SSF / HCSSF feels dogshit to play

Hope they dont do anything to SSF or SSFHC bias wise.

We choose to play this mode for its challenge and restrictions. Not so we can get some other benefit.

Play trade if these restrictions bother you so much

I hate off-game trading, so I have to play SSF. Having played SSF to maps, I have to say that I also hate SSF in this game.
So either implement an in-game auction house or drastically improve the drops and crafting/gambling. Until then, bye bye.

Yeah it sucks we have to wait 5 years for this crazy new league where they give you a crafting bench. Orb of alchemy is way too rare.

The vendors don't even update their loot every level, it's always every 2 or 3 levels and almost all my good gear was crafted off of that vendor loot since nothing usable really ever drops.

Rings and amulets too rare. Movespeed on boots too rare. Amulets too rare. Jewels too rare. Charm slots being an affix needs to be removed from the game.

I made it to mapping SSF using a god awful blood mage witch using chaos spells on the unplayable lagfest that is using a GTX1070 where most of my deaths are because the game freezes to load new shaders every new enemy so I think I have a right to say the loot quality and ability to craft are far, far too low. I play SSF because I want to have the satisfaction of doing it all myself. Being able to triple the quality of every slot for a few exalts is contrary to enjoyable play.

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Mashgesture#2912 написал:

Hope they dont do anything to SSF or SSFHC bias wise.

We choose to play this mode for its challenge and restrictions. Not so we can get some other benefit.

Play trade if these restrictions bother you so much

I hope they do, because it makes no sense that a trade league player will have the resources to change their gear every act via that plague of a mechanic, while I will likely not be able to change at least 1 piece of gear every act. By that I don't mean swapping out a 15 hp pair of boots with one that gives 20 hp. But rather a bit more meaningful ones, ye?

Having played through self-impossed SSF on trade league, the only solution was one mentioned here as well: have an army of alts running the same content and amass tons of subpar equipment that maybe, just maybe, will prove to be better than whatever each of those alts has.

Exalts and regals drop often enough. Quality materials don't. Alch and Chaos later on don't and jewels? Ugh! Aside from them being rare af they also roll really dumb affixes (akin to %increased phys on Cultist Bows).

Affix weighin needs to be looked at. The impact MF has during the campaign needs to be looked at. The "very rewarding" campaign map bosses need to be looked at.
Essence drops and essence crafting need to be looked at - I'm literally tired of rolling T1 health combo through Essence crafting. Also tired of rolling T1 speed modifiers with that too, regardless of my level and the ilvl of the item I'm craf... gambling with.

GGG will never implement any benefits for SSF mode. And they shouldn't - we chose to play this mode, because trade does not interest us. GGG should implement better tools for players to gear up across all leagues & modes.

Eg.:

* More tiered rare drops which are skewed toward higher rolls (you know the 'tier 2', 'tier 3' rares that drop in maps). Those should have like 10 tiers and start dropping in normal campaign already.

* The economy would not be destroyed if act bosses dropped exalts / regals every time you defeat them

* Actual crafting. Bring back essences & expedition crafting, not these utterly gutted things in PoE 2. Replaceable runes, etc..

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That said; currently one of the best ways to gear up for SSF players is to check vendors every lvl up & gambling.

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morbo#1824 написал:

That said; currently one of the best ways to gear up for SSF players is to check vendors every lvl up & gambling.

That is what irks me. Run all over the place, fight big baddies, small baddies, ugly baddies, very ugly baddies... Pick up trash loot (because loot is not one of the reasons people play arpgs, so it makes perfect sense to be steadily trash, no?). Sell trash loot. Ask one of the npcs to make you poor by surprise-selling you same horrendously bad gear, with atrociously low tier affixes that the monsters drop. Or... make 1000 characters and spam-level so you can spam the merchants.

Again, because obtaining loot from the monsters you kill is not as fun as gambling for your gear. And because it would be unfair toward all the market overlords if we'd all have better drops rates throughout the game.

Tiered rare drops is what I kept asking about here, basically removing or giving T1, T2 and so on affixes a much lower chance to roll on, say, ilvl 40+ gear.

Crafting won't happen. GGG wants us to trade for gear or gamble. So crafting's gonna always be a joke. Again, because if you can craft your gear, you won't trade for it and Path of Trading will die.

So, I think it's reasonable to hope/want for campaign map bosses to always drop better gear than the rest of the monsters (just got 3 blues from Torgul again, or whatever its name is). I think it's also reasonable to hope for advanced gear to not drop sooooo god damn often with trash tier affixes. Ain't too much to ask for, no?

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morbo#1824 написал:

That said; currently one of the best ways to gear up for SSF players is to check vendors every lvl up & gambling.

Good luck getting the Orbs to gamble.

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Mashgesture#2912 написал:

Hope they dont do anything to SSF or SSFHC bias wise.

We choose to play this mode for its challenge and restrictions. Not so we can get some other benefit.

Play trade if these restrictions bother you so much

No, that is not true. A lot of people choose this mode, because they don't want to play in the same game mode than the cheaters, the hide out warriors, the parasites and the ppls that spend real money on gear.

This game has very good graphics and decent gameplay mechnics it would be a shame not to introduce an ultimatetly better SSF mode as the best mode for the majority of (causal-) players, because trade is full of rmters, aswell as people that only play the economy and this just stinks and looks bad all over the place...

I've been playing challenge modes and challenge runs in games for decades.
I play challenge modes for the challenge.
Grinding with a droprate that's balanced around having Rarity isn't a challenge.

I hope this clears it up.

Proposed solutions:
- remove the shit stat that is Rarity
- remove the droprate gutting based on balancing for Rarity
- improve affix weighting on items
- improve affix tier weighting on items based on your character's level

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Fae_Lyth#6750 написал:

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morbo#1824 написал:

That said; currently one of the best ways to gear up for SSF players is to check vendors every lvl up & gambling.

Good luck getting the Orbs to gamble.

Gold? You mean gold? You mean you don't even know the currency and you're judging. You should take a few years off from the internet.