GGG - great job with 0.3 - but one suggestion for currency

I guess I’m one of the few here who truly believes in GGG’s vision for PoE2, and for me, patch 0.3 is definitely a step in the right direction. It also shows that the devs are listening to the community – great job on that! Sadly, a lot of people start criticizing the patch even before it’s released…

When I saw the new currency update, my first thought was: “Nice idea, but won’t this just add even more currency items and make the game more complex again? Isn’t the whole point of PoE2 to be more beginner-friendly?”

You already nailed this design philosophy with the Sorcerer in 0.3: instead of adding more complexity, you simplified things. The Sorcerer can now reduce all elemental resistances at once, making it much easier to combine different spells. Why not take the same approach with crafting? Instead of introducing even more orbs (higher and perfect transmutation, regal, chaos, exalted orb), I’d suggest the following:

Make item level not only raise the maximum possible tiers, but also increase the guaranteed minimum tier when using orbs.

For example:

Life can roll tiers 1–13.

On an itemlevel 1 body armour, you’d only ever get tier 1–2 life.

On an itemlevel 80 body armour, you’d be guaranteed at least tier 7 life, with a chance up to tier 13.

Yes, I get that randomness is part of the thrill, and hitting all max tiers should feel amazing. But most of the time crafting is just frustrating, tedious, overly complex, and expensive. With a system like this, at least you’d know that an ilvl 80 armour will always roll something decent (tier 7+), while still leaving room for the excitement of hitting the higher tiers.

This change would solve several problems at once:

We keep the number of currency items low, instead of endlessly adding new ones.

Orb crafting would always yield at least a solid items, since the minimum tier scales with item level.

Players would feel more motivated to actually use orbs, since they’d be buffed into something that feels rewarding, rather than just wasting resources.

What do you think?

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AceNightfire#0980 เขียน:

Sadly, a lot of people start criticizing the patch even before it’s released…

What's the difference between that and praising the patch before it's released? What information do you have that they don't?

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CovidPatientZero#4772 เขียน:

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AceNightfire#0980 เขียน:

Sadly, a lot of people start criticizing the patch even before it’s released…

What's the difference between that and praising the patch before it's released? What information do you have that they don't?

Because I just played 0.3 on Gamescom 2025 here in germany and it feels really great when it comes to character belancing. At least this was my impression.

The thing about this suggestion is: GGG said they wanted to reduce the number of orbs, so that crafting isnt as bloated as it is in PoE1. With the introduction of new orbs, it gets more bloated again. I'm not saying I can't play with this, but I think it would make more sense to link the minimum rolled tierlevel to itemlevel and not to orbs with higher tier.

This is exactly what I was thinking off when the new currency reveal happened. Please GGG, do it item lvl based, not currency type based.

This will also make item lvl bases something to look for, like it is in PoE 1 higher tier endgame.