We actually have a crafting bench equivalent in Path Of Exile 2; Socketable items

Hello,

This is a topic I’ve been addressing for the past two months! Since I find this subject very important - and because I've seen a lot of negativity regarding this subject - I’m posting it here as well. // In this material I explained why the socket system is something equivalent to a crafting bench, and in some ways, it's even better than POE1's original bench! ( we can use sockets in unique items, we preserve all 6 affixes ). Only mirror-tier crafters might start arguing here. But people that are deep into mirror tier items & meta crafting are few in the game. The majority of the player base will never touch that level of crafting.



VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pg4bukOJE

( In the first part, I talked about the socket system and all its benefits, and toward the end, I addressed the future of the game. and some thing that players often overlook! )

Crafting bench in poe1 had more uses than customizing 1 affix. it could do things like blocking unwanted affixes on items before exalt slamming, then you could remove the unwanted crafted mod, apply hybrid mods, and later on meta-mods.

Being able to socket a small amount of resist/attributes/niche effect on gear doesn't really make up for that loss of crafting tactics. Also comes with the need to store dozens of runes, soul cores, talismans in a stash tab.

Im not against the socket system, but never thought of it as a replacement for the crafting bench. Especially back when runes could not be replaced by new ones. Was kinda bewildered when I heard that an unchangeable aspect would replace the role of bench crafts.

Can recall reaching maps on my first character with 60 fire res and 170 cold res. Having all those cold resist runes stuck in my gear was not akin to a crafting bench.

Runes are your "fix your problems" system, not a crafting one. For endgame, you are insta-putting the best rune to each item (iron and soulcores, mostly), so isn't that crafting bench.

I like the system but i think some runes are overtuned and shadows the others (iron rune)

Sockets in PoE 2 are a form of deterministic crafting. You can swap attributes, resistances, and special effects. Now, if you're playing a physical-based build, you're almost certainly going to put an IRON rune in your weapon—that’s pretty much a given. But you also need to consider the other item slots, which offer a noticeable degree of customization. Jonathan Rogers also mentioned that they’ll be adding even more options beyond what we currently have.


I also want to copy and paste one of my comments from this video (just in case we have an angry mirror-tier crafter around here):

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The only people who can reasonably complain about not having an exact crafting bench like in Path of Exile 1 are those doing mirror-tier crafting. But players at that level are a small minority ; most of the player base will never reach that point. Also, POE 1 and POE 2 are meant to offer slightly different experiences. // So again, we do have a system that's similar to POE1's crafting bench and that is the SOCKETABLE ITEM system. This system doesn't exist in POE 1
And to also address the lack of Artificer’s Orb and Rune drops ; That's totally true, but only for LEAGUE START SCENARIOS ( when you're progressing your first character inside a league ). GGG can tweak the drops or add a socket quest in the early acts, that's not the end of the world!

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The only people who can reasonably complain about not having an exact crafting bench like in Path of Exile 1 are those doing mirror-tier crafting.

Wow, I had no idea i was making mirror tier crafts by blocking mana before slamming an exalt. Im more amazing than I realized

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POEGuy007#2677 написал:

Hello,

This is a topic I’ve been addressing for the past two months! Since I find this subject very important - and because I've seen a lot of negativity regarding this subject - I’m posting it here as well. // In this material I explained why the socket system is something equivalent to a crafting bench, and in some ways, it's even better than POE1's original bench!



VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pg4bukOJE

( In the first part, I talked about the socket system and all its benefits, and toward the end, I addressed the future of the game. and some thing that players often overlook! )

Mr 40 Challenges is attempting to equate runes and talismans to PoE1 craftbench.

Yeah, idk how you got 40 challenges this league with the trash take.

+1 on this post, I agree with your points.

A funny thing that was said was that if GGG just rebranded the runes by making you go to a crafting bench to use them and then showed them like normal affixes we wouldn't have so many people asking for the crafting bench back. I fully agree with this.

I also understand how the crafting bench works in PoE 1 and how you can use it to add for example T2-3 movement speed to boots that otherwise don't have it. I think this is something that we can get in time with PoE 2. In this patch we got talismans, fractured orbs and the reconbinator, in the future we are going to keep getting more sockettables with different effects and other ways of crafting as well which I think will all contribute to solving the issues people have with crafting as it is now.

I'm not against GGG adding a crafting bench however I also don't think it's strictly necessary for the game like a lot of comments are saying.

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POEGuy007#2677 написал:

Hello,

This is a topic I’ve been addressing for the past two months! Since I find this subject very important - and because I've seen a lot of negativity regarding this subject - I’m posting it here as well. // In this material I explained why the socket system is something equivalent to a crafting bench, and in some ways, it's even better than POE1's original bench!



VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pg4bukOJE

( In the first part, I talked about the socket system and all its benefits, and toward the end, I addressed the future of the game. and some thing that players often overlook! )

Have you even watched the video, or did you just endorsed it ?...If you are the one doing it you have no clue

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HwtChirino#2462 написал:

Mr 40 Challenges is attempting to equate runes and talismans to PoE1 craftbench.

Yeah, idk how you got 40 challenges this league with the trash take.

I always complete 40/40 challenges. I usually unlock them within the first three weeks of each league—it’s not hard at all for me. Now back to the topic:

Of course, I’m not saying they’re the same thing! What I’m saying is that the SOCKET system in PoE 2 was designed to be in a way similar to PoE 1’s crafting bench ( and that’s probably why we won’t see a crafting bench in Path of Exile 2 in the future ). So please don’t put words in my mouth

So if you want to be rude to other players, you are free to be. But again, do not put words into my mouth.

Hmmm, not even close let alone a replacement for the bench crafts.

We don't need another clickbait video to know that.