Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Such a disheartening change. I think I'll skip everything until POE 2 comes out now.

Random crafting with exalts and annuls is a shite way to do it, and something Id never waste my time with again given how expensive and dissapointing it always has been in the past. The deterministic crafting in the actual harvest league was awesome, and I made a full set of near perfect items tailored specifically to my build after a ton of time and effort. The actual harvest was tedious though and stopping to use up the lower crafts and manage seeds was a annoying distraction. The answer should be to split deterministic currencies across all the different game modes imo. That way regular ppl can actually craft cool shit without the rest of it and can just trade for the currecies like anything else.

Being able to get a double influences item with perfect mods should not be reserved for the one person in the leauge with enough luck and currency while the everyone else makes futile attempts at making a good items.

I do not play every league hardcore but when I do Id like to have the a reasonable chance of getting to an endgame build with bespoke endgame gear if I am willing to take the time to progress to that point.

For the record I was not too impressed with harvest 2.0, I stopped playing before I got too far but I could see actually progressing harvest would have been annoying the way it was. Stopping for 10 minutes to try to use up the crafts was an immediate distraction to actually playing.

Deterministic crafting was the most enjoyable thing Ive done in POE ever. Harvest itself and the mechanic was ok at the time but I would not want to do it every league.

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SA_Lumis wrote:

If the community reaction to nerfing Harvest is negative because people liked it and chose to repeatedly farm it for gear IN A GAME ABOUT GETTING GOOD GEAR over all the other content in the game, maybe Harvest isn't the problem.

Maybe the problem is that the other content in the game isn't nearly rewarding enough.

99.9% of the stuff hitting the ground is garbage that people just won't pick up. That's just not good design.

Deterministic outcomes is something the game needs, whether it be in Harvest or some other form that significantly mitigates the RNG aspect of the game. The outcry should really illustrate that.

Give this person a medal!!

Problem with this is, you people have no backbone anymore. I played in harvest and when I heard they removed it I quit. Then they added it back and I came back. If we boycott the game they WILL get the message. In fact, we shouldn't play even if they decide to revert back the changes. Just skip a league, let them take a financial hit, then they will listen to their community [Removed by Support]

Well, this is dissapointing. Can't really understand push towards gambling, but it is GGGs game to screw up. Cheers.
PS: Any deals on Last Epoch?

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velniuks wrote:

Well, this is dissapointing. Can't really understand push towards gambling, but it is GGGs game to screw up. Cheers.
PS: Any deals on Last Epoch?

Maybe POE 2 Late...

How long until devs decide the character login screen is too deterministic? “Close your eyes and slam login. YOLO.”

Give me a break.

hey "GGG" you are going to lose a lot of players if you do that... pls hear PathOfMatth in this video and you will see the mistake you are about to commit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdpA_xHXhEA&t=567s&ab_channel=PathofMatth, dont blow up harvest pls

Man, as a really casual player, this league was pretty amazing to push my carachter a bit further. I mean, nowhere near the potencial it could achieve or anything perfect, but it allowed me to do some stuff on my own, to have fun crafting and all. Still, i had to figure stuff out, what to craft, and even like it is right now, there's some stuff that's not deterministic at all.
This nerf is a huge mood killer, and i could understand the changes with some right reasons, but what's said is... out of touch. I mean, this kills crafting for non full time players, like, before harvest i've only exalted an item thru the syndicate crafting bench.
*disappointed noises*

Ok, I will leave.