Crucible is peak PoE and it's not even close.

I am talking about the power and possibilities Crucible passives provide, not League mechanic itself and it's gameplay loop (it's terrible).

I am not even talking about actually broken Explode totems build or juiced up SST.

You can have Rampage on any build without using subpar uniques or annoying swaps and Rampage is one of the most powerful and fun mechanics in the game.

Let's say you are playing BV build. You can get bow with +1 Dex gems, +100% crit multy, 40% conditional AOE/Increased Skill effect duration, +2 max power charges / Rampage and many other great mods.

Crucible passive trees provide so much QoL, defences and power it's ridiculous. And it's not even as expensive as one might think, specially without Rampage. It's like that for most builds you can think of. Most builds you can think of are better in Crucible than they were in years and will not be as good anytime soon (if ever).

There is no way next League matches even half of what Crucible can do. Not only next League mechanic will have way less power creep we are gonna receive another round of nerfs that will put our base power level even further down like all recent patches in the wake of PoE 2.

I thought I am gonna miss Sanctified Relics form Sanctum, but Crucible and it's passives blow Sanctum out of the water. Crucible is THE League to play PoE and try new things or explore your favourite builds.

On top of Crucible not making it into core game (I don't think anyone expects GGG to suddenly make it part of the core game despite their track record, right?) consider that something like Bloodnotch that made so many builds significantly tankier and other things unrelated to Crucible will most likely be nerfed.

The truth is your build will not be as strong as it was in Crucible anytime soon, if ever. More like the opposite - it will be nerfed in some way on top of having less support from League mechanic. I feel like things are only gonna get downhill from there when it comes to builds.

I already done 40/40, reached 100 and 99 on two chars I well geared, finished my projects and overall bored with the League at this point, but I still didn't fully explored even opportunities I seen on the surface. :|

TL:DR Crucible passives are insane.

I wish you could crucible other pieces of gear that would've been interesting but probably a bit over the top.

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xPiranha wrote:

I wish you could crucible other pieces of gear that would've been interesting but probably a bit over the top.

Crucible Tree on every piece of gear? :o

Maybe we will get something that has to do with modifying armour in the future now that we got Kalandra modifying Jewellry and Crucible all about Weapons / Shields

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SunL4D2 wrote:

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xPiranha wrote:

I wish you could crucible other pieces of gear that would've been interesting but probably a bit over the top.

Crucible Tree on every piece of gear? :o

Maybe we will get something that has to do with modifying armour in the future now that we got Kalandra modifying Jewellry and Crucible all about Weapons / Shields

Don't we technically have that with double corruption?

[Removed by Support] Harvest was peak poe i was running around like a god with all my mirror gear and mirrurs in stash now rotting away in standard.

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Acolina87 wrote:

[Removed by Support] Harvest was peak poe i was running around like a god with all my mirror gear and mirrurs in stash now rotting away in standard.

So instead of t2-t3 res and life you had t1 res and t1 life mods with every relevant mod still being the same. Wow, so broken.

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heaven0777 wrote:

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SunL4D2 wrote:

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xPiranha wrote:

I wish you could crucible other pieces of gear that would've been interesting but probably a bit over the top.

Crucible Tree on every piece of gear? :o

Maybe we will get something that has to do with modifying armour in the future now that we got Kalandra modifying Jewellry and Crucible all about Weapons / Shields

Don't we technically have that with double corruption?

If we stretch word technically a lot I suppose.

The mods may be good, but I don’t like it at all. The gameplay of interacting with the
mechanic sucks more than any league besides heist and maybe the original Bestiary. The way it ties you down to specific weapons and makes it harder to upgrade is similar to the socket/link issue PoE2’s socket system is trying to fix.

Power wise.. yeah, you're probably right. But this mechanic was honestly one of the worst they've done. I had way more power in Harvest/Ritual League then this stuff. I'm speaking from my melee centric builds, not silly totem stuff.

I agree, a lot of the mods are cool, interesting and powerful, which again offers new build possibilities.

The problem is the mechanic. It's lackluster to say the least. Another problem is also that some skill specific nodes on the crucible trees are clearly just an afterthought.

hoho