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August 17, 2025, 10:29pm
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It does 100% serve its intended purpose .
An element of randomness: We want to keep a degree of randomness in crafting so that it can feel exciting and unpredictable. If you know exactly how an item is going to end up when you start crafting it, the whole experience can feel flat. We don’t think that the randomness of the current system works well, it can be very frustrating, but we still believe that keeping a significant level of unpredictability in the system is very important.
Clearer Expectations: There’s an expectation for how much you can craft on an item, and it’s clear how quickly it’s going down. The point at which you can no longer craft doesn’t come out of nowhere, but gets closer and closer as an item loses more forging potential. This is particularly important for new players who don’t always initially understand that crafting is limited in the old system.
Softening the Blow: It doesn’t feel as bad when an item becomes ‘uncraftable’, because the last attempted craft always still succeeds, regardless of how much forging potential was left. There’s never a time where you attempt a craft and then the item just fractures instead and you don’t upgrade the affix you wanted to.
Positive RNG: This system is much more conducive to creating moments where you feel lucky. Often an item is low on forging potential and it looks like you’re only going to get one more craft out of it. But through a mix of rolling low amounts of forging potential consumed, critical successes preventing forging potential consumption, and Glyphs of Hope - you can end up being able to craft far more times than you were expecting.
Whether you like it or not is another story and its fine discussing or criticing a system.
And this new system was heavily, heavily praised, especially comapred to the old fracture system.
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