[2022] Honest question about GGG's thought process: How does upping eldritch currency droprates make up for reforge keep pre/suff?

I understand why they see eldritch chaos/annuls as an alternative to reforge keep prefix/suffix (albeit only for 4 gear slots and only if they're eldritch), but the question is... how does upping the droprate help in any way?

Eldritch currency were already used as a much cheaper alternative to reforge keep prefix/suffix back when those harvests existed for the slim number of cases where it was even an option. Upping their droprate does literally nothing to replace the lost harvest crafts, all it does is potentially make it slightly cheaper than it already was for the cases where it's applicable.

I feel like it's things like this that cause people to question whether or not GGG plays its own game, understands how people interact with its systems, or listens to and attempts to comprehend feedback.

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In the post where we announced that changed, we actually called out that it doesn't make up for it. It's not meant to, it's just a little something.

We are making it so that Eldritch Exalted Orbs, Eldritch Chaos Orbs and Eldritch Orbs of Annulment will drop in lower area levels. We are also buffing their drop rate.

These currency items are intended to fulfil similar functions to some of the removed Harvest crafts while continuing to be gated by rarity, though we're aware that they can only be applied to certain items and are still discussing whether similar solutions for other gear slots are appropriate. We understand that this isn't a full remedy for Harvest withdrawals but it should slightly improve the availability of powerful crafting tools.

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