Why the need to identify items?

[phlux]

It's not a big issue, but i struggle to see what value the need of identification adds to the game.
Feels like a dated mechanic that doesn't really serve a purpose when i can always portal into town to identify everything anyways. But maybe I don't see it.

Can someone tell what's the point of it?

[Dwane Dibbley]

Originally posted by phlux:

Originally posted by Clarity:

in act 2 theres an npc who does it for free

Yeah, I know, doesn't make the mechanic make more sense. Just makes it even more pointless tbh :D

Imho its quite important for trading. Once you drop items identified, lootfilter will become almighty. I have seen it in Last Epoch, at it was imho worse.

[phlux]

Originally posted by Dwane Dibbley:

Imho its quite important for trading. Once you drop items identified, lootfilter will become almighty. I have seen it in Last Epoch, at it was imho worse.

Then drop unidentified and auto-identify on pick up, easy fix and nobody even has to see that mechanic.
I could see the benefit for trading tho, don't know much about trading. Is trading unidentified items a thing? Honestly I would never buy an unidentified item...

[Subsonic]

First you get anticipation for good drop, then you get anticipation for a good roll, these kinds of systems are used to intensify interaction, be it a good or bad outcome.

[Drake]

In poe1 some unid items have purpose. Like unid maps yield more loot. Trading recipe using unid items give twice as much orbs.

Also in endgame we don't know if you can port infinitely between maps and town or if you're limited to 6 portals like poe1.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Clarity:

in act 2 theres an npc who does it for free

I got that NPC in act one, after completing quests for Una. He's useful as Identified items sell for a bit more more gold to vendors.

[smoketrees]

because it's cool.

Not everything needs to be uber streamlined.

[tolshortte]

Originally posted by Evol:

First you get anticipation for good drop, then you get anticipation for a good roll, these kinds of systems are used to intensify interaction, be it a good or bad outcome.

if psychology is the answer, i wonder if that changes over time

[JamesTBG]

I really hoped they get rid of that mechanism. It prevents a nice itemfiltering and its tedious. Now there is Deckard Cain, which makes the mechanism more obsolet and a chore.

[Minmataro]

it adds to inventory gymnastics. dealing with your inventory is a big part of the game. having to id an item yourself or needing to stop and take it back, will you take it back? its all part of the arpg experience.

[IvanChe]

Poe have random stats on items, so you have to identify it to activate that random stats generated. Only uniques are same of course

[tolshortte]

walking to raid was part of the MMO experience. they portaled that the f out though. QOL is worth it sometimes.

[RedFaster]

The whole point of Identify was that you might accidentally equip something cursed and have it bound to you.

Why PoE ever implemented it in the first place (but only halfway) was to feed into the consumable economy thing so currency farmers would have a job to do. Just a bit of stupidity inherited from Diablo.

If PoE had cursed modifiers that may or may not be cleansed that would be really fun.

[Alemander Mundi]

Just f ing identify, this is not D4, ffs.

[T0b1maru]

Unidentified items help, like someone else mentioned, to prevent loot filters to be hyper tuned and removing all loot interaction all together.

Second part is because of dopamine hits when you find rares/uniques and then again when you identify them. It's mostly player psychology reasons to keep you playing.

That said, don't be complaining about everything all day. Just identify stuff you scrubs.

[tolshortte]

fine. since you want to go and make a bunch of sense using logic and junk