Replacing boring socketables isn't going to be easy!
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Replacing the boring socketables sounds easy, but unless the player is rich, it is much harder than you'd think. If players are relying on socketables to enhance their resistances (or worse, stats), then it doesn't matter how good a new socket item is, the majority of players will not not be able to support swapping it out for something critical.
The problem is that as we approach endgame, the price of everything goes up, Up, UP, particularly gear with high resistances and stats. There is no guarantee that level 65+ gear will have high tier rolls, which results in sockets supplementing the deficiencies and therefore being critical. What would help immensely would be for higher level/tier gear to shift to a greater probability of higher tiers, thus providing more raw stats and resistances. Unfortunately, that isn't going to help existing gear, but it would increase the amount of higher quality gear, thus lowering the price for the average player. Last bumped on May 21, 2025, 10:47:51 PM
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I am always baffled by people saying ‘use x affix gems’ as if you can just craft the perfect gem with 3-4 desired affixes to put in place in the passive tree.
Like wut? I get like a handful of gems every 5-10 maps and most are garbage send to reforging, there’s absolutely no way I ll have perfect gems, I don’t even rely on them cuz the rng is so bad with affixes being useful. We have to do maps to progress but then if they also wants us to spam trials for gems and chaos trials for the other socket type then it’s just too much work. I only had like 2-3 chaos trials sockets cuz I hate chaos trials, it’s not fun content so I have no access to any of those https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/rjum7ks5jqfi/Ash-9143/Ash_the_vile
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Well in this case, I'm talking about the proposed changes to gear socketable items in the upcoming 0.2.1, and GGG wanting us to switch out "boring" resistance and stat runes for more interesting items like Soul Cores and Talismans. They are adding more of the interesting variety to tempt us to use those, but that is a lot easier said than done.
Last edited by kage_kurai#7601 on May 21, 2025, 9:34:57 PM
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" If your using your runes for resistances then this change isnt for you because your already using your runes for the best possible stat for your build. The change is targeted for more endgame players that have capped their resistances and dont really have alot of options for runes other then a choice between 1% maximum fire res or 20 more energy shield. | |
" Like they explained in their post. Its for the moment when you have capped your resistances, because then runes become very boring because theres limited options and they are not very impactful. If your using your runes to cap your resistances then thats fine, your getting good value from your runes. But further down the line when you get 2 pieces with good resistances and dont need them anymore then its incredibly boring as it is now. |
