Crafting / Omens - Truly Infuriating

I've been running ritual nonstop to try to get a decent drop rate on omens. Just forget about any crafting projects. If you want to make a 200 plus div weapon, you'll likely need that amount of divines to buy the omens because they are wildly inefficient at crafting, almost pure RNG, and they never, ever, drop.

The people who can craft manage to get roughly 300 divines worth of crafting supplies so they can RNG chaos and then whittle. This is an insane expectation from a normal player. I have played way more hours than any normal player and have basically no chance to craft because I cannot generate 300 divines in an entire league. What does GGG expect someone like me to do, a person who has dedicated more hours than almost every other player but does not have hundreds of divines to spend on crafting? A common theme with this game's design is a complete lack of respect for player time.

You call this crafting? It's complete RNG. This game is layers and layers of RNG, even with mechanics you call "crafting".

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I used my first Whittle tonight. It converted the bleed reduction on my chest into 42 Lightning Resistance! This freed up some of my socket/passive points for a better QoL arrangement. I'm throwing all my precursor tablets into Ritual for the time being. Hopefully I'll find another soon!