Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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I play in PoE because I like to make my character perfect❗
The mechanics of the Harvest, made my goals and my meaning of the game a reality!☝🏻
There are thousands of stats in the game, and it's just Unrealistic to get the right property with one Exalted Orb, which caused me and other players to have Cognitive Dissonance, before the advent of the harvest mechanics!
There are thousands of stats in the game, trying to get the desired property with 1 Exalted orb - is violence against players❗❗❗

Harvest - the reason why I play in this league 10 times more than I played before! I got a sense of being able to make my character perfect, which is not so easy, by the way👌🏻🙄

Without Harvest, I won't be able to play this game anymore.
Since I will feel the pain of the fact that no matter how much time I spend, but I will not have any opportunity to bring my character to perfection😢

This news killed not only Harvest, this news killed the meaning of the game❗😭
And I won't play it as much as I do in this league anymore.

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sirgog wrote:

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Biszek wrote:

Based on what statistics you made these changes?

I believe you literaly made at least few % players to quit because of that.

I kinda don't understand on what basis your game balance person does these changes.

Like back in the day in 2016 i LOVED Righteous Ride on Chieftain as Pure HP build, which you literally killed 2 leagues later(because of chieftain ascendancy change to force physical to fire because 10% STR was hidden behind it and then nerf to RF to deal 20% of HP)

I kinda do not like changes to builds that I create/think of, as I was using cyclone to curse on hit flammability on it, I decided to stick with cyclone for my 'next' build..

..which you nerfed hard 2 leagues after with your awesome 'boosting 2handed weapons' patch where Ngahamu Axe got nerfed really hard (molten burst is also procing a lot less compared to before) with lowering its physical damage by 30% or so.

I am casual player, I like to stick with one build that I like (feel free to check my characters)

Harvest was one of 'in game events' that gave me option to craft stuff (in which i was unlucky and wasnt albe to btw and not that I am very good at crafting) with less RNG that makes me want to quit playing this game.

Well here goes GGG with nerfing harvest where i can't even 'roll physical' on items..

Well I guess i'll just skip Harvest as there's nothing to do in there, back to old alternation spam with regal + multicraft

Whats gonna be next?

The obvious statistic is Google Trends interest in POE, which collapsed super fast during Harvest as people got bored of the league quicker than usual.

Then it hasn't held up as well in 3.13 as it did in 3.9, despite (at least in my opinion) 3.13 being a superior expansion save the issues of Harvest being so dominant.

Turns out, when characters get too powerful relative to the content, the game gets less fun.

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Sarciss wrote:

Actually i had a look at a few characters from people that were seemingly overreacting in this thread (aka threating "bye GGG" "thanks for making me quit") - many of them/you werent even utilizing harvest (at least not for their gear - maybe sold crafts idk).
Like why the outrage if literally nothing will change for you lmao?

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Peonsson2 wrote:

Suggestion: Give us a timer. When you kill one plot you have 60 seconds to craft your item. Killing another plot adds 30 seconds. When your time is up you get kicked out like incursion.
Also make everyone in your party able to craft (or at the very least see them)! It would make it the best thing ever. Please GGG!