Effort vs Rewards

Effort:Reward is still not in a good place.

Target farming things yourself is a huge waste of time vs farming currency and buying it with trade.

"Crafting" isnt crafting at all anymore. Its basically a slot machine. You can invest an absurd amount of time and currency into an item but can never guarantee that you will finish the exact item you want no matter how many times you try to make it.

League start and starting new builds from scratch is still painfully slow.

I would love to keep playing this league and there are a ton of builds i want to try, but it takes way too long to build a new character. Instead ill just quit and hope next league they start designing things without "friction" being the number 1 influence in their decisions.

This league's rewards in regular mode: Feels alot more rewarding (Sanctum - feels like cheating)
This league's rewards in ruthless ssf: This is the real Poe (Sanctum - skip)

From now on I will only play Ruthless, Sanctum is really no go in ruthless since you farm much more currency, etc, in maps, much more easier. If there will be actually good league content you could play in ruthless and having fun playing it, it will be godly game mode for me. Ruthless ftw. Been waiting for this for a long long time.

It's only my opinion tho, many others like regular game and thats fine. I hope Poe 2 will have either normal mode and ruthless or will be somewhere between (more to the ruthless side) those two.