New tier of currency items is an awful idea imo and thats why

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Legoury#0138 wrote:

Hi guys,

I discovered, like all of us, that there are just 2 new tiers of currency for 0.3, with greater and perfect for all currencies (trans, chaos, exalted,...) and in my opinion its an awful idea and thats why :

1) GGG said about Poe2, that they want a game much more accessible than PoE1 is, specially about loot quantity. So they decided to delete some currencies from PoE1 in PoE2. Than right now, they just decide to multiply currencies by 3. Thats a total non sense and it would make the game much more hard to understand for 1.0 release. Most of new players would ask themselves why there are 3 same but different currency in this game and whats the difference between it (and ofc, we wont find it in the game).

2) People who tell me : "but you know, there would be some really powerful currencies now and thats what really matter" and I would respond : you are wrong. This 2 new tier (harder to get so) will just dilute good loots into some new trash loots. Because even if normal chaos, exalted, trans,... would stay the same, for most of players, it would be trash loots. So players would have the feeling that there are more bad loot in this 0.3 version. And if its the same than for greater and perfect jeweller's orbs, people would be really frustrated about it, because they would feel they cant loot it and so, normal exalted, chaos,... would be trash for them. And we will see it in auction house !

3) About auction house, Im pretty sure normal exalted would be totally abandonned by community to sell item, and be replaced by new greater, perfect,... and it would be awful for most of players. Cause most of items would be totally unbuyable for casual players, cause people will always ask for some greater exalted, or greater chaos or some perfect ones. Marketplace would be a total mess for next weeks cause we just have too many good new currencies to trade with.


I cant see the future, but in my opinion, every arguments I exposed here is pretty obvious and it makes me feel its a terrible choice of GGG. Even just about craft, I think it would be pretty bad.
What do you think about it ?

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

its normal for a game to become more complex whit time =/ so i disagree .
the game must become more complex slowly to be interesting .

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SkyPrince30#4110 wrote:

Some valid points, but I think there is a trade-off that people have to accept.

The issue with the old system, that is of having less currency, is that we don't have a lot of options. If you want more options, however, you kind of need more currency. There really aren't that many other ways around it.

I think, at least for now, this is the best possible solution if what you wanted was more agency and deterministic crafting. Is it perfect, who knows, it hasn't been released, but it is a step in the right direction.

It's also worth noting that yes, it's "new" currencies, but it's just variations of the same thing. You're not remembering 3x as many currencies. It's still the same currencies, just with new levels. That's different than having all new stuff.

So yeah, everything in this game is going to be a trade-off. If you want it simple, it means it's probably going to be more restrictive. If you want lots of agency and options, probably means more currency.

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Dak01#7115 wrote:

what they're attempting to do is compensate for this issue (the trade-off related to the reset/regen of a base) by reducing the number of bases required to create a worthwhile item.

so while the trade value of these basic currencies become nearly worthless, the higher tier versions will better match the supply of bases needed to use these currencies and craft desirable items.