Crafting? Don't be silly, just buy the item.

Crafting isn't difficult it's random that's what RNG means. You could pour a million chaos on a item and just get terrible rolls. That's why it's a terrible system.

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danonon wrote:

Crafting isn't difficult it's random that's what RNG means. You could pour a million chaos on a item and just get terrible rolls. That's why it's a terrible system.

For crafting rare they jut need to add an orb that upgrade tiers
For socket-link they need to change system to +1/-1 with a 75% chance of +1 when 20% quality

I mean a item level 78 vaal regalia can roll lvl 1 prefixes and suffixes it doesn't make any sense. Just to make the RNG even worse though some patches ago light radius and attribute reduced was implemented. The devs even said that they knew that these were useless but it was implemented to artificially lengthen the game.

RNG with pseudo randomness would be a solution. The chances of linking/socketing goes up everytime a currency is used while maintaining the same overall chance of socketing/linking. This way it would be hard to socket at first but makes it much more even in the end. It should only work on the 5 and 6 links to not to discourage 4 or lower linking. Same with socketing.

Gambling system isn't worth it. Gambling and trading should be similarly rewarding. One should not be massively smarter than the other.

Yoo, GGG, are you reading this?

Reply if you dare.

This should be "Buying a item? Don't be silly just craft the item"

Sure crafting can be lame, but 99% of trades are more mind snapping.

Crafting is much more fun in the long run, and what else is there to spend currency on?

This was crafted from a white item, so OP you whinging hasn't convinced me not to craft.

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Bipolartuna wrote:

This should be "Buying a item? Don't be silly just craft the item"

Sure crafting can be lame, but 99% of trades are more mind snapping.

Crafting is much more fun in the long run, and what else is there to spend currency on?

This was crafted from a white item, so OP you whinging hasn't convinced me not to craft.

How on earth can crafting be more fun in the long run? Since I started in CB me and a friend have been playing self found(between the two of us)... For the most part, our gear has been so crappy despite doing everything possible to use the currency we find to roll better gear, over the course of 10 or so characters up to lvl 70(docks farming... lol) Because we didn't have the gear to do maps, and we didn't want to do a single dumb dual spork build which is frankly mind numbing(add in the fact that we didn't have a single viable 5link armor too), I tried one up to the 50s.

Finally found the very first exalt for my character, and decided I'll hit up trade chat and see exactly what I could for that exalt... lo and behold, with that single exalt, got enough good gear we can actually do maps without having to use up all the portals because we die! Even to the point Lunaris Temple lvl 3 is farmable!

After all that I looked back and thought to myself, that sheer amount of currency we literally threw away because worthless rolls and everything... I could have used in trade and be even better off than I am now!

For as much fun as self found with 2 characters is, it can't compare to finally being able to see end game content. Never again will those chaos orbs fade into the ether of POE, especially since the both of us now have a character that can reliably farm more than docks.

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Okugi wrote:

How on earth can crafting be more fun in the long run?... For as much fun as self found with 2 characters is, it can't compare to finally being able to see end game content. Never again will those chaos orbs fade into the ether of POE, especially since the both of us now have a character that can reliably farm more than docks.

I feel somewhat differently about trading than you do. I kind of see it as going to wallow in the slime with a bunch of other people wallowing in slime. What's more fun to me is ANYTHING -- including not playing POE at all.

I wouldn't care about the inefficiency of crafting if it was even viable. But as your story indicates, it's not really. Even with the massive orbage you threw at it you came out without a single viable 5 link piece of armor. So past merciless and into maps you were working on 4 link skills. That about matches my experience.

I go thought periods of workload, I'm now in one of these periods I'm working 12-15h a day. I want to keep playing PoE, but it's so casual unfriendly for solo/self-found players I want to give up.


I beg to GGG that it makes a self-found league with buffed ratios and even improve crafting to eb slightly more deterministic. The situation is pretty stupid for those of us who can't play 10h a day, you are driving most of your potential customers away GGG, and I certainly ain't going to support the game financially with the anti-fun game design you have implemented.



BTW, there is a reason why the MMO market is failing miserably with all the grind gameplay and there is a drive and demand for other sort of experience, don't hop into a failed model, is a big mistake.