Smart Drops for God's sake...
rafaelcsmaia
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Like seriously ZOS, you guys cant imagine the frustration of getting useless weapons. A whole trial to get an destructive mage bow? Rewards of the worthy giving out marksman resto staves? Stamina sets dropping magicka weapons and vice versa? As if RNG wasnt bad enough without all of these, this thing is annoying me to the bone!
Is there any REAL intention of implementing smart drops in the feasible future?
@ZOS_GinaBruno
Is there any REAL intention of implementing smart drops in the feasible future?
@ZOS_GinaBruno
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Beesting✭✭✭✭It is a lot smarter now than in 2015, wheh the only way to get a light skoria mask was to join as tank
And you could not trade either so it took me 84 runs to get what i needed..Beesting, Bosmer Magica DK, AD EU, crafter
Slager, Dunmer Magica DK, DC EU, pvp
Farmer, Dunmer Magica DK, AD EU, trials build
Every major patch looks like the end of the world but somehow i just cannot stop playing.1 -
Cpt_Teemo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Better than getting a Defiler Sharp Inferno staff 5x in a row in daily boxes imo lol1 -
Nestor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Even outside of Trials I just love getting Staffs for Stamina Sets and Bows/Greatswords for Magic SetsEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
PakKat "Everything was going well, until I died"
Gary Gravestink "I am glad you died, I needed the help"2 -
Lord_Eomer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Yup..got an automatons inferno sharpened this week. 10/10.
I got all the time ice staff or necropotence bow, spinner maul,
Last drop from Direfrost Keep was Hulk Inferno Sharpen!
Trying to get lighting sharpen vma, moondancer and aethar which never happens
Getting all the time lunar lighting staff even few of them are sharpen!1 -
I understand both sides. RNGs make it so those items are not out and about in an overabundance. I just decon for the mats if I have an abundance of something. It sucks but it makes it a lot more rewarding when you finally get what you wanted. On the flip side, those that role through trials dozens of times and still come up empty handed.....That's more than a grind, that's an obsession and at some point, they just need to hit that jackpot.PS4/NA
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FlyLionel✭✭✭✭Lord_Dexter wrote: »Yup..got an automatons inferno sharpened this week. 10/10.
I got all the time ice staff or necropotence bow, spinner maul,
Last drop from Direfrost Keep was Hulk Inferno Sharpen!
Trying to get lighting sharpen vma, moondancer and aethar which never happens
Getting all the time lunar lighting staff even few of them are sharpen!
That VMA grind...good luck, I still need greatsword/mace sharpened. One day..
And lol...hulking sharpened inferno..The Flyers0 -
LiquidPony✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭RNG is awful in this game for a reason: it's an artificial time-sink to keep people playing (IMO, obviously).
It took me hundreds of Maelstrom runs to get any useful weapons for PvE (sharpened bow, sharpened daggers, sharpened inferno).
I raid constantly. Usually 2 times a night, 4 nights a week. Sometimes more if we pull a group on the weekends. I got one sharpened Infallible Aether Inferno to drop about 8 months ago, and I gave it away because I mained a stam toon at the time. The thing that cracks me up is that I have a great drop-rate on stuff like ... sharpened Infallible Aether daggers, sharpened Vicious Ophidian inferno staves, etc.
No way of knowing exactly but I'd guess I've run ~400 Trials since then and I haven't seen a single sharpened VO dagger, Infal staff, Twice-Fanged dagger, etc. 99.9% of the loot dropped in Trials stays on the ground. I can't even be bothered to pick it up to vendor it.
Hell, last night I got sick of Prosperous drops in ICP so I bought about 1200 key fragments from guild traders and went and hit up the chest in ICP. I got ... one ring of the Scathing Mage. Everything else was useless. Greatswords of the Scathing Mage, Resto staves of Sheer Venom, Shields of the Scathing Mage, a bunch of Prosperous and Training garbage.
I understand that some items should be rare but ZOS went way overboard in that regard. I don't think they know what "QoL" means, and I think they're scared to remove the artificial time-sinks because they believe people will stop playing the game. Which is kind of pathetic, honestly.
One great QoL change that absolutely should be implemented in Trials is to replace the double gold jewelry drop with a double weapon drop on Hard Mode. The jewelry is useless. After you've run Trials a half-dozen times you don't need any more jewelry, it's just vendor trash.4 -
Feanor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭RNG is EXCITING.Main characters: Feanor the Believer - AD Altmer mSorc - AR 50 - Flawless Conqueror (PC EU)Idril Arnanor - AD Altmer mSorc - CP 217 - Stormproof (PC NA)Other characters:Necrophilius Killgood - DC Imperial NecromancerFearscales - AD Argonian Templar - Stormproof (healer)Draco Imperialis - AD Imperial DK (tank)Cabed Naearamarth - AD Dunmer mDKValirion Willowthorne - AD Bosmer stamBladeTuruna - AD Altmer magBladeKheled Zaram - AD Redguard stamDKKibil Nala - AD Redguard stamSorc - StormproofYavanna Kémentárí - AD Breton magWardenAzog gro-Ghâsh - EP Orc stamWardenVidar Drakenblød - DC Nord mDKMarquis de Peyrac - DC Breton mSorc - StormproofRawlith Khaj'ra - AD Khajiit stamWardenTu'waccah - AD Redguard StamplarAll chars 50 @ CP 1900+. Playing and enjoying PvP with RdK mostly on PC EU.1 -
Lavennin✭✭✭ESO can sort of get away with this nonsense, because it's not a game about farming better gear. One of the major reasons D3 was received so poorly was this. Not RNG; RNG is fine. But the poor, unskilled application of RNG.
I can only imagine the frustration of serious PVE-ers. Finding better gear is kind of their main goal here (gear + skill = leaderboard).Edited by Lavennin on June 1, 2017 4:45PM0 -
rafaelcsmaia✭✭✭✭✭
✭I agree that rng is important and a intrinsic trait of mmo rpgs, however having pointless items, like alkosh infernos, which I should have a dozen already, is just depressing. I dont mind farming moondancer if i actually get bad traited weapons, but getting useless weapons is other story1 -
Feanor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The reason ZOS gave for why these items exist is that they can technically proc the 5pc bonus. That way only stuff like an Inferno Staff of the Marksman doesn't drop, but all the other nonsense still is there.Main characters: Feanor the Believer - AD Altmer mSorc - AR 50 - Flawless Conqueror (PC EU)Idril Arnanor - AD Altmer mSorc - CP 217 - Stormproof (PC NA)Other characters:Necrophilius Killgood - DC Imperial NecromancerFearscales - AD Argonian Templar - Stormproof (healer)Draco Imperialis - AD Imperial DK (tank)Cabed Naearamarth - AD Dunmer mDKValirion Willowthorne - AD Bosmer stamBladeTuruna - AD Altmer magBladeKheled Zaram - AD Redguard stamDKKibil Nala - AD Redguard stamSorc - StormproofYavanna Kémentárí - AD Breton magWardenAzog gro-Ghâsh - EP Orc stamWardenVidar Drakenblød - DC Nord mDKMarquis de Peyrac - DC Breton mSorc - StormproofRawlith Khaj'ra - AD Khajiit stamWardenTu'waccah - AD Redguard StamplarAll chars 50 @ CP 1900+. Playing and enjoying PvP with RdK mostly on PC EU.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭The issue is hybrids and the whole play as you want.
Yes, most of us know hybrids have never been competitive for high dps though many do like the builds and in PvP they've had some success. So with hybrids comes weapons the rest of us would never use even if they dropped in sets we want.1 -
BigBragg✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭It seems that the loot tables are falsely weighted to give out junk combinations while maintaining a balance of traits and sets being thrown out. Either that or there are some exceptionally lucky players that always get good drops, and I am never grouped with them nor do they ever show their face in the forums.0 -
Paulington✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭As others have said before me, the "Smart Loot" system is largely misinterpreted.
The system is designed such that you will never get a piece that cannot work with the set's five piece bonus. For example you will never see an Inferno Staff of the Sword Singer, as the five piece bonus adds 400 weapon damage to your Two-Handed abilities. It will only drop in Two-Handed weapons.
Do I believe the system needs adjusting? Sure, but "smart loot" is working as intended.0 -
rafaelcsmaia✭✭✭✭✭
✭Paulington wrote: »As others have said before me, the "Smart Loot" system is largely misinterpreted.
The system is designed such that you will never get a piece that cannot work with the set's five piece bonus. For example you will never see an Inferno Staff of the Sword Singer, as the five piece bonus adds 400 weapon damage to your Two-Handed abilities. It will only drop in Two-Handed weapons.
Do I believe the system needs adjusting? Sure, but "smart loot" is working as intended.
So tell me how i got last week an inferno staff of the marksman?1 -
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Prob the biggest fail I ever lootedEdited by Tryxus on June 1, 2017 6:38PM"Stand strong, stay true and shelter all."
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Sabbathius✭✭✭✭The system is designed such that you will never get a piece that cannot work with the set's five piece bonus. ....
Do I believe the system needs adjusting? Sure, but "smart loot" is working as intended.
Uhhuh. My Spriggan's Inferno Staff begs to differ.1 -
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✭How am I gonna preemptively gear my alts if all the drops fit my main?"As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
Have you seen the Twin Lamps?0 -
rafaelcsmaia✭✭✭✭✭
✭ShedsHisTail wrote: »How am I gonna preemptively gear my alts if all the drops fit my main?
They shouldnt fit the character ure playing, but instead drop weapons acording to the purpose of the set. Just imagine a destruction mastery bow lol0 -
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✭rafaelcsmaia wrote: »ShedsHisTail wrote: »How am I gonna preemptively gear my alts if all the drops fit my main?
They shouldnt fit the character ure playing, but instead drop weapons acording to the purpose of the set. Just imagine a destruction mastery bow lol
Pretty sure they already don't do that...
See Paulington's post above."As an online discussion of Tamrielic Lore grows longer, the probability of someone blaming a Dragon Break approaches 1." -- Sheds' Law
Have you seen the Twin Lamps?0 -
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✭✭✭"Smart" loot needs so many adjustments, it's ridiculous.
Yes, the whole no Destro staff for things like Sword Singer is fine and all but really, at least expand that to other sets that are CLEARLY intended for a specific playstyle. Don't give Ice Staves of the Sun, Bows of Netch's Touch, etc. because, while it is technically possible to use these set items, it's not practical to do so.Argonian forever0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Silver_Strider wrote: »"Smart" loot needs so many adjustments, it's ridiculous.
Yes, the whole no Destro staff for things like Sword Singer is fine and all but really, at least expand that to other sets that are CLEARLY intended for a specific playstyle. Don't give Ice Staves of the Sun, Bows of Netch's Touch, etc. because, while it is technically possible to use these set items, it's not practical to do so.
The Automaton's Restoration Staff in my bank suggests they didn't go far enough.0 -
Ferrofluid✭✭✭Considering how much they're pushing hybrids, this is never going to happen...a.k.a. Aps0 -
LiquidPony✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Sabbathius wrote: »The system is designed such that you will never get a piece that cannot work with the set's five piece bonus. ....
Do I believe the system needs adjusting? Sure, but "smart loot" is working as intended.
Uhhuh. My Spriggan's Inferno Staff begs to differ.
That's not what "Smart Loot" was supposed to address and that doesn't refute what Paulington said.
You can equip that Spriggan's Inferno Staff on a bar and have a skill that calculates mitigation using physical resistance on the same bar (e.g., Dawnbreaker or Rearming Trap).
"Smart Loot" means you shouldn't be able to get a Greatsword of the Spider Cultist Cowl (the 5-piece bonus is a bonus to Destruction Staff abilities, meaning it cannot be procced if you're using a weapon other than a Destro staff), and you shouldn't be able to get a Mace of Destruction Mastery (the 5-piece bonus gives max magicka when you have a Destro staff equipped, meaning it cannot be procced if you don't have a Destro staff equipped).
The loot drops in this game are dumb as a box of rocks but the "Smart Loot" system does exactly what the patch notes said it would do.1 -
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✭A bit outdated, but still relevant today (sadly)
https://youtu.be/Myq2ZLQ5TmE Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.0 -
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✭✭✭rafaelcsmaia wrote: »Paulington wrote: »As others have said before me, the "Smart Loot" system is largely misinterpreted.
The system is designed such that you will never get a piece that cannot work with the set's five piece bonus. For example you will never see an Inferno Staff of the Sword Singer, as the five piece bonus adds 400 weapon damage to your Two-Handed abilities. It will only drop in Two-Handed weapons.
Do I believe the system needs adjusting? Sure, but "smart loot" is working as intended.
So tell me how i got last week an inferno staff of the marksman?
@rafaelcsmaia if you were running some weird hybrid build where you had a bow on one bar and an destro staff on the other, it is possible that you'd still want the reduced stamina cost when you have the destro equipped. The 5-piece bonus is still (partially) usable regardless of what weapon you have equipped.0 -
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✭There is a reason for stam sets dropping in mag and other way around.
Ultimates scale of highest ress pool0 -
Mettaricana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I would love to see a zos dev actually reply to this to hear the lousy answer0
