100% there have been a couple times I’ve been forced to engage with the ‘old’ trade, and it so quickly reminded me of how dogshit garbage it is.

Combine that with the absolute dumping of dopamine when you login and see the little money bag on top of Ange’s head - holy hecka. ¹⁰⁄₁₀.

Yes. Currently PoE 2 has the best trading system of any arpgs imo

Just migrated from SSF to trade league after hitting T15 maps. The amount of gear you can get now for cheap is insane. Async trade is incredibly well made. Almost tempted to start a new character 😬

It literally allowed me to trade for profit, which enabled me to go from tens of divine worth builds in 0.1 to a 300+ divine build this season. And i know that’s nothing compared to mirror builds but its a huge leap for beginners like myself

I hated the old PoE trading system so much I have been strictly SSF for 5 years, both games. Curiosity at all these asynchronous posts made me spin up a trade character just the other week and from Act 4 it honestly feels like I’m cheating. In under an hour of asynchronous trade my Act 4 deadeye has way better gear than some 3 month League alts in SSF. While I might get tired of “cheating”, for now it’s nice just to be confident I will be able to gear my build to something like its full potential. I would go back to SSF if GGG gave it some love, Last Epoch style maybe, but right now, I’ll just pay ludicrously low prices for great gear, thanks awfully GGG!

amen, brother, amen. Welcome to the team!

Yep I’m in the same boat as you! Started this league late and now just discovering how much easier it is to trade. I even sold a bunch of crap that people would have never bothered buying in person. Even browsing stuff on my laptop and just clicking warp to hideout then seeing the game load into it instantly I was just like: oh wow!

I love the trade system, but don’t understand why the locked it behind chapter 4. Would have made getting to chapter 4 much easier with it.

Yup, been loving it. I just put items in tab and forget about them until it’s time to adjust price or clear inventory.

On that note, why do we have to wait until a4 for it?

its especially good now, normally this late into the league trading for low tier items would be a complete pain in the ass

It’s especially great for me. I use controller on PC. The social GUI and item navigation GUI are not intuitive or easy to use. I am a person that doesn’t really want to interact with people I don’t know to trade to begin with, and even less so if I don’t feel comfortable with the interface.

I didn’t trade more than once or twice in 0.1 or 0.2. I’m still playing this league because I could participate more in trade and get some decent gear.

My only note is I want a way to search history of sold items. I don’t really care what the stuff that hasn’t sold is priced for, I want to know what people are actually buying / how much they’re buying it for.

It’s amazing. It single handedly swept me away from SSF, and I had a blast this league… plus I’ve now started my normal SSF journey so I’ve really dragged out this season!

Yah I quit after 0.1 because I was just having PTSD for PoE1 trade. My entire gaming group was brought back by new trade so it’s not just a small QoL like some people always made it out to be.

Absolute fithly casual noob here, I only ever used the currency exchange vendor to get one skill gem (1:1) cuz I have no idea where to look to see what ratio to choose. I didn’t even know it was trading with other people. Where do I go to see actual prices of things I want to get from a trade. Like let’s say I want a perfect jeweller orb, where do I go to trade for that? How do I know what people even want to get for giving me a perfect jeweller orb.

Just don’t accidentally misprice something because that item gets locked and even if you catch it before the item disappears you have to sit there watching painfully as the item is taken from you without ever being able to stop it. That part about the asynchronous trade kind of sucks. Had my own item pop up on trade in my filter only to realize I goofed the price (65ex instead of 65div) and tried to change it. I even asked the guy to be kind because clearly it was a mess up and offered 11div for him to just do the right thing and give it back to me since, again, that is clearly an error. This was a crit crafted crossbow before people fully learned crafting this league. The user never responded and then blocked me. Made me realize just how terrible a player base there is in PoE… you have to be super vigilant not to make a mistake.