Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Rip fun
Rip crafting
Rip PS4 players, and come back to “ship” 100ex items (same 5ex pc items).

That's literally the worst thing you will do to this game. If u do - I'm gonna quit. That was first league I've crafted my items by myself, and now you are saying "you know, we don't want you to be able to craft, just farm some currency and buy items, anyway you are too broke to craft".

As I see this, there is an easy solution - make it Medium-core. Remove the possibility of storing any crafts at all, make one portal to the garden, so players just come in, kill monsters, do craft that they need - rest of them just goes away. Died? Everything goes away. Disconnected? Gone. Some can say it's harsh - it's not. Killing Harvest the way GGG wants to do it - that's harsh.

I'm soooooo upset because of this. That's actually the first time I'm thinking about quitting this game ever since I've started. Nice work GGG, nice work.

Time to give up this game

Please for gods sake remove SSF to Standard migration and balance SSF differently/give SSF deterministic ways to aquire items. All balancing issues this game had over the last couple years grew from trade, all nerfs hit casual SSF-players MUCH MUCH harder than trade. So just decouple it and give us casual SSF-Players any option to play off-meta builds and craft/get items for them. You cant keep pushing the power and difficulty of endgame content without improving our ability to get to better items.

Regarding Rares: Make QoL improvements to handling them. 'ID all'-Button, 'Vendor all Rares'-button (thats moves all rares into the vendor trade gui-thing).

Regarding the old crafting: I need all Chaos orbs for maps and master-crafting, the few ex i find i too need for master-crafting and they have such a small chance to wield any usable result that they are basically worthless to me otherwise, mirrors are ABSOLUTELY worthless in ssf. There are so many gear slots with normal-, abyss and cluster-jewels now and crafting ONE good jewel takes SO many alts i cant even find words to describe how unachievalbe it is.

The developers have turned Path of Exile into Path of Crafting and then they are surprised by how much Harvest crafting is used....

If you actually had good items drop, then people wouldn't care so much about crafting. But YOU GUYS have made it ALL about crafting.

There is SO MUCH to like about this game but your over emphasis on crafting is not one of them.

You reap what you sow.....

I find it so funny that people act like without harvest there were no good items xD Heist was a league directly after harvest and before Ritual and tbh it didn't fell like I was missing anything. And yeah people - OP items should exist just for few lucky people, not available for everyone for 10ex
Overall a nice change for me but I thought that you would adress the arguemnts with discord trading and remove/significantly reduce the options of Horricrafting Station to like 2 crafts

Can't wait.....



For another arpg to come out, where i won't be a beta tester for years for their next sequel. After Delirium League everything went down the hill for POE. Sorry but you've lost a player and a customer. Can't deal with this shit of development of pretty good game. And fix your performance issues 1st.
Sincerely not yours anymore
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I know next league I won't be able to do T13+ maps again, cuz I don't have plenty of time to waste waiting for an exalted to drop only to see that I have only 3 or 4 exalteds when the league ends. I stopped playing this game years ago and only came back because of Harvest mods existance. I could FINALLY do some stuff I wasn't able to do earlier: dude, come on, my tornado shot build couldn't even do 75+ maps without dying 84+ times per hour. Now with my self-crafted Toxic Rain build I can easily do T16 maps, but I still have difficulties when talking about Sirus or Maven.

I don't have now the same time I had to spend on farming back at when we didn't even have leagues to farm. Harvest made me finally achieve some content I was never been able to do in the past. I am not talking about endgame stuff: I'm talking about high tier maps AND learning about craft itself! Harvest made me want to learn how crafting works, and when I'm finally learning something, GGG takes it not only from me but from all the 99% players who were thinking the same way. Come on, I even thought about going SSF next league just to indeed learn crafting because of the Harvest.

Tbh, I wish I could refund each single supporter pack I've bought this league. I feel like I got scammed by GGG.

The disconnection that ggg has with the player base just seems to get worse after every league, and the player base is not even as big as in other games with millions of players, just reading through these comments should be enough to notice how bad this idea was and how harvest crafting is still very hard, just a bit cheaper

Making perfect items still takes mirrors upon mirrors without amazing luck, yeah you can force a phys mod but to get t1 increased phys you still have to remove add hundreds if not thousands of times, an explode chest with life and nice res is not a perfect items, its what your buffs to monsters and bosses made needed to not play the game at a snail's pace and actually enjoy the game and I'm sure your numbers reflect that

Please don't let this change go through

If all that matters for GGG is the number of concurrent players at the league start and total profit from shop sales, I'm seriously considering not buying even a single stash tab and not playing at that exact day.