lol... Why call it crafting? It's just gambling.

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mnieradko#6070 wrote:

It's funny that people are trying to apply real-world crafting/manufacturing/etc. situations to POE crafting.

Based on the insanely bad RNG and random outcomes of POE "crafting", here would be an analog for a carpenter making a wooden chair.

- 20% chance of the chair having 5 legs instead of 4.
- 20% chance of the chair having 3 legs instead of 4.
- 20% chance of the chair having 4 legs of different lengths.
- 20% chance of the chair collapsing when you sit on it, regardless of weight.
- 19% chance of the chair being double its intended height.
- 1% chance of the chair having its intended height, 4 legs of equal length, and structural stability

There's a giant gaping abyss between "this is deterministic and easy and boring" and "here's 50 steps of horrible RNG gambling have fun". Both POE1 and POE2 "crafting" are firmly towards the latter.

- The devs here decided a while back that useful powerful item drops ON THE GROUND were not allowed, so they pivoted to "crafting" gameplay
- This game then became a currency simulator, not an ARPG, in which you need abundant currency becuase virtually every "crafting" pathway is painful outside of the crafting bench in your hideout
- Said currency has now been mostly removed, so the game is neither a currency simulator nor an ARPG