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Thanks, this is why I have to watch all the source videos in these posts haha

Edit: woops, it's not me, it was Dan. All good.

I'm not sure where the quote came from about not wanting gear to be as high a percentage of your power as other games but if you've got a source, it's like 99% chance going to be from me. I do the weekly dev stream and this was a pretty hot topic a few months back so I answered a bunch of

I think it might be assumed that we would have been just talking about PoE and the amount that we would be referring to is probably less than it seems.

If was me, I was probably mostly talking about D2, not PoE, which for the most part is extremely gear dependent (except a few select builds, looking at you smiters).

Second, it isn't saying that we don't want gear to be impactful or important. Quite the opposite really. I'd like people to be able to get to end game and experience it with average gear but need to hunt for significant gear upgrades to be able to do the very top tier content. Prior to some recent changes, ...

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I'm the person you are saying said that. I didn't say that.

Offline characters will stay offline. Online characters will stay online.

You might be thinking of how I said that CT characters (closed multiplayer alpha testers) won't be moved to the main population when general access is released.

The plan is to have 0.9 characters move to a "standard" style environment when 1.0 launches.

It affects uniques that drop from random monsters, but it doesn't affect boss specific drops. That is something we hope to fix in future though.

Since this comment got some attention I'll add an update here:
Information regarding 0.9 release date and lead up events coming Tuesday, Nov 29

killing Shade the moment it appeared as a tile in the monolith.

This might be the problem. The drop rates of the Shade's rarer uniques are higher the further the shade echo is from the centre, so repeatedly running ones close to the centre isn't necessarily the quickest way to find them. On top of that the drop rates are higher at higher corruption.

It's difficult to know how much we should telegraph drop rate information like this in game, but we're not necessarily opposed to making it clearer, and situations like this are taken into consideration for making these sorts of decisions.

Just as a reminder, please don't raid other subs or harass other users, even if you disagree with their opinions.

I think this is a fair criticism and callout and I should be stating that this will improve when we're very near our 0.9 launch. Once 0.9 launches we'll get back to our more frequent releases and the team will remain in a more constant state of interacting with the community from there forward.

Hey everyone, we're actively working on getting information out the door! Apologies for the rate of official information that we're putting out recently - it will improve significantly. We have been heads down ensuring that we have things in order so that this release can be the best we can provide. The entire team appreciates the patience you all are demonstrating with us as all of us internally are very eager to get more content out the door as well. We draw a lot of energy from putting new content out. We're working hard to make sure we not only have a stable release but also one that we can support, which is a different beast when we're online. More information hopefully this week.