Crafting bench 100% necessary

The game currently has literally ZERO crafting, and this is far from acceptable.

It's a requirement to be able to CRAFT (no runes aren't good enough, I want the bench, delete your runes). Omens should all be meta crafts that just cost divine in the bench.

The problem is GGG is focused on SPECIFICALLY and ONLY making content a more tedious, labor intensive, and un-fun experience.

Every single thing they have designed for POE 2 is just tedious nonsense. Even the atlas is designed to make us waste HOURS of time getting to pointless citadels..

The game is a 100% Gotcha time-sink, meant to give us little and maximize wasted time.

And by removing crafting they have given player agency a 100% killshot. The exact moment GGG said they were HAPPY with the state of crafting, most major streamers quit POE. And cited that exact question and answer as the reason.


GGG -- we don't like as much RNG as you. The crafting system cannot be WORSE than POE 1 -- POE 1 crafting is nowhere near deterministic to warrant such vehement destruction.

Why does GGG staff hate the player base so intensely?

For the love of god yes. Please bring back the crafting bench.

Just make items roll better when they drop. Crafting bench ruined your chance at getting that perfect item and exalting is more fun. Better drops would solve it imo.

I don't know that the PoE1 crafting bench is the solution. Obviously, many people know that system is complicated.

But almost anything is better than what we have in PoE2 right now. I'm fine if all they do is add more currencies that let us refine what it is we are doing to an item. Right now it is wide open randomness where you can't even get something in the same ballpark as what you are looking for.

yup

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Bobthegoat69#0803 a écrit :

Just make items roll better when they drop. Crafting bench ruined your chance at getting that perfect item and exalting is more fun. Better drops would solve it imo.

They actually had developed, promised, then changed their mind on this.

They invented "Smart loot" called "Loot 2.0" and then decided it was so powerful that they had to go the opposite way and make dumb loot 0.1 for POE 2.

They literally made worse loot after inventing mediocre loot lol

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FruitLord#0833 a écrit :

I don't know that the PoE1 crafting bench is the solution. Obviously, many people know that system is complicated.

But almost anything is better than what we have in PoE2 right now. I'm fine if all they do is add more currencies that let us refine what it is we are doing to an item. Right now it is wide open randomness where you can't even get something in the same ballpark as what you are looking for.

The problem here is simple


GGG just remade a ton of designs, and intentionally, they are all WORSE than POE 1.

That tells us if we want halfway worthless crafting they better port over POE 1 stat, because if they invent anything else it's going to be focused primarily on destroying the players will to live.

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GGG just remade a ton of designs, and intentionally, they are all WORSE than POE 1.

D4 route. Corporate approach.

Copypaste previous game but add new graphics. Strip it of everything at launch. Then keep adding old systems as "cool new additions". Profit.

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Azimuthus#1135 a écrit :

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GGG just remade a ton of designs, and intentionally, they are all WORSE than POE 1.

D4 route. Corporate approach.

Copypaste previous game but add new graphics. Strip it of everything at launch. Then keep adding old systems as "cool new additions". Profit.

Id LOVE if they did that. That would be a dramatic win, as POE 1 is about 1000x better of a game than POE 2


POE 2 is a full gotcha design as is. Often GGG goes way too far with RNG, and at this point they feel unchecked so badly they need oversight.

Maybe fuck with their wages, lets RNG how much they make per hour and see how happy they are.

Do not RNG my game so hard, it pisses us off and makes us have less fun


ADDITIONALLY... when GGG finally makes POE 2 hard, all the D4 people will not be able to hang at all, just like in POE 1 -- so all these fair weather fans are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor -- and they don't even know the game isn't for them. And will never be for them.

EA will be a lot of peoples only chance to play POE 2, if it gets hard like they want, 90% of you won't even be able to get to maps, let alone complete them.

Most new players are on borrowed time.

isnt the crafting bench now replaced by the jewels ?