Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Are you removing Harvest because you are uncomfortable with accessing high-level items so easy? I wonder how you can have such a ridiculous thought. You say that the Harvest system crushes the craft system inside, but are you sure there is any craft system in the game? Are you sure that the system made before the harvest is craft? Because when you look at it from here, it looks like RNG based gambling. Totally a Gambling!

Ty GGG Ty and Good bye.

Good. I actually needed a reason to skip the next league. I never used expensive currency to craft because it is actually better to buy with them. So I guess is back to messaging 50 players to buy some item that will give you a 5% bust to the build. Also what this guy said

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Meruemu_y wrote:

Are you removing Harvest because you are uncomfortable with accessing high-level items so easy? I wonder how you can have such a ridiculous thought. You say that the Harvest system crushes the craft system inside, but are you sure there is any craft system in the game? Are you sure that the system made before the harvest is craft? Because when you look at it from here, it looks like RNG based gambling. Totally a Gambling!

Ty GGG Ty and Good bye.

Ty for the advanced warning ;)

I am not surprised that you nerv harvest.
What realy surprises me is, how couldnt you see this coming?
Seriously. It was so obvious to happen like the sun raises every morning.
You didnt see ppl are massivly selling crafts on discord again?
You didnt see ppl are crafting perfect gear again?

So, while i think nerving harvest is maybe the right decission, something that ppl tell you here is 100% true:

The game needs too much time and knowlege to master.
None of my friends want to start with poe cause they feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information they have to read and stuff they have to learn.

When Diablo 4 is going life, you will have no more 250.000 ppl play a league because the big group of ppl that dont play 24/7 will move on.
I see this as clear as i saw harvest crafts would be massivly sold on discord again. Can you see it coming too ggg?

Noogi

I have been playing poe off and on since beta. Most of the time I play long enough to get a few exalts, blow them all on one nice item and then lose interest until another league. I didn't play harvest a bunch because of IRL stuff. Came back for this league and loved it. Fairly simple league mechanics combined with an obvious method of progression (harvest) had me hooked. I finally figured out the new conqueror system and beat sirus a few times. I leveled three characters to try out different builds.

Contrary to the perception at GGG, Harvest let me do things to items I had never dared do before. I used exalts on crafting instead of hoarding them. I actually YOLO'd some annuls onto items. I farmed delve so I could fossil craft items to get a good crafting base. I used essences to start an item off with an otherwise unobtainable mod. I spent all my alterations multiple times hunting that perfect t1 combination. I did all this because I knew at the end of the day my item would NOT BE BRICKED.

At the end of all this, I don't have one piece of mirror worthy gear yet and I haven't even finished my atlas. I have played this league more than ever and haven't lost interest. Please rethink the changes. Are the people who blow through the whole game in 10 hours so they can get to "end-game crafting" actually playing the game?

Bullshit... Why don't you ever think about players who have kids and families and don't have as much time to play? For them Harvest is sometimes the only option to get decent gear...

so sad to read this, im by no means a pro crafter or something. but i finally was able to kinda craft what i needed, welp now its gone. welp back to playing 2 weeks a league in poe.

Just remove harvest already... you know you want to and we know it

This is why we cant have nice things

Still not getting why having perfect items is a bad thing
Also id like some perfect items cause mine were not that

First time posting on the forums; I wish it was under better circumstances.

GGG--these changes seem likely to significantly limit build diversity. I understand your desire to reduce the dependency on third-party hubs like TFT, but gutting the harvest system isn't the solution.

Please reconsider this decision. Sending you guys/gals hugs and support!

Good changes, keep it up GGG 👍

Love this!
Harvest was too strong.
Thanks GGG