Expedition
Last Updated:August 13, 2024|Changelog
Warning: This guide assumes you know how to farm Expedition, Essence, Heist and Eldritch Altars.
The Expedition Currency Strategy grants access to a lot of currency items, Logbooks and the ability to craft powerful items with Rog. It is very easy to get started as you can reach 100% for your map to contain an expedition encounter.
- Expedition Content drops Vendor Refresh Currency, Artifacts, Maps and Currency.
Requirements
- Expedition does not have intense character requirements. The remnants can cause mobs to be incredibly tanky, and in some cases immune to your damage so take care to analyze the remnants before committing your explosives.
| Voidstones: 4 |
| Favourites: N/A |
| Atlas Points: 125 |
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 Jungle Valley Map - is the best map for this strategy. It has a unique mechanic that prevents Eldritch Altars from providing options that effect the map boss.
Map Device
- Eldritch Influence: Searing Exarch
- Essence - 6x Chaos Orbs: Area contains 4x Essence monsters.
- Heist - 5x Chaos Orbs: Area contains 2x Smugglers Cache. (Alternate Tree Variant only)
Fragments
Fragments are not 100% necessary for this strategy during early progression, below are listed the recommended fragments if you have them available;
| Essence | Heist |
| Essence Scarab | Expedition Scarab of Runefinding |
| Essence Scarab | Expedition Scarab of Runefinding |
| Essence Scarab | Scarab of Monstrous Lineage |
| Essence Scarab of Ascent | Sacrifice at Dusk |
| Influencing Scarab of Hordes | Influencing Scarab of Hordes |
Atlas Passive Tree
Expedition passives increase the chance for Expedition encounters to appear. They also increase the chance for them to belong to the more valuable vendors, Dannig and Tujen.
- Extreme Archaeology greatly reduces how long the Expedition encounter takes. If your build does not have a lot of remnant modifiers that would make the encounter impossible, take this node.
Essence can be very challenging if your build lacks survivability or single target damage. Use the Heist tree if this is the case.
- Crystal Resonance Makes the map boss much more difficult by granted it an essence modifier for every essence defeated in the map. Only take this if your build is capable, if you're on Softcore you can experiment with difficulty of this node.
Eldritch Altars provide a constant flow of currency items.
During early progression whilst you have few Atlas Passives, you can cut the Essence and Heist from the tree and focus entirely on Expedition.
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.
4. Vaal Orbs - Use Vaal Orbs on all of your appropriately rolled maps. Some maps may transform or receive new modifiers, so weed out any maps with modifiers your build cannot run or that are no longer on a favourable layout for Legion. On average using Vaal Orbs on high tiers maps is always worth it.
Running Maps
Pre-Map - Take in a stack of Remnant of Corruption.
Step 1 - Clear the map until you encounter the Expedition.
Step 2 - Place your explosives targeting powerful remnants first, followed by Runic Monster Markers. If you are using Extreme Archaeology aim for the strongest remnants and highest density of Runic Monster markers.
Step 3 - Finish the map by defeating any left over Essences and the boss.
Loot Breakdown
Here are the drops you should sell with this strategy, if you are struggling to sell league specific loot refer to the loot portion of our Expedition and Essence guides for information about selling.
To yield the maximum number of rewards from Expedition it is important to understand how to use the Vendors. Learn about that in our Expedition Farming Guide.
Alternatively you can use Bulk Selling methods to sell your accumulated Vendor Refresh Currency;
- Astragali
- Scrap Metal
- Burial Medallion
- Exotic Coinage
Expedition and the Vendors also provides large amounts of;
- Expedition Logbooks
- Stacked Deck
Use Remnant of Corruption on the following Essences whilst in your map;
- Screaming Essence of Envy
- Screaming Essence of Dread
- Screaming Essence of Scorn
- Screaming Essence of Misery
When doing this they have an opportunity to be upgraded to Corrupted essences which increases your profits. Upgrade all Essences to Shrieking and sell them using Bulk Selling methods.
Sell the following eldritch crafting currencies. Selling these is easiest by listing them on the trade site in large quantities using bulk selling methods.
- Lesser Eldritch Ember
- Greater Eldritch Ember
- Grand Eldritch Ember
Sell rarer eldritch crafting orbs at the end of farming sessions even in individual stack sizes on the trade site.
- Eldritch Chaos Orb
- Eldritch Exalted Orb
- Eldritch Orb of Annulment
Sell eldritch invitations at the end of farming sessions using the trade site, use tabs listed with a bulk price if you have multiple.
- Incandescent Invitation
- Polaric Invitation
While farming Expedition you accumulate a lot of mixed loot from monsters and other mechanics present in your maps. Some things to pay attention to selling are:
- Orb of Annulment
- Orb of Alchemy
- Orb of Alteration
- Orb of Fusing
- Orb of Horizons
- Orb of Regret
- Orb of Scouring
- Orb of Unmaking
- Regal Orb
- Vaal Orb
Do not neglect selling other miscellaneous drops not listed here; they lead to greater profits!
The loot can be split into 5 key categories;
- Rogue's Marker
- Deception Contracts
- Blueprints
- Fully Revealed Blueprints from Casing the Joint
- Remaining Contracts
Fully revealed blueprints price primarily depends on how many wings they have an, price check against other revealed blueprints, with either 3 or 4 revealed wings.
Optimizing
Remnants
Target powerful remnants first and finish with as many Runic Monster markers as possible. The following remnants are the most lucrative;
- "Runic Monsters are duplicated" (Prefix)
- "50% increased Quantity of Expedition Logbooks dropped by Runic Monsters" (Suffix)
- "40% increased Quantity of Items dropped by Monsters" (Suffix)
- "Runic Monsters have 35% chance to drop an additional Stacked Deck" (Suffix)
- "50% increased Quantity of Artifacts dropped by Monsters" (Suffix)
Corrupted Essences
Take Remnant of Corruption into all the maps with you and use them on Essences that contain the following;
- Essence of Dread
- Essence of Envy
- Essence of Scorn
- Essence of Misery
Expedition Vendors
Visit our Expedition Farming Guide to learn how to use the Vendors!
Credits
Written by Milkybk_
Reviewed by Facefoot