Based or Cringe: Exploring Path of Exile Strategies

Based on a unique strategy, he achieved significant currency gains through experimental mapping in Path of Exile.

### Path of Exile: "Based or Cringe" Season 2, Episode 5 - "Div Card Farming Experiment"
* 🎮  In this episode, Imperion showcases a **unique divination card farming strategy** in Path of Exile using **high investment, high reward maps**.
* 📊  The strategy involves **heavily investing in quality 8-mod maps**, rolling for **specific modifiers**, and focusing on **divination card drops** from monsters and bosses.
* 💰  Each map costs around **300 chaos and 1.7 divine orbs** to prepare, with a total investment of **20 divine orbs and 16 chaos orbs per map**.
* 📈  The goal is to achieve **massive card drops** from the boss, potentially leading to **significant profits** through divination card turn-ins.
* 🧙‍♂️  The strategy includes specific map modifiers, divination box rolls, and boss fights, aiming for **high quantity and quality of divination cards**.
* 💸  Despite the high investment and time commitment (8 hours for 10 maps), the strategy proved profitable, yielding around **15,682 chaos orbs in total**.
* 🏆  The highlight of the experiment was a single map that dropped **1,381 divination cards** from the boss, including valuable cards like **Brothers' Gift** and **Sephirot**.
* 🎥  The video received recognition in the PoE community, with a mention in a news segment and **positive feedback for showcasing unique farming strategies**.

welcome back, everybody, to the next and possibly stupidest episode so far of Based or Cringe, Season 2, Episode 5. I think at this point, we're doing a very weird strat with boxes and cards. These are eight mod molum maps. We're putting monstrous treasure on them, which puts all of the monsters into boxes. We make those be r varieties, specifically div ones from the tree, only the div one, and the drops will be duplicated, not just by this, but also by the boss because of the div Scarab of pilfering, and also possibly the div dup Alters that we will click throughout the map. This is a strat recommended to me by Vermillion, so thank you for the recommendation. It's going to be a funky one. We just build a tree for this. We do all the t17, you know, map stuff here, all scarabs, some shrines, Quant wheel, Top Hat, increase all increase effect of mods, and then we're taking the div stuff, div boxes, all blue Alters, full investment into blue Alters. We're

trying to get Quant, and we are trying to get div dupes, so I'm going to try to click all the Alters that I can. I cannot click less defenses per friendly charge; that just deletes my build. But other than that, I think we're okay. Basically, every card that drops will be eaten by the Scarab and will be dropped from the boss if I manage to kill the boss and then duped, and then possibly duped again and again. Now, you might have noticed that we're not taking the temper pous Exile. That's because we're going to roll our boxes. This is stupid, but we're going to engineer orb scour Al exalt all of our good div box es to get a lot of extra cards from them. That them will get duped and duped and duped, so that's the plan. I think it'll take a long time, but maybe it's worth it. Also, we have 75% increased effect of the boxes, so you know, if it has like 10 extra cards, it'll

have 17 extra cards. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I have not run a test map of this, so this is going to be a live experiment. We're going to have to figure out what's the best way to roll the boxes. We're going to chaos spam. I think we're going to only exalt if there's a suffix open. We're going to read the boxes, see which one is worth rolling. We'll try to figure it out in the first couple of maps. These maps are really expensive. They're 20c each on the map because they are quality eight mod maps. These you have to roll these yourself, so we're investing about 300 C into every map. So, like, 1.7 divines per map. That's what we have to get out of every map to break even and then make profit somehow. So, without further ado, let's get this started. I am not scrying anything, so none of my stretch so far relied on scrying. This is no difference. I could

just run something else and scry it onto this map and make this better, but um, we're not going to do that for now. Oh yeah, I bought an extra card tab for, 'cause I obviously didn't want to clean my card tab. We'll put everything in here, set up the affinities, track the loot, blah blah blah. We have 16 div of roll currency, so if we spend all of this, we spend 16. They, we rolling the maps just so we know where we're starting from. Let's do it. We try to exalt additional items, contains card that give corrupted items, chest level. No, that's not good. Do we chaos spam? Maybe we chaos spam until we have both. Maybe that's easier. Should have packed an alls. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, we're learning. 12 additional with Quant. There we go, there we go. That's a good one. Tier one high all as well. Actually, actually, okay, we go, we, we, we click this, right? There's nothing else to do. Divide it, shut up, let's go, and this will drop.

exactly zero cards. Yes, because this will be later. We will find these cards later from the boss. This is delayed gratification, guys. Now we kill a bunch of other random boxes that nobody cares about, and then we'll see what the boss does. Archinist. I mean, I can AR the archist. Five additional items for a mirror. There we go. Five additional transmutes, basically. Engineer Al. 14 additional oo. That's Max roll, I think. We... oh, it's only one open suffix. Okay, let's slam it. Let's slam the Quant. Yes, we slammed Giga hyro Quant. 91 Quant. 14 additional. Okay, let me open this multiple times, please, bro. Nice. Two. Okay, two. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I think that's it. I think there's no more divs in the map. So here is my idea. We leave some boxes. We leave a portal here. My V [__] is charged. If the boss is hard, we can always come back and get some like charge v molon.

shell again okay so just do an ad phas first and then he's available there he is he has 357 diff cards. What excuse me I don't want to get hit. I don't know if he just deletes me instantly. Let's x what okay nothing good. It's all bad cards but this is the Strat. The Strat is working. We just need to find a good card and then triple it. Okay I'm full. Okay okay you get the idea. So we ran one map and I changed my mind on scrying because we're basically doing a card Strat. It would be pretty stupid to not scry some good card on us. So we're going to run some underground C and stride Divine Beauty onto mosum so that we can also get those drops from the rest of the 49 maps that are prepared here. Oh oh oh oh oh hi Nico. He's hammering the nameless sear. What's his problem [ __ ] you okay dude. It took like nine Maps chains of command pain Seeker ephemeral Edge Max.

roll okay first we scry a map molum why is everything blinking why did you leave wait I could just search on my own Atlas I'm a genius look it's there and then we click cry and we click this do you wish to scry I wish to scry divination card in mosoan map will be overwritten with divination cards from underground C map okay yes Divine Destiny Quant Quant only [ __ ] oh 85 Quant and Max additional please let me open this multiple times at least twice please bro 31% chance yes two B two okay not bad not bad could have been worse oh there he is 669 divination cards wait there's two of them do they each have 669 no shot how do I kite two of them though this is hard no way I got 1,200 cards from this map K just no one is dead it's on the last one there it is three darkel he that's five eldrich chaos okay uh eight fortunate okay that's um almost to

Dev any there's another dark out half. I can't I can't loot this much. It's too much. There is no number associated with to scale like there is with Quant and like there is with additional flat. So I think these are kind of bait. So I think I want to spam for that and then Quant. If this is a high roll and we slam like two of the additional ones, that's like passable. Like we didn't slam in a good additional. So now we only have one chance to slam Quant. So I think we R all and we got it. Look, this is insane. Wait, I might even slam this for another additional. It's 14 additional with 96 quad. This is the best we've got so far. Slam the prefix. Slam the chest level. Okay, we did SL. Didn't slam any of the other additional mods, but that's okay. Oh my God, my HPS. Okay, this is the best book we have so far. And we can open it again. Oh, it's a plus level ice. No more.

that's going to hurt all right. We opened it twice. That's not bad. 730, 430, 777. Yeah, I'm thinking 777. I think it's a little more than last time. A little more than 669, 938. What? Okay, good luck guys. Here we go. Come on, come on. Yes, four nurse. Oh my God, that's half a doctor. How much is that? That's four div. Okay, okay, good. Also, four patient. Uh, and I can't see anything else, so we will be right back guys. Wilted row. Ever Changing. Oh, eight patience. That's another nurse. Okay, we have five and a half nurses from this pile, and I'm full again. Oh, I heard the thing. What's the thing? I don't know. It's off screen. We'll come back and find out soon. Four fortunates. Okay, I mean, that's not bad. That's, uh, what, 2/3 of a divine? All right, counting one. The first box we see is a divers. Okay, that's what you like to see. Three on one screen. Okay, okay, okay. This

might be a good map, guys. Go, go, go, go, go. Nice. Oh, double open or three boxes or four boxes. Okay, holy [__] something. T wealth and power. X2 level four Enlighten card. Okay, one 1.4 div that. Wait, there's two more. Okay, we got four wealth and power. Nice. That's uh, that's a lot. And 947, that's a thing. But what's the thing? Stay tuned to find out. We'll find out in the next inventory. What was the thing? There's no way it's the four patients. Nope, that's not the thing. That's heners though for fortunate. Ah, that's a sad thing. Wait, four sephirot. Wait, that's like four divines. Nice. Okay, that's, that's more fortunate than the fortunate. Oh, that thing for divine Beauty. Okay, that one came from boxes or from uh, from Monsters. Six 20 thing. Four four seod. Nice. This is uh, the most opens we had so far. 1,185 div cards on the boss. Don't hit me, bro. He's so

fast ah, ah, just got to get him to 20%. There it is, challenge complete. Okay, it tinged something. Tinged? What tinged? We'll find out in the next episode after I've dumped my inventory. Brothers gift, two of them. Yes, oh my God, okay, that's 10 div. Oh, another brother's gift, which means there should be a fourth brother's gift. And there is, okay, 20 div. Wait, there's another one. Wait, wait, hang on, um, wait, there's another one. What? Okay, be right back, guys. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's leave the brothers' gifts in the inventory. We have four so far, guys. It's wor- wait, we have five. Wait, hold- what? How is there five? So, six? What? There's two more. Seven? There can't be seven. There has to be multiples of two. Okay, keep looting, keep looting, guys. Also, eight Offspring. What is that? That's a full Risa almost. Okay, check him PC. There's another brother's gift. There it is, it's eight. Okay, 40 div. Okay, guys, it's working.

also four patients halfen nurse I'm full okay that was was a good one that was a good one guys eight brothers gift I don't know t7 uh t7 map mods plus 1,000 cards and a t7 boss I think that requires a pretty good character but yeah doable for sure random Divine from a pot kill the NS guys watch this two 3 4 five what okay okay okay okay okay unkillable boss coming guys there's one more here what if I do the same here one two uh-oh oh three oh no this boss okay stop stop stop stop it's it's that's enough that's enough Jesus Christ raid time n it's not 2K I'm saying I'm saying 1,200 does it beat the record 1,381 oh no okay guys we're going to be here for a while come on okay okay it Ed but what Ed I am full and it's still infinite okay be right back guys okay oh there was uh fortunates wasn't there

there's no way it was just fortunates, right? It is literally just four fortunates. That's the one that Ted Jesus. That is bad unfortunate H. Here we go, guys. I was featured on the news. Listen to this. Imperion Contin, his based or cringe series on various PE strats in PE 3.25 sub of kker. This was probably the most successful video series of necropolis, and it's shaping up to be one of the biggest YouTube series in the entire Path of Exile content creation community. I love it. You should check it out, even if you are not a blaster like Imperion. Sometimes it's entertaining to watch. I've watched a few of the episodes, and I cannot deny how jealous it makes me when it's just raining all this currency. But I do appreciate that he showcases all these various strategies so that other people who don't have the time to attempt all this stuff do understand what is based and what is crit. Then, if you'd like a deeper

dive into the Met. Thanks for the shout. Try Ash ding seven years bad luck four of them okay it's like a third of a mirror shard that's a div or nine div. We're going out on a low note guys the boss has 10 elimination cards wow and two of them showed up on the filter and they are 20 alts and that is our final map highlights versus low lights. This is the low lights here is how much is left from our rolling currency and here is what we made a lot of alt cards 40 divs in Brothers gifts 128 5c cards 1,764 Emperor's lock cards and a whole bunch of other stuff that uh I may or may not turn in. I'm going to turn in some boring currency cards. We'll add that to the uh to the currency Tab and maybe we'll include the fun Gamba Turnin on YouTube. I'm obviously not going to make you watch me turn in a bunch of alt cards but uh maybe some of the fun stuff will

make it there so be right back. Deterministic currency acquisition. Look guys, that is so many alts. This is surely worth the time clicking this. How many? Yes, but these are a stack each. Are we done with alts? We are not. There is yet another alt card, Society's Remorse, and I have three inventories of them. Guys, you thought we were done with the chaos cards? No. Okay, it's two. It's two inventories of three phases in the dark. Okay, let's do that then. That's a lot of chromes, guys. But wait, there is more. More. Okay guys, time to farm exalted orbs for all time's sake. Look at this, Saint's Treasure, Scout Hoarder, Abandoned Wealth, and Alluring Bounty. Wow, 65 Mortal Hopes. God damn. What about any other Mortal? That's a couple of more Mortal fragments. Nice. This is the prices of them. The good one is this one, actually 18c for that one. Nice. Let's get more of those guys. We found some regret orbs. I regret to

inform you we are not quite done with the boring currencies, but soon we will move on to the fun stuff. Weeping Ence, I am weeping, dude, holy [ __ ]. Any of these could be 10c Essence, guys, anytime now. Please bulk turn in. Oh, we did it. Look, it's there. Insanity 20 C each. Look at that, the 60c pool. It all paid off, guys. And then we uptier them like this, and now they are so much better than before. However, there is more. Let's start with some raw fun Divine. Look, it's fortunate and brothers' gifts. That's pretty good. Okay, 48 rev from cards plus five just raw drops. 53 double corrupted item es all Barons. That's pretty useless. Teny whatever. Okay, transfigure the gem perforate of Duality 2120 30 C corrupted Prismatic Jewel. The anime stone with ailment effect 40c. Maybe exceptional gem here we go. We're looking for Enlighten here. It's Empower and Enhance. We didn't get an

Enlighten who would have thought it's the two worst outcomes next synth map. I guess cortex best other stuff whatever no cortex 10 c maps Jewels with um corrupting blood implicit life and flask duration spell damage dot multicast with lightning spells. That is terrible minion damage. I guess block double stat dot multi that might be okay lining damage crit multi es recharge Fire Res. That one's not bad and finally strength in and then crit chance with C skills. Okay that is uh not great 700 four scarab cards. That's less than two inventories. Let's do it guys okay no horns in 700 cards six inventories of Emperor's locks. Now I'm going to sort this tab take take out all the garbage from here put it in my own tabs and then we're going to we the Exile price at the end after I added up the stuff manually. All right that's it for card turnings holy [ __ ] that was painful. I do not recommend this part just filter.

these cards, man, like half of them, not worth the time or the effort. Guys, it's time to prize things. We, uh, request our good friend Windows calculator to join us on this adventure. And what we're going to do is we're going to take out the maps and oh, that was a chance recipe, nice, perfect. And then take out the good cards from this tab. We'll wealthy Exile if there's any valuable card here. We'll put that in here and then we'll wealthy Exile this plus currency plus scabs. First of all, maps. I will not distinguish between favorite and non-favorite anymore. I'll just, uh, value everything at four. So all of this is 16. Now I took out the lower tiers already, so these are all T6 Maps or T17. Four inventories is 240 plus 43, 283 Maps out of 50 at 4C each is 1,100 Chos. Tier 17s, we got not quite a lot, not bad. We got 18 T7s, and these are sanctuaries, which are 100 C singles. Holy [ __ ] so

we'll go with 130 here in between those 2,340 of t7s. We have some shaper maps from cards, some Elder Maps, no conqueror map, sanctum four books. I'm pretty sure wealthy EX can do the rest. We can take out the malons, maybe you don't want to bother with that, maybe the temples too, maybe the blueprints. Wait, the blueprints are fully revealed actually, some of them. Okay, we got four blueprints that are not fully revealed and four that are. These are the not fully revealed ones. Let's see revealed. We'll go with 80. We got two valdo boxes and uh, that's about it. Now, what are some good value cards here that we should take out? I think this is a wealthy Exile question. There's 37 div of cards in there apparently. That is crazy, but I think it's probably overing some dumb [ __ ]. So seven years, definitely take that out. Sephirot, oh yeah, those are good. Wealth and power, those are good. Divine Beauty.

unfortunate destination. Ooh, H for Watcher eye, magnum opus, almost a full set, darker half, mhm, artist, the enhanced cards, gem Cutters Mercy, two of those, deadly Joy, who asked hook doriani, Epiphany, lingering remnants. Oh, this just a vault Temple, nah, no, no, no, I'm not taking that out, okay, and the rest is all bad, a luring Bounty, maybe, yeah, that's T, the rest is all low value. [ __ ] okay, I took out the good cards, it's like 10 and up, most of them are like a lot, like 20, 30, 40 CN up. I think there's only one 10c card in here, it's this alluring Bounty, so we'll let wealthy x value that. Other than that, we are done. Now let's sort out the investment and the roll currency. So I started with 20 div, rolling currency started with 16, but we kept adding up because we needed more exalts basically to slam some boxes. Let's see how much of that we have left, and then

we'll add that back in and remove it so it was the question mark tab is 3.4 Dev left here so we spent 17 Dev rolling uh rolling the boxes or 16.6 so we spent 2,921 chaos rolling the boxes and uh unfortunately we also spent 1.7 div on every map basically 300 chos per map time 50 is 15,000 chos okay so we're at minus 14 4,057 chos and we made this and this and this so let's let's find out what that is BC BC BC how much is that it's 169 div which is 29,7 44 chaos which means we actually made 15,682 chaos we are in the profit nice how much is that in thein 89 Dev okay okay so that is 1.7 div per map 1.8 div per map but over how long and at what cost these took [ __ ] forever this was the longest like 50 map project I've done so

far and the stupidest. We only got one giga explosion. If that explosion of Divine cards didn't happen, fof that this would be fortive less, but it would still be like 0.8 D per map if you like never ever get lucky. And I think you can get a lot bigger card explosions if you, you know, there's a lot of good cards in the game, but uh, you know, we only got one uh, but at least we got one, so that's cool. How long did it take? So it took one hour and 1 hour and 36 minutes to run 10 Maps. It's 480 minutes divided by 60. It's exactly 8 hours to run them. So this over 8 hours is 11 div per hour. Not too bad. However, it also took like an hour to turn in the cards. I mean, you probably shouldn't loot all that garbage or turn that in, so it's probably not worth your time. But if it took nine hours including car turning, then it's only 10 Dev per.

hour so that's the full calculation. As always, we don't include trading time or prep time or anything like that. It's only the run, and then you can modify this with however long it takes you to trade or prepare stuff. This is only the farm. You can modify these numbers at your own peril. It is really painful to roll the box. It's not bad; it's like different, you know, to your regular farming strats, but it's a lot of clicking. I think it's a better use of your time to only go for the devs or maybe Aran, click some Arcanist, of course. Maybe it's worth clicking this node on the tree and getting Arcanists too, maybe some maps too, getting some T7s. But these will very slightly eat into your divs, and if you want to, you know, full yellow on the divs, then you want to take the side. But it's probably worth taking the other ones, and you just click those boxes and

kind of skip everything else or rep beep if you already have a good map scri then you know that's good but like we only got a couple of divine Beauties like crying didn't really make or break this this would be like seven or eight divines less if we didn't have the Divine Beauty scri so that might not even be worth your time unless you're going to run this for a really long term it was a really interesting and fun Strat uh the boss is crazy tanky you need some giga single Target but on mosum you can just kite it and it's kind of easy it's just a slow walking zombie that walks at you so you know it's killable even slowly the gold gains we made 1.3 million gold over the 50 Maps so an average of 26k per map gold is not great especially for your time you're spending a lot of time in these Maps it's much better ways to farm gold but that's what we got just for data big

investment big possible payoff possible giant card loot explosions at the end. I don't think we got lucky, but at least we got a kind of a nice one. That was really fun, and if you want to chase that, you can just kind of skip the maps where you only get one boss or, you know, just only run the good ones if you're really hunting for those giant dopamine hits of big card explosions. But um, that's what we got. That was a crazy one. Holy [ __ ]. I need a break from my hands. Thanks for watching, guys. Thanks for listening. If you made it this far, like and subscribe, blah blah blah, YouTube stuff. There will be other Str coming up, possibly some simpler ones. This was a little too involved, but uh, see you next time.

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The episode features a quirky strategy using mod molum maps with monstrous treasure to box and duplicate monsters.

The plan involves maximizing divination card drops through scarabs, boss kills, and blue altars, while also rolling and scouring div boxes for extra card drops.

The host is investing significantly in the maps, aiming to break even and make a profit through this unconventional approach.

The player is initially avoiding collecting cards, focusing on other boxes before confronting the boss.

They successfully roll for additional items and bonuses, then change their strategy to scry for good cards.

The player ends up with a significant number of divination cards from the map, leading to a successful outcome.

The speaker is overwhelmed by the amount of loot and is strategizing on how to maximize their gains.

They have a high roll with additional mods and successfully slam for a significant boost.

The loot includes multiple valuable items, such as nurses and divines, leading to a promising outcome.

The player completes a challenge and receives multiple Brother's Gifts, totaling 40 div.

They experience a whirlwind of looting, discovering eight Brother's Gifts and a full Risa, while also facing an unkillable boss.

The player's journey is highlighted by a successful video series on Path of Exile strategies, showcasing various methods to earn currency.

The boss had 10 elimination cards, with 2 showing up on the filter, resulting in a total of 20 alts.

The rolling currency made included 40 divs in Brothers' gifts, 128 5c cards, and 1,764 Emperor's lock cards.

The currency acquisition involved turning in a significant number of alt cards and chaos cards, ultimately leading to farming exalted orbs and obtaining valuable items.

Painful Card Turning and Valuation Process

The speaker is frustrated with the outcome of card turning, finding the results disappointing and not worth the effort.

They are sorting through the cards and maps, aiming to manually calculate their value.

The process reveals a significant number of maps and valuable cards, leading to a potential profitable outcome.

The player extracted valuable cards, with most worth 10c and up, totaling 169 div and 29,744 chaos made, resulting in a profit of 15,682 chaos.

The investment in rolling boxes and maps amounted to 17 div and 15,000 chaos, with the project taking 8 hours to complete.

Despite the time spent, the player made an average of 11 div per hour, with the card turning process adding an additional hour to the total.

The farming strategy involves a lot of clicking and can be modified based on individual preferences.

The focus is on targeting devs and Arcanists, with the possibility of getting T7 maps.

3 million over 50 maps, averaging 26k per map, which is not great for the time invested.