 | I LOVED THIS BLUE POST(1) | Category: GeneralNovember-2-2013 1:10 AM PDT (9 years ago)  |
Smart drops will also affect the types of items that drop for your hero, not just the stats on them. So, basically: if you're getting a smart drop, both the item type and the stats on the item itself will be tailored towards your class. As Neva noted, though, items only have a chance to be a smart drop, so you may still see some one-off mighty belts and voodoo masks here and there. Significantly less than before, though. I loved this post when I saw it. Items only have a chance to be a smart drop. If you're getting a smart drop. You won't. I Love it. Way to half-!@# an update intended for overhauling the entire game. Brilliant. Old, game ruining habits die hard, way to stick to your guns Blizzard. I can't say I'm surprised, I actually got enough of a laugh that I felt I had to realistically define this to the community. Too chicken-$%^- to follow through with an itemization change that would be 100% beneficial to the player without wasting our time. Classic D3 dev team. Did they let Jay Wilson back on the team?!?!?! KNEW IT. You're gonna be grinding the same places, getting the same $%^-, all day long well after RoS comes out. For anyone that is completely fed up with Blizzard's BS half-assery, play Path of Exile. It's the Diablo 3 that the world deserves. Always new updates every 2 weeks at least. The game has 3 acts already and it's being planned for 10 ACTS! I was skeptical at first but damn, after playing PoE I can't BELIEVE I paid $60 for this bright, shiny turd. GOD, I was swindled. Think about it, when you DO find a legendary, 99% of the time, it's absolute garbage. NOW you MIGHT get a SMART DROP YA'LL! Ooooooo!! CAN'T WAIT. I've seen a multitude of posts where people clocked their time in between legendary drops that were actually worth a damn at 700 HOURS! The first blue that sees this is going to delete this post, but if even one person reads this before hand, I'll be satisfied. | ||
 | I LOVED THIS BLUE POST(4) | November-2-2013 1:57 AM PDT (9 years ago) |
The first blue that sees this is going to delete this post, but if even one person reads this before hand, I'll be satisfied. There's no reason to delete it. However, there is reason to counter the caustic (and slightly unfounded) assertions made within. The rationale behind making smart drops a chance rather than a guarantee is two-fold. The primary goals are: a) give players the opportunity to find off-class drops so that they can share them with other characters on their accounts as well as friends and followers, and b) improve the overall item hunt, yes, but still maintain the innate randomness that's core to Diablo itemization. If all drops were smart drops, the pool of possible items for your character would narrow significantly. Instead, we're working to strike a good balance between smart drops and normal drops so that you're not starved for upgrades, but also not overly full of them either. You seem to forget that they're also tuning the variance of item rolls. Excellent point. I went into a bit more detail here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10388638968?page=3#52 | ||
