Just thoughts

gearing is in a trash state. i feel you guys dropped the ball with the hard change to the crafting system. lvling with blue gear on till 30s feels bad no matter the class then the gold at maps having no impact is even worse heck i still have a min lvl 15 ring on because thats the best i have found worth throwing ex at. the skills bound to weapon type feels like a back step in terms of build diversity that path of exile is known for. as for maps i like the idea dont please dont force a sudo hard core play style on me makes the progress i do make feel less when a server stutter or just a miss timed dodge roll cost me all the work i did to even get to said node and what i was tring after. the scaling of the rift/mirror/ritual is horrid i was on a freeze speced sorc and died in less than 10 sec of the rift opening in a tier 1 white map on touched ritual is worse and mirrors are okay if you pre clear the map thats just bad i am not using cof i am a self cast cold snap cc build and still feel like a melee in the chicken fight before the nerf. even pushing 3k effective health i dont feel like maps is where this toon should be based of gear and currency drops not a single 5 link orb and in maps?????? by now i could have saved enough jewelers to spam a white base to 6 socket and five like corrupting gems should not be the go to just to get five links when you hit maps. the lack of the tabs for the currencies related to mapping is cruddy to i get yall wanted us to see the end game and have thing to do but i feel for anyone with base stash or just a few premium ones because way stones rog crafting and tablets are going to eat it all. i have played a long time with one and i know that 2 is different but i feel that the step away for iconic path of exile crafting and non weapon bound skill system (with some thematic exceptions) is just a full miss for me the mapping and gear i know will work its self out with the care you all put into the game. side not the attribute requirements seem to be quite steep with how rare non +5 nodes are and how starved we already are for making sure our gear has the defensive stats to survive the over tuned mobs.