I’ve been working on a PoE2 craft-sharing site for a few months — looking for feedback
Hope that in 0.5 we get something we can call crafting. At the moment all top crafts are - fracturing , desecrating, adding essence and chaos/ annul/divine spam.
I hope too! I’m gearing up to keep the site updated with all the upcoming changes!
Great to hear, interesting concept but there may be a host of changes coming
we need an inbetween the busted homogenous omens and not having them at all
What would crafting be for you ? Genuinely curious
Like now but without currency spam , I need options to spend 100/500/1000 chaos orbs at once in order to get modifier I want .
Not OP, but I think the problem is that you need so many bases atm. So even if you have a lot of crafting currency you can not force a decent item (and I mean only decent, not BiS or anything). So maybe scouring orbs, being as rare as chaos orbs. So that in an early progression you want to pick up all the bases but later you don’t necessarily need to. And/Or more essences or essence like things so that you can achieve certain, very important mods guaranteed without all mods being guaranteed.
The latter will come with time and more crafting league mechanics anyway. I just hope we get away somewhat from the dependency on picking up white/blue items.
Adding alteration orbs (but not scours) would go a long way to be honest. Not sure if it fixes the issue, but it minimizes the graveyard of failed perfect transmute bases.
In the past, someone argued this is just “poor man’s annulment orbs”, to which it is. But you could argue that chaos orbs are poor man’s annul + exalt. I feel that bridging the gap on crafting costs to reserve annulment for more impactful use cases is far better for more poor players who want to make useable items. Otherwise, annuls need to be made way more common.
As long as people manage to craft best in slot level items, the crafting is working fine.
It could be easier, but that would ultimately just inflate the value of really really good items.
with the state of trading and the ease of access, it is very feasible for players to get their desired items, even if they didnt ultimately craft them, themselves.
better than poe’s crafting. its just mindless reforging and beast crafting. Harvest benchcrafting is the easiest.
just say you never crafted in your life lmao
Yeah Poe 10 different ways to craft are soo bad, better to have one single scuffed one so you don’t have to think right? Actually, Poe 2 should remove essences and abyss, just chaos exalt spam items.
return to 2014
What a terrible take lmao
it’s gonna sound harsh, but you’ll have to vibecode it a bit more
tiers are hallucinated, random emojis for categories, manual crafting steps input, a shit ton of unnecessary text
you need to configure your agentic system better and find proper skills for your LLM
crafting an endgame mirror tier item may take thousands, if not tens of thousands of clicks to finish
ain’t nobody manually clicking that on the website with no monetization for the creator
Definitely seems interesting, I’d love if this actually gained traction. Couple things I’ve noticed when trying to add a ring craft I’ve been doing:
You can’t use catalysing exaltation + dextral/sinistral exaltation, which you can do in game
When you use perfect exalt, you can get any t1 mods, even if they are below the ilvl of perfect exalt, rn your site doesn’t consider this
It would be nice if you could use some currency without any desirable outcome, sometimes you just have to slam an exalt to be able to use some other currency after that, but you don’t actually care about the result of that currency. Another (maybe even better option) would be to add something like “anything” to list of affixes.
After I finished a guide I got prompted to make an account, which I did and then I got hit with
Could not create your guide Number must be greater than or equal to 1 Your guide data has been cleared. You can start fresh using the wizard below.
Could not create your guide
Number must be greater than or equal to 1
Your guide data has been cleared. You can start fresh using the wizard below.
What the fuck?
Doesnt Craftofexile already have a Guides section for crafts - that isnt used by basically anyone?
Wonder how much traction this gets in comparison. Remember that creators will want to host this stuff on a Youtube video that pays them revenue. Why would they want to put it on your site and drive the traffic towards you?
Curious how you are planning to solve these problems
Edit: Additional questions:
- Will there be a Peer Review process for posted crafts to ensure that is the “best” way to craft (or at least that it isnt taking the more expensive path when cheaper/easier ones are available)
- How will you ensure crafts posted stay relevant and up to date?
Good point -I think the Craftofexile guides section is more of an afterthought to their main tool (the simulator), while Forge of Exiles is built from the ground up around sharing crafts. The focus is on making the creation and sharing experience as smooth as possible, with shareable links, a clean editor, and (eventually) community features like upvotes and creator profiles. Whether that’s enough to get traction - honestly, I’ll find out.
The site isn’t trying to replace YouTube - big creators will always prefer video for revenue, and that makes sense. Forge of Exiles is more for: - Casual players who want to share a craft without making a full video - Creators who want a clean companion link to put in their video description (step-by-step text format that’s easier to follow than scrubbing through a video) - The long tail of players who have cool crafts but aren’t going to start a YouTube channel
The plan is community-driven: upvotes, comments, and eventually a reputation system for creators so the best crafts rise to the top. I don’t want to be the one gatekeeping what’s a “good” craft - the community knows better than I do. For now it’s the wild west, but filtering mechanisms are coming.
A few things I’m planning: - Crafts will be tagged with the patch version they were created in, so outdated ones are clearly marked - Creators can edit/update their own crafts anytime - Eventually, a flagging system so the community can mark crafts that are outdated after balance changes
PoE2 is still early and patches shake things up a lot, so this is something I’ll have to keep iterating on.
I think it’s a wonderful idea, and that real creator will use it and post in on their pob notes. The good creators that are looking on long term investment usually have an incentive in making a good guide, cause people will remember them and go watch their stream and/or donate to them. A site like this will make it easier to follow a craft but videos on second screen with both the site and YouTube open will probably be the real solution for many, the site will just be a more comfortable way to follow a video without pausing 10 times in 1 minute. Overall if you enable creators to also associate a link to the build they used the craft for (be it video, pob or both) , it will probably be another incentive for creators to use the site, cause it’s a new way to get some click for their content
Can you at least write your own OP?
The interface feels quite vibe code-y. The fonts, colours, dots, icons dont seem to have a consistent design language behind them. Didnt notice the frame to find the ‘start crafting’ button. Most of the screen is taken up by repeated stuff on the item craft page, like the base item twice and the craft title 3 times. I feel like for some crafts, a flow diagram might be needed for different acceptable outcomes, like what craft of exile has.
I would lay out a clear set of rules to make a consistent design language across everything. For example, for when you use serif fonts and what colours and icons mean, and use them more strictly and sparingly.
The example ring (Endgame Lightning Ring via Alchemy + Exalt Fill ) says “Scour and retry” in step 1, which is a PoE1 mechanic, not PoE2. Might indicate that the creator wanted to talk about a method (buying a new white base) that the app didn’t let them use?
I’m afraid to open it.. some screenshots pls?
I think I used the wrong image format so nothing showed up, but trust me
On the top crafts and just in general whilst searching, it would be good to know the estimated currency here, or a way to filter for it, so those with less currency can see what’s available to them.
I misread this as forget your craft and thought it was a meme-y title as I it happened to me a couple of times already 😂
As someone who is really bad at the game i would love if there were pictures of all the things you add in a craft. When i looked at the crafts on the first page I dont know what most crafting materials are
I will definitely need a video guide about this, it’s overwhelming ::((
The UI is exhausting. I don’t need a full tab explaining the whys and a paragraph for each step.
It could have been bullet points: essence until x, omen until y.
Its really not. If you don’t want the explanation, seems like you don’t need the help to craft. Not everyone knows how to craft
It has to be noob friendly so I think a full tab makes sense for some people
Cool, now add a simulator containing all items and possibility to choose your status starting from a base. Followed by item name and combination of items that must be used (maybe maybe with a tick after each repetitiom if it succeeded/not for each step).
And of course, the possibility to choose min-max common builds for items/asc
I’ve never seen a gaming community or any community that has this many 3rd party tools by the community lmao.
I have bookmarks for 12 different community tools in my browser. Thank all of you for your work.
Holy fuck, man… this is a great tool, please don’t abandon it xD
Commenting just to comment, cuz i would love to see this kind of website flourish with ppl
nice job!
I think UI is just too small, i actually have a problems seeing anything, i would prefer if it was bigger, and background black is too much blending with other colors
https://preview.redd.it/6f41lg8hhewg1.png?width=2129&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b1fb7ad8ec878ff74bd9c5d504344337e225f45
example.
Where has this been all this time???? Great work dude
Use SnowCross
This is a super smart idea. I hope it helps clean youtube of all the crap craft videos.
Thank’s!!!
