Crafting is too powerful now, needs to be toned down.

I understand we asked for better crafting and I believe the crafting improvement we got for 0.3 is great, I believe even GGG is happy right now however crafting is insanely overpowered now and that's a fact. I expect to be nerfed and that's also what I ask but I want other players to accept this fact as well.

Crafting is needed in arpg yes, but it shouldn't be the CORE aspect of gearing the character. Currently it's that way, they improved it at a point where you can ALMOST craft any single piece of equipement item with stats you like. As long as you have some currencies to spend on it, you can craft them.

in ARPGs most fun comes from the DROPS. You kill something, you get drop and it's all luck if you get a god tier item or not. This is the dopamine ARPG games aim for. However in 0.3 right now, all we do is collecting base items and slaming some currencies on it to see if we got stats we like for crafting. Or they've added exceptional base items now, this is what you need for crafting right now. You buy exceptional base item with extra socket, you try for modifiers you need. When you get one, rest is easy as long as you have currencies to spend. Literally at some point your gear is guaranteed, all you need is a little bit of luck, but the item never bricks you can just reroll the same item or just remove the bad modifers until you hit. There is no risk, it's just guaranteed god tier item we are talking about.

Those who don't understand crafting or who can't be bothered to learn, purchases from other people. Yet if they actually spend some effort, they could craft the same item waay cheaper than purchasing it. Thanks to crafting many people in this league swimming in divine orbs / mirrors by spending few divines only.

Economy aside, this should not be the core part of the arpg game anyways. We should be looting rare items and look for insane modifiers on them instead of just buying extra socket base items and craft the thing we need without bricking anything.

What are your thoughts on the current crafting situation? Don't you think it's way too powerful now? Why are we crafting every single equipment piece now?

This is ragebait.

It is in a good space now with higher tier orbs. Some omens should be removed tho or toned down.

Uhh.....

Maybe some of the highest of highest part of it might be a bit deterministic.



Personally love the essence changes and the addition of desecrate



Would mostly disagree

crafting is perfect. right direction. overtime when ppl figured out the methods, prices will be cheaper. atm the nolifers are still trying to scam casual players.

Have to disagree with most of your post.

Why is it bad that your rewarded for learning how to craft?
You can still find good drops and you can still trade with other players just like before, entry level crafting is also alot easier now that the essences are stronger, you have desecrated mods and its easy to get perfect blue orbs and regals which are very powerful.

The one thing I will agree with is that I dont think the Exceptional bases should be kept. They kind of ruin drops because if you get a normal drop then almost nomatter how good the stats on it are the value will be fairly low compared to buying an exceptional base and just using crafting currency on it.