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@DarkBiCin The new crafting items also do this.

@NeverSinkDev Idk why they wouldnt just say “one essence modifier” per item. Feel like thats basically what this is targeting

FURTHER CLARIFICATION ON CRAFT-NERF/CHANGE It's likely a big nerf to early crafting. It is likely that some of the power will return through the new currencies and meta-runes added in 0.5 though. There is one more learning to consider though... 1/2

@Zizaran @luan_luttrix Still waiting for GGG to budge and implement masteries to the tree. Imo one of the best additions to poe1 Kind of expecting this to happen soonish as well

And where did that bring you? Back to me, but worse :D

@ERZOWasTaken Yeah, I've been thinking about that as well. I'm not certain, maybe there's some deeper sense or strategies that we yet have to discover. Maybe these runes are not replacable by normal means? Forcing you to trade some power against vastly easier crafting

@NeverSinkDev Wish the metacraft Runes were Omens instead... how are we supposed to use metacrafting Rune socketables on items that do not have sockets, apart from a few special bases we are getting?

@Suzu520_ I fully expect this to be a rune.

@NeverSinkDev now we just have to find multicraft unlock... wait, wrong game sorry

It is likely that applying a new crafted modifier removes the previous one. This could be big. This allows blocking modifiers deterministically in order to replace them with a higher quality slam later on. It's a bit more advanced, but I'm 100% sure it'll find its uses. 2/2

@JamesMaleedy No, that's the worst case. The new league has new meta crafting runes and new toys, I think there's more

@NeverSinkDev In the best case it hyper limits crafting to basically just one abyssmod and one essence and every other kind of crafting is chaos spam and fracturing orb. But broadly I don't understand why have crafting methods if you limit them to 1 option.

HUGE patch notes addition: "Crafting methods that puts a single guaranteed modifier on an item now adds it as a crafted modifier, items can only have a single crafted modifier on an item." I don't think this applies to abyss, but this puts massive limits on essences right?

@Lord_Ab4ddon Well, there are a lot of new tools, meta crafting rules and other things we don't know yet, but... yes, this may end up being just a limitation.

@NeverSinkDev Umm. So what are us SSF enjoyers supposed to do? Kill ourselves? So a weapon can only have one the following guaranteed? - Flat Phys, +Levels, Onslaught/AS. Seems like crafting weapons will become extremely hard. How's a SSF player supposed to keep up with folks just shopping.

To put it bluntly this is a massive nerf/limitation for crafting. While this definitely targets top end crafting - this also makes crafting solid early endgame weapons a lot harder. Maybe there is a meta crafting rune to bypass it.

@Fubgun @Troite3 I don't think abyss counts. I expect abyss to be an 'unveiled' mod, but yes huge nerf otherwise, especially for early game perfect ess weapon crafts

@Troite3 Yeah I would like clarification but that seems to be the case, like does abyss count for this? I assume it's at least essence and the new imbued alloys.

0.5 Patch notes were updated, there was a Massive crafting nerf hidden in them. This will drastically reduce the power of items we can currently create, would've been interesting hear GGG decision for this. "Crafting methods that puts a single guaranteed modifier on an item now adds it as a crafted modifier, items can only have a single crafted modifier on an item."

@AhmanPatrik That's exactly my struggle. That said, I think gemling is safer. But monk is likely more fun.

@NeverSinkDev I'm having same struggle, do I go Martial Artist with a crit bell build or Gemling with Cannon first?

PATCH NOTES LEARNINGS #4: Tempest Bell: Can now be Ancestrally Boosted as though it were a Strike skill, and its maximum number of active Bells has been increased to 3. This is seriously cool. My starter struggle of 'martial artist' vs 'gemling' is real.

Sweet mtx. Great fit for the martial artist that gets extra runes.

@pathofexile @itmeJP That's some pristine MTX. Will go well with my martial artist that adds runes into the body

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@m0neyjojo Likely. You can also corrupt to go even higher

@NeverSinkDev Would this get the quality benefits right?

PATCH NOTES LEARNINGS #5: This ring (and 2 similar versions) are really SPICY: - Easily 120%+ total resistance - ~200%+ resist when minmaxed (7 items + 20% qual + corrupt) - Jewel slot (NOT rune) - Attributes + Rarity This can compete with most rare options, if you can align your other items.

PATCH NOTES LEARNINGS #6: This change is MASSIVE: "The Corruption outcome that randomises the numeric values on an item beyond the normal range now multiplies based on the current value, instead of randoming the value." To get the best corruptions, you now have to risk the best items, but it takes less tries (even with the omen of corruption being removed). This has a lot of branching consequences. You need les scraps, catalysts etc, but the value of bad rolls plumets even further. What do you think?

PATCH NOTES LEARNINGS #3: "Melee Attacks can now only apply Splash Damage once per damaging area.[...]" Weird change. This may be a massive nerf to some abilities. I don't mind this in principle, but melee is not exactly the strongest meta right now. What do you think?

Yes. This. Every node is so flavourful and transformative, not just stat boosts. Still undecided between this and gemling, but this may be the NR1 coolest ascendancy class now! May even be the coolest ascendancy between poe1 and poe2 combined!