Path of Exile: New Farming Strategies for Blight Maps

New farming methods in Path of Exile's league start include blight, ultimatum, ritual, and mapping supply drop changes.

### Optimizing Endgame Farming in Path of Exile's Expedition League
* 🌲  New blight farming strategies have been introduced, such as the **Scarab of the Blight Heart** and the **Templar Ingenuity** notable on the Atlas tree.
* 🏛️  The Ritual league mechanic has been revamped, with the return of **corpses** and new uniques like **Penance Mark rings**.
* 🔮  Changes to item drops from various league mechanics have been made based on their "**toughness**," with **tougher content** now yielding **more and better loot**.
* 🌀  Simulacrums have been adjusted to be more rewarding, potentially **revitalizing Delirium mirror farming strategies**.
* 🎯  Several new content additions, such as **Dark Sear, Wildwood Wisps, and Reflecting Mists**, offer **additional opportunities for loot and rewards**.
* 🦁  Beast farming has been improved, with **more beasts added to the core game** and changes to **beast memories**.
* 🗺️  Mapping supplies are now dropped according to **map drop chance**, potentially changing the way players farm **scarabs and other mapping resources**.

yo no cute editing but same good info. We're just running out of time on league start and I've still got to find a build to play something to actually locked down and probably just so you know for everybody. Probably not going to do a guide. Probably just going to be like uh hey this is what I'm playing. I'm just not too confident in making guides for things that I haven't really played or tested right. I've not really done slams. I've not really done a lot of this stuff. I was kind of a Caster uh Caster man. I won't say the other word for a little bit there so okay. Anyways let's get into the new Farms. The patch notes had a bunch of changes. There's a ton of new stuff added and it's actually surprising how much this has the potential to shake up a lot of the endgame farming which is pretty important right. You've got your build and then you've got what you're doing with it. So first off I wanted to

mention blight. It's a pretty obvious one. Uh, we've got a new blight Scarab. Scarab of the blight heart turns your blight into one lane with only blight rewards. Now, you could already do this, but you had to do it in toxic sewers core, and there might have been one other map. I forget. Uh, and what that strategy and what the blight map farming, right? This is you're in a t16 map, and you're farming blight maps to sell to people who are going to run those blight Maps. The strategy was to do really, really tight layouts because blight when it only has one lane, it forces that lane to give only blight rewards. And so now with this Scarab, we might not have to run on these crappy layouts, which is really nice. And it right that might sound like, well, let me run on a tight layout, uh, and save myself a Scarab. But the thing is when you're doing that, it really Narrows down what you can Farm alongside blight.

right you're kind of just like pigeon-holed into maybe some Essence stuff, uh, you know, like Heist contract. You're just like clicking some stuff, picking it up, um, 'cause you're not going to do any expedition, you're not doing any extra Legion stuff. You know, like you lose out on so many different mechanics. You're losing out on the potential of div cards, and you might not even like running these Maps anyways. And so this is like a really nice addition for blight farming. Now we also have the blight spawn notable on the atlas tree. This grants blight bosses in your maps have a 30% chance to add an additional reward chest when defeated, and one lane of Blade Encounters in your Maps is guarded only by blight bosses. Now this combined with the Scarab sounds like it's gonna be sounds like it's gonna be crazy. Okay, you're going to have one lane that's only guarded by blight bosses, okay, this is going to be a little bit rough. You probably won't be able to do

this on day one, unless you're playing like some giga build and you're a giga gamer. Um, that sounds really rough, honestly, to have only blight bosses, but hey, you know it's there and it seems like it's going to be a pretty great way to farm Bight Maps. Now there's two other ways to farm blight maps that are going to be pretty good. You might be able to mix and match these a little bit, but it seems like they may kind of be, you know, like some of these are kind of mutually exclusive, and that's one of these, right? You're not going to do this next one with only one blight line, and that's the Templar Ingenuity notable, so your blight Towers can be salvaged after the blight encounter, higher tier Towers granting better salvaged rewards, and Salvage rewards are improved for each different type of tower build. So pretty much you just build a bunch of towers and you upgrade them, and then you get to I

assume click them at the end. You know there's something that happens you're salvaging your towers and you get a lot loot. Now the interesting thing here is uh this might not even give BL Maps. This might just be a way for you after blight Maps crash down in price to Pivot and still not have to totally respect your atlas tree. Maybe it's just like a little bit you know you don't want to go through all of your pages right away on leag start and have to start buying on making orbs. This might be a cute little way to just give random loot um who knows if this is going to be really great or not. It's obviously going to need some testing but uh it might not even give blight Maps right. It just says salvaged rewards whatever that means. Maybe specific Towers give specific rewards and there's like some sort of you know meta kind of there. It's a little bit exciting although I'll be honest building a bunch of towers and upgrading them not the most exciting but.

hey if it gives a bunch of loot, okay, you guys know aluminum foil and all that. Uh, if you're doing this, keep in mind, here's just like a quick little tip. You still want to build like stun and freeze. You just upgrade them at the end of the encounter. Uh, it makes it like super easy to farm then, right? Uh, it makes it so much easier if you just have tier three freeze and stun, and then you can even have a couple of them and just upgrade them to different Towers at the end. So it's still, you know, you still get that different Salvage bonus. The third and final way for farming blight Maps is going to be fungal Horizons. This is going to cause blight chests to have 60 more chance to contain PL Maps. Sick. They removed some of that on the passive tree. I think you lose a little bit more chance to contain blight Maps. Somebody can correct me in the comments. I'm sure 15 people are. Uh, and completing a blight encounter in your map grants all players

blight reach and we don't know the specifics, but blight reach grants a chance for maps to drop. His blight Maps, we don't know what the chance to drop the maps are. We don't know how long blight reach lasts. Uh, but this is a third way for you to farm blight maps without really having to juice up the blight Tower too much, and instead doing it in combination with a map Farm, which is going to be pretty lucrative. Uh, this is great because if you missed it in the patch notes, they had a little mention that whatever scales your map drop Chance is going to also be scaling the things like your chisels, right, some of those new chisels, uh, and the scarabs as well, right, any of the mapping currency. There's Horizons, but you know you're only you're only using those for early Atlas completion, but this could be a really great way for you to be farming maps in addition to scarabs in addition now or blight Maps.

too uh that's just like a cute little one. I appreciate that stuff. And then of course double anointed amulet dropping a blight ravage that's going to drive up the price of blight ravage Maps. People are going to want certain double anoint bases to start their crafting projects on, especially so if any of these crafts involve Recombinating, which would involve deleting some of these amulets if the mods don't go to the right base. Okay, very cool. Uh, blight Maps cannot be sold in the auction house, yeah. So good luck. Okay, that's a little bit rough, ain't it? But yeah, makes it slightly less appealing than something like Essences, but hey, man. Uh, okay, number two, ultimatum. The thing with ultimatum is they buffed it just by monsters being able to drop loot, which is really cool. Uh, I we'll comment on that a little bit more too with how some league mechanics got an increase in drops and whatnot according to much time and difficulty they take. Uh, but the problem with this

is it was really really lucrative with the inscribed ultimatums but that's only when everybody had all the access in the world to all the scarabs they could want and all the scarabs were devalued to like such an insane degree last League uh and League start. These things might be priced more towards Duos and trios uh as they kind of like get that extra little bonus there uh with the like inscription rewards and all of that um you know it it makes like for a pretty good Duo and Trio Farm uh especially so where you kind of just get to trivialize a lot of the inscriptions by running with an aaot and you know like never dying and killing everything uh. Otherwise it's pretty cool you know we got Buffs with the monster drop loots inscriptions were already great ways to farm hella divines so you know ultimatum stalks uh the third one ritual this one's interesting. I don't know how good this one's going to be uh totally depends how many people are going to use.

a lot of the new stuff that's dropped so the very first thing that ritual has in 3.25 now is we get the old corpses back from uh what was it Affliction League. I believe it was uh was it Affliction. Yeah, no it was Affliction League. Yeah, we get marionet you get other minions. I'm sure minion Mains are really happy about this. They mentioned the oras are going to be a lot weaker so it's probably not something everybody runs but even just the marionet alone people are doing like the uh the minion blessing setup with stuff like that mob mischief uh can use the Marinet too and that's a really cute little setup there uh without having to do like you know the Golem memes and all that so that's really cool. Corpses might actually be pretty valuable. Uh there's a new Scarab that gives extra tribute for Monsters ritual Scarab of the Wisp. I don't know if this has any extra interactions. It seems like it's just a cute way to have.

extra tribute from a Scarab, but uh, yeah, it's like a wisp follows you around and gives increased tribute. Um, I don't, you know, if there's something more there, I feel like they would have said, but, you know, something to keep an eye out for. Uh, we get the new uniques, really, it's the old, the old stuff back from the Warlock marks. We have rings that give like Penance Mark is the one that everybody's talking about, and then the other two that I hear nobody talking about, but you get those rings, and there might be some more uniques in ritual. They added some new uniques, you know, some things they don't talk about, that's something to keep an eye out for, uh, especially if these bases are really, really good for specific setups. It could be one of those things where everybody, like, sleeps on these Rings, one dude makes a build with it, and then they start skyrocketing. So, tldr, just buy one at least of each. Uh, the fourth thing here, we have a new boss which is found only

from ritual. This is another reason why ritual is going to be kind of nice. You're going to get the king of the Mist boss encounter from it. Just a whole fragment from it. You get the Affliction uniques back. Now I think you know some of them. Not so popular the body armor. I don't even I I think that actually is core now. Um I I forget what all the other ones are but it feels like the important one. I forget them because they're it feels like they were so not noteworthy. Um the new good thing though is the parandis packs. These are like so solid on so many builds. You can get increased armor on these. Increased physical damage. Mana. You can get chaos res and it completely will just cap your chaos resistance out for like one Jewel socket. You know that's pretty gnarly dude. Two points to go from us 60. Uh and like on some builds you're going to like positive 90 right like it's almost too much depending on the places you put.

these, uh, these jewels are really, really nice. You know, Scions get to take advantage of a lot of like, uh, might of the meek little setups and whatever. There's a lot of really, really good uses for this jewel. So, I imagine, you know, it's another little jackpot you can hit from ritual. And then, of course, we have like the updated bases, uh, and then some bases that people may still want anyways. Um, the arch demon Crown gives plus two to socketed gems, a minus two to supports. Some people are probably going to want this, but not really on their league starters. It feels like something that would be like more towards later in the game, uh, when you're able to influence these, maybe do some of that Recombinating and all of that, you know, there. It's, it's hard to justify that, uh, too early on, but you know, who knows, there's probably like one build that'll use it. Uh, these boots, you get 10 reduced move speed and 45 to 50 increased cool down recovery rate of movement skills.

know there's some movement skill builds out there. You're probably really going to want this. And I didn't write this down, but the thing is with these bases, you can only find them in area level 83 or higher. So it really does mean that nobody is fighting these, right? Like nobody's is going to find these in white and yellow, even early red Maps. It's really just like t16 farmers are where all of these new bases are going to be found. So that's really cool, right? It kind of locks it out and lets you actually get something from the ritual instead of having the tens of thousands of people, you know, getting all of the random bases that anybody could want early on. And then we have the pent mask. I don't know who's going to use this, but it has plus4 Max chaos res, but you're crushed, which means minus 15 physical damage reduction for 4 chaos res, you know, like jeez dude, giving up 15, you know, like I think I think like right like

sure Divine flesh whatever, but um, man, to give up like 15% PDR, and then you're having to give up like your Elder implicits too, which are going to be probably like Fizz shift if that's still on the helmet, and they didn't like substitute that to only being on the body armor. Like it's not just the PDR, like you're also giving up the Fizz shift. Uh, you're giving up like maybe some recoup or whatever else you could get there. I'm just thinking of like bone shatter memes, right? You'd have Fizz recoup. Like it feels like a lot to give up for some chaos res. Like I'm good, dude. I'll just get more max ele res and do something else somewhere else. But that's ritual. It's got a little bit of a boost. I know there's a lot of people that really like doing rituals, so it's cool they got a little bit more to look for, especially the corpses, especially with the new uniques and the boss encounter. Number

four the way quantity and Rarity of items drop from extra content has been changed is pretty interesting. Uh, so they specifically mention Essences and delirium as one of those encounters where if it's more difficult or takes longer, then it should drop more loot, right? The philosophy here is if you're killing monsters, you get loot. If they're more difficult, you should get more and better. So, I kind of divided some of these League mechanics into difficulty, which they've now coined as some, I guess, hidden stat called toughness. Uh, so here are like difficulty, toughness, time spent that influences how much you get from League mechanics. So, tough League mechanics, uh, you know, you can disagree with me, totally fine, give me more engagement. But Essences, beasts, they can be kind of tough early on depending on mods and, you know, how like juicy of map you're doing. Expeditions with high number of remnants, right? If you're doing the, uh, Oppenheimer Keystone, just the one big boom and popping them all out, especially if you're using scarabs that

add extra remnant like man uh they do get pretty rough man ghosts right doing ghosted things really this kind of like go with the ghosted Exiles. I know people would do that for like chaos recipes or unique farming. It seems like stuff like that uh is going to drop more and better loot under this new paradigm of toughness uh although who knows how this will actually be balanced in reality uh things that'll just take time uh. I've put down like Legion right. Legion can be a little bit rough but you know you kind of like the the rough of it is just like popping everything out right. Once you have it popped out if you can pop it out easy you can probably kill everything pretty easy right um. Blight takes some time. Ritual takes some time. Harbinger delirium Elva Bree Heist ultimatum ultimatum could be a little bit rough but um you know it's more so just like don't click the dumb stuff and uh it's rough when you have to well when you have that.

node that you don't get to choose all the negative modifiers anymore right that's when ultimatum gets really rough so I should put this here ultimatum with the nodes I forget even what the node is uh but now we have a kind of tough and takes time and I feel like this is where like some of the big Winners should be given what they've told us so that's stuff like Beyond Harvest Wildwood wisps delirium uh this is like high and deep Deli right so you do faster Deli uh on your tree there's faster Deli scarabs it makes the delirium ramp up so much harder uh you can actually depending on what Maps you do and how deep you get into delirium you do maps that are more difficult than 100% Deli which is kind of crazy but only really at that like last little end there on stuff like tropical island you've got stuff like Abyss blight uh with the boss only lanes that seems like

it's going to be kind of rough, right? I'm not going to lie. Seems like there's going to be a lot of toughness in blight boss-only lanes. Then you have, like I just said, the ultimatum with the node. I think it's the Keystone. It gives like three extra and then it stops you from actually being able to choose all the downsides. So you can get really effed on that stuff. Number five, we've got like simulacrums and this is pretty interesting too cuz with simulacrums, I feel like it might bring back delirium mirror farming. We got like an example little tree here, right, but deli mirrors, they might be back because Sims are only 15 waves now and those 15 waves are going to be so much more lucrative, right? They're faster to run, you get a fast pass through all the trash that you had before, and you're just starting with the 15 good ones, and they buffed them.

even more than that to have a higher chance to give their specific delirium uniques. So stuff like voices and those cluster Jewels, right? Uh, that's really, really cool and it might see the comeback of delirium be farming if a lot of people are much more interested in just blasting Sims, especially if they can set up like a nice little AFK build, some retaliation, something or another. Uh, you know, who knows what that new AFK Sim build is going to be, but it could make a lot of people want to Farm Sims, which means we could go back to actually doing tropical island farming, full simulacrums every single map, and making decent currency instead of whatever it was now, which is like 26 chaos per simulacrum. This would also make closer farming a t17 vers, uh, and then you have deli mirrors for full Sims, right? Uh, so you'd have like actually two different ways to farm in Delirium instead of delirium only being to farm clusters.

with high item levels and all of that could be some neat stuff there. We also have some random content editions here that I noted. Uh, Dark Sear linking div card drops between maps and giving you that unique table. Uh, this is really, really cool just because this is exactly what I wanted when I saw the Divination Scarab curation. Unfortunately, that was priced way out of everybody's budget, just about. But now with the Dark Sear, we get to link two maps and so you can have your give cards swap between them. So we get to choose like some pretty nice layout maps and still have some good diff cards to boot. Like that's really cool. And then anytime past that, you could just like get the free unique table if you find them. Of course, you can like regret, right? They're not permanent. You just like regret the maps and the links if you'd like. We also have Wildwood Wisps could be fun for extra juice in your map. Uh, my only problem is I really hope that it's not so good that

people will start fishing for this and um you know kind of just like ruin the fun of farming where it's like open the map check for the but I don't I I I from the way it seems like this works it didn't have like a little Quest thing and you had to more stumble upon it in your map and that's how it seems for all of these except Sentinels Sentinel is at like the start of the map but I don't see that being like that crazy right this seems like it's just like something you'll find in the map so fishing for it really shouldn't be a big issue God I hope so that's cool all right reflecting Mists gives you a random reflected Jew je or you get a mirrored tablet to sell to someone else so they can reflect their own jewelry this is really cute and how these how this works is you're just killing random monsters and it'll pop up and you click it uh so keep your eyes open I don't know if this shows up

on the mini-map. That, well, um, you know, I would really hope so 'cause it's kind of just like you're killing packs of monsters and then like a little white circle, you know, pops up. It's like, jeez, you know, if I miss a tablet and it's worth a few D 'cause of all the crazy jewelry memes, you know, that really sucks, man. I just hope this pops up. But this is really cute. I love these little random additions to your Maps. Right now, we've got Sentinels back too. Uh, we don't get any Rec combinators from them, but you just click them and you get better looted your map, right? It's at the start of the map. Click the thing and then you get a button that you press or you can just click it if you don't have it assigned. Um, and the tldr is just, you know, the red one you just use right away. The blue one you want to get a big pack and the yellow one you use on the boss.

if you got big balls, uh, 'cause the red one stays out and shoots stuff. The blue one is a one-shot and then the yellow only works on bosses. Uh, if they even have the yellow one, some of this might change, but I really doubt it. Like it should just be consistent with what it was before, but he when in doubt just read, you know, beastiary farming. Uh, they added more gain to the base beasts, which is kind of cool. So you know Beast AA farming's going to be very nice for all the Beast Farmers doing that and whatever map you're doing. Uh, now Mor gain is base and it's not just like a Scarab that you farm. They also were really vague about this. They said added some Beast to the core game from the Beast memory. Uh, honest to God, it's probably just the stinky stuff, right? Uh, we're getting things like get a shaper Guardian gain a free use of map rafts, uh, and getting a unique synthesis map. You know, they probably aren't adding all of the cool ones to the base Beast.

cuz otherwise who's going to farm the Beast are memories um memories are probably better for super juicy beasts price more towards groups though that's the unfortunate part right is the the Beast memories that give all the juicy stuff uh I think it's something like 20% chance for party members to get a copy so they're really really heavily incentivized towards running these in a group or you join like Global A2 Mone and you get a part of a rotation where everybody brings one memory and then you get to run all six of them uh it just sounds really annoying to have to run it like that I wish they would have changed this but you know man if there's like only a few mechanics in the game where it incentivizes you to run with other players like sure dude like what are we all going to just like be playing alone you know with nobody else whatever dude okay last one here video's getting a little bit long my apologies mapping Supply we already talked about this a little

bit but it's good to highlight again mapping supplies are dropped according to map drop chance so anytime you're farming t7s right which is just really it's farming Maps uh it'll be a great way to get the new chisels and some scarabs. This is probably the new Scarab Farm just because that's how a lot of this stuff is you know worded in the patch notes. Uh so you farm with mechanics that'll tend to drop Maps so we'll see what those are. I assume it'll be the ones that are tough and take time so it's all going to be such a balancing act depending on how much they've changed the numbers and you know how new things. I really hope it's kind of like a little bit of a shakeup. That would be that would be so fun uh it could be really interesting though right new ways to farm scarabs and not just kind of like the same old things where it's like oh yes uh number of rare monsters going up equals better right who knows man

maybe some high delirium is going to drop many more scarabs randomly in your mirrors and whatnot. We'll have to, uh, have to just wait and see. It seems real cool though, and you, you'll get the new chisels, right? These are it's all stuff that people are going to want, so it's really cute. It'll be interesting to see what the balance between like map farming and like doing the extra League mechanics are, right? Uh, the but the way it's worded is like you would be incentivized towards just spamming the cartography stuff, right? As many Maps as you can, and then you just do some generic mechanics. Who knows though, keep posted, check out Max roll for some currency, guys, check out all the random YouTuber, right? I'm s, I'm sure fb's going to do some stuff, you know, like all the boy Sushi, probably going to be blasting some stuff, keep an eye on all your currency boys, milky too, milky always does a great

job doing all the tests and whatnot. Gets a great Google sheet together for a bunch of different Farms, you know shout out to my boy milky. Unfortunately it's 20 something minutes at the end of the video. Anyways, I'll see you guys the next video. Keep it posted for all the builds. I hope you guys have fun at leag start. All right, bye.

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Overview of New Farming Strategies in Path of Exile

The latest patch in Path of Exile has introduced several new farming strategies, particularly focused on blight maps.

The addition of the Scarab of the Blight Heart allows for more efficient farming by turning blight into a single lane with exclusive rewards.

The new atlas notable, Blight Spawn, further enhances blight map farming by providing additional reward chests and guarding a lane with only blight bosses, offering players a challenging but rewarding farming opportunity.

Another notable, Templar Ingenuity, offers a different approach to blight map farming by allowing the salvaging of blight towers for improved rewards, with the potential for mixing and matching these strategies for optimal results.

Strategies for Farming Blight Maps in Path of Exile

Salvaging towers at the end of blight encounters may provide random loot and potentially blight maps, offering a way to pivot without fully respecting the atlas tree.

Fungal Horizons can increase the chance of containing blight maps in chests and, combined with map farming, offers a lucrative strategy.

The double anointed amulet dropping in blight ravages is likely to drive up the price of blight ravage maps for crafting projects, despite the inability to sell blight maps in the auction house.

The ultimatum has been buffed to allow monsters to drop loot, impacting the overall strategy for farming in the game.

The latest game update has significantly devalued scarabs, making them more accessible to players.

The introduction of the ritual feature brings back old corpses from the Affliction League, offering new opportunities for minion builds.

Additionally, the update includes new uniques and introduces a new boss encounter, the King of the Mist, which is only accessible through the ritual.

The Impact of New Ritual Items and Changes in Path of Exile

The new ritual items offer diverse benefits, with the Archdemon Crown likely more suitable for later game use.

The boots with reduced move speed and increased cooldown recovery are likely to be highly sought after for movement skill builds.

The introduction of new bases in area level 83 or higher is designed to limit access and create a sense of exclusivity for t16 farmers.

The update has brought changes to the quantity and rarity of item drops from various in-game encounters, with a focus on tougher mechanics yielding better loot.

The philosophy now emphasizes that more difficult challenges should result in increased and higher quality rewards, impacting engagement with league mechanics.

The Impact of Tougher Challenges in Path of Exile's Gameplay

The new paradigm of toughness in Path of Exile is leading to rougher experiences with activities like Legion, Blight, and Ultimatum.

The game's high and deep delirium content is becoming more challenging, especially in difficult maps and boss-only lanes.

The changes in simulacrums, with only 15 waves now, are making delirium mirror farming more lucrative and faster.

Potential Impacts of Delirium Uniques and Other Additions in the Game

The introduction of new delirium uniques and cluster jewels may lead to a resurgence in delirium farming, especially with the possibility of AFK farming builds.

The addition of Darkseer for linking div card drops between maps and Wildwood Wisps for extra juice may bring about a new way of farming and map exploration.

The random appearance of Reflecting Mists, offering a random reflected jewel or a mirrored tablet, provides a cute and intriguing element to the monster-killing process.

The update introduces new features like Sentinels and additional gain to the base beasts for Beastiary farming.

The changes in Beast memories now heavily incentivize running them in a group, shifting towards more multiplayer gameplay.

The update also brings vague additions to the core game from the Beast memory, impacting the farming dynamics.

New Chisels and Scarab Farming in T7 Maps

Farming T7 maps will be a great way to obtain the new chisels and some scarabs, as the patch notes suggest a potential shift in farming methods.

The update may bring a new balance between map farming and league mechanics, incentivizing players to focus on cartography.

Various YouTubers, such as Max Roll and Sushi, are expected to provide valuable insights and tests on the new farming strategies.