Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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Players also expressed frustration that the most effective way to get the best items in Path of Exile was to join a discord channel and try to trade for these incredibly crucial crafts.

That's hypocrit !
If GGG accept the craft trade, they should facilitate it and let players trade it like propheties or bestiary items. Be force to use a discord channel with the risk to be scammed was unnaceptable for me and i didnt used this option.
I also lost a lot of money by not using some craft but i didnt want to manage TFT, vouches and other ...

By using my own harvest, i crafted some pretty nice items but no mirror tier OFC. Im still needing some craft and i keep running harvest while i can.

All the problem of actual harvest is in trading craft.
The problem could be simply solved by account bounding crafted items for a period ( many days, 50K monsters killed with this item equiped ... ).

I know GGG will not read this message. I just hope some influent streamers will make some constructive propositions to GGG to avoid this poor decision.

Toasting in epic bread

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Ellanth wrote:

After 400+ pages its clear this game NEEDS a real crafting system and not a Gambling fest....Its not clear to me why does it hurt anybody if not only the 0.1-1% can complete the end game?

OR let the gamble system in the current state whatever....then pls change the crappy loot! For example above x ilvl the rolled modifiers cannot be below x tier or specific mods cannot be rolled to that base....

Also you could just simply remove many useless modifier from the game like block recover or 2hp regen etc.

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After 400+ pages its clear this game NEEDS a real crafting system and not a Gambling fest....Its not clear to me why does it hurt anybody if not only the 0.1-1% can complete the end game?

OR let the gamble system in the current state whatever....then pls change the crappy loot! For example above x ilvl the rolled modifiers cannot be below x tier or specific mods cannot be rolled to that base....

Also you could just simply remove many useless modifier from the game like block recover or 2hp regen etc.

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KittenSmasher wrote:

It's really interesting to see how most of the people against these nerfs on this thread are either in tones of sadness, disappointment, suggestion with new/dif ideas and adult discussion, or explanations of how everyone can still enjoy the game with a middle ground.

Then the few voices who pop in and agree with the nerfs are aggressive, toxic and selfish. Summing up their posts with "git gud" and "deal with it."

This is the 1% that GGG would rather have as their audience? I guess that does indeed say a lot about the future of the game.

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Plebs don't understand that GGG employees, as well as businesses participate in RMT, and the Harvest crafting hurts their bottom line. If you follow the market; the prices have fallen >50% year-over-year. That is a massive dent in the income they depend on.

Get real, this isn't about you.

I guess GGG want us to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV23Z6jeLm0

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sc0rp404 wrote:

Plebs don't understand that GGG employees, as well as businesses participate in RMT, and the Harvest crafting hurts their bottom line. If you follow the market; the prices have fallen >50% year-over-year. That is a massive dent in the income they depend on.

Get real, this isn't about you.

Now this is the only explanation that makes sense of GGG trying to get the community back to crafting with Currency Items.

Why GGG fight progress?

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KittenSmasher wrote:

It's really interesting to see how most of the people against these nerfs on this thread are either in tones of sadness, disappointment, suggestion with new/dif ideas and adult discussion, or explanations of how everyone can still enjoy the game with a middle ground.

Then the few voices who pop in and agree with the nerfs are aggressive, toxic and selfish. Summing up their posts with "git gud" and "deal with it."

This is the 1% that GGG would rather have as their audience? I guess that does indeed say a lot about the future of the game.

Okay. Ima try not to be "toxic" here.

Do you not see the irony of your post? The "tinfoil-hatness" of it?

I am not a 1%. Not even by a lightyear or 2.

I simply think most of people take this nerf WAY too serious.

Have you bothered with reading more of your alleged constructive criticism anti-nerf comments?

"GGG is like Blizzard"
"GGG is disconnected from its playerbase!"
"I agree GGG is disconnected. Finally people open their eyes to the bad business practices"
"My wallet will speak next league"
"Im gonna play something else instead because..."

Yea. No tinfoil. Super constructive and logical. Super polite too.

It is also that the underlying rational of arguments partially is flawed.
Yes, removing harvest as was PRIOR to the atlas socketing changes would have been devestating and likely as close to as bad as some people make it out to be.

Regardless of harvest, you can now target farm areas for specific things, drops, temples etc.

Never before could you farm currency and items etc so well targeted and quickly and easily but apparently harvest crafting is THE most important thing.

I suggest harvest crafting should not have been in the game again at all. Or already nerfed as it is going to be. We wouldnt be having this conversation and instead people would harvest craft and be happy they can at all.