Heist Essence

The Heist Essence Farming Strategy utilizes the power of Domination Shrines and Niko's Sulphite Buffs to allow you to complete low investment maps at incredible speeds. This is a starter strategy that can be used as soon as you have acquired 2 Void Stones on a variety of different map layouts.

• Essence drops many valuable crafting materials for self use or sale
• Heist drops contracts and blueprints that if sold effectively can be worth a fortune

Requirements

• Heist and Essence do not require anything particularly other than a build with a reasonable level of defence, recovery and single target damage.

Set-Up

Map Choice & Favorites

• Fastest T14+ Map For You - There is no best map for this strategy as it will depend on which layouts your build can clear fastest. Choose the map you run the quickest as your primary map for this strategy. This is a starter strategy so while your map of choice may be the best, any tier 14+ map will be sufficient.

• Favorites - Allocate 1 of your favorites to a map adjacent to your ideal map that you plan to run or can sell. Use the rest of your favorite map slots on your ideal map e.g. (11 ideal map, 1 Adjacent Map).

Map Device

• Eldritch Influence: Searing Exarch

• Kirac: 6 Chaos Essence - Adds 4 additional essences to your map

OR

• Kirac: 5 Chaos Heist - Adds two smugglers caches to your map

Scarabs

Use the following fragments for this strategy. You can use up to 4 Essence Scarab and Essence Scarab of Ascent which significantly increases the quality of all Essences so using one in your setup is recommended.

Atlas Passive Tree

Passive Overview

Essence provides a constant flow of crafting materials for sale or use.

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 include The Dutiful Soldier so equipping Huck with useful Gear is recommended.

Delve passives improve the clear speed of your character while enabling the purchase of resonators with gained Azurite.

Gameplay

Rolling Maps

1. Chiseling (Optional) - Use Cartographer's Chisels on all of your maps until each one is 20% quality.

2. 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.

3. Vaal Orbs (Optional) - 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

Follow these steps to complete the maps efficiently.

Step 1 - Ensure your Tier 16 map of choice is correctly rolled, your chosen scarabs set-up is in the device and you chose Essence or Heist Kirac modifier.

Step 2 - Enter the map and clear it as fast as possible prioritising moving toward shrines and sulphite nodes to scale your clear speed further.

Step 3 - Use Remnants of Corruption on all purple coloured uncorrupted essences, complete the map until less than 50 monsters are remaining if possible.

Loot Breakdown

Here are the drops you should sell, do so by referring to our Bulk Selling Guide.

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 Alchemy
• Orb of Alteration
• Orb of Fusing
• Orb of Horizons
• Orb of Regret
• Orb of Scouring
• Orb of Unmaking
• Regal Orb
• Vaal Orb
• Stacked Deck

It is essential you sell the majority of your drops to make a good profit!

Eldritch Influence Loot

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

Essence

Essences are the hottest crafting commodity in the end game of path of exile and always in demand they can be sold to players purchasing a lot of essences in bulk for a higher price.

Heist

A large portion of your income will come from Heist. Sell rogue markers in bulk on the trade site when you have a sizeable amount:

• Rogue's Marker

Contracts usually sell very well in large bulk. Focus on the following contracts, later in leagues only deception will sell.

• Deception (Best)
• Counter-Thaumaturgy (Average)
• Perception (Average)
• Lockpicking (Average)

Sell blueprints in the same fashion as contracts.

Resonators

With your Azurite acquired from clicking on Sulphite nodes in your maps purchase resonators to sell in bulk using the trade website. Do this at the end of each farming session and sell the following focusing on which resonator is most expensive:

• Primitive Chaotic Resonator (Normally Best To Sell)
• Potent Chaotic Resonator (Sometimes Best To Sell)
• Powerful Chaotic Resonator (Rarely Best To Sell)

Credits

Written by Zen_M
Reviewed by Facefoot