Did you see the thread about the new stash tabs? Did you see how they fucked up cluster jewels?
Cluster jewels are fine in combination with the new crafting options we have from Harvest. With how powerful and build-defining cluster jewels are, it's a good thing for them to no longer be alt-spammable. Proper bases (ilvl 78+, 8 passive on large, 4-5 on medium, 2 on small) are usually 20-30c each. That's pretty affordable, and crafting for 1 socket and 1 notable that you want doesn't take a lot of currency either, especially with the new Harvest crafts. Getting 2 notable ones is more expensive, and it should be. Good mediums are usually around 15-20% more damage for a build, getting that kind of improvement for less than a few ex would make the game way too easy. It already is.
The 3 new stash tabs are utter insanity and totally ridiculous to have. I still don't get the fuzz about it though. Just don't buy them? A single non-premium tab does the same, it just doesn't look as pretty. But people don't have impulse control and feel the NEED to buy them. That's their idiocy, not GGGs. They just take advantage of it. Smart. People just need to stop wanting all the shit for free, or call every major improvement to the UI or gameplay itself a "Quality of Life" improvement which they feel entitled to get. The game is intricate and complex, and whether or not you can dump your oils in a special tab or a regular tab makes no fucking difference. The new stash-tab improvements they announced are gonna be huge and everything people could've asked for.
By the way, it's the same idiocy that makes people feel "forced" to chase the clear-speed meta when there really wasn't a reason to do so for a lot of leagues. Delirium pushed things too far for sure, and it's certainly nice to be able to clear maps quickly, but Meta or this league in particular really don't require you to go zoom-zoom. And even in Delirium, tanky builds that could do Sirus8, UElder or 20wave simulacrums were just as good to make currency as vroom-vroom builds were. Just stop looking at bigboi streamers, actually learn to play the game without just copypasting other peoples builds, and pick a playstyle you like. The game has profitable gameplay to offer for all types of builds.
As an example, just look at my build. Not optimized at all. Maybe 10ex worth of gear, started on a shoestring budget. Most of it I threw together myself with the new crafting options. I can still comfortably clear T16s in ~2minutes, with the boss being another 2 minutes because my singletarget sucks. I have a shit Ascendancy because I cba relevelling after my initial build idea crumbled, but I still make do and make ~3-5ex a day just by playing the game. And I can still get results like this from a single map. With a shitty Fireball Ignite Raider.
