The ruthless visions of no rewards. It's all 0.2 again baby.

We're so back!
Hated the great droprates of exalts and greater exalts in 0.3? Annoyed by how you could play around with skills because greater and perfect jewellers were dropping left and right? Felt it was too easy to actual crafting based around game knowledge with homo slams? Absolutely despised how you could make that rare prized perfect exalt drop actual count for something?

Fret not, we got rid of all of that again. We're back to the slot machine baby. And in 0.2 style we have issued a league wide currency draught. Ever wanted to know how it feels to gamba away your minimum wage income on slots trying to hit it big? Then this league is for you.
No more abyss nonsense, being rewarding and all that shit. We have now the temple. It takes a mere 6 maps to get a shot at a mechanic that requires you to set up a convoluted labyrinth, all gamba based of course, which may or may not reward you. Let's not kid ourselves, we made it so that after clearing that whole thing you will get jack all for your efforts. Well, not jack all, you'll get a bunch of medallions helping you to set up even more labyrinth, so it takes even more effort to get nothing.

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Okay, but on a serious note. The currency droprates are abysmal. Idk did they forget to up the droprates when they lowered monster density? 40 hours in and I have got 0 annuls, 0 divs, 0 greater or perfect regals/exalts/chaos, probably like 30 or so exalts drops and 15 chaos. My rarity isn't the best, it's at 70% but still. This is atrocious.

The temple is so unrewarding it's insane. Once every 6 maps you get a shot at placing random pieces in a somewhat random pattern and have to run it for like 15 minutes and none of it gives rewards. Like siltch. Nada. My last template I just quit halfway through after a one of those commanders boss guys dropped me a regal shard and an artificer orb. Waste of time.

It's 0.2 droprates all over again. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Am I just incredibly unlucky or do others share this experience?

Its not as bad as 0.2

0.2 I was farming xesht without having found a perfect jewellers.
0.4 I had 2 before reaching t10 maps.

but I am noticing some disappointing drops. (Eg, non-juiced map boss drops less than the rare mobs in same map)

Temple does feel lackluster in endgame. "Wow, 30 high level armed soldiers were protecting a bench with 1 whole regal orb!" I'm wondering if this is from how long its taking to get the temple into a juicy state, which is an issue all its own.

The league crafting from abyss carried 0.3 in many ways. Not having that in every zone and having an undercooked league is hurting for sure. I'm pretty sure they'll fix this.. the only question is are we waiting a week for a patch before xmas or is this gonna happen next year.

Reporting in: Got my first greater exalt.

Yeah, you are right, abyss still exists but it's a lot rarer to encounter and hence the items from there are so too. Last league Omen of light was like 5-6 divs a pop or so. I wonder what it will be this season. The removal of the homogenization Omens is also really painful. Especially since getting a perfect exalt made it so that using it for a well placed homo slam could provide with a deterministic outcome. Now it's just gamba again I guess. Imagine finally getting that perfect exalt, slamming it, and then getting t1 light radius or stun threshold. Imho a game design failure that incentivizes selling the big ticket items instead of using them.

On a sidenote for the temple: Not only is it unrewarding, but also when you do get a reward it stands in no relation to effort you had to go through to get it. For instance if you want one of those prosthetic limbs you first need to have the rng to get the right pieces, then you need to have your labyrinth set up in a way to boost it to level 3 (or hope it doesn't disintegrate until you can set it up that way), then you need to beat that flesh surgeon boss, and then you need to beat the fat lady boss that rises from the operating table. And what do you get? Something like 10% increased block chance on an arm. Like, bruh, that's less than half an affixes on a shield for all that effort and it's not even permanent but lost on death.

2x 85lvl around 40h no single divine dropped, rhoa is absolutely disgusting its bugged and nerfed to the ground it's 0.2 again