Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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.

The Heart of the Grove change is the only worthwhile change you are making here.

Random exalt slamming is a thing fools do, it is not how people craft gear. And most people don't craft gear at all.

Harvest was a chance for normal people to try and craft some pieces, a good thing with few bad outcomes as long as you knew mod tags and such.

With this change, you won't get people closing their eyes and exalt slamming. Top end players will still be using harvest to make insane gear. People who want easy currency or to scam people will still use random discords to sell crafts or steal items.


Why not make a decent change and allow a purchasable orb (like with einhar) to store harvest crafts so they can be traded securely?

Then at least something decent would come from this.

Is there a correlation between player retention and giving average players
ability to craft decent items ?

This is what boggles the mind, because build diversity and player retention this league seems much better.

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ztnov wrote:

You managed to identify that the ability for the community at large to pool their harvests together and sell them; effectively giving any player with currency and the risk tolerance to hand over his item to a stranger access to nearly unlimited harvests was the issue. You then failed to do absolutely anything about it.

I personally dont care about nerfs to this system, but this quote pretty much sums up GGG mentality, amazing really. Reminds me of how aura stacking was an issue, so instead of addressing RMR and aura effect, they gut individual auras.

Amazing really

Totally agree to any policy that would reduce abusive game behaviors.