Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

R.I.P POE

In the last Seasons you always make one step forward and two steps back.
You will again lose players for this "necessary" changes.

While I know almost no one cares about consoles (yes GGG, this includes you), but this change greatly affects us due to much lower population and lack of the volumes to trade. We just don’t have the shear volume of crafts available the trade.

It seems to me that so many of the folks complaining about it being so easy are those that just acquire their crafts from trade.

I have done many, many harvests and have seen very few top end crafts - but those I have gotten have been really fun to start getting better gear. I have enjoyed crafting my gear - that is the joy - not trying to exalt slam and get T10 useless mods on an ilevel 86 item.

I guess this means I go back to being a field hand farming the currency......

Why destroy the whole purpose of harvest crafting and ruin endgame itemisation for like 99% of casual players, like it was pretty much before the Harvest league?

My suggestion would be to make items that were altered through harvest crafting untradable, so the discord fiesta doesn't make it so easy to get the desired craft anymore.
Or lose some tags on some mods, so they won't be easily obtainable or forced by harvest crafts.

There are a number of ways nerfing harvest, but in my opinion the game was finally at a point where, if you put enough time in, anybody could at some point craft their first really good item piece for endgame and not have to farm 40 exalts until you go to the trade website and buy it from the 1% who somehow got all the currency in the world to have those crafted.

Please don't ruin influenced item crafting.

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Jadran wrote:

So wait, several months ago, before Harvest even existed, PoE was a bad game? Because this thread makes it sound like it will be a bad game now after Harvest is nerfed. I don't get this logic. I'd assume tons of people had fun with it before Harvest.

It's like: imagine you eat ice cream for the 1st time in your life. It's absolutely phenomenal. Now, several months later your parents come and say - no more ice cream for you son, it's actually not good for your teeth and overall health. So yeah, most kids would throw a tantrum here. But does it mean life berfore ice cream was terrible?

Exactly this. I didn't even play Harvest and i still loved the game before. I won't "miss" Harvest whatsoever.

GGG should listen to its community. This day-one thread has four more times replies than the previous crap-talk about trading system, and what about this manifesto now, huh? (Chinese built-in market, it was bad but, really?) Start playing your own game or just listen to those who really does and not these top-100 players.

Good, This post clearly explains GGG (Gambling Gear Games) stance how Path Of Exile should be played and I was playing it wrong!

Others already made so many valid points so no point me crying. No fun allowed unless you play trade.
I wanted to buy supporter pack but there is no point, I won't be playing in April, so I can go and buy new chapter for ESO!
This is excellent news!

Thanks GGG (Gambling Gear Games)!

I was literally planning my next build next league and how I will use Harvest to make all sorts of different builds for all the league mechanics. However, all that has turned to shit given your selfish desires of what you envision this game to be Chris. I'll let it end with Harvest because that was your masterpiece. Onto the next game. Here lies Path of Exile. R.I.P

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Damier wrote:

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Jadran wrote:

So wait, several months ago, before Harvest even existed, PoE was a bad game? Because this thread makes it sound like it will be a bad game now after Harvest is nerfed. I don't get this logic. I'd assume tons of people had fun with it before Harvest.

It's like: imagine you eat ice cream for the 1st time in your life. It's absolutely phenomenal. Now, several months later your parents come and say - no more ice cream for you son, it's actually not good for your teeth and overall health. So yeah, most kids would throw a tantrum here. But does it mean life berfore ice cream was terrible?

Exactly this. I didn't even play Harvest and i still loved the game before. I won't "miss" Harvest whatsoever.

Several months before Shaper had 16mil HP, FYI. And so on.

i agree with most posts here. if you think the current crafting without garden is good and exiting you are very wrong. its shit. i stil enjoy this game but most certainly not for the crafting!

This is BAD. This is very BAD. if you want to make this changes give us more the thing that you are giving us is basically nothing. The other way is make this changes and loose quite a big amount of players because they will not be able to min-max their builds in considerable time. If this goes in i think that i will pass next league and maybe a few more. I want to be able to make great items without loosing my job. No game will be ever more important than my job or life and if the game wants me to invest all of my time so that i need to throw away my job etc, then i will throw away the game because its stupid. Even more i think that, that big changes are needed because you're making stronger and stronger bosses so at some point these changes this way of crafting will be irrelevant. Instead you're deciding to make it irrelevant at this very moment. Good job GGG i think i will uninstal your game and wait for buffs to harvest or another way of crafting good/great gear for my builds