LogFAQs > #977014635

Mostly, I just really don't enjoy trading the way PoE does it. If there were an auction house or similar thing, I'd be fine with it, but having to personally contact people every time I want to buy stuff and hope that they actually answer, plus how awkward it is to list stuff to sell myself (though at least they have their own trade website now instead of a third-party one carrying the whole system), I find it's just a miserable experience that I'd rather avoid altogether.

I played Torchlight Infinite very briefly before Ancestor League started, which is what prompted me to get back into PoE because TL:I is such a shameless ripoff of it, and there are quite a few things from Torchlight that I think PoE would benefit from. Namely, there's actually an auction house, and most of the crafting system hinges around being able to lock 1 affix for a reasonable price (or 2 for a much less affordable one), with relatively few currencies used for multiple different crafting operations. Easy trading makes the whole experience so much better, and the core crafting philosophy of "This affix is the most important, let's see what else I can get" is so much more accessible than PoE's approach of having so many different currencies and so few deterministic crafts. I do like fractured items, but getting them is a pain (they're relatively rare and you need to identify every one that drops to find anything worthwhile) without just buying them, which is bothersome when playing self-found and trying to rely on crafting to improve gear.