One week and my forward progress has been at a snails pace given this piss poor luck with RNG that I’m having (same junk crap dropping over and over again). Some legendary plans finally dropped such that I was able to craft some slots to at least get some miniscule set bonuses from them (individually, they weren’t that big of an improvement over the rares I had). I also took an eHP hit using a Unity ring I found (primarily for the elite damage bonus which I’m lacking).
This is a little over 100 hours now at level 70.
Drop rate quality is the issue because it really looks like there are bugs with the smart loot system (where it seems to loop with consecutive drops of the same item). It’s also common with Kadala; I’m on my 6th Triumvirate now. And it would not surprise me if this code was buggy given just how many problems there are (with things not working as intended).
I’m trying to gamble for a Myken’s or Mirrorball and besides a Winter Flurry, it’s been all Triumvirates; each one actually an upgrade over the previous. I’m not complaining about the upgrade part – the issue is with this pattern of the exact same items dropping before it breaks out of that loop. I can’t even experiment with other builds when those game changing items don’t even drop (or the uninspiring slot machine known as Kadala is going through the same looping).
With that said, hardly any class specific legendaries (like wands and sources) have dropped (not even going to even begin to talk about sets) I’m not the only one stuck on the bad luck side of the spectrum judging by a few threads I’ve seen over on the forums.
There was even one idiotic topic telling others with poor RNG that it’s a l2p issue (it’s not; Diablo III doesn’t take much game play skills and what drops is all a matter of pure luck). I even notice I get the same rifts over and over again (none have been a goblin rift either).
Thus it really looks like it will indeed take me hundreds of hours to get even geared in any class specific set items for just this one character. But before I can even do that, I’m not even equipped with non-crafted legendary items in all slots.
And there is a point which I’m getting close to reaching where I am not going to invest the time and fall for this development teams idea of longevity. It doesn’t make sense to pour a lot of time into a game that has so many layers of RNG in it, where your entire forward progress is left up to chance.
How this development team can turn what was supposed to be a promising expansion like this into something absolutely shitty, boggles the mind.
