Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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Xyren101 wrote:

I am very sad about harvest getting nearly useless for me as a averrage player.
After 2000 hours of playing PoE, harvest gave me the possibility to craft my own items instead of save up currency till mid league when i can afford the good items for my builds. offcause i could play other builds which have more afforable gear, but for me PoE is all about possibilities, when i again could only play builds which can barely do T16 Maps and i have to throw away my gear every time an Exalted Orb drops, i will lose allot of fun in this game.

I get the point of grinding for good gear and i am willed to do so, but with the latest changes i will stop crafting again, i tried multiple times to craft really good gear but when i have to spend 50ex and weeks of gambling with the risk to loose it all this doesnt seems clever when i can buy a finished one.

Another Point is, when everyone (except the 0.001% of player who could craft there ultimate gear) have to buy there Gear again, Bots will grow again, cause its all about Currency again.

In the Annoucement there was the line: "The entire rest of Path of Exile's crafting system is somewhat redundant with Harvest Crafting in its current form." and i agree nearly all crafting possibilities are so inefficient, that they are useless for nearly everyone who plays PoE (i would say Fossils quite good, but then they possibly get nerved next).

With the current Announcement, me as an averrage player will skip harvest cause the only really helpfull thing is Alch Maps and even this is only needed till some point in the league.
And yes the Oil/Catalyst/Fossil/... gamble is nice but at least i didn´t get something good enough to do harvest just for them.

I understand there are some people who have really fun gamling in this game and crafting really good stuff, offcause they do cause they made a allot of currency in the past (and still do, i still haven´t my end game gear cause i do not get the Augments/Annuls i need)
but these kind of HardCore Crafters will allways craft some legendary dragon sword +2, but i will be forced again to buy there items cause i have nearly no chance to get them which this makes me really sad.
In my mind the people complaining how easy Harvest makes the game need to play 24/7 cause for me who plays ~5-6h nearly every day after work it is not easy it is still hard work of days and days farming Harvest and hoping for the right Augment/Annul/RemoveAdd.

And offcause i could just go somewhere an pay someone who has the Harvest crafts to just finish my items, but why would i do that and break the improvement cycle when i have the option to grind for it? I am still a person who buys nearly all of my Gear but with harvest i at least slowly startet optimizing and this league even startet to craft my first own really good items and now i am again only able to craft maybe even good items but why grinding for good items, when i could grind curreny to buy nearly perfect items?
I grind for improvement, but when the Improvment never ever could nearly reach whats on the Market, then why even trying, this way it is just frustrating to craft, so just buy the finished ones and cry about the prices.

Like said before, for me PoE is all about the freedom to play cool and funny Builds and it seems like i am loosing this freedom, cause i can´t craft myself and most of the time can´t afford to just buy the Gear i want. So i have to play Cheep Builds and grind at Yellow maps and Hope for Exalted Drops to gear the character i want to play which doesn´t sound fun to me.

So i get the point of the nerve, but in my mind it again hurts only the averrage players and takes away the posibility to improve my gear on my own.
What i read in the Manifesto is: Let the 0.1% of players rule the Gear market again and Bots Dominate the currency market and destroy the averrage players capabilities, which makes me sad.

I will try it next league but then maybe switch to Standrd where Currency is not a problem and i have my freedoms.