Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Aug 31
st, 2020 at 1:34pm:
I mean, you’ve got to have the sun, moon and all the stars lined up to get effects with any amount of synergy,
SSG knows only 3 ways to give things to players:
1. Paywall(not used for anything that could be seen as an 'advantage' like loot, because 'P2W')
2. HUGE grindwall(used for anything halfway decent)
3. RNG with odds so low only confirmation bias makes anyone believe getting something is possible.
The entire concept of working for something and then getting it is largely lost to them:
SSG Dev: "Wait... so... you're saying, if a player does X a set number of times, they should receive Y?"
Common Sense: "Yep, and X should be predictable and attainable without playing the game like a second job."
SSG Dev: "I don't understand."
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Aug 31
st, 2020 at 1:34pm:
I mean what’s the point of having one of those new thaumaturgic staffs if it’s ML8 with stats you can craft on ML5?
IN THEORY, the loot progression should look something like:
Starter Gear --> Rangen Gear --> Crafted Gear --> Named Gear --> Raid Gear
In
practice, the odds of getting useful rangen gear are next to none and crafting is so time and resource-intensive that you'll hit cap long before you can make a lvl 12 item. The most efficient way to gear a character is to play naked until you get named items.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Aug 31
st, 2020 at 1:34pm:
The only real good to come out of the latest rangen overhaul was to add double augment gear back into the loot tables...which again are really only useful when blanked for crafting. Unless they also unraveled some of their shittastic spaghetto code in the process, everything else they did in this last pass has been pretty much a waste of time.
/Agree
Rangen loot needs to synergize and drop with enough consistency to work as a useful placeholder. Every item doesn't have to be best-in-slot for every build, but everything SHOULD synergize at least with itelf(such as Con+insightful Con+false life all on the same item EVERY TIME). Otherwise its not even worth looking at.