Crafting in this game is bad and it is base on 1990 standards

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

Again, this "old" argument. Crafting in PoE isn't based on "old standards", it's based on an RNG environment.

Call it bad? Fair.
Call it not enough deterministic? By all means.
But don't call it "old", it's a stupid argument.

right.

im 39, im old enough to have played d2 on launch, i dont remember a crafting system like this being in it. i played d1 on launch, no crafting system like this. i played many games through the 90s, none had crafting like this.

i remember playing pc games in 1990, what were we on then? 386 machines? a friend had a 286 we played stuff on, it was super basic, there was no crafting at all in the games. i had an amiga 500, i had no games with crafting in them, we had games like silkworm, you could move up, down, left, right and press the fire button. that was basically the game, that was pretty much every game at that point.



so in this game 95% of the gg gear is crafted gear. probably safe to say crafting shouldnt be more easy/powerful than it currently is. they can improve it for sure, but the bit where we say oh, only rich people can do it with exalts... it should cost a few chaos instead?


no. come on, thats not a reasonable expectation.

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Xtorma wrote:

Crafting is fine. It serves it's purpose for the common user

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trixxar wrote:

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Xtorma wrote:

Crafting is fine. It serves it's purpose for the common user

By what metric?

It is pretty much always better to spend your currency on trading for items than trying to craft with it.

That alone suggests crafting is in a bad spot for the 'common user', no?

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firenovix wrote:

If you're a person who is playing for only 2 hours a day, both trading and crafting will be difficult no matter what is changed as you're not on enough to get currency.

You also wouldn't even know the impact Harvest had on the economy, and to be honest as a person who delved into crafting pre-harvest I absolutely hated the Harvest crafting as it devalued everything people put their hard work into prior to it. It also made other forms of crafting obsolete, aside from possibly alt spamming, Exalts became nothing but a trading currency that you may as well just renamed to gold, nobody used it for crafting anymore aside from on a work bench.

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trixxar wrote:

Its a matter of preference.

I have nothing against people who like it.

Personally I find it stupidly implemented, a overcomplicated slot machine where you can gamble.

I have crafted two endgame items, using reddit guides to abuse fossil blocking, Harvest addons and double influence.

I found it neither fun nor rewarding, just tedious and unintuitive.