Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

I play like 4h a day (when I play), harvest its good because the way it is... if you remove the non random stuff because stupid "Mirror items" from stremmers =

I've been playing since beta. Before harvest, crafting has always been relegated to the top 1% of the player base. I was never wealthy enough to even consider crafting items until harvest came along. As a result, 3.13 has been the best league I've ever played dating back to before Act 3 was even finished.

Removing these deterministic options and making crafting less accessible simply makes crafting items impossible for the vast majority of players.

In the 8 years since I've played this game, I've almost NEVER yolo exalt slammed an item because I never was wealthy enough where that would be a reasonable option (the risk vs reward is just way too high). But with harvest crafting, I've enjoyed making items for my build that would otherwise never be accessible to me.

I'm disappointed in the design philosophy that makes it so that only wealthy elite players can craft while the majority of the rest of the player base loses the ability to make their own items simply because the cost of making something decent will astronomically skyrocket with these changes.

Back to the dark ages of Mors yolo slamming exalts on twilight strand while listening to wrecking ball and the rest of us cry in poor.

Maybe I'm just not cut out to play the game anymore. you giveth and you taketh away. maybe if harvest never even happened, but it did. and now I'm sad

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its a meme dont ban me D:

I had a troubled journey with Harvest. The league made me burnout pretty fast, even tough i liked the challenge of creating a nice tidy garden. But still i liked the crafting options. It made it possible to get into crafting early and even work up into really good(ish) gear.

In the current league all the different parts seemed to fall into place. sure i ignored a ton of crafts that i probably could have used, but i was fine as i got a ton of value out of it, even as a rather new player to it. My guildis shared some 'recipes' and i deconstructed some myself. It felt great, crafting towards my final gear, or improving items that i found 'useable but not yet great'.

TBH, i sensed that the powerlevel and level of deterministic might be too high, i understand that you want to get around the 3rd party trade. But this change won't accomplish any of your goals and STILL break my heart. The part about influenced items is, in my book not even the biggest problem. But maybe do all the nerfs you wanna do to the system AND make it easier to trade seeds in a meaningful way? Now we got a system that feels bad in EVERY aspect. Great improvement. Not.

what a garbage choice, i skip next league.
After giving us a powerful crafting option u are just stealing it back
AND why there isnt a harvest orb like beast to officialy trade it?
Why i have to use shit discord to do anything in this league? that's so wrong. and u are not fixing it at all.


First wrong choice was horti limit 10.
Now that.

Are u even reading what players think?


Harvest. Latom.

Now we're back to quit after the 3rd week of a league cause every slot to upgrade will require a mirror worth of farm. without harvest the character progression is again a bad joke. gj.

I AM JUST SHOCKED with the current state of trading .... everyone saw a nerf coming, but this one!?! WTF

let us complain in 2026 about trading, but harvest was a killer .... the second time now....

This is so sad.
Let's see what poe2 will offer...
Too much grinding in this game recently and harvest was a breath of fresh air.

edit: Oh and i would underline that Path of exile is a not competitive game, so i really don't understand why ggg is totally against an easiest progression of the character...

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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.

TFW your game now contains too much friction in trade 😂