> store bought armor at level 2 looks infinitely better than anything you can actually earn through skill or play time You touch on the two things that make me

> store bought armor at level 2 looks infinitely better than anything you can actually earn through skill or play time You touch on the two things that make me hate free to play games. It seeps into the design philosophy in a way that makes the experience worse for everybody because they need to incentivize buying stuff. A lot of people like playing dress-up, but there's no way to do that in PoE without paying crazy amounts of money.