Sentient Exp

[Drfirewater79]

Hello team,

I have seen that you are adding sentience exp gems to the Saltmarsh chests which is awesome. My question is why dont you make it so that sentience exp drops can happen in ALL Legendary content? 1k sentience is not that much and when you have 15 characters that need sentience it becomes really hard to keep up at end game with the ones that are not fully sentient in both artifact and weapon.

Having a way to farm it effectively would be great and i don't see why it would be a bad thing to add more ways to get sentience.

For the ones who already have max sentience .. this gives them a reason to level up other gems maybe secondary weapons (especially since you cannot just transfer the gem without dismantling it .. another thing i would like to see changed) so when you need multiple weapons PER CHARACTER because of situational enemy DR ... it wont feel nearly impossible to achieve it even if they are really rare drops.

from that perspective it would encourage more people to farm more content creating more parties and more player interaction. Additionally it would get people excited about end game grinding even when they already have their raid items especially if there is a higher drop rate in raids .... and encourage people to make and run alts at end game.

it only makes people spend more money and enjoy the game more ... i don't see what the negative side is ... especially after the stat changes (wont call them a nerf because it should be a one time balancing act not an actual nerf).

[Pandjed]

My question is why dont you make it so that sentience exp drops can happen in ALL Legendary content?

To make legendary saltmarsh more attractive as an active endgame playground, because otherwise you'd had lvl 28-29 items as loot PLUS a chance for 1000 sentinent XP in every other legendary content. Seems like a questionable choice, when they want to make this mini-expansion be successful. Because it's not like you can't get your reaper XP and viable endgear loot only from there.

[Drfirewater79]

To make legendary saltmarsh more attractive as an active endgame playground, because otherwise you'd had lvl 28-29 items as loot PLUS a chance for 1000 sentient XP in every other legendary content. Seems like a questionable choice, when they want to make this mini-expansion be successful. Because it's not like you can't get your reaper XP and viable end gear loot only from there.

Sure and that is a fair answer ... for now.

I would expect that they would at very least consider opening it up to all legendary content post u51 but i haven't heard any talk of that ... once saltmarsh has run its new quest course ... you will just make people resent the quests because they are forced to use only that content to achieve their character goals.

would like to hear them say that the plan is to make legendary content drop sentience to encourage some people to stay at end game instead of TRing and make sentience easier to obtain for people who are newer or have MANY characters rather than many lives.



i can only speak for my experience with the game since march 2006... i have never been a fan of leveling so the concept of 60 TRs is nauseating ... but i am starting to think you really cannot compete at end game that way given that there is no support for people who stay at end game and don't want to spend the next 10 years TRing their 15 characters

[TheAlicornSage]

I hate the idea of stagnating at some "endgame." Makes it feel like everything else is just an extended tutorial and thus pointless. I'd rather "endgame" be the whole game. I'd love to see "endgame" characters at all lvls and quests.

As for sentient xp, well, after a decade of not having sentient items and still being a coupke months away from being able to use my raider box rewards to have a sentient item, I don't really care about farming sentient xp. Of course, I hate farming anyway.

[bryanmeerkat]

So ravenloft on elite has a
33 percent chance to drop a 290xp sentient itemxp item . ( They have lots of different fancy names but it's the same thing )

Salt marsh has about a 5 percent chance to drop a 1000xp item and a 33 percent chance to drop a 3xp item.

The math is not good for Salt marsh

Do not run Salt marsh for food .