POE: The Best of Games and the Worst of Games

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lethal_papercut wrote:

Chris' posts show the theory he used to design the game but also shows that he does not have a good comprehension of how it feels as a player to experience it. Hopefully he gets to play his own game at some point and realise that his theories don't always play out the same way in practice.

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Mordron wrote:

A simple suggestion to improve "crafting" results:

Create a white "gem of crafting" which will improve your odds at getting positive results and will gain efficiency as any other gem and/or craft more items.

Crafting ability would be improved but at the cost of using one equipment slot to keep improving the gem.

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LordBaldor wrote:

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Mordron wrote:

A simple suggestion to improve "crafting" results:

Create a white "gem of crafting" which will improve your odds at getting positive results and will gain efficiency as any other gem and/or craft more items.

Crafting ability would be improved but at the cost of using one equipment slot to keep improving the gem.

Why not create a new crafting material that improves your chances instead. This new material, probably an orb, can only be obtain from killing bosses or from running special maps perhaps. The higher the map, the better the quality of the orb.

This way everyone get to experience the new crafting material. Those who run higher maps will receive a better reward. AND you can control the drop rates per so many runs.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I actually like the crafting system... it's what makes the game fun in the first place. But players who "need the best" find it "an abomination". Here's the thing... no one needs the best. You don't need 6L. You don't need your rares to be optimal. You don't need an item so good that the million players will all give you stuff just to look at it.

The crafting system allows you to dream of this stuff, and makes it next to impossible to obtain it. It's doing it's job perfectly. Yes, it's frustrating. If it weren't, you wouldn't value the items you could create. Yes, it relies entirely on luck. What else would you have it rely on? Skill? What skill?

I think that if you look at it... crafting in PoE is it's strongest point.

Your "bad" points are comments on your (and most players) playstyle... not on the game. If you were to play self found HC, you would find the game a lot more fun. You don't sit in town trading. That's the abomination. You find items all the time. You craft items occasionally. And you die, and get to play the game again. It's fun. You've turned the game into a job and are complaining it's not fun. Learn to have fun.

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illusionHC wrote:

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Nochalo wrote:

Do i think that drop rates suck? No. Do i think that crafting sucks? Hell no! Although i spent around 200hrs into the game.

Play 300+ more hours and you'll most likely figure out that drop rates indeed sucks... I see no difference between early D3 and POE. The idea is basically the same (you find nothing = you need to trade)