Path of Exile Dev Tracker

There are five weeks left in Harvest which means things are starting getting closer to the launch of our 3.12 expansion in September. In the meantime, you may be wondering what the future of Harvest looks like. We're ready to share our plans!

In short, Harvest will not immediately become a core gameplay mechanic but may be reintroduced in the future.

When we designed Harvest, we wanted to experiment with a more deterministic crafting system that would enable players to access powerful items earlier in their character progression. In this sense, we feel that the crafting system has been very successful. However, at the top end of gameplay, Harvest has made it too easy to gain very powerful items that previously required a lot more work and investment to acquire. This was acceptable for a temporary challenge league but poses problems for the long-term health of Path of Exile's item economy if allowed to remain in its current state.

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It depends on whether either of them encounters show-stopping issues during development but otherwise that sounds like a relatively safe assumption.

They're free QOL features, yes.

We outlined our thoughts about the level of convenience in the post I linked above.

I don't think so due to the way it works. Quote from Chris' original post:

You'll be able to tick a checkbox on one of each type of your Currency, Map, Essence, Divination, Fragment, Unique, Delve, Blight, Metamorph and Delirium Tabs, to indicate that that Tab should receive items that are Ctrl+Clicked from the inventory. This intentionally would not work with other items (such as rares you have picked up), as those require attention to identify and consider them.

They are separate tasks but involve the same sets of people.

I'm not sure just yet. We found out about this late last night and everyone is currently busy getting their gear from the office to get set up at home. Once things are settled I plan to touch base with some key members of the team and find out what we're anticipating in this respect.

I checked in on this earlier this week and I don't have a firm ETA yet but I know that things are definitely in progress. Our server admin has done a chunk of the work he needs to do on it and then once their part is finished it will go onto our UI programmer. I'm personally hoping to see it alongside 3.12 but I can't provide any confirmation yet.