Fracturing should be removed

Talking about Power Creep...i think its not a balancing issue but a Equipment Problem.

The Gear, in the mid to endgame Area is much too strong.
Especially Fractured Items rolled with an Essence are too easy to acquire and can be already close to Mirror Tier ...at least they are very Strong. The normal outcome is 4 Good Mods plus a Craft from crafting bench...and then top it up with 2 Good Eldritch implicits.

Also Eldritch Implicits and Eldritch Currency in general delivers too much Player Power too early.

Please remove Fracturing and Eldritch Implicits next League so that Acquiring Gear is more impact- and meaningful next League. At least it should not be possible to put Eldritch implicits on Fractured Gear.

Of course im talking from Trade Perspective...in SSF this is probably all ok.
I'm anyway a fan of having different Drop Pools in different Game Modes and to remove migration.

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Daniel

I think the issue is that tree shitting with good fractures on right and left. It's the same problem like Necropolis.

The game needs these kind of methods to make op gear else they would need to completely rebalance the difficulty. I think just making good gear is too expensive in general and something like tree crafting or necropolis or old harvest were allowing wider audience to make good gear not just the top 0.1% which is a good thing.

Hardly disagree with the original statement. Fracturing is good and brings variety so the eldricht implicits.

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derhealman#2745 wrote:

Especially Fractured Items rolled with an Essence are too easy to acquire and can be already like Mirror Tier Items.

The only potentially mirror worthy fractures come from recombing delve and breach mods. Essence fractures aren't even close to being mirror tier items ever as their crafting cost rarely goes past 1/3 of a mirror.

These fractures are mostly used by the middle tier of players to fill their slots with 20-100d items. I'm not sure why you'd want to nerf one of the most reasonably balanced item progression parts? It's one of the few parts that genuinely encourages crafting. Seems odd.

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derhealman#2745 wrote:

Especially Fractured Items rolled with an Essence are too easy to acquire and can be already like Mirror Tier Items.

synthesis implicits, lock and mist crafting would like to have a talk with you

The Items you talk about are absolutely Not necessary to completley destroy all relevant Atlas Objektives plus Uber Bosses. Im talking about mid to Endgame not 100 % Delirium Farming.

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derhealman#2745 wrote:

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Please remove Fracturing and Eldritch Implicits next League so that Acquiring Gear is more impact- and meaningful next League. At least it should not be possible to put Eldritch implicits on Fractured Gear.

No. The appeal of POE1 is that the game is a sandbox with almost endless ways to build character. Adding, limitations just makes the game annoying.

Just make sources of fracturing/eldritch implicts rarer instead.

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Fracturing should be removed

No.

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derhealman#2745 wrote:

The Items you talk about are absolutely Not necessary to completley destroy all relevant Atlas Objektives. Im talking about mid to Endgame

So what even is mid- or endgame then? Where does one thing begin and the other end? Is it 2 stones? is it 4 stones? Is it having pinnacle bosses on farm-status? Is it 2k delve and lower?

And why would you even want to mess with the mid-game to begin with? The game gets tedious enough once people are past the lvl 95 mark, at which point meaningful gear upgrades are already becoming slightly more difficult to come by.

Everything substantial on the way to mirror-tier equipment is always an up-tick in costs worth several divines, if not dozens of them at a time. Making proper gear more difficult to craft and source would only serve to artificially increase the cost of everything that's worthwhile using to a point where you throw too many people under the bus.

Speaking of mirror tier items: Everything you said about fracture + essence craft = mirror tier is wrong. It's so wrong, it's not even close.