CRAFTING AND RECOMBINATOR NEED TO CHANGE

Crafting is non existent really.
Recombinator has destroyed 99.5 % of the nice things i saved in over 800 hours. It's a disaster and won't use it anymore until it's reworked.
Crafting is such a fun part of games of this type but here its only a frustrating and angry experience. Why????

I gotta say the recomb feels mostly bad from a ssf standpoint.

I thought I was using it incorrectly for the longest time because I literally had 10+ uses in a row where both of my weapons disintegrated and I thought there's no way I could just be this unlucky. My last try before deciding I didn't really understand what was going on I just gambled two weapons and chose random low-tier mods on it to see if I could recombine them and still - POOF.

After some tedious research about it, turns out I was actually just that unlucky, and even now that I have had some successful recombs - it still feels bad to use and something needs to change about it.

I'm not sure what it even is that needs to change, I just know that it feels bad to use.

I think maybe if it's not going to be a successful recomb it shouldn't just automatically destroy the items - there needs to be some sort of consolation steps or investment that can be made to mitigate this, whether you sacrifice gold, or essences, or other orbs, or something else along with the typical expedition currency.

Maybe it can give you back one of the bases, or maybe a rerolled rare of one of the basetypes - I don't know. I'm not a game designer, I'm just a player, and I know the way it's currently set up feels kinda bad.

I even had a successful recomb that worked and I felt more relieved I didn't have to farm for flaring again than I felt excited about the item.

this game has no crafting.