Thinking Outside the Box: What if we had dust instead of orbs?

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Pyrokar wrote:

I think it's too complicated and Poe is already complicated enough.
Now that i think about it Poe needs an in-game tutorial for beginners more than anything.
I watched a video the other day with some new people that did not know that with alt you can view the items on the ground. They had to hover with the mouse to read what items each rare monster droped.

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Novalisk wrote:

A lot of people will still hold onto exalted dust, because trading it for end-game items will still be more efficient than using it for crafting.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

By dust I mean: instead of spending 1 Exalted Orb to add an additional affix to a rare item, you would spend X amount of "Exalted dust," which would vary from item to item based off of things like itemlevel, base item type, and so on. Based on these characteristics, each item would have have a stat called Dust Usage, displayed on the item; regardless which type of dust you're using, one crafting attempt would use the amount displayed, and if you don't have enough dust you'd get some kind of "I don't have enough dust" voice effect from your character. Dust would normally drop in piles of multiple quantity (for example, a pile of 7 Exalted dust).

What advantages would this system have?

1. The Dust Usage stat on different items could be modified, to balance low-level crafting and high-level crafting. As many of you know, most players hoard the orbs they have instead of using them. The reason for this is simple: generally speaking, it's more effective to use a Chaos Orb rerolling a high-level item like a mid/high map or an itemlevel 78 Vaal Regalia, then it is to use that same currency on a low map or on an itemlevel 39 Grove Bow. Many players never even get to that level, and thus the best way for them to use their orbs is to trade them to other players, who trade them to other players until eventually the orbs find their way to those high-level crafters. Converting to a dust system would allow GGG to adjust the cost of low-level crafting relative to high-level crafting. If players aren't using enough Orbs on low-level items, GGG could lower their Dust Usage; if the pendulum of balance then shifts to the other side and no one crafts high-level items anymore, GGG could lower or raise Dust Usage levels again to compensate. Right now, GGG has no easy mechanisms to control the balance between low- and high-level crafting; a dust system would give them exactly such a tool.


Thoughts?

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DarthSki44 wrote:

A decent idea, but what if you just gave currency ilvls? or at least ilvl ranges? That would help with low level crafting, and may even encourage people to run different areas to get the currency lvls they want for specific tier crafting.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

A decent idea, but what if you just gave currency ilvls? or at least ilvl ranges? That would help with low level crafting, and may even encourage people to run different areas to get the currency lvls they want for specific tier crafting.

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MadBro_ wrote:

The huge bummer here is the excitement part , what if we had just dust?No exalted dust , no chaos dust but just dust and make it like 2(g :P) of dust serves as an alch for ilevel 60 below , X dust for a ilvl 60+ item, 20 as an exalt of ilevel 60 or below , X dust for a ilvl 60+ item etc etc.

At least this imo would solve that part but i may be harder to pull off.

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Tyronis3 wrote:

I was skeptical at first, but I actually really like this idea. Mostly the ability to adjust crafting cost for different ilvl items so that crafting early on isn't a waste. Also being able to drop fractions of orbs more commonly seems a much better system than uncommonly finding the whole orb.

Great idea imo, but I doubt GGG would change their system so dramatically :/