If it's NOT Deterministic, It's not CRAFTING! Just glorified gambling which isn't fun

Gambling is fun
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There just really is no other way to see this. There is a plethora of video games that have some of the best deterministic crafting systems that exist in ARPGs. I'm not saying copy them 1 for 1 but at least try to take some ideas and implement crafting into PoE 2.





then go play those games and enjoy yourself. . .


stop trying to change a core design pillar of POE.



+1 agree with op
Trading is a crutch that needs to go. It is sad to see a perfect game being demoted to good, because of trade and being balanced around it.
Oh yea, its just pulling the lever on the slot machine.
At some point of your ''crafting'' you are going to have to 50/50 your item or even worst odds.
Its to artificialy make you loose your stuff so you can go again and loose more time.

Why do you think they are in a hury to add corruptions in theyr early acces so fast.
Now we can straight up brick and delete our items by 50/50ing them. We gona waste more time on trying to get good items.
+1

The game need a real crafting system and not a boring gambling system.

It's bad so it need to be change. We need a blacksmith shop where we can craft loot we drop even if it's expensive.
duh. you dont even know what you talking bout. Poe1 didnt even have that much of easy deterministic crafting as we had in poe2 last league.

deterministic crafting is the worst they ever added in both games. The thrill of the game is finding good gear. Rare gear on the ground being able to be bis.

if you want more deterministic crafting go to poe1.

Actually I see alot of either bots or actual tourists here responding. Its good that you guys arent game designers. Deterministic crafting/game elements or rather no rng is the worst you can do in a game.

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The gambling system in this game is still way too convoluted with RNG on top of RNG and you need some 3rd party website to figure it out. That isn't immersive interaction I'm looking for in a game.


ok you guys are actually ragebaiting. you dont need 3rd party website. its built ingame. you can use a website which again isnt 3rd party since its the games trade website.
Just accept the game is not for you if these are your complaints.
Last edited by ArmyOfLight#2593 on Dec 11, 2025, 5:35:04 PM
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I'd also like to add that if you need a 3rd party site to understand something then there is a flaw in it's design. There really needs to be some simplification to antiquated ideas that came over from PoE1. Or better yet leave those antiquated ideas in PoE1. If PoE 2 is going to be thee next Gen ARPG a lot old design from PoE 1 won't work.


PoE1 has the best crafting system of all games EXACTLY because you need to actually know what you're doing.

Fully deterministic crafting would be a disaster and make loot even less relevant.
Crafting is actually deterministic if you got the sufficient amount of materials. ;)
I'd love to have the crafting table from POE1 in POE2.

Having the option to "buy" one modifier on your piece of equipment is massive.

Tho I agree that you should not be able to "buy" all modifiers on a gear, having this option, that you could "freely" add, remove or modify one modifier on your gear would make crafting much more deterministic.

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