Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Hi, I'm a casual player, but really fan about POE. I play every league with the aim to reach endgame, and know more about mecanics, but again in a casual way.

What GGG needs to understand :
Haverst kept me hooked on ritual league until the end. I played a lot more than other leagues because i tried to farm harvest in pseudo SSF mode (means that i didn't use TFT).
It was amazing. I have an interesting objective to reach, a really good reason to keep playing.

Now this reason is gone. Why because harvest craft are tradeable.

Why, when an harvest craft is used on a item, make the item not tradeable ?

RNG will remains on tradeable items, and harvest will be used only for SSF or personal use only.

You'll fix everything this way. You'll be able to make craft really interesting again for casuals. And avoid god tier sellable items.


I'm not enjoying the league so far.... I can't find the 'FUN'.

So you guys nerfed about every skill and crafting options in the game but buffed all endgame content? What an intelligent decision.
Game is becoming Crap of Exile and I'm really debating on leaving it for any other game that's actually fun and not endless grinding bs with terrible RNG.
My Carrion Golems build is almost done, I've killed Sirus A8 and honestly, I have no intent on building another character because I know what a terrible nightmare it'll be to get some good gear for non-meta builds.
No wonder Awakener Orbs and Maven's Orbs are so cheap; no one is willing to brick they're item with no means to recover 'em.
To be fair, the Lab enchatment thing is now perfect. Good job on this.
Everything else is lame, including the dense mobs from Ultimatum that don't let you see the debuffs on the ground. Immensely boring and terribly designed.

Userbase dramatically collapsed
https://www.githyp.com/path-of-exile-100607/?tab=player-count

Interesting, what are bigger in Chris - his Ego to change a decision, or Rationality.

did you nerf it because you are jealous that people having fun ?

Chris needs to learn to kill his darlings if he wants this game to live longer.

its not even usable now. ARE YOU SERIOUS. I cant even craft a single piece of gear. ive spent close to 10ex just putting harvest on my maps. not one good piece on gear has come out of it. HOW IS THAT A WAY TO CRAFT ANYTHING. Ive had better results with essence crafting. FIX HARVEST or people will leave and go to the last epoch.

if u nerfed it so hard can u make chance for harvest higher? like 20-30% pls?

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TreeOfDead wrote:

if u nerfed it so hard can u make chance for harvest higher? like 20-30% pls?

What for? Like, literally, what for? 8% of nothing or 35% of nothing, or even 100% of nothing is still nothing. More spawns would only increase frustration and make things even worse. If harvest was even half way decent you wouldn’t need increased spawn rate because you can spend 12c to get it, 100% of the time. But CLEARLY it is not worth this 12c.

Harvest crafting was the best experience in POE gameplay.
Buy really good items from players do not bring even half pleasure in compare with the possibility to craft even slightly worse item, but by yourself.

Harvest was the reason why I am back to Ritual league after prolonged break. More I play ultimatum, more I understand that end game for me is not achievable even if I will play 3-4 hours a day (which is way too much if u have work and family like me).

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N4rk0tyk wrote:

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TreeOfDead wrote:

if u nerfed it so hard can u make chance for harvest higher? like 20-30% pls?

What for? Like, literally, what for? 8% of nothing or 35% of nothing, or even 100% of nothing is still nothing. More spawns would only increase frustration and make things even worse. If harvest was even half way decent you wouldn’t need increased spawn rate because you can spend 12c to get it, 100% of the time. But CLEARLY it is not worth this 12c.

After fighting tooth and nail to defend Harvest, I now wish more than anything that they would provide us with a way to reduce the encounter rate to ZERO.

NVM, I can accomplish that by just not playing - with a 100% chance. There's absolutely no way to play now without seeing the injustice in 3d technicolor. DO NOT GET ME EXCITED WITH RUMBLING BLUE RIBBONS FOR NO GOOD REASON.

It is a taunt... an insult.