Plea to the developers!!
Well, you have successfully hooked me on GD. I am an addict, and I have even gone and gifted a few games + expansion to friends to get them playing too.
With that being said, there is 1 problem I continue to have. It’s a small problem, but not game breaking. You have also stated in the past you are looking at ways to improve.
So here it is. I have now over 1000hrs according to my Steam play time into Grim Dawn. I have not been able to acquire a single FULL SET of legendary gear, let alone the Mythical version. My plea to you, is not to make legendry’s so common place that anyone can acquire them (don’t follow Blizzard –they did it wrong), but I would really appreciate an in-game system of acquiring certain legendary items so that I can complete my theory crafted BIS build that I can make on Grim Tools.
My suggestion would be a crafting component from breaking down legendries. Rings for ring components, chest for chest components. Once you have some arbitrary number of components, you can go to a vendor with ALL items, and trade for the one you need. This makes getting sets doable, but still work, effort needs to be taken. I think 8x legendary items of any slot is enough to get 1x legendary of your choice for that same slot. So, to completely gear yourself there are tons of slots and RNG still plays a HUGE role. Let’s take this as an example: I need Albrecht’s Duality Ring. This means I need either 8 legendary rings to drop and for me to break them down, or 8 Mythical legendry’s to get the Mythical version of the AD ring. Farming for 8 mythical rings, will take hundreds of hours, but you are guaranteed to get the item you need for those 100hrs played. As of right now, I have gone thousand hours and not gotten it, and if my RNG is terrible, I could go a 1000 more before I see it.
There is nothing more frustrating than making these builds, trying some niche mechanics and hipster build that looks like a blast to play, but with the # of legendary items in the game, and the RNG involved of actually getting the legendry’s I need to complete my set. I could put thousands of hours into the game and never actually see the pieces I need.
This also adds to burn out….always playing the same character, but not being able to complete the build. I would love to build multiple characters and complete them, and try something new, but right now, I can’t even complete 1, and it’s frustrating. The frustration leads to burnout.
Yes, I know I can trade from the forums, but there is no real smooth honest way of doing this, without investing hours into just looking over the entire forum list of traders and hoping they have the item I need, and the item they need so that they will trade. That’s another RNG with no real way of filtering.
Regardless of what you do to improve this, I am going to continue to play GD, and fund the next expansion. Right now GD is far and away my favorite ARPG.