I wish the devs had my experience "crafting"

I made a post about two weeks ago about how I spend almost all my currency that I get from drops and sales trying to craft a better ilvl 73 warstaff than the 420 phys + w/ 112% ele 2.64 chc 9 IAS +3 skills that I crafted when I was still in tier <5 maps at that point I had spent about 15 divines worth. I literally pick up every Expert Crescent/Long/Barrier/Gothic/Slicing Warstaff I come by. I have had maybe 5-6 comparable staves a couple of those sold for a divine or two and as I do with most of my other sales I convert them into Exalts/Chaos/Regals sometimes Essences (which I've been doing more of lately) and despite me playing straight degen hours of this game farming I haven't been able to beat this ilvl 73. Now don't get me I do fine in t16's but if I want to be killing tier 4 citadel bosses with bonus waypoint % the thing I need the most is a better weapon and I dont want to buy a possibly tiny upgrade 600 phys dps w/o chc chd for 5 divines. I dont want to buy it at all I want to get a gnarly drop like the bow I ended up making a Deadeye for. It dropped 560 phys dps with two open suffixes.

I have probably spent about 50 divine now crafted every single War Staff I find up that has potential so every white, any blue that isn't dogwater I regal even the dogwater ones I tend to regal so I can recombine them and the next best I've gotten is like a 587 phys dps w/o good suffixes.

Over the last day I filled a Quad stash tab with nothing but 78-83 War staves whatever dropped, mostly whites, essenced them with phys didn't get a single "Increased Physical Damage X%" over tier 4 THATS 12 x 6 = 72 that I upgraded to rare anything with added phys damage or combined phys % + accuracy 4 or above I exalt until Prefixes fill unless of course it gets a really weak Ele roll as second, but if I get like a tier 8 elemental roll as a prefix I'll still up it in hopes of a high increased phys to go with it and I got maybe 2 of those that were even worth Chaos'ing -- I also had a regular stash tab with 18 more combined the types by iLVL "ilvl:[8][0 1 2 3]" to sort them out them recombined and none of those 18 were even worth a chaos

MY POINT IS. MY POINT IS. We need an actual way to craft up items - AND - why did you nerf Elemental roles (compared to Path of Exile I) so much that I cant just decide to use an Elemental weapon? The Best possible Elemental weapon is about the same as a mid tier phys weapon.

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%phys with no x-x phys on crackling staffs or cultist bows is pretty stupid too. Weight on accuracy and reduced attribute requirements is troll level high.

As your gear improves your chances of crafting a better item go down dramatically to the point of being statistically "impossible" in the finite amount of time you'll spend playing the game. This is made worse when every build is looking for the same flat phys + phys % staff. More combinations of mods that are "good" alleviates some of the pressure to *have* to hit exact mod combinations. As things currently stand, at certain tiers of gear you will have to trade to make certain upgrades.

Yeah that's why I wish Elemental Rolls were more similar to PoE 1 where they could be substantial for certain builds.

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Spot on.

Is far easier to get a decent "craft" roll at lower levels than at higher levels.

Higher white bases have so much Tiers that to roll what a build needs to upgrade is statistically impossible.

IN trade league is meaningfull because we can put any "bricked" item to sell and have some profit back.

IN SSF league it is absurd amounts of time/resource and goodwill wasted.


Higher white bases should never be rolling low level Tiers and be more balanced by usefull affixes/suffixes.

If GGG just brought back alterarion and scour orbs, it would be mitigated by 100%.

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Ya I just started a SSF hc monk honestly I cant imagine how rough it'll be trying to craft later on but even in Trade league its getting to the point where my stash is so full of just decent rolls because the markets so saturated. At this point a reset would be great I guess we're getting news tomorrow on changes but there definitely needs to be crafting changes but I feel like its just gonna be all balance.

Elemental roll on weapon are global and not local contrary to poe 1
(although i did not test that out it's what i heard)

They will eventually change crafting but don't expect it for tomorrow.
It took them years to figure out a correct spot in poe 1

I did finally get an upgrade after about 8 more divines..

https://imgur.com/a/KrYEk20

Current uncorrupted

588 phys dps
75% [lowest of tier] elemental damage with attacks
2.34 [2.7max] Crit hit chance
33% crit damage bonus
22% IAS