So essentially all you want to do is play one character to get loot for all characters you want to play.
No, as Pietrak said, I don't want to "play one character" and "get loot for all characters."
What I want to do is play ANY character, and have a legitimate shot at getting loot for ANY character. As it stands now, if I want dex gear (including for my followers) I basically have to play monk/DH. I don't want each character to have to go through the gear progression individually. Like I said, Paragon 2.0 was supposed to fix the fact that Paragon 1.0 basically locked us into a single character if we wanted items. But smart drops remove the freedom to play whichever character we want because smart drops are so dominant that you very rarely find items that are of the other primary stats. It's an inside-out system that pushes us back to a system where the character we're playing matters.
We should ALL be free to farm with whichever toon we like. Period. There should not be "if you want int gear, get on a Wiz/WD" or "if you want str gear, get on a barb/crusader" or "if you want dex gear, get on a DH/monk." That's really stupid and it's definitely going to cut into the longevity and enjoyment of the game for many people.
When they first proposed smart drops I thought, max, it'd be around 20% of the time. As it stands now it looks like we're dealing with well over 50%. That is a major problem.
Agreed, smart drops need to be maybe 25% of the time max, preferably down to 20% or so.
I wonder if we should start a thread on the Bnet forums about this?
Seifa - as somebody pointed out to me sometime ago, now I will point the same thing out to you: SmartDrops don't affect the existence of STR/INT Quivers. In order to make such items disappear Blizzard only modified the possible affixes for the items, so we won't be seeing any +INT Mighty Weapons, regardless of SmartDrops. SmartDrops only prioritizes your class-specific stats among the list of possible stats.
Currently on the PTR there are 2 itemization problems: - Small drop rates of legendaries (Blizzard admitted it's too low, though). - Too big frequency of Smart Drops. In my opinion it shouldn't be more than 25% chance for a Smart Drop. Now it looks like it's about 70% - I'll try to do some math here next time I have a long playing session.
I'll defiantly agree with this, the legendary drop rate has felt pretty low, and smart drops should be less than a 1/3 of anything that drops.
I've been playing the PTR since it came out, and I haven't missed trading once. Actually getting decent upgrades on my already pretty nicely geared from live DH feels really good, and it feels even better when you get a legendary you're looking for to drop. IE; I JUST found Kridershot on my DH tonight. It completely changed up my build and I'm having a blast.
The best part? I really wanted to try it out two weeks ago when PTR came out, but I couldn't trade for it obviously, because of BoA. When it dropped, the sense of accomplishment, of what I had earned myself and myself only by actually playing the game and farming, was astounding. Not only do I not miss trading legendaries, I'm glad it's gone. This game might as well have spawned as a phoenix from the ashes for me, in just playing the PTR.
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I've been playing the PTR since it came out, and I haven't missed trading once. Actually getting decent upgrades on my already pretty nicely geared from live DH feels really good, and it feels even better when you get a legendary you're looking for to drop. IE; I JUST found Kridershot on my DH tonight. It completely changed up my build and I'm having a blast.
The best part? I really wanted to try it out two weeks ago when PTR came out, but I couldn't trade for it obviously, because of BoA. When it dropped, the sense of accomplishment, of what I had earned myself and myself only by actually playing the game and farming, was astounding. Not only do I not miss trading legendaries, I'm glad it's gone. This game might as well have spawned as a phoenix from the ashes for me, in just playing the PTR.