Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

this is awful nerf, Im not playing the game anymore, sorry. This is the worse decision you've ever made. The only league I had most fun was Ritual and IT WASNT BECAUSE OF MAVEN but because of the harvest possibilities.

Good luck on your new league reaching lowest peak of plrs!

Well harvest is the only reason i play this League untill now !!! It s the most fun part of poe!!! Be able to craft all my items myself and seeing my character progress was fun!
And now Ggg mâle Big nerf as Always nerfing fun part of the game ritual is not really rewarding, maven IS Anoying ... It s a mistake really

Dont change a System which is played 2 month. Just remove it then.
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Judicas wrote:

Why not base GGG/Tencent salaries on slamming? you know, work 200 hours, get a hundred dollars then gamble it on a 0.15% chance to get money... 99% chance to lose all of it, and the rest to be somewhere in between. That is basically what they are saying is a good thing.

That is actualy a fucking good way to present things for them to understand.
Effort putted in is not really rewarded or at least not in a fair way.

I can agree on the point that harvest is TOO rewarding, its too deterministic and so in some way it doesnt regarde you also with a good thrill of trying to search good item and craft them, its just, searching harvest and slaming what you need. its not realy fun either somehow, especaily when that put a big shadow on every other aspect of the game.

Anyway that beeing said they need to think really deeper about crafting, i think half a rework of the system is needed

They do not know how to block craft trade, which is the best way to nerf everything, instead of dropping a 24h cooldown on item exchange when used harvest option. Nobody will give the item to a stranger like this because it will be quite a risk to get it back the next day. Just creating an item by purchasing harvest option will take weeks.

GGG so Harvest was your problem? Really? Not for example the fact that there is a fricking way to literally dupe items built into the game itself (split beast)? Or the fact that I could farm level 100 in a few hours? Or the fact that old league mechanics are less than worthless? Oh you buffed Talismans? NOBODY IS USING THEM PAST THE FIRST WEEK! Oh you removed the imprint of Watchstones? THE 1% ALREADY FARMED THEIR WINGED SCARABS! Have you been on your trade site recently? Have you noticed that 99.99% of items have absolutely no value? Uniques? With a couple of exceptions, the rest are absolute joke and drop like candy. Rares? I pick every single amulet/ring with ilvl 86+ and jewels, that's tens of thousands of items, do you know how many good ones I've found? No more than a dozen! Is that what is going to keep me coming back? No! Is that what is going to keep your entire player base interested throughout the next league? No! Your league might flop, but if your core is not donkey dung people might still play it.

Implementation of Harvest in this league was bad, don't get me wrong. It was like Harvest 2.0 and using "the discord channel" some might say it was even more powerful than the original Harvest league, but that's on you GGG! You made those choices and you implemented it so poorly, people did what people do - evaluated their options and took the shortest routs to their goal. Nerfing it is not the key here, did you see your player base last league? I didn't play it, it was crap! Do you know how much I played this league? Over 20 days and I keep coming back. And you know what keeps me interested? Upgrading my gear and not mindlessly farming currency to purchase my gear.

Totally off-topic, but please fix your server timeouts and client crashes, it's embarrassing. Thanks.

It's nice to be able to pay you back with the same coin.
No support ..... it's just a nerf to my wallet for 2021.

It's time to take a long break, away from your silly ideas.

So i just came home from drinking a beer with my friend and felt somewhat forced to start PoE to get the master missions for the day. This is a huge design flaw in by itself. Similar to master daylies in the dark ages of PoE...

After reading the Harvest Manifesto i'm not sure, wether GGG is still sane or not.

Ever since it's introduction, Harvest Crafting was highly praised for being the first real crafting in PoE. Everything before was said to be a slotmachine. Now it's still a slotmachine, but with influenceable outcomes.

GGG, you wanted to test a new way of crafting during Harvest League. People liked it to the moon. You decided to make it part of the core game. People like it an they use it.

And now you are like "it's the players who are wrong"? [insert principal skinner meme here]

If you want us to use the crafts, then do not force us to do it on the spot (10 slot horticrafting station)

For now, i'm too drunk and tired to further express my disagreement in a workable manner. I highly doubt that anyone cares about my reply, but i might add some more points to it in the next couple of days. At least i somewhat told you, that i do not like what you are planning to do.

Also: THX, now i feel even more forced to play standard and grind for sellable crafts, before 3.13 ends...

man, so sad I don't even feel like playing tbh, I was so happy with the atlas changes this league, the harvest felt balanced, bought so many mtx, now I feel like I just got scammed lol

Smells bad, seems bad and feels bad.

RIP Harvest.