Bug and Feature Request: traps

[thelee]

BUG: Is it just me or does the artificer in the stronghold very rarely have anything for sale? I'll provide a save later, but I swear this entire run I've had like maybe 1 trap for sale, if at all. I seem to recall some runs I made much earlier (pre-2.0 days) there would be a larger variety for sale.

 

REQUEST: A constant headscratcher. The traps available for purchase in White March I/II are just _so_ much better than in vanilla. I will gladly fork over thousands of gold to buy those. I don't even understand the balance decision; it seems like with effects as powerful as Rain of Fire or Chaotic Orb, _those_ should be the ones getting significant accuracy penalties, not the waste-of-inventory-space Hail of Dart or Arrow traps. I realize PoE is probably nearing end-of-life in terms of support, but I really want some designer to explain or take a look at how player traps are currently balanced.

[Guest Jamila]

Chaotic orb is probably WM1 spell, added later when the level cap was increased and the artificer might not have been updated.

Anyway, he seems to offer different traps when I buy what he has, leave the area and come back. Though I usually do not buy traps; they simply do not cut it on PotD, unless they debuff.