Is their a design intent in making Idols have only 1 very broad Tier on affix rolls?
Most Affix ranges are very broad compared to gear.
For instance, there are rolls on the 1x1 that are 4-12% or even some Sentinel rolls that are e.g. in the 40-150% range.
It feels really underwhelming when you get one of these lower rolls and it isn’t even half the stats of your current idol. On the other hand, you can find an idol at level 19 that is literally perfect rolled and you will want to use it ALL the way up to level 100, which means part of your gear is already complete at that point. (Yes, that happened to me once)
Especially the low roll towards the endgame progression feel dissappointing because I can’t even filter them out, I HAVE to go through several idols just to feel like I’m not progressing.
I think Idols could do with maybe 2 Tiers of stats where the max is somewhere around 150-175% of the minimum stat. In the above 4-12% example, splitting it up in a 4-7% & 8-12% Tier would feel better both as a progression while levelling (woohoo, Tier 2 Idol!) as well as being able to filter out the lower rolls in endgame, when you’re going for more chase items to finish out the build.
I got this T6 idol to drop from the new dungeon the other day. Not the stats I was needing for my build, but can be theoretically target farmed in there with the right type of empowered blessing for idols, and selecting the idols from rewards from the door to the next level and what not:
Edit: I’m pretty sure it dropped from a T2 Julra Kill.
oh I didn’t realise that, thx for the info. But ye, I’m with the OP on this one, there should at least be another tier of idols with adjusted ranges so it doesn’t take what seems like an eternity to get the ones we need for our builds, and have a better sense of progression when min-maxing our builds.
Depends, they could make the tier ranges the same as they currently are (ie, split the current ranges in the middle) to give you your two tier system but no change to the drop rates & you wouldn’t be any better off.
You could atleast filter a part of them out, like you can with any gear stat range.
Idols is the only item I understand the “filter by roll power” request and it’s simply because it’s 1 Tier instead of 5 (or 7)
I don’t mind the drop rate & having no timeline for it to farm, but with just 1 tier, there is no progression like e.g. Legendaries (which are also chase items) not to mention that atleast on Legendaries you have some control and agency by choosing & crafting the Exalted. Idols are just randomly amazing or not.
You already can filter idols, by hiding affixes you don’t want at all or just show idols with a specific combination of 2 affixes.
Idols don’t drop in masses to begin with, so it’s not that you need to check them every mob pack or so.
On top of that Idols literally only have 2 stats to look at.
Evaluating loot is part of the loot hunt. And with idols I don’t find it annoying or time consuming.
