Poe 2 "crafting" wont ever be used by casuals, might need to remove the system and rebalance.

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Ash#9143 wrote:

I recently watched a video that was like 30 minutes trying to explain the most deterministic method of crafting in poe2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCthzpIrfE

Firstly no casual would be watching such a ridiculous video, I quit at around 20 minutes because it was getting silly.

First of all the entire process is not accessible to casuals, from what I understood most of its process relies on getting the first few desired affixes at incredibly high tiers then spamming chaos with whittlement omens to remove the lowest one and keep exalting until the lowest one is the one desired.

This "system" is utterly bonkers, not only do average players, SSF and even in trade leage dont have hundreds of those currencies because they spend time playing the game rather than stay in base trading, even whittlements are incredibly rare.

Im about to be lvl 94 fire mage ritualist and only ever gotten 1, i was only able to do king of the mists once because the other 2 times the invite appeared and was deferred it was just too expensive to ever buy.


This system is not casual friendly! I feel the reason the RNG of getting good items is so punishing is specifically because these ridiculous methods technically exist that will only be used by sweatlords. You should not balance a game around what sweats are doing, the average player doesnt use any of the things described in the video

My suggestion is to remove the entire described system and instead buff RNG so high ilvl items 81+ by default roll very high affixes, have recombinator also have a high chance of combining 2 high tier affixes so even if they combine it wont matter because we still have 4 exalts to RNG with