I didn't get an exotic the first or second time I opened the big loot chest. One of the small chests dropped my 15th or so Dragon's breath (Dear Bungie, please make this launcher leave a trail of flame on the map when fired, so I can use it in stead of the mandatory GH).

PoE has very consistent and flexible rewards, which I approve. If I don't like the armor this week I can save my core and wait for the next refresh, I can save cores from other characters and load up one character or I can randomize it with the chance option.

This system is better then the total randomness of VoG, which still hasn't given me a full set of armor or the fusion rifle. It even beats out CE, which was much improved over VoG even though it never dropped the ships or sparrows for me.

If anything I would love to have some more customization over the armor purchased. I'm a hand cannon guy and I'd like to be able to get the HC/fusion rifle perk and then some super/melee recharge boosts rather then pulse rifle/sniper/armor combos. I'd also like to avoid having four sets of armor, one for each race.

The drop rates for the keys are a bit low. I'd like an option for the first run to not require a key, but subsequent runs would. I'd also like weapons that do bonus damage to captains instead of stupid shanks, but that is hardly deal breaking.

if anything, my main gripe about PoE is that the "bullet hell" gripe going around. At the higher levels Wizards/Knights/Minotaurs/Captains all spam shots so fast it is almost a continuous stream. You are forced into cover with minimal movement much of the time, which is dull and makes the FoE and Arc Blade pretty useless.

Seems I'm not the only one who has problems with Prison of Elders' reward system:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/05/28/destinys-prison-of-elders-has-a-serious-loot-problem/

Some interesting suggestions here. I don't personally agree with every point, but I think the overall message is fairly on point.

One specific topic I found interesting: the article suggests replacing armor and weapon cores with "queens armor or weapon engrams". The point is to add more randomness into the rewards, so you don't end up with all players having the exact same new armor and weapons each week. The proposed engrams would be guaranteed to yield gear from the Queen/PoE loot pool, so you'd always get something.

I'm a bit torn on this suggestion. The fact that I can look at this week's rewards and decide if I want to invest the time to earn them is one of the few things I like about PoE's rewards system.

Thoughts?

I completely disagree with adding more randomness to the loot. Having a guaranteed reward *and knowing ahead of time if you want it* is a nice breath of fresh air in this game.