Crafting - Omens and Greater Essence Scarcity

Crafting

I personally enjoy the absence of scours and alterations, and I feel that essences and ritual omens are interesting tools for crafting.

After the patch 0.1.1 update, omens and greater essences remain too rare for the majority of the player base to use meaningfully.
The useful omens are currently priced around 7–10 divines each in trade.
Do you think the majority of the player base would be compelled to use these omens?
No, they end up selling them and buying upgrades via trade. You might as well replace that omen with 10 divines in the ritual window.
As for SSF (Solo Self-Found) players, they might as well pretend these omens don't exist.

If you want players to engage with these mechanics, they cannot be gated behind such extreme scarcity.
"Oh, I dropped an essence worth 5 divines; I can go sell it on trade," was what Mark said in the interview.
Items on the ground should already serve this purpose—not the tools used to craft items.

The argument then becomes: "Items on the ground will lose value." However, items on the ground will always retain value, even if omens become more common, because of how the crafting system in PoE 2 is designed.
A perfect item requires 200+ omens with the right bases, multiple good mods, and thousands of divines to perfect it—and that’s just for a single item.

Adding new crafting mechanics won't resolve this issue if the balance is already flawed in the current league mechanics.
(Expedition vendors, for example, remain nearly useless. They need more upgrade options as well as better ones. Hopefully, the new unique features will improve them.)

Allowing players to craft their own gear is one of the core reasons many players love PoE 1 and continue to play league after league.
I hope the developers seriously review these changes and understand why players feel that crafting needs significant improvements.

P.S.: I wouldn’t mind if crafted gear were bound to my account forever if it meant I could craft more and truly create my own gear.

It would be nice to see purple omens showing more often in ritual rewards for sure, running lots of T15, T16, on corrupted or +1 map mod and i have only seen 4-5 in more than 600hrs played (2 i couldn't afford to defer because they cost so much tribute).

Nodes on atlas tree changes nothing really, same for invitation, i even have the feeling i was dropping them more before i got the rituals points. I don't see them appear more often in days of farming, so ritual atlas nodes surely bugged atm.

I'm trying a day or 2 again but if it stay the same and i can't even try to craft at high level, i'll stop playing and wait for fix/change to happen, maybe i even won't come back when the game full release because old frustration will stay in mind. And in that time another game with better craft system like LE would have made me want to play it more, also getting new content.

Dopamine is at lowest level with POE2 right now.