When do you think the ladder reset should be?

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I am definitely NOT looking forward to farming the Liche King again to get a Plaguebringer now that the he no longer has guaranteed drops. Imagine how strange it will be when a Frostmourne drop is a disappointment. Of course if one of the changes to be made will include adding a +to cold mastery stat to Frostmourne it could be an exciting item again

Yeah, I was actually going to make a particular thread talking about drop rates again but at a different angle, e. g., that is that now it doesn't seem worthwhile anymore to farm at certain places or bosses any more. Perhaps I'll do this now since someone else put some of this forward along with yourself. I'll be happy to mention this again if recommended elsewhere, but it seems clear that there's pretty much only 4 places worth farming and one of them in the long run should be condensed (that is from the players perspective not in terms of the number of enemies or the size of the place). The 3 in general are plague lands, cows, and inferno pits. The last one is ryleh/and the cow queen and chests because the drops in the cow kingdom aren't particularly worth it given the effort and time it takes to clear the rest of the cows and considering you can get most of anything else good that drops elsewhere (and also after you've pretty much gotten all the starter set stuff which again, you can get elsewhere). Its even possible to find facets in regular cows (I didn't believe this at first, but sure enough that happened today I think), but I'm not exactly sure how such could be well balanced.

I think mephisto mentioned this already in the thread, but yes, it is also true that farming the dreamland bosses (minus of course the big boss there) isn't really worth much either partly thanks to the drop rates of the bosses themselves but also because its not very hard to stock up on caches from Azathoth (I'm sitting on may 10 to 15 of those right now), although I can't agree that dreamland items that the bosses drop should be made rarer or kept rare (maybe for keys/puzzleboxes and marks of the dragon slayer jewels, but it's pointless to do that for everything else since the rest aren't that spectacular especially thanks to rares being buffed and other items introduced). I'm sure you can guess I think that's silly, but I could perhaps be persuaded that you go a bit easy on caches dropping in the future. I suppose its an either or case or even making Azathoth harder (if you do consider that please move him away from the cow king corpse then so that player can decide which they want to deal with)

Regarding the Lich King, Lordhammer is completely right. His drops are just completely awful now making him almost not worth it which is a shame because the scourgelord belt and death's advance are pretty good in general. I wouldn't mind too much if frostmourne or divine gems were hard to get from him but not the other stuff. Tyrael is the same case but worse since really at this point only the Divinity gauntlets he drops are of any worth (I have yet to see a pair of good rare paladin gloves though it is theoretically possible to find such), but there's a good chance he won't drop that. Truth be told though, you can't really farm for the Key of Justice, so I suppose that's not a good example.