The joys of Exalted, Unique and Legendary items

Reroll for Rune modifiers at the CoF until your hands go numb.
Hope to drop a couple Runes of Havoc.

Spend days~weeks to get a double T7 Exalt.
Try to make it imprintable. FP says no. Repeat 10 times.
It will take you days~weeks to drop your first imprint proc.
Keep improving your FP by replacing your imprint with the new one.
Repeat 3 times. Your imprint is now 50 FP.
Several weeks later: Good, your first proc!
Try to craft it. FP says “nice try with the Glyph of Hope, would be a shame if one Havoc attempt cost you 20 FP and ignored your Glyph”. Repeat 10 times.
Finally after many weeks, you have procced the imprint and made it slammable.
Go to the Eternity Cache. Guarantee 1 affix, the others are “randomly” selected.
Sike, it is most definitely weighted and you WILL hit the “33%” for the one bad affix from 4 every single time.
Repeat from 0.

Spend days getting relevant Uniques with bad modifier rolls. Repeat 20 times.
Bring them to the Gauntlet of Strife. Get 2 with usable rolls.
Bring the 2 to Nemesis. They all get Legendary-d with a bad modifier.
Repeat from 0.
After several weeks, you now have 3 with 1 LP.
Bring them to the Turtle. Watch him turn them to 0 LP.
Bring them to Nemesis again. Watch them become Legendary-d with a bad modifier.
Repeat from 0.
Finally after many weeks, you have one with usable modifier rolls and 2~3 LP.
Go to the Eternity Cache. Guarantee 1 affix, the others are “randomly” selected.
Sike, it is most definitely weighted and you WILL hit the “33%” for the one bad affix from 4 every single time.
Repeat from 0.

Now do this 11 times, because that’s how many item slots you have.
Also farm Blessings and Idols for several weeks.

Meanwhile PoE2:
Get your base, Essence and Omens.
Congratulations, you have your item.
The worst part is it taking a day or 2 to get the Omens you need, namely Omen of Homogenising Exaltation.
I know this because I have several videos about crafting in HCSSF in PoE2.

The early game, campaign, early Monolith (I’d say 300c, 1 LP Legendaries) excited me enough to play for 15h a day and recommend the game without hesitation to many people.
Getting Exalts with 1 wanted T7 and usable 1 LPs was reasonable.

The disaster that is the crafting system for >1 LP (imprint proc rates, exalt drop rates, FP cost, Eternity cache, Nemesis gamba, Turtle gamba, Gauntlet gamba) is making me quit.

Welcome to LE where itemization is vastly harder then any other game of the genre.

And don’t worry either, whenever someone speaks up about it there will be several other people saying ‘No! It’s not the case!’ for sure.

EHG utterly screwed their itemization system up, that has ever been the case since the second they implemented exalted items. The whole system needed a fundamental rework to make the progression curve smooth… but sadly we got RNG fiesta instead.

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