Pre 2.0, I was getting far more legendary drops than I am now. I was getting 2-3 legeendaries per run before on the Barb, granted I was running MP10 with high Paragon levels. A run took like 20 minutes.
Now, I am lucky to get 3-4 a night in 4 hours.
And smart loot isn't so smart. I had great gear pre 2.0 and have found upgrades only for things that are eHP slots or need a single "random" roll. Shoulders, bracers, and boot basically. I did get lucky and found a quadfecta ring, but it doesn't have main stat (because it can't...).
If you were running that before you're the .1% of D3. I can't even imagine the amount of time and luck and cost in gold at the AH required to get a character's gear good enough for that prior to the revamping of the loot system.
I never said smart rolls increased legendary drop rates. I'm saying that smart rolls made drops significantly better. On my level 60 monk, for all the hours put into that on vanilla D3 long before the 2.0 loot patch, I don't recall ever finding a legendary. Maybe 1 or 2 that were garbage while leveling. Worse, I only ever found a couple rare items that had great rolls for my class. It was terrible and sucked all the fun out of the game. Anyone who wanted decent gear for their class was funneled straight into the auction house. It didn't make much sense to play the game itself so I stopped entirely.
edit - You might be mixed up playing D3 post 2.0, but thinking that RoS was when 2.0 loot started?
They DID change the legendary drop rate. I was lucky if I found 1-2 legendary items a week (Playing 2 hours a day typically). I find one every 1-2 hours now, sometimes two in a single hour.
Sure if you had a ton of MF gear it would have helped you a lot. but MF was also changed in 2.0.1, and if you notice, you don't find gear with MF on it anymore.
The point is you no longer need MF gear in order to find good gear. You can just play with the gear that gives the best DPS/Toughness for however you play. This is overall a very good thing for the vast majority of players.
Why are you using a 1H weapon with no shield? A shield can greatly increase your toughness and DPS. Otherwise a lot of your gear just needs to be upgraded, weapon is decent. Just play and upgrade as you find things.
Sure it's good for people who didn't play very much. But it makes no difference for the rest of us. I now have the same exact drop rate and no way to complete sets other than praying for drops.
You're situation is the exception, not the rule. You don't seem to be understanding that.
Sure it's good for people who didn't play very much. But it makes no difference for the rest of us. I now have the same exact drop rate and no way to complete sets other than praying for drops.
Drop rate is heavily realized through the rate in which monsters are killed, and people who play a lot will streak along the probability spectrum and still get the best gear, like the people on diablo progress who are already at 1 million dps+ while I am (self-buffed) at 400k and happy enough to be farming torment 1. Playing longer is still beneficial - more opportunities for better gear. So I disagree that those who didn't/don't play very much are somehow in the same ballpark - they were not, and still are not.
My previous post was a response to Desura's comment regarding the real money auction house, and I, for one, am ecstatic that it is gone.
And darkwaffle, the drop rates did replace the AH, at least for the casuals. Now casuals won't be using real money any more to try to chase people who powergame, and can get fairly decent upgrades by themselves, without fuelling powergamers who sold gold/items on the side. The timesink you mention (about finding the "right" items) was there before too, because of those massive prices on the AH (so people either had to farm the gold, or buy it).
As I see it, now the focus is on playing the game to find items, rather than getting the wallet out to buy them. And for those saying that they don't get legendaries for 6 hour play periods or longer - perhaps you're really, really unlucky. My wizard has craptastic gear, and I still get a few legendaries within a few hours of play time here and there.
Any wizzy found a thunderfury yet? I want one so bad -_-
What is the drop rate for sets? I have found a lot of legendaries since ROS, but not a single set item. Are sets just really hard to find?
Drop rate is heavily realized through the rate in which monsters are killed, and people who play a lot will streak along the probability spectrum and still get the best gear, like the people on diablo progress who are already at 1 million dps+ while I am (self-buffed) at 400k and happy enough to be farming torment 1. Playing longer is still beneficial - more opportunities for better gear. So I disagree that those who didn't/don't play very much are somehow in the same ballpark - they were not, and still are not.
My previous post was a response to Desura's comment regarding the real money auction house, and I, for one, am ecstatic that it is gone.
And darkwaffle, the drop rates did replace the AH, at least for the casuals. Now casuals won't be using real money any more to try to chase people who powergame, and can get fairly decent upgrades by themselves, without fuelling powergamers who sold gold/items on the side. The timesink you mention (about finding the "right" items) was there before too, because of those massive prices on the AH (so people either had to farm the gold, or buy it).
As I see it, now the focus is on playing the game to find items, rather than getting the wallet out to buy them. And for those saying that they don't get legendaries for 6 hour play periods or longer - perhaps you're really, really unlucky. My wizard has craptastic gear, and I still get a few legendaries within a few hours of play time here and there.
I think they should have given the Mystic the ability to reroll a legendary. They could have made it a one time thing per item, or made the resource costs extremely high, but the feeling of getting the legendary you've been waiting for only to see that it sucks is a gut punch for sure.
Set pieces only drop in T1 or higher now.
Except, the removal of the AH isn't needed. If people want to buy items for money (RL or in game), that doesn't change how people who don't choose to buy items play. Especially now with 2.0. You can still find all your items, and legendaries, on your own. However, those who already have found the bulk majority of their end game items now get to wait and pray that that one marginal upgrade drops, and the hundreds (if not thousands) of items they get between then and now are absolutely worthless. They completely removed 100% of the community aspect of the game. Every piece of gear you find that you can't use, is salvage. Doesn't matter how good it is, it is salvage. Had they simply done loot 2.0 and left everything else the same (No BoA garbage and not removing the AH), the game would be identical, except those that wish to "powergame" or substitute real life money for time could continue and all of those that wish to be self found can do that as well.
I think I understand it quite well. I simply think the drop rate or legendaries should be raised.
Removal of the AH was 1000% needed. It never should have been there to begin with. I cannot think of a single valid argument for it to be there. The way that people played the game when it was there was vastly different than how it should have been. And this is the same reason the vast majority of people complained when it was first announced.
No, not necessarily. I did a lot of bounty runs on normal to farm the cache (reward for completing all bounties in that act) legendaries. Each cache has some legendaries that only drop from that act's cache and normal is the most efficient way to farm it (especially split farming). After around 30, I got the ring I was farming. It wouldn't have made sense, in the spirit of efficiency, to have rifts open and it wouldn't have made sense, in the spirit of farming, to open them in normal difficulty. With that said, I have like 250 rift shards, so them accidentally opening on certain occasions isn't a huge deal.Since I haven't beaten Mal yet, could someone explain to me the issue with accidental openings of portal rifts?
As seen in this thread, http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12330873153, there've been a lot of complaints of accidentally opening rifts.
My question is: If you're doing adventure mode and bounty runs, aren't you going to open the rift anyway? Why would someone be upset they opened up the rift?
Set pieces only drop in T1 or higher now.