Really demotivated by crafting
TLDR: crafting is really off-putting for me, it seems a lot like gambling with little control once you want to upgrade after some basic crafts. There a few routes that are semi deterministic but the rest seems to be total RNG or you need to rely on so much currency that you push through the RNG until the desired outcome appears. I really like the idea of self crafting my own stuff but in the end it always seem very boring or extremely expensive and overall not worth doing when you can simply buy stuff.
Maybe it's only me but every time I decide that I would like to become a better crafter I give up and ended up trading for stuff.
After minmaxing my first character with a bankroll of something like 1-1.5k divs but with the possibility of farming 100 div/h i decided to reroll:
My goal for this character was to self craft starting from magic bases that I was allowing myself to purchase as well as uniques or jewels.
I started in SSF for the campaign because I don't like to do twink runs and then moved to trade once in maps. Once in red maps I managed to self craft some pieces (ring, boots and gloves are self crafted from that time) but then I hit a giant wall for amulets and weapons.
The crafting method I was using for my xbow was starting from a magic base with T2 %Phys, greater essence for flat phys, slam a final prefix with perfect ex and then fix the suffixes with +5 levels, Onsgault on kill + desecration for the last suffix. Arguably I can desecrate for the last prefix and start with a chosen suffix like AS but I didn't like the idea of having to never hit it with essences.
I was very lucky with a decent DPS xbow but at some point I realized that I needed to switch to crit and I had no idea how to craft such a weapon. I completely gave up on the project and bought the xbow I'm currently using.
If I want to upgrade now, I probably need higher crit and a +7 natural roll and I even less of an idea on how to do it. If I want to upgrade my boots and my gloves I'm in a similar predicament. The only crafting I could realistically do as an upgrade could be my ring because the crafting recipe is the same, I only have to get a bit more lucky with the omen of catalysis.
For amulet, complete mute point, it seems impossible to approach a craft like the one that I'm wearing, a possible upgrade to that would be only crit chance but for that I think I can just spam omen of light over and over.
I would like to end up appreciating crafting cause I think it would be a fun part of the game and something cool to learn (also because not every league would be so plentiful as this one) but at the moment beside something very basic like starting from a base + essence to rare + desecration I'm completely lost and doesn't feel enjoyable.
