Crafting is horrible and pointless at this moment.

So, I made a craftofexile.com full Breach Ring of the lightning spear meta for eventually trying to craft one in game. The following is the exported method from the site if anyone want to test:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1duc-OieuO9XYYs1KIwUFHXNh1vAbzNPo/view?usp=sharing

The thing is, I'm using all the possible ways to get to the item with the less currency effort. Now, the thing is, when i run for 100 items, not all of them are the best, actually the ratio for a perfect success is 34/100 (thinking in have lightning to attacks, lightning damage %, dex and int).

But for this, thinking in the total the amount used for a single success was:
Lesser Essence of electricity: 4136 (114div currently)
Greater Essence of electricity: 99 (99div currently)
Exalted Orb: 44 (0,5div currently)
Aug Orb: 794 (0,2div currently)
Annulment Orb: 26 (2div currently)
Sum ->

Remember that the ratio is 1 in every 3 items that had the "perfect" roll, so we get the 215,7div and multiply by 3, and one "META" item costs ~647divs to be crafted if you buy all resources in Alva, and I didn't even mentioned that for each "META" success you need to buy at least 4000 Breach rings, which means you add more like 30ex per ring (if market has stock also... if not price goes up), what sums at ~882divs and a total of ~1529divs for a "META" ring, is this as it is supposed to be???

Also, make sure that when i mean "META", I'm not talking about MAX tier rolls, some of them are tier 3 and also 4 in some cases.

I don't know if GGG does this metrics when they plan to put effort on development, as a developer i say, they got hours and hours of effort on this and this is literally horrible at this moment. Actually I think that the essences should drop from every single RARE at this moment to make the crafting less pointless, and the atlas tree should be multiplying its drop rate and quantity.

To conclude my analysis, if you go to trade site right now you can see items similar to this created by the simulation in craft of exile on a range from 80-300div, which at the worst case is 5x better than crafting. That is also a currency range that "common players" will also be hard to buy. Make essences better GGG please, make your game farmable and not a total RNG please, at the current state, people can not farm/buy a "META" ring during the period of a season.

+1

Not at the moment. It will always suck unless omens are as easy to gain simple runes.

Wait there is crafting in poe2? Must have missed it. I ll try to look for it next league.