I am having a hard time finding items I want or any other player in our group wants. In general I feel that runes are really easy to find and in general are good.
I have looked on AoN and it is organized ok but in general you have to click every single item and there are so many different sections.
For example the most important items imo are skill items and I can't even find those without scouring a whole bunch of different pages and clicking on every item. For example I found
Healer's Gloves +1 medicine
Dancing Scarf +1 performance when dancing: I can't even find a pure +1 performance item.
Demon Mask +1
Armband of Athleticism +2... but I can't find a lower level version.
Logically I would think there would be a +1/+2/+3 item of every skill but I can't find one.
IMO it is REALLY hard for a player to find items they would actually want. Fundamental and Potency runes on the other hand are super easy to find, just wish there was somewhere the list could be filtered. Not sure if there is a website that makes finding items easier.
There might be a lot of good/fun items but when I am researching things non stop I have trouble finding the items I actually want, other players who just play more casually are going to give up after looking for 2 minutes.
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Magic Items, as a rule, generally won't give very many numerical bonuses in PF2, that's just the way things work as it was an intentional design decision to bake nearly all of the numerical bonuses into the Classes/Level system and just a handful of items such as your Weapon and Armor so you don't have the whole "mandatory 6" items for every character.
While the long history of 3.X and beyond has very much programmed many players to look for equipment that boosts their numbers that kind of thinking was abandoned so that the system as a whole can stay more or less balanced and isn't disrupted by subsequent release of supplement books and gear that just keeps ratcheting up the power creep.
You should be looking for cool magic items that let the player do new cool things they couldn't otherwise do, in other terms, enabler equipment instead of empowerment equipment.
Things like the Horn of Fog, the various Rods, Travelers Any-tool, and the many "Boot/Belt/Cloak/Glove/Ring" items also offer really neat benefits while some others do still also provide an Item Bonus in some cases such as the Lifting Belt.
I was mainly just saying skill items are really hard to find. I actually kind of wish there were fundamental skill runes so pretty much all the items could be flavorful and not directly increase passive power.
