Eternal Orbs

Damn. I've never had an Eternal drop in thousands of hours. And now that may never happen. That makes me a little sad for some reason. Oh well.

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Chris wrote:

At the release of the next Path of Exile expansion after The Awakening

Next full expansion (like Awakening), or next mini-expansion (like Forsaken Masters)?

Nice GGG, Streamers with hundreds of Eternals are MASSIVELY inflating their price now. 50EX+.

/Rant

Why not just replace 1x Eternal with 1x EX...........

well this sucks, they were rare enough as it is... played thousands of hours, on multiple accounts, and all i ever found was 1....

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Pr0m3th3u5 wrote:

well this sucks, they were rare enough as it is... played thousands of hours, on multiple accounts, and all i ever found was 1....

which is why they were impractical to begin with...

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Pr0m3th3u5 wrote:

well this sucks, they were rare enough as it is... played thousands of hours, on multiple accounts, and all i ever found was 1....

4865 Hours here :D

Welcome to RNGHELL

Oh yes, YES! YES! My T2 items on HC leagues will be worth something once again! This! This changes EVERYTHING!

Ha! Guess I should have taken that offer I got yesterday of an eternal for a bow in my shop!

Eternals have been irrelevant for me for my entire time playing PoE. I stick to challenge leagues and have only ever found one -- in a week-long race, of course! Having started playing at v1.0, I've never seen an economy that didn't have eternal orbs in it.

I'm interested to see how their absence changes the distribution of wealth. Without 6-T1 items at the top of poe.trade destroying any potential competition, now anyone could potentially find the best item on the server. Crafting via chaos orb may actually be worthwhile now.

Overall, I'm glad to see GGG is not afraid to make big changes to see how they play out.

Great decision GGG, I am glad to see you had the guts to make a tough call that would upset the top tier of hoarders and mirror/item sellers, while at the same time making things much easier to obtain for everyone else.

I honestly doubt people will dare to use the now-legacy eternals in standard, given that it could flop and result in a huge irreplaceable loss in currency. Whatever eternals people have left, let those just be relics we carry into the next age of POE. It's not like they ever made the game better for most people to begin with.

As for temp leagues, their situation gets even better. Less worries for people trying to min-max their gear while not being the richest becomes a lot simpler and easier to accomplish (granted might have to settle for a T2 or T3 roll instead of all T4/T5). I can live with that from a game standpoint.

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avlee wrote:

Oh yes, YES! YES! My T2 items on HC leagues will be worth something once again! This! This changes EVERYTHING!

Why do you think that? With everyone supposedly naturally rolling items again, won't there be a dramatic increase in supply of second tier items (ie. that life regen roll).

All I see this doing is increasing the price of T1 items further.

I don't care what changes GGG make, but I think people are under the illusion that this will somehow shorten the gap between the rich and poor.

-sigh-

Continuing the GGG approach of "introduce something bad, let it mess everything up, then remove it later"

Maybe if you spent more time on QA and testing instead of this rapid-fire-get-everything-out-the-door-before-it's-ready mind set...