Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

"We don't want to take away the feeling of closing your eyes and Exalting an item, scared to see whether you ruined it or not" KLMAO. Cant wait my body is shaking in light of these amazing news and i dont think i would be able to content myself and wait with slamming till next league. Gonna start slamming my items straight away OFC with closed eyes to prepare myself to get that t3 mana mod.

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Hasanderson7 wrote:

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"players having fun, playing more builds and enjoying the game? NO FUCKING WAY! BURN HARVEST!"

if these changes go live i'll stop playing poe (after almost 3,5k hours). thats it

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DemonBlyat wrote:

if these changes go live i'll stop playing poe (after almost 3,5k hours). thats it

ok

Step 1. Nerf harvest to the ground

Step 2. Rename Exalted Orb to Exciting Orb

There you go, exciting crafting system.

The whole reasoning behind the nerf is just a bad joke. Srsly, you guys need to come up with better excuse next time.

Geez - another nerf for the non-1% of players

You want the Trading Discord?

Take it. It's yours.

But Harvest? Harvest I will burn to the ground. Perhaps the suffering of our fellow players will finally stir something.


I've read quite a few of these posts and I can't help laugh every time I read one saying I support these changes I don't craft so these changes don't affect me at all....

All I want to ask these players is Oh Really your build is 100% uniques? What they don't seem to understand is without harvest the price of those rares they needed for their builds are going to go up in price simply economics. A massive upgrade for your build with harvest in the league can start around a couple of exalt and go up from there, sky is the limit depending on the item. Without harvest your looking at a RNG wall for good / decent items and the values of these items goes up accordingly IE those 10ex gloves that upgraded your build by 8% dmg 3rd week last league are gonna be 50ex next league. Hope you folks are able to farm mirrors every league going forward cause that's going to be the requirement for good gear.

I basically quit after Harvest League ended because PoE without deterministic crafting is less appealing to me.. I was hoping PoE2 has a revamped crafting system, but this post makes me less optimistic. I think the better answer would be to remove Harvest and combine the crafts into Essences or the Crafting Table somehow.

Deterministic crafting gives you goals and actual progression for your build, and more personal/emotional INVESTMENT in your character.. without it, the game is bland and you reroll much sooner, and get burned out and quit a league earlier.