Talk:Barrel Diffusion/@comment-98.224.206.84-20131015030531/@comment-98.224.206.84-20131015231544

There is a clear difference between "You don't get everything you want when you want it" and "There is no reasonable way to assure you get something if you work at it". Prime parts may drop at specific tower difficulty/types. They may not and that is fine. But my big problem comes when you can spend 20, 40 or 60 hours farming for one thing and not getting it. That alone is enough to put someone off of a game, and when you add in the fact that the drop table itself is broken, it only gets worse. Right now ability mods, which are all but useless, all clearly exist in the common drop pool. They are more often than not the mods that you get and even show up when transmuting which is painfully over-expensive.

I'm not saying ability mods should not drop... but honestly since they at least rival other mods in numbers and outnumber other rare mods, the smart thing to do would be to put them all in a blanket roll on a seperate table. Thus giving abiltiy mods a slightly higher chance to drop as a whole than other things, but then when that drop is rolled, the RNG rolls again on a table of ONLY ability mods.

These are the kinds of simple things that can break a game. It isn't about 'getting what you want when you want it.', but about makin the acquisition of anything you might want so difficult and unreasonable that there is no point in trying. I understand that they seem to feel it will keep people playing, and for some people maybe it will. But I also see alot of burnout happening and that is becasue the inability to gain something even if you work at it is just artifical extention of play. Its seeing how long of a stick you can put the carrot on before people just say screw you and buck the rider.

Now a friend of mine says they are retooling the drops. If that is true then fine, when they do maybe I will try it again. But this obsession with delaying reverse-engineering of drop tables seems to be preventing normal players from getting the things they may want or need with a reasonable amount of effort. That is unacceptable.

And for the record, you don't get to come in, try to white knight, and then call the argument closed. You enjoy the game? That's fine. But there are some serious flaws that need to be worked out. For their sake I really hope they are worked out before the game leaves Beta.