Development Manifesto - Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting - Forum

> We know that many players would love us to keep deterministic crafting in the game because it enables them to complete their items far more quickly than they otherwise would. But then there would quickly be nothing left to achieve. I think this is the wrong attitude. I like harvest because it allows me to craft items reliably, not sink a bunch of currency in as a gamble. One for example can setup a decent base using alt + regal methods. Then try to exalt slam, but they could get terrible mods and end up with an item that wasted those exalts & alteration orbs. The augment/annul crafts in harvest made this much more possible.	Posted by agm_ultimatex#3010 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:13:36 PM Quote this Post
" mozarus wrote: A Giant Step Backward Deterministic crafting is best thing that happen to game. Thanks to Harvest Crafting, me and many of my friends played much longer trying to improve their items. This! Me and the wife still playing and we normally stop after 3 weeks in the league. Me and my wife playing also means I buy more MTX! Don't have to be marketing guru to see these changes are bad for GGG bank account.	Posted by roetetoet#5335 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:13:53 PM Quote this Post
slowly watching mods delete my posts for the first time is hilarious... this is post #2 saying the exact thing. bad decision overall. let's see how many more times I need to post this before it stays permanent!	Posted by REALJameson#5961 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:13:56 PM Quote this Post
Sad	Posted by pc100#4262 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:12 PM Quote this Post
"We don't want to take away the feeling of closing your eyes and Exalting an item, scared to see whether you ruined it or not." That’s a damn bad feeling that you guys describe. Gambling is nice when identifying stuff like watchers eyes or stacked decks. It’s just something to yolo with not depending on the quality of the outcome. It is more of a free choice. Gambling is actually the worst part of this game when you are forced to gamble everything you have to get an desirable item that basically leaves you most likely with a briked item. The chances of ruining it are to damn high, hours of progress lost because of that * gambling mechanic. I love that game because it’s so complex and I hate it because of the over dominant gambling when it comes to gear progression. What is so bad with people beeing able to have a calculatable outcome they can work towards? Oh... you need to feel "scared" and to feel the brick.	Posted by chr_sys#5476 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:14 PM Quote this Post
This is a terrible idea, you might as well just delete harvest. At the very least buff other crafting methods or drops. Harvest isn't overpowered, other crafting is underpowered and rare drops are complete garbage not even worth looking at.	Posted by xmpd#2847 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:19 PM Quote this Post
You think Exalted orb "craft" its a good crafting system,Mr. Chris? THINK AGIAN... Last edited by RainOfMadness#3910 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:49 PM	Posted by RainOfMadness#3910 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:20 PM Quote this Post
nooo why would you do this, this sucks, please reconsider	Posted by DelightedMuskox#3119 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:44 PM Quote this Post
" Wreakorofhavoc wrote: Hey can I get a refund for all the MTX I bought this league? If you guys are going to make this game unplayable for the average player I might as well just not play it. Doing this instead of fixing your stability issues is actually hilarious. Makes me think you don't actually want people playing for more than a couple weeks every league. + Could I also get a refund for all my MTX? I don't matter as a casual player anyway, right?	Posted by eh_muh#5186 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:47 PM Quote this Post
" KalElAgent47 wrote: I stopped supporting this game since Q1 or 2 2019. You do not understand your player base. Majority of the players do not make mirror tier items. Majority of the players do not even make a 10-20 Exalted Orb Budget build. The fact that you type this garbage and post it "We don't want to take away the feeling of closing your eyes and Exalting an item, scared to see whether you ruined it or not" shows how little you understand this game. You are balancing itemization around the top of the player base. They will always have good items regardless of harvest. This nerf is laughable considering almost every other form of crafting is a waste of space in this game. You say that harvest becomes the only reliable form and other forms are ignored(paraphrasing here) but that is because you nerfed everything, you nerfed multi-mod..you took away a lot of exclusive mods/weight from fossils..you make all weights insanely low in general... Please tell me why an amazing item should take someone 3000 alts > 1000+ augments and 3000+ imprints with 3000 regals and then Cannot roll attack mods with wasted exalt slams for t50 strength? Imagine wanting your players to sit in hideout for hours focused to make sure they don't alteration spam over the 25 weight explode... I'm likely gonna skip 3.14 and every league after that because you've shown that you don't even know how to make tons of builds/new skills viable and the meta is literally the same 2-6 builds every league in 1 variation or another. I generally never crafted because it's a waste of a persons time and I always have to resort to tricks to make currency instead of making a cool appealing item...Every time I've enjoyed crafting, it's been heavily nerfed. Fossils..Multi mod changes(mod pool and such) and now Harvest. P.S Don't even get me started on the worst performance of a constantly updated game I've ever played in my life Standing ovation with one hour applause.	Posted by SkyzzoDeSky#6536 on Mar 10, 2021, 6:14:49 PM Quote this Post