Will Harvest Become Core Path of Exile Content?

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Azarhiel wrote:

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natsipaska wrote:

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Wissle wrote:

To anyone bitching how harvest makes obtaining high end gear too easy... how about just not using the mechanic then, if it makes the game to easy for you?

Even if I wouldn't use the harvest mechanic, other players would. And it means economy gets totally wreced.

The econoimy is already broken, what would break more ?

For thoser who have made suggestions on deterministic crafting being used with orbs is an interesting idea, but the problem remains the same :

Making 100+ exalts in 3 month need you to play 8h/day, playing Path of Trading with bots...

From my personal experience, i play around 8h a week and never trade. In 7 years, i looted 16 exalts... I think we have a problem here...

Ohhh so you want everything to be easily accessible beacuse u cannot play more? WoW.

While I understand the reason and even expected this outcome I am very disappointed. I am not and never will be a power player in this game. Even in the current form I couldn't craft anything close to mirror tier. For people like myself deterministic crafting is absolutely necessary otherwise it is impossible and a waste of time.

Before people start a hate storm please realize that I am not asking for anything other than the ability to build a character that can handle red maps and maybe take down Shaper, Elder and Sirus A5. Trade is trash and crafting is impossible for me with only 15-20hrs/week.

Thank you! Hope you will not mistaken like Harvest again!

Who cares about Economy ?
ist just something the rich care about.
its about gameplay, and harvest was the first time since i play poe (7 1/2 years now) where craftig was fun and not only some stupid RNG money sink.

So just keep it like it is with some tweaks (like fixed garden and stuff)

And while we are on it. remove this Stupid 10% rule and/or add more triggers!

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Harvest has made it too easy to gain very powerful items that previously required a lot more work and investment to acquire. This was acceptable for a temporary challenge league but poses problems for the long-term health of Path of Exile's item economy if allowed to remain in its current state.

That is complete rubbish, no one believes tencentGGG anymore when that's said.


I absolutely HATE crafting and gearing up my characters every league. I found Harvest crafting not easy or rewarding enough, so I quit after the first week.

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Hirux wrote:

Ohhh so you want everything to be easily accessible beacuse u cannot play more? WoW.

And what's the problem with that ?
It is what differs a game from being fun opposed to be a job...

I don't want items flowing in my pocket, but there is a middle ground between nothing and everything !!

Very sad to hear it goes.

Can we at least keep the garden even if we loose access to seeds?

I spent a lot of time getting my garden just the way I want it, I have rather become attached to it. This way we can go look at it once in a while and remember the good times.

Best league ever, never going to be topped. (and no I am not decked out in mirror gear)

Deterministic crafting is the best thing that's ever been introduced in PoE. 'Crafting' as it existed in this game before Harvest was something only a small percentage of players could use to improve their gear in the endgame. Harvesting allowed a far larger portion of the player base to partake in this throughout their character progression. Working on a piece of gear, fine tuning it to have the exact mods I wanted was a very satisfying journey that kept me coming back for 'just one more'. I will miss actual crafting, rather than just alt/aug/regal or spamming chaos/essence/fossils hoping to luck into something useable. This whole idea that perfecting the items you have is too powerful or bad for the game seems very counterintuitive to a game without gold where the currency is 'crafting materials'

Oh well, guess it's back to grinding currency and wooping the trade website next league.

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Chameleon wrote:

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Harvest has made it too easy to gain very powerful items that previously required a lot more work and investment to acquire. This was acceptable for a temporary challenge league but poses problems for the long-term health of Path of Exile's item economy if allowed to remain in its current state.

That is complete rubbish, no one believes tencentGGG anymore when that's said.


I absolutely HATE crafting and gearing up my characters every league. I found Harvest crafting not easy or rewarding enough, so I quit after the first week.

Well it will never be easier than it was this league so... maybe change to standard if you just enjoying the gameplay more than new leagues with gearing characters over and over.

Alright let me put in my 2 cents to this topic.

As community is divided now in opinion on this league heres my perspective on it.

Lets start of with the fact that i am that top X% lot of casuals are complaining, yes i make 100 ex in first week of the league (and no i dont use bots and i do not flip shit) and yes i play 10 hours a day first week of the league (playing way less after, depending on how engaging this league is). Creating this wealth is just "abusing" the experience and mechanical + crafting knowledge i have about this game that i accumulated over the years. Translated, i craft shit that sells well and doing boss carry service early on which brings huge bank.

Lot of you "casuals" view this as somehow "unfair", because they "cant" achieve this level of wealth through whole league not to mention first week. To that i say bs, its not that you cant, you just dont want to put time and energy into it and that is your problem. It is completely okay if you dont want to spend hours learning how to craft, but then dont whine that you dont have shit that others who put that time and effort in have.

Now to the point: Lot of people run around here and talk about harvest giving opportunity to casuals to get hands on "nice" items fairly cheap. What you dont realize those items are not "nice", they are "perfect" and creating those perfect items took long hours and lot of risks in previous leagues. Only people who were willing to put in those hours and take those risks were able to create them and it was pretty fair because such items have ridiculous power level and they should be reward for a lot of work. How is that fair now, that you can create perfect boots or armour that were previous league mirror worthy with 5 ex investment? (and before you start crying that 5 ex is still lot of money, you are playing the game wrong and you should never be able to get hands on perfect crafted items ever)

Yes sure, we "top X%" created new level of mirror tier items now, with power creep like this there were lot of opportunities to push limits way further and what is considered "mirror tier" this league has so stupid power level, it triviliazes the content to the extent that is not healthy to the game at all. These items that can be created with 50 ex investment now fairly reliably, werent even possible to make before (or were but on average with 400 ex+ investment and still not guaranteed, they were "once in a lifetime" items)

In conclusion, whole economy (both league and standard) is now dumpster fire, power level of items is on record high peak and it triviliazes to content to unhealthy extent and you wanna argue that you want to keep this as it is? No thank you.

So yeah its cool that lot of y all "casuals" got taste of what the game looks like when you actually put in the hours and effort to putting your gear together, now instead of whining its gonna be hard again next league, learn how to do it.

TLDR: Its RPG game. In RPG game time and grinding and knowledge is rewarded. If you dont wanna learn or put in the time, dont whine that you dont achieve high end of the gear. Thats how its supposed to work.