Harvest could be worst league ever?

This league has way too many flaws to be any good. Garden rewards are basically currency, since they act the same way, except for they are way worse, you can only use them on a fixed item level, meaning if you want to play an alt that character will add nothing but essence to the garden until late game.

That's another issue, growing T3 and T4 seeds require so much planning and essence that you have to run a zillion maps just to grow a few. That isn't rewarding, that's a test on sanity.

Moreover, let's focus again on the fact that the rewards are just currency uses. This is not crafting, this is endlessly losing coins to a slot machine until the jackpot happens. And it's rather sillier that this jackpot, a good item, is as likely to happen in the first try than in the 1 zillionth. "Crafting". This so called crafting feels like throwing a pile of iron to the forge, and start randomly hammering. You might get a sword, a car, or a randomly hammered piece of iron, noone knows.

To add insult to injury, drops in this league feel decidedly scarce.

I've played only a few leagues, and this was the one I started playing from the very start, but also the one that bored me the fastest.

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sdburns wrote:

Biggest problem I have with the league is setting up the farm, it is painstaking and tedious and while not difficult it is confusing; finding that one pylon that is not connected right is tedious.

Would be a lot better if they just did away with all the piping and made it automatic.

A simple fix could be, collectors have 2 types, with and without disperserser, or be upgradable from std to disperser. Storage, both essence and recipes, as well as connecting between collectors is automatic.

If I wanted to be a plumber I would have done an apprenticeship.

yeah it should all be automatic,so we dont have to do any tedious micro managing

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Su0T wrote:

That's another issue, growing T3 and T4 seeds require so much planning and essence that you have to run a zillion maps just to grow a few. That isn't rewarding, that's a test on sanity.

sad but true

and they suck the juice out of the storage faster than i drink my beer.
(and that means something ^^)

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Judicas wrote:

The problem is flashback takes almost no time or resources, so it should NOT be the next league but put into effect immediatly as this league is trash. Next league should be next league not flashback. They can use the Flashback league to stop hemorrhaging what few players are left and maybe get some of the ones that were disgusted with this league back and just run that in conjunction with this league.

Exactly. This is my case. If they, at least, put some more X% to past league mechanics to happen in maps MAYBE I could get along with the league.

I'm pissed about why GGG is so horny with convoluted mechanics forcing you to stop every 30 seconds and/or beeing constantly doubting if you're playing efficiently (like the guides in excel that's beeing poppin' around this league... I mean... What the hell?). League should be like get seeds, plant them, they grow. End.
But no, they think you need to feel like you own a nuclear facility. And of course, you have to stop in maps to activate them or you're doing it wrong! So you have to literally stop in that rippy map or else you have to backtrack later!

Aside from their classic changes to fix the obvious issues the league has at the first 10 mins of playing for every player but 3 weeks later in which they, also, manage to nerf or fuck something up. Every single league.

While I praise GGG for a lot of things, I doubt they can't afford a betatesting team before releasing a league so dull and, as usual, bugged from the start. So they are either doing this always on purpose (so they have somewhat control on botting and OP as fuck things) or they really can't manage their schedule of 3-month leagues.

Word. What Harvest allows for is somewhat interesting. How it elected to get there, not so much. Feel like I'm playing pre-master changes and I'm running into Sulphite when I'm already full, or getting Alva when I'm not interested, etc etc. The per map garden maintenance is such a chore, and honestly I'm not that excited by PoE crafting anyways.

I'd much prefer to fossil craft or even chaos spam and be allowed to craft at my own pace when I want to instead of getting 3-4 attempts (even if they are very effective attempts) piece-meal and fighting thru the stash-in-garden UI and the other busywork of harvest like managing the 3 colours and placing down my 333 storage tanks.

Truth be told I think the most excited I get in this league is when I see the Delerium mirror spawn. ;}

Normally I would give GGG the benefit of the doubt, but just knowing that the Harvest mechanic exists stops me from even logging in anymore. I try to log in and play every few days, but just can't do it.

It is the most boring league mechanic yet. That's my main issue with it.
Nothing about it is exciting or engaging.

Plus, it seems currency loot drops have been gutted. So, if you're not participating in the Harvest mechanic, drop rates for currency are garbage.

I quit after 2 weeks. Felt like I was playing Standard league and it brought it's annoying little brother along.

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jea386 wrote:

Plus, it seems currency loot drops have been gutted. So, if you're not participating in the Harvest mechanic, drop rates for currency are garbage.

yep. i'm almost level 95 and still havent had an exalt drop. this never happened to me before in any previous league

I really tried to enjoy it and see the positive in the league. Going as far as to forcing myself to play a few hrs a day. At this point, I'm done with the league, can't take it anymore. The most fun i had this league was leveling through the acts. Feels like playing standard with less currency drops. Logged into D3 again, and having more fun than this..

I came to PoE to fill my D2 hack and slash void.

It was awesome for a while, until some of the leagues like the "investigation" league, whatever it was called. Now, I have 1-shot mobs following me around a map, even into dungeons and I can't skip it? No thanks...

Delirium was awesome, I could hack and slash to exalts no problem.

This league, I'm so broke, I had to return to the chaos recipe into yellow maps.
I feel like I have to open 3 different websites, watch a series of tutorial videos about crafting, and use a bunch of different tools just to play.

I feel like I'm back in university. I have no interest in this. I just want to hack and slash.

I'll check back later ....

/rant

I actually think that the harvest mechanic is the highlight of the league.

All my gear is crafted, this never happened before (minus belly and zombie mace) and even my belly is slightly modified by the crafting. This is so much fun and it motivates me to play further.

At Delirium I was long gone at this point, as it was so boring with the backtracking and lack of good loot. Yes, you did swim in currency, but compared to Bligt where you did so as well, the mechanic was terrible.

Unfortunately is harvest not running well, Vulkan that did run flawless at Delirium, is now causing fps drops and fragments. Quite often I am fighting invisible monsters and bloom makes me screen lit up like a christmas tree.


I like the crafting and that things are slower now, the micro management of the garden needs work by GGG, auto plant for T2 and co. But fixing the fps issues and artefacts while playing, must have priority.