How trading make you feel loots is bad

The real problem with loot and as far as I can tell, nobody is willing to admit, is that the same tool/currency used for buying/selling is also the main source for finding gear.

The loot drops are actually fine as they are. Probably more than fine.
The problem is that if you have say just a few regals and exults...
Do you:
Do you use those orbs to try and "craft" something useful without the useless stats on the piece(s) of gear you're attempting to create/augment?
Or
Spend those on gear that's affordable with a smaller impact of useless stats?

Most people would choose trade even though the feeling of making your own gear is greater. This scenario doesn't even include the more advanced orbs used for rerolling.
It's certainly more reliable to trade.

Using the same tool to trade as we do to craft or augment the hundreds of loot drops we all ignore is the fundamental problem.
You can't have it both ways.

Oddly enough, we have a tried and true currency.
Gold.

With that argument, the title does make even more sense.

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Skyvortex#7923 написал:

Using the same tool to trade as we do to craft or augment the hundreds of loot drops we all ignore is the fundamental problem.
You can't have it both ways.

Oddly enough, we have a tried and true currency.
Gold.

For me oddly enough, the main issue is... whats currencies used to trade.


Lets go back in 2013.
PoE1 just released and the only way we had to exchange stuff, was by using trading chat in game, link our stuff then ask for something in exchange. It could be anything, even other stuff. For ex : I have this wand but Im not playing a sorceress so I want to exchange it for a sword for ex.
Rapidly, players found the most important currency to exchange is exalted, cause its rare so expensive. And pretty useful to craft.
So exalted became more and more important, cause used for every trades and used to craft best stuff. Then with exchange currencies, and a lot of other way to craft a perfect gear, exalted just became the main money to trade. And its fine.

In 2024 for PoE2, players started to use exalted to trade, more like a reflex than a natural way to trade. Divines became a best currency to trade with, cause pretty rare, but in difference with exalted on PoE1, not a really useful tool to craft. So exalted/divines coexist as currencies to trade with.
But exalted is more than ever, the (almost) only and best tool to craft. So players have to make a choice : craft with exalted OR trade with exalted. They cant do both. Because we dont really have other reliable tools to craft, there is a tension about crafting or trading.

If we have a currency just use to trade or not useful at all to craft but in more quantity looted than divines, it could become a new "good" money to trade. And it would let players craft sometimes with regal and exalted...