The game is incredible as i been playing it nonstop, the loot however...is just beyond bad. I absolutely hate the loot in this game, like i said they did so good with so much of this game but the loot system needed more TLC.
I really hope Pillars of Eternity nailed a better loot system than this.
I freaking hate random loot in chests, i can not help myself to keep trying for new loot. I just want the chest to pre determined from the very start of the game, and ill accept whatever is in there. I cant stand when games give me that door to save before the final blow of a boss and try for loot or save in front of chests. I just dont like that mechanic as im to weak to not abuse it.
Haha, I know how you feel man - at least you admit it.. Guys like us would prefer the temptation to just not be there, we would be fine without it - but if its there we are too weak not to reload.. The problem is its unfair of us to request a change in the system because of this - requesting fixed loot on playthrough / area load will impact people who don't want it of course.. Difficult to find the proper balance in all this I believe.. Perhaps a mixture of random and fixed loot as was suggested earlier in this thread.. like certain bosses eg Loic will maybe always drop a caster item - but not a fixed item, it could be a random legendary robe or staff - etc.
As for me I reloaded loot throughout my first playthrough but at around lvl 15 with cherry picked loot on all my chars I thought.. why am I doing this to myself again and ruining such an amazing game.. So I have started over with two lone wolves - no reloading loot..
I thought about a compromise where only on big named bosses if I don't get a yellow / legendary, I reload until at least one yellow drops but then stop - even if its a bow or something totally useless for either of my chars. That way its like the boss dropped a guaranteed quality loot for the effort, but still randomized - ie. I didn't totally savescum until it was the exact item -> slot -> stats I needed.
But then I thought who am I kidding, half cheating is still cheating haha.. So hopefully my willpower holds out until them balanced loot mods start coming out
Gotta admit its highs and lows.. lows when you get whites and blues from that big named boss... highs when that damn vendor finally sells Strong Regenerate
