Do you think PoE needs a "Loot 2.0" overhaul?

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Eight88 wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

You can craft with intent and get what you want, understanding if you can probably afford it in advance is essential, as is picking the right method of crafting for the given item. Some items like top tier phys daggers or wands are almost certainly going to be beyond you no matter what you do, something like a fairly decent life based chest armour is comparatively easy.

I dunno...based on my experience (I've only been playing for a bit over 3 months now, though I do play a lot) it's virtually impossible for the average player to craft anything with intent. Unless you're talking about adding sockets and linking them.

If I want to start with a rare item that hasn't rolled all 6 affixes and try to add the ones I want, I need multiple eternals and multiple exalts. I've seen one exalt drop in hundreds of hours of play, and never an eternal.

If I want to start with a white item, I need more of the above plus hordes of alts and regals. Alts of course are pretty common, but I think I've seen 4 regals drop, ever.

Like I said in a previous post, I think the idea of crafting in this game is cool, and can be very rewarding. Only a very small number of people ever really get to participate in it, though.

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Xeju wrote:

This is exactly my experience.

The only exceptions are that I've been playing longer; I've seen 3 exalts drop, rather than 1, and still no eternals.

Basically, what I see, is that the current system "forces" ("encourages", "prods") you to farm cruddy items to sell for cruddy currency, to trade for better currency

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toyotatundra wrote:

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Xeju wrote:

This is exactly my experience.

The only exceptions are that I've been playing longer; I've seen 3 exalts drop, rather than 1, and still no eternals.

Basically, what I see, is that the current system "forces" ("encourages", "prods") you to farm cruddy items to sell for cruddy currency, to trade for better currency

Awful crafting and droprates simply promote hoarding of orbs and using it as gold.

What you do is farm, get vendor-trash rares/uniques, vendor them all for alt-shards and chaos recipe, change alterations to fusings at vendor, then trade fusings and chaos orbs for exalts = buy items with those exalts.

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I'm just so pleased I actually play PoE as an aRPG and ignore the economy completely. It's just a shame the developers thought to gate content and crafting behind the bizarre capitalist theme that is alien to a place like Wraeclast rather than be tied to the actual exile theme.