This Blight farming guide covers the basics of farming Blight as well as how to maximize your rewards and profitability.

Adding Blight to your map will spawn a fungal growth that when approached can be targeted with a purification pump, doing so will start the encounter. Upon beginning a timer will start and you will be granted a set amount of resources which can be used to construct and upgrade defensive towers to aid you.

After the initial timer ends monsters will begin spawning from tendrils attached to the fungal growth. Monsters that reach the growth will deplete the life of the pump, if it reaches 0 you fail and receive substantially less rewards. Defend it for long enough and you will be rewarded based on how many tendrils were attached to the growth. Slaying monsters will grant additional resources for you to upgrade and build more towers, use them to make the defence easier.

The Exclusive rewards offered by Blight are consistently valuable throughout the league as such it is considered a solid money maker also most build can also easily farm it effectively in end game.

Reward Chests - Upon completing a blight encounter the tendrils attached the fungal growth will be transformed into loot chests! Each tendril may have multiple chests with the most effective blight strategies aiming to focus all the chests on one tendril. Higher tier maps contain more blighted chests per fungal growth, it is important to know that the amount of tendrils on the blight has no impact on how many reward chests it will spawn.

Signature Reward - When farming blight you will be guaranteed to spawn at least one blight reward chest on one of your tendrils, that reward chest is tied to it specifically meaning it will spawn all of its chests as blight reward chests! These chests drop valuable Blighted Maps and Oils that are used for Anointments.

Enemy Pathing - All enemies that spawn from tendrils must follow the exact path the tendril lays out on the ground, you can use this to your advantage to assist with defending the pump and constructing towers effectively.

Manipulating Tendrils - When a blight spawns in the map the amount of tendrils it spawns is determined by how large the area is around it. One of the tendrils is guaranteed to spawn all its rewards as blighted reward types it is most profitable to limit the amount of tendrils to concentrate the chests on the blight reward type.

Blight Bosses - Tendrils in higher tier maps have a chance to spawn one or multiple bosses on a tendril. These bosses can be incredibly dangerous but when defeated they will add an extra reward chest to that tendril making them a great boost to profitability.

Blight Towers - All resources you accumulate should be spent on minion towers to distract enemies and slow down their advance on the purification pump. Once you reach a decision point for upgrading your towers, turn them into Sentinel towers (Flying Robot Swarms) as they provide fantastic single target damage that can help deal with blight bosses.

Step 1 - Run the map normally until you encounter the Blight

Step 2 - Clear all monsters surrounding the area.

Step 3 - Begin the encounter and construct your minion towers

Step 4 - Upgrade and continue building until you win

Step 5 - Collect your loot and complete the rest of the map

Atlas passives are a massive boost to Blights and understanding which ones are worth taking is essential, refer to our review below.

Increased Item Quantity - Does not directly increase the quantity of loot from blight chests which are the main source of our loot from this strategy meaning it is not essential. Increased item quantity will increase the loot from monsters though which can provide some benefit.

Increased Item Rarity - Does not affect the rewards from blighted chests similar to quantity so should not be prioritised.

Increased Pack Size - Multiplies the amount of monsters that spawn from each tendril increasing the amount of generic loot you can expect from blight but will not increase the blighted reward chest rewards.

Blight Scarab - Adds a guaranteed blight to the map making blight farming consistent. At a minimum you should always use at least this scarab in blight strategies, unless you have 100% chance to spawn it from all Atlas Passive Skills.

Blight Scarab of Bounty - Makes every Blight chest have a 20% chance to be openable again. You can use up to 2 of these scarabs at the same time to increase this chance to 40%.

Blight Scarab of Oils - This scarab increases the tier of all oils dropped by 1, if you factor in the 3 to one recipe it's equivalent to dropping 3 times as many oils! Oils are a solid amount of your income so if you can affordably pick up this scarab to run it's likely worth it

Blight Scarab of Blooming - Adds 3 additional bosses to the Blight encounter and converts all tier 14+ Blighted maps into Ravaged Blighted maps. This improved version of Blighted Map normally rarely drops from Blighted Maps which makes them very expensive. This scarab skips this step allowing you to generate a large amount of Ravaged Blighted Maps from regular maps.

Additional Blight - The map device offers a "Kirac modifier" that adds a blight to the map for a modest chaos orb fee. This modifier should only be used when you do not have access to Blight Scarabs or 100% chance to spawn it from Atlas Passive Tree.

Enchantment - While running maps with the Spores on the Wind atlas passive allocated some of your maps will drop enchanted. These blight enchanted maps will be guaranteed a blight within, however they only increase profit if you are not already using Blight Scarabs best case scenario they will allow you to save a scarab for that map.

The tighter the map the better as fewer tendrils will spawn guaranteeing more blight reward chests. On incredibly tight maps it's possible to spawn only 1 tendril from your blight giving you an absurd amount of blight reward chests!

Low Tier Oils - Oils are such a common drop during Blights that it can be tedious to loot the lower tier ones from every chest you open. Low tier oils can be hidden at your discretion to avoid dealing with them every map you run. Oils that are completely safe to hide are:

Written by Zen_M
Reviewed by Facefoot