Heist Blueprints Farming Guide

In this guide you learn the basics of farming Heist Blueprints as well as how to maximize your rewards and profitability.

Blueprints are items that allow you to embark on a Grand Heist, one of Path of Exile's mechanics which lets you farm currency outside of maps. This means that the strategy does not require any Atlas Passive Tree points and the only supplies that you need are Blueprints and the Rogue's Markers.

When you enter the Blueprint your number 1 goal is to reach the end of each wing and choose 1 of the items presented to steal. After doing so you trigger an alarm and you have to escape with your precious loot. Assemble a crew of experienced Rogues that can help you with any locked doors or traps blocking your way to ensure a smooth heist.

Mechanics

When farming Heist Blueprints there are a number of key mechanics to watch out for to ensure you're achieving maximum rewards.

Rogue's Marker - Currency spent on various Heist activities like opening Contracts and Blueprints or revealing additional Wings and Rooms of the Blueprints. They are dropped by regular monsters and Smuggler's Caches in maps. Reward acquired at the end of contracts sells to Faustus at the Rogue Harbor for a large amount of Rogue's Markers.

Contract - Items required to open a basic version of Heist. They are dropped by regular monsters and Smuggler's Caches in maps. Their prime use is to generate Reveals and Rogue's Markers granted by the reward picked up at the end of the Contract. On your way you can find small chests containing random rewards and side Rooms locked behind the doors marked with a specific type of reward they contain. The reward type depends on the type of job required to run the contract. Here is a list of all possible type of rewards:

• Lockpicking - Jewelry, Currency, Fragments
• Counter-Thaumaturgy - Jewelry, Gems, Currency
• Brute Force - Weapon, Fossil, Unique,
• Perception - Generic, Jewelry, Divination
• Demolition - Generic, Delirium, Blight, Ultimatum
• Agility - Armor, Fossil, Essence, Currency, Harbinger
• Deception - Armor, Divination, Harbinger
• Engineering - Generic, Essence, Unique
• Trap Disarmament - Armor, Weapons, Breach, Talisman, Abyss, Legion

Blueprint - Items required to open an advanced version of heist called Grand Heist. As a baseline each Blueprint contains 1 revealed Wing with few revealed reward Rooms. You can use additional Reveals to unlock up to 4 total Wings and all of the contained Rooms.

Reveal - Obtained by completing Contracts. Reveals are used to unlock additional Wings and Rooms of the Blueprints. If you hire Gianna to assist you during a Contract you receive additional Reveals.

Wing - Each Blueprint contains between 3 and 4 Wings. Each one of them is a similar size as a single Contract. At the end of each Wing you get to choose 1 out of the 5 presented items to steal.

Alert - After opening a small chest or a special Reward Chest you generate an alert. When alert bar is fully filled you trigger a lockdown. After a few seconds, this prevents you from grabbing a reward at the end of Contract or a Wing of a Blueprint. In Grand Heist each Wing has a separate alert bar.

Rogue - When starting every contract you get to choose 1 Rogue to assist you with opening the doors for you, disarming the traps and unlocking the reward chests is the side rooms. Before you start a Grand Heist you have to plan it by choosing 3 Rogues to assist you in every Wing separately. Additionally each Rogue provides a special bonus listed below. The potency of the bonus increases with the Rogue's Job level.

• Karst - 20-40% less raising of alert level from opening reward chests
• Tibbs - Can unlock 1-2 Mechanical chest after lockdown per wing
• Isla - 30-50% increased time before lockdown
• Tullina - 10-26% chance to find additional heist targets from secret reward rooms and 6-14% less raising of alert level
• Niles - Can unlock 1-2 magical chest after lockdown per wing and discovers a Blueprint Reveal upon completion of a Heist Contract mission which has a 10% discount
• Nenet - Can scout nearby enemy patrols and elite patrols during Heists and 8-20% less raising of alert level
• Vinderi - Heists chests have a 6-14% chance to duplicate their contents and 14-30 more raising of alert level
• Gianna - Discovers a Blueprint Reveal upon completion of a Heist Contract mission which has a 10-40% discount
• Huck - Is a powerful combatant and provides strong buffs to allies. Players have 10-20% increased experience gain

Rogue Equipment - Each Rogue can equip a Brooch, a Cloak, a Gear and a Tool. These are craftable items that can help you during Heists by increasing Job speed of the Rogues, reducing Rogue's Markers cost to enter Contracts or Blueprints, reducing generated alert level and increasing the amount of loot found in the Reward Chests.

How To Run It

When farming Grand Heist you do not need to reveal additional wings and rooms of the blueprints using reveals acquired from finishing the Contracts. The additional time and Rogue's Marker investment is usually not worth it and each Blueprint comes with 1 already revealed wing.

Blueprint Rush

The key to maximizing the profit from this strategy is to run as many Blueprints per hour as possible to increase the chance of finding rare rewards at the end of the Wings.

Step 1 - If a Blueprint is rare or magic Scour it. Additional rarity does not affect the rewards and makes Blueprints unnecessarily harder.
Step 2 - Step into the planning room. Choose 3 Rogues with the highest level to assist you during the 1 revealed wing of the Blueprint.
Step 3 - Enter the Grand Heist by talking to Adiyah and offering her a Blueprint.
Step 4 - Run through the Blueprint ignoring small chests and side Reward Rooms, straight into the big reward room at the end.
Step 5 - Choose the most expensive reward.
Step 6 - Run back to the entrance during a Lockdown.
Step 7 - Leave the Grand Heist.

Fully Revealed

Here is an alternative way of running Grand Heists which has a lower chance of finding rare rewards and requires running Contracts for the reveals, but requires less Blueprints and offers more consistent profit.

Step 1 - If your Blueprints and Contracts are rare or magic Scour them. Additional rarity does not affect the rewards and makes Blueprints and Contracts unnecessarily harder.
Step 2 - Open a Contract that requires Deception, Counter-Thaumaturgy, or Perception as a job. Use Gianna to assist you to obtain some of her 40% cheaper reveals.
Step 3 - Talk to Whakano and offer him a Blueprint. Reveal all of the Wings using Gianna Reveals and some of the Divination, Currency, Ultimate and Fragment Rooms using Whakano Reveals.
Step 4 - Step into the planning room. Choose 3 Rogues prioritizing Vinderi, Karst, Nenet and Tullina to assist you during the revealed Wings of the Blueprint.
Step 5 - Enter the Grand Heist by talking to Adiyah and offering her a Blueprint.
Step 6 - Run through the Blueprint ignoring all small chests but opening all of the most rewarding Reward Chests until the alert bar is close to full.
Step 7 - Run to the big reward room at the end of the Wing.
Step 8 - Choose the most expensive reward.
Step 9 - Run back to the entrance during a Lockdown.
Step 10 - Repeat for all Wings of that Blueprint.
Step 11 - Leave Grand Heist.

Selling Your Loot

At the end of each Wing inside of the Blueprints you get to choose one of the presented rewards. Here is a list of all possible loot you can acquire, as well as some advice on how to sell it effectively and quickly. Follow our Bulk Selling guide to learn more.

Generic Loot

Sell all generic currency and loot you drop using bulk selling methods on the trade website. Some examples of items to sell are:

• Orb of Annulment
• Orb of Regret
• Orb of Scouring
• Orb of Unmaking
• Regal Orb
• Vaal Orb
• Stacked Deck
• Divine Orb
• Scarabs

Special Currency

There are 2 special types of currency dropped only as the end reward from the Blueprints. On average you should find 1 of them every 10 Wings.

• Tempering Orb
• Tailoring Orb

Trinkets

Trinkets are special pieces of equipment that increase the amount of loot you find inside of the Contracts and Blueprints. They always drop corrupted which means they can only be modified by a Tainted Currency. If you find one with rare modifiers you can sell it for a lot of currency. Here is a list of some of the most expensive modifiers:

• 1% chance in Heists for Chaos Orbs to drop as Divine Orbs instead
• 2-4% chance in Heists for Regal Orbs to drop as Divine Orbs instead
• Smuggler's Caches have 10% chance to Duplicate contained Rogue's Markers
• Heist Chests have a #% chance to Duplicate contained Basic Currency

Enchanted Items

When offered reward is a rare item it is always enchanted with a random enchant normally crafted with a Tempering Orb or a Tailoring Orb. These Items usually roll with better quality modifiers and a high amount of sockets and links. This means that even without a useful enchant they can be very expensive when 6-linked or rolled with good modifiers.

Replica Items

All of the unique items presented as the reward at the end of the Blueprint are a special type called Replicas. Most of them are very common and not worth picking up but some of the rare ones can be very expensive. Here is a list of some of the more desirable Replica unique items:

• Replica Badge of the Brotherhood
• Replica Headhunter
• Replica Alberon's Warpath
• Replica Farrul's Fur
• Replica Hyrri's Ire
• Replica Covenant
• Replica Shroud of the Lightless
• Replica Emberwake
• Replica Dreamfeather

Heist Bases

Blueprints offer special bases unobtainable anywhere else in the game. Some of them are extremely rare but also extremely expensive like Simplex Amulet. Here is a list of more desirable Bases:

• Simplex Amulet
• Focused Amulet
• Helical Ring
• Oscillating Sceptre
• Cogwork Ring
• Manifold Ring
• Alternating Sceptre
• Micro-Distillery Belt
• Battery Staff
• Pneumatic Dagger

Credits

Written by Zen_M.
Reviewed by Tenkiei.