Warning: This guide assumes you know how to farm Blight, Eldritch Altars and Heist.
The Blight Currency Strategy combines multiple low impact mechanics to quickly clear as many maps; and Blight encounters as possible.
- Blight Content drops Oils, Blighted Maps, anointed Jewelry and Oil Extractors.
- Heist Content drops Contracts and Rogue Markers.
- Beyond Content an alternative Beyond tree is provided, this requires a much stronger character. It synergizes well with Blight due to the huge number of monsters spawned via Immune Response.
Requirements
- Blight requires a build that is capable of completing challenging Blight encounters with multiple map mods. Anoint modifiers on your rings and build Freeze/Stun Towers to make the encounter easier.
- Cassia's Pride can be used to make up for build weaknesses whilst you are farming currency or new gear, or if you just want to go full tower defense.
| Voidstones: 4 |
| Favourites: 8+ |
| Atlas Points: 106 |
Set-Up
PRO TIP: When setting up to run this strategy it is recommended that you purchase enough materials to complete a sizeable set of maps, failing to do this makes selling your drops far more difficult and you'll constantly be trading to purchase additional materials.
Map Choice
- Tier 16 Toxic Sewer - This is a very linear map which will cause the Blight to condense the rewards into fewer chests. Due to Blight requiring at least one cluster of Blight Rewards, this results in much more Oils and Blighted Maps.
Map Device
- Eldritch Influence: Searing Exarch
- Heist - 5 Chaos Orbs; Map contains 2 additional Smugglers Caches.
NOTE: Do not use Heist as the Kirac modifier if you are using the Beyond tree.
Fragments
| Optimal Scarabs |
| Blight Scarab of Bounty |
| Blight Scarab of Bounty |
| Blight Scarab of Oils |
| Sulphite Scarab |
Note: Travel through Mad Devotion and spec into more Niko chance if you don't want to use a Sulphite Scarab.
Atlas Passive Tree
Blight passives improve the encounters rewards as well as making it less challenging. They also provide the ability to drop Oil Extractors.
- If you are having difficulty with the speed of the encounter you can unspec Immune Response.
Eldritch Altars provide a constant flow of currency items.
Heist grants a steady supply of Rogue Markers and Contracts are easily sold to other players. Add these passives last if you have the available points.
Delve nodes grant access to Packed with Energy which grants a large character power buff for the duration of your map.
Gameplay
Rolling Maps
1. Clean Your Maps - Ensure all of your maps are identified and then use an Orb of Scouring to make them all normal rarity, since achieving 20% quality on white maps requires significantly less Cartographer's Chisels.
2. Chiseling - Use Cartographer's Chisels on all of your maps until each one is 20% quality.
3. Alchemy Orbs - Use Orbs of Alchemy on every map you have at 20% quality. Re-roll maps your character cannot run using Orb of Scouring and Orb of Alchemy.
Running Maps
Step 1 - Clear the map normally until you encounter the Blight.
Step 2 - Use Stun Towers combined with Empowering Towers to permanently stun any monster that is not Stun Immune. Meteor Towers and the "Your Meteor Towers create Burning Ground for 3 seconds on Hit" enchant on one of your rings provides more than enough damage to assist you in completing the encounter.
Step 3 - Clear the remainder of the map making sure to open all Smuggler's Caches.
Step 4 - Kill the Map Boss; if at this point you have opened all Smuggler's Caches and completed all Blights, leave the map.
Loot Breakdown
Here are the drops to sell with this strategy, if you are struggling to sell league specific loot refer to the loot portion of our Legion and Delirium guides for information about selling.
Blight
Eldritch Altar
Generic Loot
Heist Content
Beyond
Optimizing
Oil Extractors
An additional method is to check the anointed Jewelry that drops and pick up any of the following enchants;
- All Towers in range of your Empowering Towers have 50% chance to deal Double Damage
- Your Shock Nova Towers have 30% increased area of effect per repeat
- Your Shock Nova Towers repeats 2 additional Times
- Your Smothering Towers also grant 10% reduced Damage
- Your Seismic Towers have 100% increased length and range of Cascades
- Your Fireball Towers fire an additional 8 Projectiles
- Your Fireball Towers Projectiles fire in a circle
Use Oil Extractors on all of the items attempting to extract Golden Oils
WARNING: This is a small optimization you can make to achieve more currency while farming with this method, DO NOT waste a huge amount of time checking every item thoroughly; instead think of this as something you can learn to quickly do at a glance after seeing them enough!
Credits
Written by Milkybk
Reviewed by Facefoot