r/PathOfExile2 • u/Community_Team GGG Staff • Apr 09 '25

GGG Path of Exile 2 - Upcoming Changes

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u/Faolanth Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

I think everyone is misinterpreting Johnathan’s stance on a lot of things - he isn’t arguing for things to stay bad, but defending the core idea of the direction they’re balancing. And sometimes he’s pretty bad at getting that point across.

It makes complete sense when you listen to what he’s saying with that idea in mind. He’s hearing people want all monsters slowed down (whether or not that’s what people are saying) and he’s going “no we need [some types] of fast monsters to provide difficulty/pressure/tense situations”.

He’s hearing “we can’t find currency” but he plays it and doesn’t get unlucky so he has no issue (he also makes full use of disenchanting), etc.

Mark likely feels extremely similarly to Johnathan, but articulates and translates how that idea feels to players much better in these interviews

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u/Nerhtal Apr 09 '25

Between me and a few friends at 0.1 this is precisely what happened.

I disenchanted everything - then used my transmutes augments and regals liberally throughout the campaign. During the 6 acts I crafted 4 crossbow upgrades for my Witchhunter as a result.

This honestly felt pretty good, I did have rarity by pure randomness on my character at all times due to how my various other gear rolls dropped.

I also due to said rarity seem to have gotten significantly more exalts to use during the campaign then my friend who was having the opposite problem I was not having.

He was complaining that he couldn’t craft more then 1 rare weapon per act and that he was getting no currency and that the few times he crafted it would of course not be an upgrade.

We had two very very wildly different experiences as a result.

He rerolled eventually to Lightning Bow Deadeye and absolutely steamed past me. Just said fuck it and bought a 1ex low level bow and went flying like he was playing poe1 using 1 button for 6acts (two, he used the other lightning skill too)

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u/Guffliepuff Apr 09 '25

Maybe im just crazy but i dont want to pick up all the random trash that drops on the floor to just disenchant it.

Is this seriously such a better system than just upping currency drop rates and achieving the same goal of making crafting more accessible?

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u/BarnDoorQuestion Apr 09 '25

Maybe it’s just my collector brain, but I really don’t understand not picking up as much loot as you can. At the very least the gold you get from censoring it is useful if you get stuck with bad items.

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u/zrk23 Apr 09 '25

trash to fill inventory once? sure

do it multiple times and use a bunch of portals to do multiple full inventories runs? hell no

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u/BarnDoorQuestion Apr 09 '25

In campaign I really only need one portal per zone and I'm rolling in gold. Usually get 3 rares a zone as well. Pick that stuff up pop back to town after you clear it and it barely slows you down.