the 2 reasons are: he didn't want to go into too much details for his audience on x, and he's following a build that tells him what attributes he should look for when buying items. also 400 hours is not enough to understand the full complexity of the game and be familiar with it. i have played poe 1 for almost 3k hours and i still don't know everything, and started crafting my late game items just in the last league. so it's expected he doesn't know everything or that he compares it to diablo 4 (where high item level may be important)
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