Path of Exile recipe leads to short-lived exploit run

Exploit, bug, or something in-between? Grinding Gear Games just pulled a new Path of Exiles Beastcrafting recipe after it accidentally released it into the wild with the wrong attributes. When players discovered that they could spam this recipe to make quick and powerful items, the market took a small hit before GGG took the recipe down for further adjustment.

“When we fixed and released it, it was with the same rough balance values that we set during development, which were unrealistic given the actual rate that people found beasts on the live realm. Also, players had saved up almost a week worth of Beasts, so once they found that the recipe was a bit too cheap, they could hit it quite a few times,” the studio said.

Although some players are crying “exploit” or “dupe” (perhaps because they didn’t get to it as fast as their comrades), it doesn’t look like the studio is going to be penalizing players who took advantage of the unbalanced recipe during its short lifespan.