Shrines loot changed with this patch?

Grim Dawn Public Test Discussion
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Started a new Cabalist yesterday and the one in Burial Hill just dropped a Scavenged Plating, nothing else. Verified the game files and tried with another new character and got 3 yellow items from it, but that’s all.

Verified the game files again and did some more runs with new characters today and got these. Haven’t changed the loot filter at all for any of these runs.

Gold band of attack Y
Ordered Patchwork Jacket Y
Improvised Round Shield W

Stalwart Musty Tome Y
Stalwart Leather Pants of Frostbite Y
Mystic Novice Tunic Y

Mystic Leather Spaulder Y
Runed Bone of Decay Y
Reinforced Greaves of Thunder Y

Then decided to do a new character and see if some other shrines were similar to the Burial Hill one so used a Champion’s Merit to unlock the riftgates on Normal and jumped about a bit. The results.

Burial Hill
Polished Emerald
Resolute Novice Tunic Y
Hide Cap of Fortitude Y

Foggy Bank
Insulating Patchwork Doublet Y
Impevious Combat Boots Y
Mighty Gold Band Y

Flooded Passage
Searing Ember
Mutagenic Ichor
Magestorm Leather Boots of Haste G
Scrapmetal Blunderbuss of Alacrity Y

Spined Cove
Shrewd Patchwork Leggings of Solael’s Malice G
Demonic Plated Gauntlets of Vitality G
Vigorious Leather Boots of Nature’s Bounty G

Rocky Coast
Scavenged Plating
Polished Emerald
Bladedancer’s Handguards B
Bloodletter’s Platinum Amulet of Alacrity G

Is this the new norm or is there a bug of some kind? Not complaining if it is new way of shrine drops, just doesn’t seem like normal to me. Anyone else found/experienced this?

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i played a new char in act 1 earlier this day and got normal loot from viloth and foggy bank slith shrine, didn’t pay attention to kyzog/burial hill tho
*But i also play veteran
Didn’t check if there was a hotfix between yday and today

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quick check in A1 norm

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looks normal to me (sans sneak update i’m missing)

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Just feel like I remember a bit more dropping than that. Then again, I’m getting old so probably misremembering/forgetting. :frowning_face:

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i think volume wise it might just be rng, but unsure :thinking:
i can check/compare with 9.8 and 1.2.1.6 later if Z doesn’t pop in and confirm/deny first (and yes i have 5 different versions of GD installed, i’m that incorrigible :sweat_smile:)

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I’m on the playtest branch and last patch for that was a couple of days ago. Only started playing it yesterday with the new Cabalist because I was doing some town building in Farthest Frontier I wanted to finish off before jumpimg back into GD.

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i think i had a session like that once or twice in last playtest but other sessions had been fine (same and different char probably).

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Apocryphal misrememberings and anecdotal hearsay but I recall Shrines generally feeling a lot lesser comparatively since the introduction of Totems, both in loot and challenge.

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Sure, but that’s not what I’m comparing them to. It’s literally shrine loot this last patch compared to the previous patch for shrine loot.