniest name on the forum. Maybe his girl can log on here as "Parabreasteses" or something

Secondly, to kokonut:

Did you actually read the big ol' post I made up there? You're frustrated because it's a part of your basic nature to be frustrated. That has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with you. I guarantee there's many things in your life that give you frustration and those are just as irrelevant to this forum as the whole drops thing. Do you even have Immortal Throne? The drops are apparently different in normal TQ than in Immortal Throne. What level character are you using to try for drops? If your character is below level 30 you need to chill, your level is the most important factor in whether or not you get drops at all. Greens have literally dropped for me once every ENCOUNTER and uniques are probably dropping once every 10ish encounters. That's a lot more than what you're reporting.

Just wait for S_L to come back and update TQA or wait for SS to get ahold of Raven or give the coding for Hades/Haphaestus over to bman654 and get drop mods added to Defiler if you're still adamant about this. If you're not trying to farm with a level 30+ character, just spend more time playing and less time bitching kthx. >.>;

[kokonut]

I would not complain about the drops if epic and legendary would be new content in the game but from what i read it is not, just the same game jus harder....mmmm can you feel a sense of deja vu going on. I am the type that plays a game once then put it aside for another one..unless it is something like unreal where you can have different battles any time of the day...

i played the first diablo some time ago and honestly i would not replay it because i have done the story what would be the point of going back and hack and slash your way in just to get puny items again. The acts should have been defined as so....greece = normal egypt =epic babylon =legendary and olympus = ( whatever intelligent thing you can say here) ,that would have made more sense.

it was like the makers of the game were telling people that normal ain't that good, that the real game starts at epic and legendary...i would have went and said DAH! then what is the use of doing normal then.

i dunno...i complain a lot because there is stuff to complain about with this game...

it's like they say with world of warcraft...life starts at level 40...before that your life pretty much sux....you know what....it's damn true..i have and am playing wow but less now... i was in world of warcraft a lot recently..i was a newbie to the game....loved it, found it incredible and addictive and promising ...then i hit a brick wall on the leveling side of things, i am around level 18 and my xp is rising so slow that i just put the game aside in disdain and said to myself :

"what is the use....it's gonna take me forever to get to a decent level to get the goodies in the game and i always suck because where i am at in thegame all the NPC's around me are far more superior than me but i have no choice but to be in this area cause i ain't getting any xp from where i used to be located so i had to move on here..."

this is just another example of in game mechanics that can really ruin a game for some type of people...

wish the dev would pay more attention to these kind of factors before dishing out their game....

not a lot of people want to raid the same thing a hundred times over just to get a level in WOW or in the case of TQ, a blue item....

my rant for this moment in time.