New Western Boss Zero Drop Rate

The zero drop rate sets a bad precedent and is also flat out lazy. Probably the only thing i seriously disliked in what was otherwise a pretty fine patch, but its a major dislike.

I could go on but im sure you guys are already aware of my opinion of this heavy-handed style of balancing so ill just leave it at that.

Edit: This is not a bug, its intentional: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/342398/page/1#p3021279

Edit: Made thread title more descriptive.

No drops? Damn... I guess GGG would say "but ppl are going to farm it...". Which is a bad argument because you can farm Perpetus or the unique in crossroads just as easy.

Maybe make it so he only appears if the quest is not completed, so you can kill him only once and he would have drops. I think Fairgraves works that way?

Yeah I was kinda surprised when I killed him earlier today.

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KoTao написал:

The zero drop rate sets a bad precedent and is also flat out lazy. Probably the only thing i seriously disliked in what was otherwise a pretty fine patch, but its a major dislike.

I could go on but im sure you guys are already aware of my opinion of this heavy-handed style of balancing so ill just leave it at that.

Agreed. The drops from unique can already be piss poor as it is .... a bunch if useless whites if u are unlucky.

Now GGG would fuck us further with a zero drop rate? It seems there is no point to leaving beta feedback because they completely disregard it anyway.... what then is the purpose of this fucking forum? I mean look at the manifesto feedback thread Chris created....we may as well have dumped all out feedback into a big shit pit.... I can't see GGG sifting through that thread to glean nuggets of player wisdom, which presumablely is the purpose of feedback.

What possible reasonable reason could they have for a zero drop one a unique? Yes western forest is a popular xp farming area but as stated u are not garrenteed a decent drop from any unique so why seek to rub our face in it further? WTF GGG? WTF!

I don't understand what the developers are even thinking. The game requires endless farming to get decent gear as it is, and they want to nerf every area that might be decent farming locations? Do they really expect people to be running shrines in blue gear?

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Knight_of_the_Revelation написал:

What possible reasonable reason could they have for a zero drop one a unique?

As kotao pointed out, the same result could have been accomplished with a light handed change. Like: making the canyon longer. Making him spawn farther from the zone reset point. Lowering his drop rate to 60% of what it was before.

Used to be the only way to compete in a 2hr was to rush western as fast as humanly possible and then abuse the hell out of certain features of that map. Including the ebony legion camp at the canyon.

Kotao's the only one who's made a valid point here. To the rest of you: come on folks, this is common sense. If repeating one behavior 500x yields twice the experience rate and better drops, the abuse becomes required. Required abuses should and will be removed from the game. Don't act so surprised. The game's on: who can find the next winning abuse strategy?

But I'm with Kotao. We could be in the business of more reasonable fixes.

What, you want to farm the boss? Shame on you! You want to make the game easy and exploit boss drops to get gear. Off to the grind with you, normal mobs are too good for offenders such as yourselves.
Anyway, if the boss would have drops, you will farm it, get good gear in the end, and what do you know, you'll get bored. GGG knows better...

this has nothing to do with casual play, everything to do with racing constraints forcing particular builds and strategies.

Wow! I get one free passive skill point as the reward for killing the boss and completing the quest!!!!

But I wish I can farm that :(

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THEHORNEDRAT написал:

Wow! I get one free passive skill point as the reward for killing the boss and completing the quest!!!!

But I wish I can farm that :(

Missed the point entirely..... or maybe i misconstrue your sarcasm?