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vold316
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I started playing NW when OB was released, I have enjoyed it a lot, specially the foundry. Although, one of the things that bother me about the game is that the so called uncommon items are not uncommon at all. After playing for half an hour or so, I have to go straight to the vendor because my backpacks are full of "uncommon" (green) items. Before that I sell the items I always check if one of them offer an improvement to my characters, if so I equip it, otherwise I just vendor it for a few silver or copper.
This bothers me not only because of having to clean the backpacks every few minutes, but because they are so common that I do not get excited at all when I get one of those items, because they are trash. Well, I know that the items that are meant to make us happy are the epics (purple) and maybe the rares (blue) too.
My point is, I am tired of farming green items. If the drop chance would be reduced I'd greatly appreciate it, it would not only let me keep playing without worrying about the backpack (which is probably what PWE wants because they sell backpacks for zen), but what would really matter for me is that it would make it worth it to loot an uncommon item, maybe not because of their stats but because of that they will feel uncommon.
Something not related to this topic that I would like to mention is that I enjoy it much more when the items get dropped from chests than from the actual mobs. Maybe you could look into that as well, because I have not seen many chests to loot in the dungeons.
This bothers me not only because of having to clean the backpacks every few minutes, but because they are so common that I do not get excited at all when I get one of those items, because they are trash. Well, I know that the items that are meant to make us happy are the epics (purple) and maybe the rares (blue) too.
My point is, I am tired of farming green items. If the drop chance would be reduced I'd greatly appreciate it, it would not only let me keep playing without worrying about the backpack (which is probably what PWE wants because they sell backpacks for zen), but what would really matter for me is that it would make it worth it to loot an uncommon item, maybe not because of their stats but because of that they will feel uncommon.
Something not related to this topic that I would like to mention is that I enjoy it much more when the items get dropped from chests than from the actual mobs. Maybe you could look into that as well, because I have not seen many chests to loot in the dungeons.
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"The harder the game, the better."
"The harder the game, the better."
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(Uncommon/Rare/etc, as in most games of the last decade, is an indication of quality rather than actual rarity. And yeah, green items tend to be either general personal upgrades or vendor trash. Nothing new there either. /shrug)
yeah but what really tickles my goat is that i find less "common" items than uncommon items.
That statement still misses the point of the problem. The problem is that finding an "uncommon" item should give some sort of thrill that it just doesn't have because there are too many. it doesn't feel like you have found anything cool when you find an uncommon item , it's just another item at that point.
Hmm. It may be "just another item", but considering how incredibly rare it is to find a blue (outside boss drops in dungeons), green is all you're going to expect. So I see them as meaningful & useful loot. /shrug
edit: I identify and check anything that the character I'm on can equip, as well as all the torso armor (to see if it's an interesting arrangement of armor variations, for one of my other alts to dress up with). Also don't have much in the way of bag problems - I stop by vendors with reasonable frequency, and mail all the enchants & runes to a couple of mules I leveled up.
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"The harder the game, the better."
The only benefit from green drops is that we can sell them as trash for some gold. The game would be much better if the monsters would drop gems or materials for professions and then sell them for gold.
It feels like a senseless "uncommon" items overflow.
Explain to me, why would I get an uncommon item when killing a wolf? Stop this nonsense, it really kills the spirit of games like this.
"The harder the game, the better."
Clearly you didn't read the post.
"The harder the game, the better."
I think the best way to deal with this is add a system that lets you disenchant/disassemble items to get enchants and/or crafting materials. That would create a sink for the abundance of green and even blue drops, as well as give them a purpose beyond being vendor trash. It would also raise the value of the ones that actually get sold in the AH.
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Alternatively to just giving straight up enchants/crafting mats, disenchanting an item could give some other kind of resource that doesn't exist in the game yet. Call it "arcane dust" or whatever. Large enough quantities of this could then be used to improve the quality rating (+1, +2, etc) of existing items.
Right now, those +x ratings don't seem to have any mechanical meaning or purpose. They're just randomly present on some items and seem to just get higher with higher level requirement, without actually having any effect on the stats themselves.