in 0.4 the loot pool is now too big, meaningful items don't ever drop!

I have been holding off on writing this for a while to see if things change, but they have not. The loot pool is just too big and this means that people can go for extreme amounts of time before getting meaningful items. I am not sure why it has manifested now but I NEVER get any drops that my character needs or can use. And I don't mean upgrades, I mean any base type that I am searching for. It has reached extreme levels of insanity. But now some details...

At first I thought I was just having bad luck in the campaign. I was rarely finding items but I did find a few. But I finished the campaign with all of my resists except fire negative. Why, because I hardly dropped any items or runes that I was able to use during the campaign. For runes I had slotted in two and I had 4 other lessers (3 of which were mana) and three mid tier runes in my stash. This is after playing the campaign for 18 hours. So I went to the trade site and upgraded my gear.

But this is not the end of it, since I started maps I have about 30 more hours of playtime. In this time I have not dropped a single pure amour shield and only a handful of pure armor items all boots. Normally by now I have two quad tabs completely full of crafting projects. But not this league, I have 0 items that is 0 after 30 hours of play in my stash. No crafting projects, no items waiting to be recombinated, nothing and I have crafted nothing. Every single piece of gear on my character has come from the trade site.

I am finding items and getting drops I find plenty of hybrid str/int and str/dex gear but nothing that is pure strength which is the gear I need to progress my character. So this makes me think that there are just too many items in the drop pool. This means that players can get drops but they can go hundreds of maps and tens of hours without ever getting a drop they can use.

I do not know the reason, I just know the symptoms and this needs fixed.

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randomstring123#2962 wrote:

I am finding items and getting drops I find plenty of hybrid str/int and str/dex gear but nothing that is pure strength which is the gear I need to progress my character.

This is purely RNG. I needed str/int gear but hardly found anything, but filled the guild stash with all other types. It eventually got better, but holy shit that was annoying.

However, I think the main problem is not that you sometimes get unlucky about dropping the gear type you need, but that gear drops in general are usless 95%+ of the time and that you don't get even remotely enough crafting currency or white or magic bases to craft your own. It's almost always better to simply buy stuff from the market for 1 ex than slamming it on an item.

Maybe they should Add the info to the Game" In this Game You cant Upgrade Your Gear from Loot nor by Killing Mobs and Bosses" like in other Games". Than the People dont waste there time trying to find Stuff that you anyways cant find by Killing Monsters.

At this point I see the word "meaningful" in a PoE 2 thread and start laughing. The word has been ruined forever, thanks devs!

You need to wait until all classes and weapon types - axes, swords and flails, get released. Then the real fun will begin!