What Happened with Items

I won't address the clusterfuck of bad communication and decisions and I appreciate this post.

But GGG...this new loot system ain't fuckin it, dudes. The concept is sound, but the execution is absolutely TERRIBLE.

Problem? Loot is now, primarily, focused on a few specific modifiers and getting those modifiers juiced with other AN mods. Making it worse, MF cullers are becoming the "new thing" as they can dramatically improve drops to the point where sitting on Touched mobs and splitting the drops with a MF culler is more valuable than killing it yourself.

And it results in long stretches of time where you find no Touched monsters and your rewards feel like absolute trash.

Solution? Nerf Touched modifiers hard by many orders of magnitude. No mob should be dropping stacks of Divines/Exalts. Sure, I WANT to be on the receiving end of a 50 Divine/Exalt AN mob and that would feel great, but that's way too much wealth at once and it makes all the time spent in between that drop and the next one feel like crap.

Beef up more mid-range rarity/difficulty AN mods so that we have more rarity bonuses. This smooths out drops overall while still allowing for some maps to simply not pay out a ton so that people can more incrementally build up good drops/currency without hoping for a Touched mob to have godrolls.

Similarly, extend the kind of drop-modifying effects to these mobs with reduced effectiveness. Honestly I LOVE the concept and really like having mobs drop tons of white socket items or fractured items (flasks and stuff feel bad, but I can live with that) even is 99% of the time it's all trash. Seeing that more often, to a lesser degree (i.e. fewer drops with those modifiers from the mobs) would make loot more interesting as well as these kinds of drops are fairly uncommon.

This all needs a LOT more testing and it feels like, even aside from Chris not asking, the team themselves didn't understand the change they were making and did functionally zero testing. Resulting in the current situation where almost everyone hates the new loot system, regardless of if it was communicated or not.

If the goal was to reduce TFT dependence this league, y'all missed that HARD. Now TFT is just selling MF culls for Touched mobs and there are new, arguably WORSE (for the health of the game) juicing methods already popping up. The economy seems like it's going to be an absolute disaster this league.

I miss the GGG that talked about being aware of the risk of all these issues over the years time and time again...only to make multiple major mistakes that they've warned against all at once.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Maybe I'm too emotional. So I'll try to restrain myself.

If they do not fix the craft in the harvest and do not improve the loot in the near future. I think in the league in a week it will drop very much online.
There is absolutely no desire to improve your build. No more loot explosions.

In general, updates in the new league did not stretch my gameplay.
In the last 5 leagues, I played for about a month.
Now a week has passed since the start and I don’t want to play it further. It makes no sense. There is no pleasant and gradual farming, no crafting. Absolutely.

I started to play in synthesis league. And I've been playing for a long time.
Your "vision" = the worst league I've ever played in PoE.

I'm genuinely afraid to tell you what I think right now for fear of getting permabanned

This guy knows what he is talking about,
NO MORE ARCHNEMESIS!
Chris, how can you be so deaf and blind
no more of my cash, EVER!

" We play the game too... " AHahahahHhAhahAhAhAhaahAHhAAH
No.
I won't believe u.
Mb u just running Acts, then there why u improving act monster or act "expierience", but nothing more than act's. U don't even try to play with this "awesome" AN mods. U don't even try to find out what chance of this "Divine explosions" mods to be find on map (it's 0.000001%, mp lower). In the fact u still dreaming about Diablo 2, but, to be honest, even if this game in our hearts, Diablo 2 hopelessly outdated. Somehow u make an incredible content, and then, cuz of ur outdated "vision", u just ruin awesome progress that SO MANY of us RLY LOVE. This is very depressing...
If u rly played in ur own game - proof it.
We judge by what we see, by the results of your work. And judging by what we see, no one will believe that you played beyond the acts. And that's the maximum...

Thanks Chris Vision for destroying the game and free me from this addiction!

Dear GGG, every league you do a lot of hard work improving the game and everyone is certainly grateful to you for that. With each update, a large number of changes are introduced affecting the balance and economy, sometimes the community likes it, sometimes not. The latest changes have caused a great storm of emotions and negativity among the players. In my opinion, sometimes there are so many changes that neither the players nor the developers can qualitatively assess how these changes affect the game as a whole. I think if there are fewer changes in the next updates to the leagues that affect the fundamental gameplay and affect the gaming experience of the majority of the players, then your development team will be able to better focus on community feedback and make better decisions without repeating the negative experience of this league. Hope for a better future on the path of exile.

Ppl complain, is their nature. Just like an exile to wake up over and over in the beach...

Chris, I have so much respect for you. It takes a really big person to admit that they have made a mistake, and explain what happened.
Can you make it so that my zdps character can kill essence mods though?