Crafting is not only bad but it also takes away from being exited about loot drops.

Hard to call that "Crafting" when u need to press chaos orb 1000 times in order to get modifier you want. As for me chaos spamming is the worst mechanic in POE 2 in general.

I don't craft. I copy paste the mods I want into a trade search.

I quit the game because of the sheer number of different redundant currencies and activities that don't offer any funtional addition to gameply but just additional steps to crafting in endgame.

All those bits and pieces don't offer ANYTHING to gameplay, they're simply there to make you waste 15 minutes of logistics for every 10 minutes of actual playing.

Even crafting itself can feel almost redundant because you can easily buy things at a cost lower than the average crafting cost for that item.

I wish they kept their promise of making PoE2 smarter and more accessible than PoE1, instead they went full PoE1 year 5 level of nonsense.

Well they came out with homog and then decided to make a u-turn.

Even end game uniques are a lottery, you need to hit the corrupt and low probability cultivate for them to be worthwhile. Others like Prism of Belief have low drop and high chance to be worthless, hence PoE becomes a looter where the most efficient way to acquire gear is through farming/trading for currency rather than the drop itself.

Kind of sad because i find it the best arpg in when it comes to character building and gameplay controls but the worst looter, in fact it would be more accurate to label their loot system as "mining".

As someone who only really played Diablo and Torchlight before this in the genre, discovering that the looting seems to be “Pick up this basic looking thing and drop orbs on it to make it good, maybe” is very inaccessible and not particularly fun.

It’s counter to what I’ve come to expect from these games, which is not the biggest issue, but there’s some joy in seeing a big shiny drop that you know there and then is a good upgrade for you.

So far my experience (only level 30 so…) has been “Oh here’s another blue staff… I’ll turn it into a yellow staff, it got slightly better, now I’ll drop some extra bits on it and try and work out if those 6 extra bits are better than the 6 extra bits on my current staff”

I appreciate some folks don’t like the random drop lottery but I don’t see how this is any better, and it’s certainly less exhilarating.

It is kinda deflating when you find a pretty good item, see that it needs a life/res mod to make it better than what youre currently wearing, only to realise theres no way to get that naturally.

I've always wished PoE would reduce the amount of items dropped overall and made them more meaningful. 3rd party addons like loot filters are all but required for QoL, which I've never liked.

They really need to improve tiered rare drops. I would rather see way less Tier 5 items, but when I drop one it should be an exciting moment and the item should actually be good in order to compete with crafted gear.

Ability to craft items from zero to BiS makes any other loot obsolete. The sooner devs realize that the better. It's not ok when only good white bases matter and the rest is being filtered out.

I'd much rather find cool loot than make it myself too, kinda sucks nuts.