The grind is not rewarding anymore

[Kobal]

Actually if your are building your XP gear it is two useful stats.

[Anjaeka]

I was under the impression that drops were better once you got to TL 120. Imagine my disappointment.

[CarnivorousDeathParrot.2]

Is it just me or they nerfed the drops a few days into the current season?

I was able to gather a decent Stormcaller set and got a few lvl 76-77 items in a very short time.
Now that I'm regularly beating 120+ TLs, I'm getting mostly lvl 70 gear and fewer set items.

[Skyla]

Amen to this.
"The good ole days" are indeed dead my friend.

[Arawn]

Now this is frustrating... level 77 set item with one useful stat. Almost like an insult lol

[Stusmith50]

Thought it was XP that maxed at 100, and gear at 120??

So much I agree with in this thread. However it just falls on deaf ears. Just look at the storage space, simple fix that is ignored.

[Arawn]

Anjaeka I agree, it would definitely be nice to get some decent drops from time to time

[Anjaeka]

Why does it have to be one or the other? Yes, crafting is better than drops alone, but even crafting is a crap shoot. Now we have all of this new gear that we can’t craft yet. Is it too much to ask to look forward to drops from trials? 99% of what we’re currently getting is going straight to salvage.

[Arawn]

It would be fun to get the occasional good drop, for sure. I always found that exciting. The flip side to getting nothing but junk drops is that now, one can craft whatever they like. In the old days, you farmed trial 200+; two pieces of boss gear were epic and the third was legendary. Hopefully it was a piece you needed and, if so, hopefully it had at least three of the four stats you needed so that at the least you could reroll one of them. Crafting was absolutely worthless. You put three pieces of gear with CD on them in the blender and waited 24 hours... for junk. Never a set or named item and who knows what the other three stats would end up being.

It would definitely be nice to get better drops from time to time, but I think the current configuration has far and away more advantages than the older one. Just my opinion

[Chosen]

To add to this discussion about how bad drops are, players on discord are reporting seeing exact duplicate gear drops across long farming sessions.

Not just one player getting a duplicate item, multiple players getting the exact SAME duplicate item.

This implies that drops come from a shared pre-determined pool instead of being actually random.

Cause a single player getting an exact duplicate is so statistically unlikely it's already absurd (if the gear drops are supposed to be randomised), but different players seeing the exact same item is ludicrous, downright impossible.

Known and quite possibly unrelated issue to the drop rate/quality issue.
https://forum.makingfun.com/forum/et...g-the-triplets

I've made this topic over a year ago, but there are other topics/posts where people are showing multiple duplicates, even across different players.

Edit: There it is https://forum.makingfun.com/forum/et...rop#post142935

[Ubba Lothbrokson]

I've known this for a while (and posted about it).

At one point I had gotten the exact same drop of three pieces a total of 6 times. Two of the three pieces are actually pretty useful and I kept 2 of each which are currently being used.

[Montresor]

Travis that's fair; I'm down with that
Hmm...no thumbs emoji. So... will have to do

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

I was just clarifying for those who may come along and mistakenly read it as fact.

[Montresor]

indeed. as was the post it was a response to. hence the 'cynical', which suggests conjecture.