[PoE 3.23] Harvest Ultimate Guide - BEST Farming Strategies and Crop Rotation Keystone Analysis 

Thank you man! Future content will cover an updated for high budget MF builds for League and Standard, MF tips & tricks and some more non-MF related stuff like this video

Harvest has been a very volatile mechanic, rebalanced, taken away, reintroduced. It is in a really good spot right now though.

Gameplay wise I think the mechanic is fine, Crop Rotation brings some more decision making to it as well. Anyway I would really love to see some powerful Harvest craft, cause right now most of them are a shadow of their former self!@@ibulleti7948

​@@Exostaharvest is fine, psh who needs reroll suff keep prefix and vis versa /sarcasm.

Yes Crop Rotation slows down gameplay a little bit. It's more interactive, so I find it fun, but farming without keystone is just smoother and more profitable, unless the lifeforce sextant of the lifeforce you are farming is stupidly high (which sometimes happens in standard when big crafters destroy the market)

Hey mate, thank you! More will come, I just need to find some time out from my irl job!

you gotta be so darn lucky. I got only 1 and got lots of them without the rotations

The charged compass is 65c?! F

Thank you! As a non-native speaker trying to keep the most clear language possible has been a top priority (and makes production of new videos a bit slower), however at times I can't prevent doing mistakes. My brain decided to pronunce the word like Groove eheh xD Thank you for the correction!

can you share your atlas for the alch and go harvest?

Yes, however remember that expedition has benefits a lot from scarabs, which we can't use. I prefer Essence because even if Expedition is more synergistic, Essence is just more profit/hour imo.

That's a very good point. I will add it to the description and to a fixed message!

But there is a chance u wasted the 100% runic sextant because the expedition cannot be forced from scarab

@@Jinryougo one could use seventh gate

Yea, my finger just hurts from scroll wheeling on tujin

​@@Jinryougoa good solution can be removing ess and going with chance to get expedition. Ive been running ess, exp, beast farming and its almost 100% of the time i get an expedition.

Yes, in one run I got 2 unique bosses from a single Harvest Crop. Sadly I was not recording with OBS at that time.

@@Exosta Yea it's a good one. The Harvest and Expedition keystones are the best new ones I believe. I tried the torment one and it didn't even seem to work unfortunately.

I will make a full video about the MF Academy Strategy Guide spreadsheet. I didn't feel ready so far cause I always add things to it and I want to present it as a 100% finished product. Also copy for the MF Academy Strategy Guide has been restricted so far, because as a small content creator I was afraid my job to be abused. That said now that my channel is gaining more viewers I see that I could open the document so that you can make a copy. I'll keep you posted on this topic!

I used this harvest with expedition, if you're using the big bomb, you're better with just going essence instead of expedition. I had a lot of maps that i couldn't even take 1/5 of the rewards just because the boxes had modifiers that i couldn't fight against, of course if you're not using the big bomb it's not an issue but it consume a lot more time per map, in other hand, Essences don't have any downside, you just kill and kill and doesn't take any time to do, and is free profit. Also maybe i was doing something wrong but i didn't see much profit, like 1 or 2 divines with Tujen, no luck with Gwenen, and the crafting with Rog was 99% of the times pure garbage. The only thing that was decent profit was selling the books, stacked decks and a few raw chaos from Tujen, but let's be honest, you can get more chaos/divines just by selling essences and it doesn't take any extra steps. For me the best combination was strongbox, essence and harvest, with niko to help clearing everything faster and also some extra profit from buying chaotic resonators for azurite and selling those, it's free money. The only thing that was even better in terms of currency per hour was boss rush, but that's only if you don't take the time you spend buying the compasses, maps, and invitations, and the amount of time that take to sell all the contracts if you combine it with heist, it was rewarding, but also a pain in the ass at least for me.

Sadly we don't have access to jungle valley during this league, so I didn't include reference to that Map, I personally don't like Mausoleum as a Map layout. As long as you go straight to Boss in Crimson Temple or other high density Maps you should not lose too much quant - max 1 altar imo

Thank you! I forgot to change it. Fixed! The Atlas Passive Tree is correct, from what I see

If you want to use the duplicate lifeforce compass you MUST force harvest somehow. You can do that with the Map Device or the Sextant. Imo sextant is better.

Check the MF Academy Strategy Guide page, link in the description!

This is my (very) high budget Standard Build. If no Legacy stuff or other bias factors are involved, I test my strategies in Standard, since it's so much faster to do there. I always base my videos on League prices to evaluate profitability! You can achieve similar enough results with a very high budget MF Build in league. That said Harvest is not affected by MF so nothing changes result-wise, build is irrelevant for the video. I covered the build in a video before: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5c-yzhX7xi4.html There have been a few updates meanwhile, and full completly updated and very indepth written buide can be found in my MF Academy Strategy Guide: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12f_dlb9ezlKR1PlB_v0IVZaaqnwPKHNObLy2PTHsHTQ/edit#gid=1562541767&range=A1

it's the same tree, just add the keystone

It's indeed in the sheet. poeplanner.com/a/8WJ

You can try Harvest + Expedition instead!

It was already updated, don't know why you see the old version! poeplanner.com/a/HCh

@@Exosta Привет. Как ты с таким атласом вызываешь рощу, если у тебя не взяты 7 врат и отключена лиговая активность на рощу ?

The Extra Content Notables do not prevent a content from spawning if you force it with Sextant or Map Device, as we do with Harvest!

@@Exosta i thought that was the case when I saw you had it blocked in the tree. What I meant was if it’s possible to make the harvest sextant yourself without having to trade for it. I have never seen it drop as loot with the desired mods. Only as a bare sextant.

You just can farm and resell compasses and you keep the harvest ones yeah@@Soei23

It is a no go, wandering is bad for harvest

you cant have both blue and purple sextant. just use blue + sacred grove. The rest is pretty flexible.

The problem is that the Lifeforce sextant can be pricey and so you lose some value if you go without forcing harvest!

This isn't a bad strategy for per map profits but it's very bad for profits per hour. Losing 1 map of sextants is -30 40 50 chaos whatever it is but it's upwards of 5 to 15 mins of no profits depending on run speeds

You can either roll your maps with 5 modifiers or 6 modifiers. Minimum required is 5.

yes but i'm not a fan of the layout

You can only use one Lifeforce sextant, only one can apply at once!

Because the yellow sextant cost more

Pretty much it, yes.

Ok, thanks bro :)@@Exosta

When you force Harvest with sextants the Blacked Thumb doesn't prevent Harvest from spawning

You should always reduce the lifeforce color you don't want to farm. So if you farm yellow, reduce purple and blue; if you farm blue, reduce purple and yellow and so on

Alright, i thought it was reversed if you were not using Compasses. Thanks!@@Exosta

Tbh I have no idea, but I would not do that anyway. Sextants and gilded scarabs are mandatory in my opinion, you get so much value out of those. Also keep in mind that Lifeforce is more expensive in high bulk, and you will reach high bulk much later if you farm Harvest without investment.

I'm planning to release an entire video around it!

@@Exosta any prediction on the date?

When you force any league mechanic via sextants or scarabs the extra content notables don't prevent the content from spawning.

Tbh Altar spawning is very RNG dependent. Sometimes you get 10, sometimes 3. It's random really. Don't think too much about it. Just make sure to reach the Boss at the start of the Map to optimize your chance to get blue altars with Quant.

It is still mandatory, since we get 10% chance for the not chosen crop to not wilt!

Check MF Academy Strategy Guide

No, if you force the mechanic black thumbs just acts as +2% extra content

skip, it makes it harder and doesn't improve the loot as far as i know

Agreed!

Simply put it as Favorite 12 times, take the Shaping notables on the Atlas Passive Tree and Singular Focus keystone

I just have a 21:9 ultrawide screen

Wandering Path is always bad with Harvest. Never use it.

@@Exostai test it both 2 round with wandering path and regular harvest setup, in 1 wandering round i got around 13k wild lifeforce, it seems have a high roof. Regular setup is more consistently with 10k, though

What's your sample size? I tried this extensively and Wandering Path was much worse for me.@@user-cy6qh4pv9y

There are no actual plans to translate the guide, however this might change in the future if I find some collaborators willing to do the job.

Yes, the strategy is extremely consistent with very little rng involved. If you have only 200c though start without sextants and go for cheaper scarabs, so you don't feel too concerned.

We are forcing harvest with sextant or map device, so black thumb has no downsides!

I didnt make the math for the total, but briefly it should be the harvest profit hour + essence profti hour, check the mf academy strategy guide

@@Exosta yes but the 2.7 you have put in excel. Is that only from lifeforce or does that include essences + general map drops aswell?

No

Yes, tested!

This is my (very) high budget Standard Build. If no Legacy stuff or other bias factors are involved, I test my strategies in Standard, since it's so much faster to do there. I always base my videos on League prices to evaluate profitability! You can achieve similar enough results with a very high budget MF Build in league. That said Harvest is not affected by MF so nothing changes result-wise, build is irrelevant for the video. I covered the build in a video before: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5c-yzhX7xi4.html There have been a few updates meanwhile, and full completly updated and very indepth written buide can be found in my MF Academy Strategy Guide: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12f_dlb9ezlKR1PlB_v0IVZaaqnwPKHNObLy2PTHsHTQ/edit#gid=1562541767&range=A1

Not as far as I know

Absolutely, nothing changed in regard to Harvest!

Awesome, cant wait to try this! Thanks! @@Exosta

Singular Focus keystone + Shaping Passive Notable on the Atlas Passive Tree!

@@Exosta ok, and u favor crimson temple only?

i have taken shaping the skies, sharping the mountains and shaping the world but i rarely get a map, i followed your atlas tree from the spreadsheet, plus whats do you choose in the map devise woth no seventh gate? if u are choosing seventh gate, u need to update your spreadsheet attals tree

Probably you must clear the map a bit more! Choose dense layout, I personally go for Bazaar which has one of the highest mob counts in the game@@nikolaosdrakos3413

The cheapest I can find on market, which ones are irrelevant, since we use Growing Hordes

No

Check my MF Academy Strategy Guide - MF Build page, link in the description

Nope

Yep, from a mistery box. Does not do much tbh. Just an explosion on activation.

Yes, works as usual!

I didn't test the new keystone Expedition yet, that said I included Essences because I feel like they are a lot of profit per hour and because (personal bias) I am not a great Expedition lover. Overall the strategy is pretty flexibile, so you can adapt for a lot of content that is sensitive to pack size increase. Although it could slow gameplay down, Blood-filled Ritual Vessels might become pretty juicy.

Sextant!

As far as I remember, yes. But you should double check

This is my (very) high budget Standard Build. If no Legacy stuff or other bias factors are involved, I test my strategies in Standard, since it's so much faster to do there. I always base my videos on League prices to evaluate profitability! You can achieve similar enough results with a very high budget MF Build in league. That said Harvest is not affected by MF so nothing changes result-wise, build is irrelevant for the video. I covered the build in a video before: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5c-yzhX7xi4.html There have been a few updates meanwhile, and full completly updated and very indepth written buide can be found in my MF Academy Strategy Guide: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12f_dlb9ezlKR1PlB_v0IVZaaqnwPKHNObLy2PTHsHTQ/edit#gid=1562541767&range=A1

Check the MF Academy Strategy Guide page, link in the description!

thank you so much :D@@Exosta

Sextant or Map Device Crafting option, unlocked with The Seventh Gate

You can use one Lifeforce Sextant at a time!

You totally can, even though I think is kinda suboptimal.

@@Exosta Thank you for the quick reply! Im new to juicing maps so its quite overwhelming for me. Which compasses should I buy, all four that you showed in the video? I buy them from TFT I presume, its just hard to know which ones are the right ones.