Trade being mandatory to properly progress your build is bad

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iamwillpower#9993 wrote:

I have played without trading till cruel act 3 and it was a horrendous experience. I was dying due to not having enough defences and had absolutely no way of fixing it. I spent all my currency on "crafting" and was still running around with level 16 gear pieces in act 3 cruel. There was no proper loot in the floor, there was not enough currency to rng some better gear. I was lacking dps, i was lacking attributes to equip items that were semi usefull.

I have played 4 leagues of POE 1 where i start trading when i finish the campaign. This is fun to me to customize a build around what i find. But it was impossible in poe 2, i had amassed 426 deaths and a friend of mine carried me through 2 boss fights.

I wanted to focus on cast on shock, it got nerfed after 1 hour of obtaining it. Enough has been said about that so i wont go deeper into the matter, just bad luck on my end of wanting to automate a small part of my build but that idea has ended up next to all the rares on floor.

I spent around 20 exalts and plenty of regals on every maybe viable gear pieces and they basically all ended up with life per second and reduced attribute requirement or some other trash stat. In 70 hours of playtime crafting every piece i could, i had an amulet with 10 spirit implicit and 40 or 50 spirit modifier. Sold it for 8 exalts and bought new gloves, a belt, a ring and an amulet. How is one exalt as trading currency worth more than the gear it can craft?

A white item can receive 2 modifiers 'for free' with the cheap currency, 3 modifiers with a regal. And then you need 3 exalts to rng a good item. So in theory a good item should sell for 3 exalts right? Thats how much it would cost to craft it. Given the fact rares can be bought from vendors and found on the floor, a good item should sell for 2 exalts since there are more rares available than simply the craftable ones.

But still i can buy top tier gear for 1 exalt on trade, this seems bad to me for the following reason: playing the game rewards you less than interacting with the external trade website. This feels like bad design.

Also, why is it only physical damage leeched as life? I am a pure lightning damage build... Why is that stat so specific to just one damage type.

We need essences, alot more essences. Especially essences that upgrade magic into rare. Or modify a rare with groups of modifiers so we can at least have some influence on what the game gives.

Crafting is worse than buying stuff because it always gets you what you want for 1/3rd of the cost. Floor loot can be completely ignored, just check the vendor every level and pray.

I do like vendors offering good items, its a nice change, i basically ignored vendors in poe 1 when it came to items.

Also salvaging is way too tedious, having to Salvage 10 items with sockets (2 inventories full of whites items) to get 1 orb in return. This incentivizes trading even more over self crafting.