Merchant Guild or Circle of Fortune?

[Perfection]

I'll probably end up only playing 1 character to high 90s. Maybe 2 characters.

I tried COF during 1.0 and it was honestly a bit complicated and I got overwhelmed by item drops. Item drops that I couldn't use for my current build but I also couldn't trade.

I was going to go MG for 0.2 but I'm not 100% sure.

What do you think is better?

[TopBadger]

I mean it's pretty straight forward.

If you're playing Solo self found. go CoF, if you're not go MG.

CoF lets to target farm items and MG enables player trading. that's all there is to it.

[Niuq]

If you are only going to play 1 or 2 characters, then ask / answer some questions for yourself.

Do you :
Want to buy the perfect items for your build and be done?
Enjoy chasing / grinding out items?
How long to you plan on playing?
Want to have some mini objectives to spawn targeted loot? *some thing to guide your grind
Want to find more loot on the floor? *get or make a loot filter

For me i enjoy the chase of finding items, but that is usually for one or two characters.
I plan on trying 2-4 characters so gonna try Merchants.

[Perfection]

Niuq の投稿を引用：

If you are only going to play 1 or 2 characters, then ask / answer some questions for yourself.

Do you :
Want to buy the perfect items for your build and be done?
Enjoy chasing / grinding out items?
How long to you plan on playing?
Want to have some mini objectives to spawn targeted loot? *some thing to guide your grind
Want to find more loot on the floor? *get or make a loot filter

For me i enjoy the chase of finding items, but that is usually for one or two characters.
I plan on trying 2-4 characters so gonna try Merchants.

Good advice!

My problem when playing COF was that not picking up items that were really good, just not for my build or any build I wanted to play, felt really wrong.

I'll try Merchant Guild.

[DecalMan]

Cant you make additional characters and join both factions? Just cant equip each factions items on opposite faction characters?

[tiamats4esgares]

My thoughts:

-You seem to like trading, and wished you'd done it before. You also seem to dislike CoF. That alone should answer your question.

-That said, I LOVE trading too in PoE1 but I still prefer CoF in LE and I don't really know why. It doesn't feel as important to me to trade. Maybe I like the crafting more? Maybe it's because I got used to not trading before that was allowed? Not sure.

-A lot of people start CoF, and then once they find enough non-CoF gear that can replace their good CoF gear, they take a bit of a hit to their gear but such that they can still manage, and they switch to MG. I don't think I'd like that, but some people do.

[Laciel]

Perfection の投稿を引用：

I'll probably end up only playing 1 character to high 90s. Maybe 2 characters.

I tried COF during 1.0 and it was honestly a bit complicated and I got overwhelmed by item drops. Item drops that I couldn't use for my current build but I also couldn't trade.

I was going to go MG for 0.2 but I'm not 100% sure.

What do you think is better?

If you only wanna play one character and perfect your gear then i would say go Merchants guild 100% (which is exactly what the developers said as well).

I only use CoF (i'm not a fan of trading) to find all kinds of interesting items and then make characters around said items. If you play CoF you either need a strict loot filter or be ready to read a lot of items.

Which one is better ? Depends on your playstyle (which is why i suggested MG) and also depends on person who is answering :D CoF for life.

[Tyyne]

DecalMan の投稿を引用：

Cant you make additional characters and join both factions? Just cant equip each factions items on opposite faction characters?

At least some of the items you get from specific factions are tied to that faction (or have a level requirement for that faction if I remember correctly), f.ex. if you got a weapon from a prophecy, you can't use it at all if you change your faction.

[RoninSJ]

If you have issues with your loot maybe should should try to config or download a good loot filter.

The game has the best filter and crafting out there. I've played 3500+ hours in POE1/2 and none of my high end chars was build with 100% SSF. Trade trade trade. In LE I've manged to create endgame gear without too much hassle even pre S1. And it will be even better in S2 since you're guranteed to have the exalted stat you need on your legendary.

But in the end, just select what you prefer. Only make sure that you use the loot filter. This will ease your life by so much, regardless what faction you choose

[Perfection]

RoninSJ の投稿を引用：

If you have issues with your loot maybe should should try to config or download a good loot filter.

The game has the best filter and crafting out there. I've played 3500+ hours in POE1/2 and none of my high end chars was build with 100% SSF. Trade trade trade. In LE I've manged to create endgame gear without too much hassle even pre S1. And it will be even better in S2 since you're guranteed to have the exalted stat you need on your legendary.

But in the end, just select what you prefer. Only make sure that you use the loot filter. This will ease your life by so much, regardless what faction you choose

Oh i used a pretty good loot filter.

I still had a lot of say T7 items dropping that I had no use for BUT it felt so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wrong just leaving them on the ground so I had bunch of stash tabs with basically useless items (useless to me).

It's a bit of a weird issue to have I'm aware. I wish getting stash tabs was easier on COF but maybe they have buffed that since 1.0?

[RoninSJ]

Perfection の投稿を引用：

RoninSJ の投稿を引用：

If you have issues with your loot maybe should should try to config or download a good loot filter.

The game has the best filter and crafting out there. I've played 3500+ hours in POE1/2 and none of my high end chars was build with 100% SSF. Trade trade trade. In LE I've manged to create endgame gear without too much hassle even pre S1. And it will be even better in S2 since you're guranteed to have the exalted stat you need on your legendary.

But in the end, just select what you prefer. Only make sure that you use the loot filter. This will ease your life by so much, regardless what faction you choose

Oh i used a pretty good loot filter.

I still had a lot of say T7 items dropping that I had no use for BUT it felt so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wrong just leaving them on the ground so I had bunch of stash tabs with basically useless items (useless to me).

It's a bit of a weird issue to have I'm aware. I wish getting stash tabs was easier on COF but maybe they have buffed that since 1.0?

Strange, I didnt have that problem. Maybe I had a stricter one than you. Also I shattered alot of stuff so I didn't keep as many items, only the ones who had really good stats for slamming to create legendaries. Only thing I tend to go a bit overboard is with hording useless sets and uniques. But that Set issue is gone now at least

Maybe you should simply try Merchant and see how it goes. I'll do that too eventually in S2