Path of Exile 2's Crafting System Hates You | Design Delve

I don't even have to watch this, poe2 doesn't have crafting it just has gambling for rich people.

crafting would imply gathering material, learning recipes and putting those together to form new items. None of that happens in poe2. You just take a shitty item, apply expensive orbs and hope for the best!

More like 70% lottery 30% crafting.

if we take metacrafting away (10-60d omen vs 2d bench in poe1), crafting in poe2 is often as simple as vision crafting attribute stacking clusters in poe1 (which is one of the most tedious crafting, not often done manually): alt, add 3 mods, fracture, then alt-aug-regal-exalt for 4t1. attribute stacking simplex amulet since 3.27 is similar (1/3 annul gamble, 1/8 or lower reforge influence gamble, each try requires half an hour of farming). people in general dislike this kind of crafting since it's indeed gambling. I'd say poe2 still has a long way to go in terms of crafting methods and affix pool depth.