Pros and Cons of Faustus on Console
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Look Faustus is the greatest addition POE has seen in a long time. We don’t want to loose this feature and go back to the struggle of waiting for people to respond. Here’s my opinion…
PROS Waking up and seeing a pile of currency is amazing. Bulk selling maps Prevents a lot of price fixing with Async Quick and easy currency in a pinch Quick and easy buying if gear/matts cons The loss of the trade board had crippled the ability of some players to easily price check. - I don’t know a single person who uses the in game trade market feature. Bulk selling essence/scarabs ect is impossible as at times there’s literally zero trade offers or extremely brutal ratios. Suggestions to fix Cons Bring back L3 +Triangle have it open the trade board filtered by lowest price and you click to warp to hideout feature. Allow us to put essences/ scarabs/currency, pretty much everything into premium Async tabs. - also generates more $$$ for GGG we will need more Async tabs. That is all. Last bumped on Dec 4, 2025, 7:08:06 AM
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The other option is we need more trade slots on Faustus for console. Our player base is too small which means there's not enough people posting trades for things on the the exchange because we are too limited on slots.
Either expand the available trade slots for console by a significant amount or allow us to sell them through Async. The removal of the trade board crippled our ability to sell things like fossils, Essences, Scarabs etc because now we only have one option and that's the exchange but we don't have slots to waste on selling low chaos items. Those 10 slots are too precious to actually post low value items for sale. |
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we actually need crossplay with PC.
My main frustration is I get to the point where it gets really difficult to upgrade items and there is nothing available to buy because they don't exist. I've already dropped 200 div trying to craft a better wand, failed. Looked on PC. Many choices that I could just have spent 20-40D on. That's when I stop playing, when it becomes to difficult or almost impossible to craft better stuff. It's frustrating and that's when I end the league. Crossplay would be amazing. They have it in POE2 but that game is bad. So why can't we have it in POE1? |
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" Let's be clear about something. Assuming that 200d you spent came largely from trading/selling, it wouldn't have been 200d on PC/with crossplay. It might not even have been 20d. Almost anything less than 1d on console is basically free on PC, so you can't make money selling that stuff. And hard to find/low availability stuff is often WAY more expensive on console, so, while you can sell it on PC, you won't get nearly as much for it. There are exceptions. Mirrors are almost always more expensive on PC, for example. Anyway, my point is that lots of console players seem to think they'll just magically get 10x the buying power with crossplay, and this isn't true at all. The casuals who want to buy 1c PC items that are 30c on console will get what they want, because they don't sell anything anyway. But the people who actually participate in the market will find that they go from being a big fish in a small pong to a small fish in a big pond. Maybe you would love the PC economy... but if you've never tried it, I wouldn't go assuming you'll like it better. | |
" Personally i have no problem with faustus, unless you are literally listing your stuff for prices no one will even buy fast or multiple items in really small quantities you are good. When it comes to price checking on console, pretty much people need to price check an item on phone through trade site since async trade lacks so many things is insane and using it for that is literally a waste of time since you can do that a lot faster on your phone, only exceptions are unique items but console players are having trouble with pricing them for some reason. I think that only thing that could save trade on console is full crossplay with all platforms, maybe after poe 2 is out they are going to finally do this. |
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