Scouring orbs

Where are the bloody scouring orbs?? Give me one good reason to not have them in a game where you want ppl to pick up whites! All good, but give me the damn scouring orbs, noone is gonna hunt for dozens of white items...

You answered your own question?

Because if there were scouring orbs you would never need to pick up white items. Which is how it is in PoE1.


I would prefer to have scouring orbs, but that's their reasoning.

Um no, endgame base items dont drop that often, I would gladly farm for 1, but not 50...

because scouring orbs do not fit in poe2 crafting.

Poe1 craft = you will spam thousands of orbs on the same item until you get what you want, if goes wrong you scour, imprint, recomb, etc


Poe2 craft = way more deterministic, it has way less steps, but crafting orbs are more expensive and bases are expensive ( exceptional white ones, good magic bases with rare mods, etc).

I actually prefer poe2 way of crafting. It sucks to start something spamming 600 fossils or thousands of alteration orbs. And now good bases are actually interesting drops. Some multi socket white itens costs dozens of divines.