Path of Exile 2.0.0: The Awakening Patch Notes

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AttackDingo wrote:

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HoneyBadGerMan wrote:

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Heli0nix wrote:

Good bye eternals i won't miss you.

I find it hard to believe there isn't more of a fuss about this change. Eternals were effectively the ONLY tool in the crafting system with which a serious crafter could fight back against the relentless RNG inherent to the crafting system.

I'm not sure if the removal of Eternal orbs is just a troll, or if it's something that's serious. If it's a troll, then that's a pretty fucking good troll. If it's actually real, then RIP the whole crafting system.

From now on, every exalt dropped on an item will be a YOLO ex. If it doesn't produce a useful item, scour and start from Transmute again because there's no way to undo your YOLO ex. Simply put, without Eternal orbs, there is just no point in even attempting to craft a perfect rare. Basically, this change means that you're literally better off to chaos spam an item than you are to use an Exalted orb.

The only scenario in which you would (maybe) use an Exalted orb would be if you managed to chaos spam a rare item with 5 perfect mods. Even then you'd probably be better off to master craft a mod than use an exalted orb and risk getting a shitty mod that you couldn't remove without scouring (hence the parenthetical maybe in the previous sentence, but then they are making master crafted mods more expensive, so is this where Exalts get used now?). It's difficult to overstate how big of a nerf this is to Exalted orbs. The only thing an Exalt has going for it in terms of value now is its rarity.

Eternals were the 'Selection' in "Natural Selection". Without Eternals, all we have is Natural. You're just waiting for a hurricane to blow through the junk yard and magically assemble a 747.

Thanks for explaining how catastrophic this change is to the crafting system.