Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

I love crafting, it’s its own little puzzle game. And damn, I loved every minute of 3.13. Hands down my favorite league I’ve played. Harvest was one of the main reasons for that. Between figuring out the optimal way to use the crafts and, yes, even buying and selling crafts on TFT. It was amazing! Even so much I bought the Harvest Supporter pack to say “Hey GGG, I really enjoyed this league!”

However with this announcement, my excitement for next league and beyond is just flat out… gone. Sorry GGG - you’ve lost me with this one.

I had a great time playing while it lasted though, thank you so much! :)

From a perspective of a non 16h played a day player, because unfortunately I have to work to earn money, i completely disagree with this nerf. This league I enyoyed a lot trying things to happen in harvest and I can say I didn´t make anything great (top tier o mirror tier) but decent to sell for an exalt or 2 and improve a little bit my build.
Also liked this mechanics because I´ve seen more different builds viable in endgame than ever.
And lastly, this league I encouraged myself to try SSF for the next league as with what I learned from harvest I think I can do end game just by myself.
All this things are broken dreams right now. i feel sad for that.
Please reconsider this for a moment.

Very poor problem solving!
Bringing Harvest back was like evolving into something so much better as it is right now and it motivated me to chase more and different goals (and play longer). But if these nerfs go through we are back at the stone age of gambling, unclear grinding goals and playing only top meta builds if you want to do endgame content. "So much fun, thanks GGG!"
If you don't want Harvest crafts to be sold through 3rd party software then just make them trade-able like Bestiary crafts. Simple.

In Ritual league, I've told a number of people that poe is in a really good state. They made great strides in letting people have agency on what they're doing by the atlas tree changes and by reinstituting harvest. I've talked it up to a number of people. By going back to slot machine crafting, you are removing agency and putting the game in a worse space.

Just a heads up for people unwaware.

There's a post on leddit (obviously the official forums) where the lead CM says that for now there's no plans to change this decision and they are "watching the feedback" whatever that means.

Harvest is not dead, it will still be in the game. It will still be the absolute nr 1 choice for crafting items. In fact you will have more access to it. It will still help gear progression just like it did before. It is only the very top tier of crafted gear that is being toned down (the 6 high tear multi influence mod items and those kind of nonsense) - gear that you do not need at all to fully complete 99% of the content. Decent to Great gear which you need for progression will still be available in large quantities because harvest will still be strong as fck.

Do not overreact so hard.

Your philosophy huh? So you give us something against your philosophy, then blame us for making the best of it.... trash, no more mtx for you. Not because of harvest, but because your hypocrites who fence straddle and it is repulsive. You literally made the game worth playing, then you made it trash....again. Congratulations to a team of idiots. I hope you enjoy how many people don't play more than 2 weeks a league.

The rage in this thread is too damn high!
Good riddance to the extra easy mirror tier, multi influenced rares that made the game feel effortless.
Harvest will still have specific exalts, it just won't have endless specific rerolls. It will still be the strongest crafting option in the game, it just won't be a no brainer.
Time to put those fingers to use people, 200 million dps shit will not be available to you anymore, you'll have to settle with just tens of millions.
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This? THIS is GGG's most impending concern about the game? Ordinary players getting equipments that they want? Really?

And to what end? Just so u could make us play ur leagues longer?

Do u People actually play the game? Have u ever used exalt on items? It's almost always stupid things to use exalt on items for urself unless you are trying to make mirror serviceable gear.

Incredible. Guys, only way to "fight" this is not buying packs. Don't even play the coming leagues.

harvest craft is the best thing that ever happened to game . if you want to solve problems, solve the performance issues first.