Uber pinnacle bosses, Fragments, and Invites.

This absolutely isn't an original piece of feedback, but it's something I think about every league.

I really dislike that Uber boss variants are accessed through the same invites and fragment as the non uber bosses. It creates a situation where if you want to engage with bosses, you're taking a loss by not doing the uber versions: The economy prices these items around the potential drops, so all fragments and invites are priced around uber drops. Unless you can reliably defeat uber bosses, you're best off selling the invites and ignoring the fact that they exist.

I used to really like playing a good old all-rounder, that could map clear and occasionally fight bosses. But now I don't really have any incentive to make something balanced like this- If I know I'm never going to be able to boss, why bother with anything that isn't just map clear?

The result is I generally feel unsatisfied with playing. I want to push further into the game, but the way I'm encouraged by the game to play (to make money to expand on my character, etc) is not the same as what I want out of the game (to feel Powerful by killing extraplanar eldritch gods.)

This dissatisfaction results in a secondary issue: I end up wanting to create a second character who CAN boss. This in itself isn't a negative. I do enjoy the idea of creating multiple characters to fill different niches.
HOWEVER.
These second characters are then required to use the same atlas passive tree as your other build/s. This means you have to respec before doing uber bosses, creating a situation where you're further incentivized into not actually running the bosses, but hoarding their invites until you can complete them in bulk. So you either sell them all or hoard them until you're confident you can complete a dozen uber bosses in a row.

tl;dr: Pinnacle bosses and Uber Pinnacle bosses sharing invites creates a situation where you're discouraged from engaging with either. It discourages build diversity and makes the game less fun.

Hey you are right, I was about to do the same post.

The uber variant should NOT share the same invitation

Path of exile boss are amazing among ARPG games and they should not be reserved to the elite who can run the Uber variant. It is not healthy that when you run a normal version you are actually clicking on "waste money for fun"

GGG I offer you this solution :
Make invitation easier to get, like 4 crescents for maven, 10 map for exarch/eater, and then on the atlas passive change the uber nodes to allow spending 3 invitations at the time to access the full power 85.

This is not perfect, but It would let so many player enjoy the bosses and create another sub economy for the normal tier boss rewards.

I Hope this thread can be read by some dev some time,
for the rest have good bossing ;)