good job on the tradeskill rewards

What would have been cool is a temporary harvesting bag that transfers everything in it to your personal harvest depot when it expires

I swear, this has to be one of the most negative and toxic communities.

A person likes the rewards and said thank you - and then the swarm comes in with all the negativity based on assumptions. Should never turn a blind eye to issues, and no harm in giving feedback and voicing concerns.

But sometimes, man. Sometimes I wonder how many people in this forum are over the age of 12.

At this point, the devs could have given the playerbase everything they wanted, and people would still complain.

Not personally attacking anyone. Just... wow.

im wondering if the sprocket blueprint constructor was the original idea to get when we finished the tradeskill line since we got that item in our bags at launch
either way i would have liked to see some kind of end item that would be nice like this one is.

Obviously you are not a crafter.

Apparently having all crafting professions at 110, all adv pop books, and most max tinkering and adorning doesn't make me a crafter.

Or maybe I'm just being patient.

Isn't the pony so you can afk next to a node and come back with a box of harvests?

Often, if you wait to see what they do before complaining, you are too late. "Just wait and see" is the same as "suck it up because it's too late now".

Thank you for the clarification, Mermut. So in regard to how the pony and guild harvesters have operated in the past, they do NOT function the same way that they have since their introduction. In fact, that functionality has been removed entirely in relation to this expansion, and going forward - based on how they've handled changes in the recent past.

While it's not explicitly stated in The Team response linked, in the context of the conversation, and the following discussions, the players understood that the pony and guild harvesters would be updated in the manner which they have been previously - just at a later date - and made decisions to continue to play/subscribe based on that understanding.

The Team allowed this interpretation to stand, even after they knew that is not what they were developing, just like the decision to scrap complete class revamps/skill consolidations without transparency until after folks paid to test those changes, despite ongoing discussions on the forums prior.

That kind of practice is not alright.

Then I don’t understand why you’d be happy with the rewards. The only one that is tradeskill related is the bag.
If you’re happy with a bag I’m glad, but I am not.

I don’t think patience is going to do anything but increase disappointment, particularly if we don’t voice our opinions.

No, that was already tried on test and it doesn't work.

I wonder if the "job" running in the background, to process all the guild harvesters and pack pony
(and goblin/whatever) harvesting, has been eating up a lot of CPU cycles on the servers..

perhaps to reduce server load.. these quite unappealing methods were designed to stop
90% of the harvesting (people want POM harvesting not former tiers),
as a cost savings measure.

I know that I have five level 110 crafters, and I doubt that I'll go anywhere near this
timeline.. unless I get a hankering for the charm.

Now if the pack pony had been given recent tier access.. like every last player had
assumed.. then I'd have probably done all those previous TS tiers, to get that
pony. Now I can just ignore crafting for the most part.

Code doesn't work that way. There is no 'running in the background' while the harvesters are out. There is a single pull from the database/table.. the NPCs aren't acually 'out harvesting'.

I'm going to guess the new charm will be made available for having all ascensions at 15, but only because that would make sense to me. I wouldn't even be surprised if the 'adventure' version has fervor.
Why a max level, adventure reward, for crafters and no-trade at that .... when since the beginning of EQ2 time, you could level craft and adventure independently.

It's like they thought 'what else can we throw in for the ts line, yeah that will do'.

There is no reward for having all 4 ascensions at 15.

I've never had a pack pony.. as I said I was considering getting one, after I knew it could harvest POM,
which it can't (not really). I was wondering if you could send it/call it back out and get partial goodies.. in which
case.. it would be "out harvesting" in terms of the code routine. I know it's a DB call.. I was an alpha tester
for Microsoft Windows! Done a little coding of my own over the past 30 years.

I'm just saying that it's very disappointing harvesting becomes (close to) 100% manual,
right after I returned to the game and was looking for something else to do

I know, and it seems odd to me.

No reward item as such but you need all four at 15 to be able to loot the celestial teachings... so there is something tied to them at least

Between all my alts, I have all ascensions to 15. I think my main and backup main
have them all to 15 too.

but unless I'm mistaken, only on my geomancer do I use anything higher than
level 10.. it's the long-awaited AOE at level 15 if I recall correctly.

I don't cast one single other ascension past level 10, other than that.. none of
them really do anything.. what a complete misfire..

I mean.. sure... 10 points of fervor is "ok".. but if it takes like 4 seconds to cast
and lasts like 8 seconds at GM level, when I'll never take it beyond apprentice..
I'd do more damage in ALL cases by NOT casting it.

Ascensions from 1-10 were pretty good... then someone dropped the ball
down the big swirly device.

You also need to craft all 12 items from the rare TS drop bits from the heroic zone... the 'crafting' bit is, by far, the more time-consuming and difficult portion.

Nope. It has nothing for you until 2 hrs have passed.