I think its pretty generally accepted that the jade harvester set is very underwhelming in this day and age. Its one of, if not the lowest progressed sets for this season. I’d like to brainstorm a few ideas for what I think could help the set overall.
For starters, I’d like to say my philosophy for buffs is going to tend towards mechanical changes as opposed to straight up numbers changes as I think the jade harvester set has solid ground with which to stand on and buffing its numbers can easily result in a build thats over reliant on said numbers fixing its actual problems. So without further ado, i’ll dump my suggestions in a semi organized way.
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Add the haunt sanctification minus the bogadile going forward. This could be added to a couple of items that are very good for the build such as wormwood, or haunting girdle, personally I think wormwood could have this power as the item itself is rather underpowered as it is otherwise and the haunt power makes it extremely powerful.
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Give some sort of haunt bonus item. My current thought is to give the haunting girdle the lingering spirit rune, as well as a minor multiplier to haunts damage perhaps 15-30% or so.
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Rework the lingering spirits rune to enable storage of a medium amount of spirits such as 5-7 as opposed to the single spirit it has now. Said spirits could work as a way to spread damage early on in a pull, or more importantly upon fighting a rift guardian, serve as a sort of haunt bomb as they all haunt the rift guardian in a cascade providing some early burst for higher rifts, or outright killing them on farming runs.
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Alternatively, the set could lean into its dot harvesting nature and add things like the gem of toxin, weapon bleeds, and pain enhancer to its harvested dots. As it is, it already harvests most of said dots but since they only last a few seconds anyway, they add trivial damage compared to other potential stats / gems. The set could perhaps use a way to harvest more potential seconds of said dots as a way to deal more damage.
These are just a few ideas i’ve had given that i’ve been playing the set quite a bit this season. I’d really like to hear everyones thoughts whether its on my suggestions, or what they think could help.