Path of Exile 2

Currency inflation because of the Temple is CRAZY. Trying to buy a +2 spell skills staff for my level 15-20 plant druid? Mine you, this is to upgrade one I already have, I crafted myself Starts out at 55-200Ex, quickly scales to a 1Div plus. I played my 85 Titan to T15 and 16 maps last league, I have never had more than a couple of Div. With the Temple people are printing them 200+ a run, it's fucked everything all the way down. I was buying good/not best in class gear for my Titan last league for a couple Ex a couple of weeks in; now it almost makes the full league SSF, seemingly from my perspective if you weren't/aren't in the Temple Printing Currency business. I never got this kind of good loot from it even on my 80 Bear Shaman: 2 Div and 25 Chaos is still my top end currency achievement.

Kirun said:

This is what you get when a league is rushed out because the game director designed it over the weekend after he got his pickle tickled about a roguelite, deck-building, autobattler and needed something shippable before everyone disappeared for the holidays.

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And its not the people at the top, or even the middle crushed; its the casual people who relied on the market, or dabbled. I know people with high end temples still making 40+ Div/11+ Perfect Div? (is that even a thing? I have no idea) a run, with 1000+ Div of gear and 800+ Div in their stash. This Weimar-like hyperinflation doesn't affect them at all. Jeff Bezos (or Elon or Alex Soros, choose your billionaire) doesn't care how much things cost: It's only whether they can get them. My friend with this level of Div-ness is saving for a Mirror, because that's what the weapon he wants costs: approx 2000 Div for the Mirror, and thus the weapon.

No real-life billionaire care what fast food or eggs costs, either but it behooves the economy to make them affordable. Too much currency and not enough items is the exact opposite of the New World Inflation issues: Too many items and not enough currency or need for for them. New World needs Eve-like destructibility to bring it back into balance and remove so much of its excess items from the economy, make crafters and gatherer necessary, etc.

The broad fix for the Temple is to only have currency be available at 1/10th its current rate, have items drop in its stead, and/or charges for crafting tables that are in town areas or in players Hideouts, rather than the crafting items that are used as currency (which will of course become new currency but I am spitballing here, work with me). Maybe just full stop after items drop.

It seems like the POE vets understand the course this is actually going to take: No one is going to do a damn thing and this league is just going to flounder around for two more months. How will it be going forward is really what I am thinking about. The Abyss didn't go away; hopefully they will dramatically rethink the underlying effects the Temple has on the economy as well before .5 .