Warning: This guide assumes you know how to farm Harbinger, Essence and Eldritch Altars read our linked guides to learn.
This guide needs a complete revamp due to the changes made in Path of Exile Necropolis League. It will be updated fully once thorough testing with the newly added scarabs has been completed!
The City Square Harbinger Strategy combines high profit quick to farm mechanics and Niko's Sulphite Buffs for blazingly fast maps with consistent drops. Harbinger drops almost entirely pure currency which is easy to sell fast and in bulk, it's also great for XP which is a nice bonus.
- Harbinger Content Drops valuable currency shards like Fracturing Shards, Exalted Shards, Ancient Shards and Annulment Shards.
- Essence Content Drops many valuable crafting materials for self use of sale
- Heist Content Drops contracts and blueprints that if sold effectively can be worth a fortune
Requirements
- Harbinger/Essence/Heist do not require anything specific from your build outside of reasonable defense, recovery and single target damage. High mobility and movement speed is a bonus.
| Voidstones: 2+ |
| Favourites: 6+ |
| Atlas Points: 125 |
Set-Up
PRO TIP: When setting up to run this strategy it is recommended you purchase enough materials to complete a sizeable set of maps. Failing to do so makes selling drops more difficult and you'll constantly be trading to purchase additional materials instead of mapping.
Map Choice & Favorites
- Tier 16 City Square Map - is the best Harbinger map, it is incredibly fast to clear and easily explorable so you wont miss any Essences, Heist Caches or Harbingers. City square has 3 bosses instead of 1 each of which drop a pile of currency shards thanks to the Harbinger compass.
- Favourites - Allocate 1 of your favourites to a map adjacent to City Square on the atlas you plan to run or can sell. Use the rest of your favourite map slots on City Square e.g. (11 City Square, 1 Adjacent Map).
Map Device
- Eldritch Influence: Searing Exarch
- Kirac: Harbinger - Adds 3 additional Harbinger's
Compasses
Apply all Mandatory compasses to your voidstones. Purchase compasses in bulk fast using the TFT community trade discord.
| Mandatory |
| Harbinger's Drop Additional Currency Shards |
| Map's Contain Additional Essence, 50% Remnant Spawn Chance |
| Map's Contain Additional Smuggler's Cache |
Fragments
Use the following fragments for this strategy. Harbinger, Heist and Essence do not scale exceptionally well with quantity so feel free to exclude the Sacrificial Fragments if desired. Be careful with high budget scarabs, sometimes they can be less profitable.
| Low Budget | High Budget |
| Polished Harbinger Scarab | Gilded Harbinger Scarab |
| Sacrifice at Dawn | Sacrifice at Dawn |
| Sacrifice at Dusk | Sacrifice at Dusk |
| Rusted Sulphite Scarab | Rusted Sulphite Scarab |
Atlas Passive Tree
Warning: Before you unlock at least 10 favorite slots to apply to 9 maps of your ideal layout and 1 adjacent map DO NOT allocate Singular Focus.
Passive Overview
If you do not have the exact amount of points required to complete the full atlas passive tree you can forego allocating some small passive points in Harbinger and Essence as they are not mandatory in order for the strategy to function.
Harbinger spawns many monsters that drop normal loot but also valuable Harbinger exclusive currency shards.
Eldritch Altars provide a constant flow of currency items.
Heist drops contracts, Rogue's Markers and blueprints that if sold effectively can be incredibly lucrative. This tree does not include The Dutiful Soldier but if you have an extra point and know how to use this notable it is recommended.
Essence provides a constant flow of crafting materials for sale or use.
Delve passives improve the clear speed of your character while enabling the purchase of resonators with gained Azurite.
7th Gate With this keystone active and all Atlas Passive Gateways allocated you can access any league mechanic Kirac modifier regardless of league restrictions.
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
Follow these steps to complete the maps efficiently.
Step 1 - Ensure your Tier 16 City Square map is correctly rolled, your chosen fragment set-up is in the device and your compasses are applied.
Step 2 - Enter the City Square map and immediately start clearing the perimeter of the map stopping to slay any Harbinger's or Essences you encounter.
Step 3 - Click any Delve Sulphite veins or chests as well as smuggler's caches you come across
Step 4 - Completely clear the perimeter of the map ensuring you loot on the way
Step 5 - Move to the center of the map and defeat the boss
Loot Breakdown
Here are the drops you should sell, do so by referring to our TFT Buying and Selling guide or Trade Site Bulk selling guide as directed below.
Essence
Generic Loot
Eldritch Influence Loot
Heist
Resonators
Harbinger
Credits
Written by Grimro
Reviewed by Facefoot