Let's talk crafting

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

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Gkek#1581 wrote:

Honestly, if I had recognized you I wouldn't have bothered responding as you have some of the most hamburger brained takes I have ever seen, and it's clear you don't play PoE at a level high enough to even understand what's going on.

Good luck with your thread.

mmm more troll bait.

Not that I need to prove anything to you, but I'm sure I've done everything you have ever done in the game 10x over.

I have 16000 hours and 12 years in PoE 1. The only thing I have never done is HC because I simply hate the idea of permanent death and I value my time a bit more than that.

Go ahead and keep digging your ridiculous hole even deeper with each thread and response. Nice try though.



For the thread: I am NOT against the "gambling" aspect of using orbs. I think it has its place, and that place is necessary at SOME point in the process. I do not, however, think it should be the ENTIRE process. The lottery should be hit on the drops, not on the crafting.

I see we are mostly stuck on PoE 1 carryovers, and really no new "fresh" ideas. Should have expected that. Was hoping we could ignore orbs/essences/etc. and all the "crafting" that existed, and attempt to create a completely new system to achieve a different goal. But it seems we all keep trying to take the pieces that already exist and "fit" them into a new system. I don't really think that's possible...

There have been some good ideas, and there have been some contrary to my own thoughts. I'd like to add: do you think an elaborate crafting system should exist at the expense of devaluing every possible drop you come across? This is the case in PoE 1. It is currently NOT the case in PoE 2, only because crafting is essentially the same process as finding a rare item: click and pray.

I think some degree of "click and pray" is valuable, it feeds into the dopamine rush of hitting the lottery on an item. I just personally feel like that should be almost entirely relegated to wild rares, and not using orbs. I also don't think mirrors should not exist at all, but that is a somewhat separate point as it isn't technically "crafting".

Essences should go back to their old way of adding a SPECIFIC known modifier, but the (poe1) values should be much lower. Have the tippy top essence offer a t3 or t4 level of mod, and have it be unusable on future fractured bases. This alone could get nearly any build in PoE 1 from campaign to t16 maps which is a huge problem.