What's the point of recombinator?

As a concept recomb is good, a promising tool to fill gaps in your gear.

But it indeed requires some tuning, chances-costs wise.
As OP said, there's no point to aim for mediocre stats on recomb, you already got mediocre gear by the time you farmed materials for recomb.
Now you want something better, and miniscule chances don't help with that.

Then again, devs probably don't want to fill game with perfect items like it was with PoE 1 Necropolis gravecrafting.

Maybe allow Recombined items to be good, but allow equip only 1 Recombined item per toon, or something.

They'll find balance, I believe.

I opened recomb bench once, whacked in a couple items picked 1 mod on each - 8% chance of success.

Thats the last time ill ever open the recomb bench, back to trade it is!

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 เขียน:

they heard that we didnt want the entire crafting system to be gambling so they added more gambling to the crafting system.

Truth.

The vision is that they want playing this game to feel like getting punched in the dick.

It's kind of comical how much better Last Epoch's crafting system is, though it makes sense since its actually a crafting system and not gambling with currency that would get more value if you can just tolerate the godawful trading "system" here (which LE also does better).

Currently, the recombinator is a good tool for mid to early endgame.
It's decent enough if you want mid-tier items, but it's quite clear that it's not useful for crafting mirror-tier items. One can imagine that its functionality will evolve with future updates.

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pollozik#7790 เขียน:

Currently, the recombinator is a good tool for mid to early endgame.
It's decent enough if you want mid-tier items, but it's quite clear that it's not useful for crafting mirror-tier items. One can imagine that its functionality will evolve with future updates.

In theory it can work even for mirror items. Mathematically is possible, at some point, to hit what you want even with that 0.01% chance. Is just a matter of time and resources, but not impossible.

Now, no one will "test" that (obviously), but is not correct to deny that "outcome".

But I share your use cases, felt the same about it, and as a mechanic itself I find it quite interesting. Looking forward to its future changes (if any, most likely there will since Mark seemed invested into the feedback about Recombs as we seen in Zizaran's interview).

There isn't a point. Was just something they threw together real quick to try and fool us with a new "crafting" system.

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sebzzz#6019 เขียน:

There isn't a point. Was just something they threw together real quick to try and fool us with a new "crafting" system.

Not really 'new' since we've seen quite a few versions of the recombinator in PoE 1, especially on Settlers.

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enslavedemperor#5410 เขียน:

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pollozik#7790 เขียน:

Currently, the recombinator is a good tool for mid to early endgame.
It's decent enough if you want mid-tier items, but it's quite clear that it's not useful for crafting mirror-tier items. One can imagine that its functionality will evolve with future updates.

In theory it can work even for mirror items. Mathematically is possible, at some point, to hit what you want even with that 0.01% chance. Is just a matter of time and resources, but not impossible.

Now, no one will "test" that (obviously), but is not correct to deny that "outcome".

But I share your use cases, felt the same about it, and as a mechanic itself I find it quite interesting. Looking forward to its future changes (if any, most likely there will since Mark seemed invested into the feedback about Recombs as we seen in Zizaran's interview).

Whats the functional difference between impossible and "no one would ever do it"? Good luck!

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EdwardReynolds#6959 เขียน:

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enslavedemperor#5410 เขียน:

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pollozik#7790 เขียน:

Currently, the recombinator is a good tool for mid to early endgame.
It's decent enough if you want mid-tier items, but it's quite clear that it's not useful for crafting mirror-tier items. One can imagine that its functionality will evolve with future updates.

In theory it can work even for mirror items. Mathematically is possible, at some point, to hit what you want even with that 0.01% chance. Is just a matter of time and resources, but not impossible.

Now, no one will "test" that (obviously), but is not correct to deny that "outcome".

But I share your use cases, felt the same about it, and as a mechanic itself I find it quite interesting. Looking forward to its future changes (if any, most likely there will since Mark seemed invested into the feedback about Recombs as we seen in Zizaran's interview).

Whats the functional difference between impossible and "no one would ever do it"? Good luck!

A matter of perspective.

Some of the people on the dev team really like rng. The game also seems to balanced around trade. My guess is they expect people in trade league to use this to create bases to start the "crafting" process.

Dedicated Poe 1 players already spend tons of divines to make gear. I imagine they don't really care that this would take tons of attempts to get something worthwhile.

I agree with you however, it's crap. I was looking forward to it, but I knew GGG wouldn't actually make a reliable crafting system, so I"m not surprised it turned out to be crap. It is disappointing though.

Honestly, I'm starting to accept the game GGG wants to make, I'm not going to find fun.