Currency has no Value in POE2

Hi,

removing the Crafting Bench doesn't only make no sense, it also makes Currency completely worthless in game.
Furthermore, Vendor Prices all now cost Gold instead of Currency.
As you can't buy any Skill Gems from Vendors (should think about this actually - like basic Skill, Spirit and Support Gems).

But my Point is that we have nothing to use the Currency for in Game.
In POE1 for me at least it was fascinating that the Currency not only had a Value in Trade Market but also in game.


It doesn't need to be on the same power level as in poe1 and doesn't need to have Meta Crafts, but yeah, I think you get my point.
Of course, you can charge significant prices ... like 4 ex per the highest Resistance Craft and so on ...
At least for me in POe1 I couldn't use the Crafting Bench like permanent you know ... the balancing of it was fine, and I dumped a lot of Chaos in it.

Removing Crafting Bench and Vendor Prices is a Big Game Design failure.

Cheers
Daniel

Did you try, I don't know... to use orbs for its intended purpose??? As crazy as it sounds.

P.S. We have runes instead of bench now.