SSF is an unbearable slog without a crafting bench

Not directly relevant to PoE2, but the map reroll for PoE1 that was just announced is a much bigger buff for SSF than for trade.

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Alzucard#2422 wrote:

SSF is just way to much grind.

For you. Lots of people enjoy SSF. Luckily no one's forcing you into SSF.

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Black_Gun#7476 wrote:

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LFA01#0120 wrote:

I still don't understand why they thought removing the crafting bench was a good idea.

Keeping drops "meaningful".

Drops dont mean shit.
Of all of my gear not 1 piece was dropped or player created.
All of it bought.

The slow and deliberate typing of the trade website.
The meaningful entry of every stat prefix and affix that i want on a item.
The persistent grind to the sellers hideout.

Immediate gratification of going to the forums to say the game isn't broken.

PoE2 Deliberate, Meaningful, Grid, Gratifying.

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plz#2115 wrote:

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Alzucard#2422 wrote:

SSF is just way to much grind.

For you. Lots of people enjoy SSF. Luckily no one's forcing you into SSF.

SSF is cool in most ARPGS, PoE 2 is the outlier when it comes to that.

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B2theReeves#3164 wrote:

Title.

Item progression is near impossible, and your orbs are under constant pressure to craft from white/blue bases. Also, you have to heavily tone down your filter just to look for bases on repeat.

There needs to be a crafting bench and actual crafting for this game to succeed, in my humble opinion.

Everybody knows that SFF Is life time job 🤣🤣🤣🤣
After patch 0.2 you need children of your children's to continue.
Developing of this game sucks

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plz#2115 wrote:

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Alzucard#2422 wrote:

SSF is just way to much grind.

For you. Lots of people enjoy SSF. Luckily no one's forcing you into SSF.

I do enjoy SSF, but its just a fact that SSF requires way more grind than normal. Its not even worth a discussion. The Crafting in POE2 is just to random for SSF to be even close to standard in this regard.