The loot system is Vermintide’s greatest strength and its biggest weakness all rolled into one. Right now it is (or was) too far on the side of RNG-driven grind; I’ve not been back to it in a week but I saw Fatshark were making some additions to try and reduce that somewhat, so hopefully they’ll bring it back to somewhere where a run on a higher difficulty level feels worthwhile since you know it’ll provide something you can use.

(Also I think it’d be a terrible game to play with strangers from the internet – even worse than something like Payday thanks to the loot system.)

Something that I start to dislike more and more is the loot system though. The randomness is just too high in my opinion and even the added chances for tome and grimoire dice often don’t seem to do very much. The mean of all my rolls has to be around 2 successes or something as often as I’m rolling that number. I actually wrote down the last 5 rolls and never had above 3 successes even though we had tons of bonus dice every time. On top of that, as you mention above, you’ll get stuff for a class you never play or stuff that you never use because it doesn’t suit your style of play which makes it even harder to get decent loot. I’m getting a bit annoyed by my bad luck at the moment and even my friends seem to suffer the same fate with rolls that seldom reflect the amount of bonus dice we collected during the level.

I’ll probably wait until the PS4 release next year, as I have a larger pool of friends to play with on that platform. Hopefully the loot tables will be adjusted by then.