Despite my almost 4,000 hours in Path of Exile, I've never had a raw Mirror of Kalandra drop—the single rarest item in the game. Part of this is probably because I tend to wander off every league before I start getting to turbo juicer strategies, but it remains on my bucket list for the game. With any luck, the new Mirage league will break my streak and let me gaze lovingly at my own reflection, definitely not staring at that face looking back at me and questioning my life decisions.
This is because Grinding Gear Games have fundamentally altered the drop rates of currency across the board, in arguably the biggest change to the game economy since the change to Divine Orbs four years ago. It all comes down to this line in the patch notes: "Currency Items now account for a significantly larger portion of dropped items. This change is to allow currency rewards from slaying of enemies to be more competitive with other sources of it in the game."
