What Happened with Items

This league is great and I'm really sad to see the blizzard employees getting so much attention/

Thank you for clarifying! Like the vision, do not like the current implementation. Hope it improves in further iterations.


LOOT:
Loot from maps is almost acceptable now, but it is nowhere near the golden alch-and-go gameplay from recent leagues, where it felt like you could spend your atlas passive points on any content you liked, and you where fairly compensated in loot for engaging with said content.

If you are paying for scarabs/map mods/sextants to add Abyss/Breach/Alva/Delirium/Harbinger to your map right now, you are most likely losing currency and not gaining it.

You seem to be hunting this elusive currency-conversion mod on a AN monster, and you don't have a lot of influence on when they spawn or how. Just add as many rare monsters you can and prey.

All other AN conversion mods are meh-to-insulting for the difficulty they add (see Armour Scraps/Flasks). Right now the most efficient gameplay is to skip everything and just hunt for the currency-conversion. Is this intended?

If you are not hunting this elusive AN monster, then you are clining to the league mechancics that give static rewards (Expedition/Heist/Legion/Ritual). The list is short, and the gameplay becomes extremely repetitive.

CRAFTING:
Endgame crafting have been turned upside down since the removal of "reforge keep prefix/suffix".

It was unsulting it was not mentioned in the manifesto/patchnotes, and apparently went under the umbrella of "filler crafts" in the announcement. It was not mentioned anywhere in these damage-control posts/patches.

Right now there is no way to salvage anything when a craft hits 6 mods where several are unwanted. It is just bricked and you go back to square 1.

Do you plan to remove Eldritch Orb of Annulment also, since it provides a similar effect?

Was this intended? If so, please address this and tell us the vision for crafting, because right now it feels abyssmal, and the same conspiracy theories and memes that plagued the loot-discussion are rampant.

If this is not the intention, please give us a way to remove one or all of either prefixes or suffixes. It does not matter where in the game this mehcanic is, or how hard it is to achieve.

This removal has driven any desire to farm currency from many players, as there is no way to "spend" it to craft an item you like anymore. There is no goal.

All you can do is spend it to pull gambling levers and hope something useful pops out. This is not something that makes people want to keep grinding. This was an entire endgame content category unceremoniously removed.

"I… didn't actually understand the impact of the change. It was mentioned to me in passing (that we were removing the league monster bonuses and replacing with just quantity), and I didn't ask any more questions."

Play your game!

After nearly 15k hours in this game I am done! You killed fun and you are insulting community by telling us that we do not see what we see.

No word about Harvest botching, not bringing back Reforge keep Prefix/Suffix, quadrupling down on these arguably terrible decisions, downplaying colossal mistakes as if they're minor and unimportant.

The argument about the longevity of the game is bogus too, noone wants to have a terrible experience now in order for the game to be fun in 15 months time.

You have insulted our intelligence a few times too many, don't you think?

I just noticed he says the word "fun" once in the entire post.

"could an alternate version of the game with extreme item scarcity also be fun?"

Take that how you will hahah

I didn't like how the Harvest rework was then advertised as an improvement while hiding nerfs with all the removed crafts AND the low amount of life force given even on T16.
I thought the nerfs to the add x modifier type could have been nice, provided I could have enough life force to try break few items before landing it, during the course of the league. Even after the costs rebalance it seems not viable for someone like me that play 3-4 hours per day.

am I a whale?

Based.

I love everything you guys do. Game is amazing one way or the other

Preff\Suff (keep) BACK - ! Craft is dead for now! Please!

GGG I encourage you to keep doing a good job! I really appreciate all the hard work and effort and even the time taken to write out all the errors that were made. I'm sure over time this will be fixed. The problem here is that people feel PEER PRESSURE from certain youtubers, and what certain people say incite some of the player to "violence" whether it be name calling or putting people down etc.

IF ANYONE DISAGREES WITH MY COMMENT YOU CAN GO FOUL YOURSELF! :)