I am crafting every goddamn influenced item I can. I will have some nice things even if it’s stuck in Standard, goddamnit!
That being said, console community is nothing like PC. I’ve only trusted 4 people this entire league to touch my items, leaving me running for almost all of my own crafts. The harvest changes have only gotten more mind boggling as it’s gone on. Guys, I’ve got atleast three dozen projects going on right now. Influenced rings, amulets, weapons, boots, gloves, jewels, fucking everything - for 3 specific builds of mine and tons of random stuff that I know are useful to someone else or something I might eventually play. Even with the crazy amount of stuff I have to craft, there are plenty of harvests where I can only use 1-2 actual crafts because they just don’t work for what I need or have too high of a chance of fucking the item up and costing me more. sometimes there are basically zero useful crafts - outside of like currency and map exchanges, stuff like that. Which I am also a HUGE fan of and hope that stays relatively untouched.
I’ve been keeping track and I got a Speed node on my 12th harvest tonight after not seeing any previous to that - 1 craft, and it was a reforge. It’s been really hard and grindy as fuck to get exactly what you want. I’ve started lowering the goalpost and just making stuff that’s decent, since time is running out. There are a couple 30-50+ ex items I’m working on though that simply will not take the risk of not having exactly the right craft. It’s been one of the most time consuming things I’ve done so far in this game and it’s still pretty heavily weighted RNG wise. My character absolutely feels stronger, but not anywhere close to broken. A shitty top meta build like BV or something would make my shit laughable. But it definitely feels good to me, and it gives me so much to play for.
I honest to God wonder how this would play out if it was left in the game like this over the long run. For me, personally, it seems perfect for League play. Strong enough to get useful and even excellent gear at a reasonable timeframe, but still difficult to perfect and make multiple insane items unless you are lucky or have unreasonable amounts of time...and also still a little lucky. I was so fucking excited for this system so that all my stuff would carry over to Standard where I could port all my gnarly newly made items onto builds I could never afford to play or just wanted to experiment with and have super long term crafting projects to make very niche and specific things. That seems awesome for both League and Standard players alike. I don’t really have a point with this point, just sharing my experience. I know it’s different for people who are maybe on PC and just spamming discord for trades all day, but that’s definitely not my experience and I assume most people on console also. We have a discord but it’s pretty quiet and it’s not nearly as big a deal like it is for you guys. Tons of scammers and weirdos on console, too small of a community for well known players to fuck up their reputation though on the flip side.
Think I’m gonna try to finish my current builds gear (Bleed Bow) and then make as much stuff as I can for Ice Crash Hollow Palm. Hopefully ~2 weeks or so is enough time to let me get there with a couple extra things done along the way. I’m curious about what’s planned for next league and going forward, and how it pans out. I’m always hoping for some interesting skill changes or buffs but that hardly ever works out so we’ll see.
