In every league, people have said the economy is broken. So what does a healthy economy look like for this game?

There will never be a perfect economy in an ARPG. Its impossible. Even if the devs spent all of their time refining the balance of content and its value, a number of people would find the intricacies in which it can be exploited or maximized for absurd levels of profit.

I will say, however, this current economy is ny far the most insane one ive ever been a part of. Items that should have no right costing a mirror cost multiple. The value of the divine is fractions of what it has been in previous leagues.

However, saying all of this, there are positives to the inflation the economy has experienced... every end game boss has signature drops this league would an absolute truck load of currency, mapping can be profitable with abyss, Sekhemas and Trials of chaos print basically free money. There are pros and cons. Alternatively, I think many people blossoming in this current economy will experience a reality check when there is large balancing done for the next league.

My two cents.

A healthy economy requires you to be able to do stuff with your currency which PoE2 has none of that sort. Exalts have no sinks, divines have kind of a sink. The only currencies that have a sink so far are essences, omens and abyssal currencies as why they increase in value as the league goes on.

I thought 0.3 was perfect.

Someone will always be out there complaining about how the economy sucks that’s the fun part about each season it starts over and the economy will have some new thing that’s going to be the better farm. 

I think an healthy economy is being able to play whatever endgame tree you like and make enough currency to trade without being lucky on a drop.

i think this is the best economy weve had yet, because it made item rarity, and more important waystone rarity, kinda pointless for most of the endgame. so i dont need to play while worrying about at least this obscure formula that defines most of my drops. expedition, rituals, even delirium with abyss became profitable. i farmed a bit of everything and it never seemed like a waste of time. i could finish my build with multi mirror budget without building an elaborate temple, and mainly from selling drops. even some random crafts that i sold gave me the currency to play around and test items.

A healthy economy is one in which a variety of strategies are reasonably profitable so various builds and play styles have something good to farm. The reason this is healthy is it keeps more players engaged longer so the economy has more participants and there’s ongoing incentive to exchange items. It also is good for the game itself because more people will be having fun.

Even when this is the case, you will find somebody who’s not happy with the state of things and says the economy is broken. Not every farm is going to be good and not every player is going to have the time and/or efficiency needed to keep up. There will always be complaints about the economy no matter how healthy it is.

So far, PoE2’s economies have been good enough for me to enjoy the game but I’ve never tried to push for wealth or uber optimized builds.

Honestly, for me the exalt to div ratio this league was healthy. I didn't make thousands of divs so having exalts be worth something was good. Now how we got there was because most ppl stopped picking them up. So that's not really healthy.

Also prices of Omen of lights, whittling, fracturing all those are just unaffordable. So that also is not healthy.

We complain, cause we love, but in no way can ggg balance the economy that no one will complain.

I can live with the bloated economy. I don't think trading should be a core feature in an arpg. It shoold be about killing stuff and getting cool loot in the process. I haven't found 1 good item in a week. That felt really bad, so I caved in and bought a pair of Maligo gloves and a 1k ES Vile robe.

Well also people want the perfect items. Mid tier items are dirt cheap this league. People are playing more this league, especially with temple being a TIME investment mechanic it yields more currency for all the players that NEED the higher tier items. For people that play casually they're fine with other activities for mid tier gear, but mirror tier gear cost so much because of its inherent usage amongst the top 0.1% of players. Also there's more RNG now with more corrupted gear causing even more gear range variance for perfect gear.