This Influence Farming Guide covers the basics of farming Eldritch Influence as well as how to maximize your rewards and profitability.

Eldritch Influence is a mechanic that can be freely added to any tier 14+ map after slaying either of the endgame pinnacle bosses The Searing Exarch or The Eater of Worlds. Completing this requirement unlocks the Influence associated with each boss allowing you to apply them to any map! Influence spawns special monsters that have a chance to create Eldritch Altars on death, these altars offer you the opportunity to gain immense rewards at the cost of a large difficulty increase.

Eldritch influence is a staple of end game farming and is incredibly profitable at all levels of investment. As it is free after you unlock it you should run it on every tier 14+ map.

Eldritch Monsters - While influenced your maps spawn a large amount of additional monsters, defeating them has a small chance to spawn an eldritch altar. Certain maps contain more eldritch monsters than others leading to additional altar spawns and more eldritch loot. Increasing the total monsters in the map with pack size also contributes to altar loot.

Eldritch Altars - Are the primary reason to run influence, when altars spawn they can grant one of three options which each come with a rewards as well as penalties:

Eldritch Invitations - While completing influenced maps you will accumulate progress toward an eldritch invitation based on which influence you are farming. Every 14 maps you will drop an invitation that can and should be sold or ran for additional profits.

Searing Exarch Influence - The Searing Exarch (red influence) spawns fire imbued monsters which specialise in chaos and fire damage, being resistant to these elements is essential for survival. Exarch's altars award low and medium grade currency items frequently along side divination cards that feature unique and corrupted items. Red altars are considered an incredible source of consistent income you can rely on especially at league start. Expect to drop the following from exarch altars:

Eater of Worlds Influence - The Eater of Worlds (blue influence) spawns cold imbued monsters which specialise in penetrating resistance and cold damage, ensure you have excess resistances when farming. Eater's altars award incredibly high value currency very rarely along side divination cards that feature currency items. Blue altars are considered to be better much later in the game and are most powerful when farming increased item quantity focused strategies. Expect to drop the following from Eater of Worlds altars:

Choosing An Influence - Selecting the influence you plan to run is an essential part of every currency strategy and will depend entirely on what mechanics you plan to farm. Searing Exarch is considered easier to farm as long as you avoid ever clicking global rewards and is also considered far more rewarding and consistent in the early portion of a league. The Eater of Worlds is considered to be a gamble that "could" pay off if you find a divine orb altar otherwise this influence type is used exclusively for quantity stacking atlas strategies.

Manipulating Altars - It is possible to manipulate altar modifiers to force it to spawn either minion or global modifiers exclusively. You can do this by running maps with bosses that are not present in the map when they load such as Arachnid Nest, Mausoleum and Jungle Valley or alternatively you can run straight to the boss and kill it before killing any other monsters. This tactic is especially powerful for stacking an absurd amount of increased item quantity altar modifiers.

Signature Rewards - There are many exclusive rewards associated with running eldritch influence but the most notable are eldritch embers and ichors, invitations as well as eldritch crafting currency. Selling each of these will be a massive part of your income in any strategy you decide to run.

Step 1 - Run the map normally until you spawn an eldritch altar

Step 2 - Select the most rewarding or strategic option

Step 3 - Repeat until map is complete

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Increased Item Quantity - Does not increase the exclusive rewards provided by eldritch influence or its altars but will increase your standard loot drops from all monsters.

Increased Item Rarity - Eldritch influence and altars do not interact with rarity in any notable way.

Increased Pack Size - Is a modifier you want to stack as much as possible for farming this mechanic. Higher pack size will increase the number of eldritch monsters that spawn and as a result altars increasing total rewards substantially.

Scarab of Monstrous Lineage - The effect is not strictly an eldritch exclusive scarab but increasing pack size is incredibly strong and this modifier improves magic monster pack size by 40%

Influencing Scarab of Hordes - This scarab directly effects the influence monsters spawned by Eldritch Altars, increasing the pack size by 40%.

Small Currencies - competing eldritch maps drops a massive amount of small currencies in lower stack sizes. when become wealthy consider hiding lower stack size drop to save time on looting! Some currencies to consider hiding are:

Eldritch Bases - are items that drop with influenced implicits on them. Selling them is incredibly challenging and often a waste of time. Most players hide every eldritch implicit item on their loot filters.

Written by Grimro, Fubgun
Reviewed by Facefoot