I was just talking about this with a friend. We both play SSF and have like 500+ divines but would trade them 1:1 for certain bases that we can’t seem to get enough of.

In trade, people probably don’t miss the recombinator and things like the boosted divine drop rate probably feel alright, but in SSF they just feel like GGG forgot SSF existed. Things like whittlings, annul omens, etc. are what I wish they boosted the drop rate off, not divines. Divines basically useless to me in SSF once my gear is near perfectly divined.

I think the new runes that add modifier groups to an item probably made recomb into a nightmare to setup, because NNN recomb bs already happened in poe1

I agree, but if the game is smooth for SSF then things just lose all meaning in trade league.

GGG doesn’t have must interest in making the game actually ‘good’ in SSF, it’s just a harder game mode.

If they put in some mechanics like Last Epoch where playing SSF gives you more loot and just lock it down so loot from your SSF character can never touch trade, I’d play SSF in a heartbeat.

Crafting weapon is insanely hard on SSF.

As a trade player, I really did try to engage with the recombinator while it was here.

It’s just that the chances of success on that thing were ATROCIOUS. 

Oh you want to keep a good mod from each item? Best I can do is 0.16% chance.

Losing the recomb knocked out one avenue of gear progression, but I was still able to make some pretty GG items, it just took a little longer.

Seriously, it’s such a game changer for affordable crafting. Shit, I’d even be fine with lower chances of success, I’d be much happier gambling my quasi-decent ground loot than selling it for more gold.

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

• SSF - Solo Self-Found (Wiki)

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Would also allow us to determine some mod weights that were changed or are new in 0.5.

My guess is they didn’t want people to use recombination with the new mechanics like the breach only mods or the meta crating rune only mods, but this does seem like an in-elegant solution.

Aye, the runes making recomb a balance nightmare makes sense but I’d still take the jank over staring at a stash of divines I cannae use.

Best use of divines for me atm in SSF is rolling mageblood! What a sink! But agree with SSF rares , most of the time I just have to slam exalts and hope for the best with all these limitations

I play sc trade and 100% agree it need to come back, either the recombinator or the crafting bench would make the perfect exhalt sink

Recombinator was horrible. The odds to get good affixes were terrible. If they increase the odds it would be a lot better.

I mean people are mentioning the atrocious rates - That’s if you’re trying to get 2 full on tier 1s - imothe thing with the recombinator is to not be too greedy I can settle with a t3-t4 res because I have extra on another gear so chances go up to like 20%.

I enjoyed picking up every single bases especially if it had a t1 among t7s so I can recombine it now it’s not worth it at all and the best part was when you just throw away gear like that and you just HIT it and you’re now staring at it like damn you gotta dump currency in it now lmao

Farmed 150+ whittles (still 0 MB or HH) but I don’t think I have seen more than 50 perfect chaos to use the whittles… I’d somewhat prefer 0.4 (a lot more ground loot currencies, even if it’s from temple) than 0.5 (easier to get ritual omens but not enough crafting currency to make use of them).

I think they don’t do better drop rates in SSF because you can migrate to trade or standard. I’d love for there to be a “Voided SSF” mode with better drop rates that is just deleted at the end of each league, never goes to standard, can never be migrated.

I was worried they were gonna remove it from POE(1) as well, but we lucked out.

Yep crafting is just bad right now. I essentially filtered out all rare drops since the chances of you finding something actually good even as a tier5 is essentially zero. 

Have to just play normal league and save up and buy things off market unless you have hundreds/thousands of divs to spend on crafting things yourself.

I really miss Orbs of Alteration.
In the end people are now rolling things with chaos on fractured bases which could could often just be done with Alts on a magic base.

With 7-8 chaos being one div, maybe having to slam more than 2k Chaos on an item for a second T1 mod is just obscenely expensive (yeah of course, you could go for t2 or even t3 but why then even craft?)
In PoE1, Alts and the following crafting steps made it very easy to craft an item safely with at least 4 desired affixes, with at least two of them being T1 for just the cost of Alterations.

For me as a new player back then, that was more than enough in the beginning and made me feel great that I have “crafted my own gear” completely, even if everything had 2 random mods in the end, some good, some shit

The first step is now replaced by either desperately waiting for a suitable magic base or buying one, even if you just want to do such a low level “safe 4 mods” craft.

Monkey paw curls- GGG brings back Recombinators but recombinated items are league locked and delete if/when you migrate.

Then don’t play SSF, playing within the bounds of the crafting/loot system by yourself is literally the challenge