crafting change

if the crafting change includes essences then there is no point in playing this league, it turns any craft that isnt endgame whittle spam completely back to 0.1 rng nonsense

- recomb is gone to start an item with 3 mods
- gloves and boots lose either hysteria or horror
- early endgame weapon loses 3 essence mods
- every try to craft something after campaign has to start with a fractured mod to even have a chance to be good

- back to 0.1 garbage rng slam

Well they said that runes of aldur will add crafting options. I heard something about a rune that you can equip to item that says "Prefixes cannot chance while this rune is socketed" and same rune for suffixes.

GGG does not even care about their player's quality of life anymore.

Since they have investors now, their focus shifted on pleasing them than their customers.

The only reason they do nerfs at the cost of quality of life is to significantly slow down the game which they think would boost player retention without costing money.

They know they can get away with it because of their loyal fanbase.

During interviews, they already said multiple times that they are tuning the game based on how THEY want to play it and not on what the players want.

In terms of slowing the game down so players dont leave, its more cost effective to nerf qualiy of life and nerf other builds than actually develop new challenging end game mechanics and rework buff other classes.

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Taistelija#5483 wrote:

Well they said that runes of aldur will add crafting options. I heard something about a rune that you can equip to item that says "Prefixes cannot chance while this rune is socketed" and same rune for suffixes.

those meta runes have a concerning line on them as well:



Unless im interpreting it wrong, that means sacrificing the socket permanantly to roll 1 mod(the 1 and only crafted mod allowed)

I really hate it, at this point chaos spam without using any of the additional crafting systems in PoE1 is better than this.

Players NEED to be able to force on MULTIPLE specific modifiers for the crafting to be good. Otherwise it is just endlessly tossing out trash until we get the one item that isn't garbage.

We are talking crafting so bad that it is hard to even fix RESISTANCES.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

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Taistelija#5483 wrote:

Well they said that runes of aldur will add crafting options. I heard something about a rune that you can equip to item that says "Prefixes cannot chance while this rune is socketed" and same rune for suffixes.

those meta runes have a concerning line on them as well:

Spoiler

Unless im interpreting it wrong, that means sacrificing the socket permanantly to roll 1 mod(the 1 and only crafted mod allowed)

If you watched the stream what this does is it enables a mod pool in which you can waste your chaos trying to hit sth...
The ultimate problem is we want deterministic crafting for SSF, we dont need tier 1, we dont need special mods. We just want a weapon that is not trash and can be crafted with a deterministic process where we dont waste 100 chaos.

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TicoCh#7841 wrote:

If you watched the stream what this does is it enables a mod pool in which you can waste your chaos trying to hit sth...
The ultimate problem is we want deterministic crafting for SSF, we dont need tier 1, we dont need special mods. We just want a weapon that is not trash and can be crafted with a deterministic process where we dont waste 100 chaos.

Ya, i saw that. my concern is they get socketed in and they stay in the item permanantly. even after crafting is done.

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TicoCh#7841 wrote:

The ultimate problem is we want deterministic crafting for SSF, we dont need tier 1, we dont need special mods. We just want a weapon that is not trash and can be crafted with a deterministic process where we dont waste 100 chaos.

It isn't just that we want it... it is that we NEED it for most builds to even FUNCTION. This is not even an SSF problem.

We are talking a game where it is very hard to get resistances outside of gear PRE 0.5, we need about 2 good resistance affixes on each gear piece to cap resistance by maps. Which means almost every gear piece needs to be crafted with a resistance essence. Just to meet basic defence levels. And this is not even counting that we need to get armor/evasion/energy shield/life as affixes.

But we cannot use the res essence and then a different craft, which means that anything better than BASIC defensive items is either ENTIRELY RNG or multiple divines, with almost nothing in between.

So crafting as we knew it is basically dead again cool. This happens every single league, we just find new ways to make things. But I wonder how many more times they will turn it on its head? It sure would be nice to at some point learn some crafting rules and them not completely change for a bit. The PoE1 people have no trouble with their decade of experience, but for me its kind of pissing me off how you guys keep changing crafting so much each league. Whiplash exists.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

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Taistelija#5483 wrote:

Well they said that runes of aldur will add crafting options. I heard something about a rune that you can equip to item that says "Prefixes cannot chance while this rune is socketed" and same rune for suffixes.

those meta runes have a concerning line on them as well:

Spoiler

Unless im interpreting it wrong, that means sacrificing the socket permanantly to roll 1 mod(the 1 and only crafted mod allowed)

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Unless im interpreting it wrong, that means sacrificing the socket permanantly to roll 1 mod(the 1 and only crafted mod allowed)

This seems very wrong, since the mod on the boots wouldn't be a quaranteed mod, as much as desecration isn't a quarantee to get a certain mod. You get a possible outcome of a pool of mods.

Yet you would sacrifice a jewel slot for crafting another mod which is definitely concerning.