Influence Farming Guide

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.

Mechanics

When Farming Eldritch Influence there are a number of key mechanics to watch out for to ensure you're achieving maximum rewards.

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:

• Global Rewards - Offers the chance to duplicate specific reward types as well as generic increases to increased item quantity and rarity. This altar type is by far the most dangerous and should be ignored by all but the most experienced players (global searing exarch mods are considered almost un-runnable by most builds). These mods are generally only selected when magic finding, farming harvest or expedition and only when using the Eater of Worlds influence.

• Minion Rewards - The most powerful reward option causing all eldritch minions to have a chance at dropping extra loot. Also the safest in terms of threat level but in some cases boss rewards may offer a superior currency or item reward so be sure not to pick this type blindly.

• Boss Rewards - Empowers the maps boss causing it to drop additional loot based on the influence of the altar. Boss rewards are always reasonably rewarding but in many cases not as profitable as minion altars, interestingly the boss option can not spawn while the map boss is either dead or not spawned within the map. This can be abused to "block" this option forcing the other two.

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:

• Chaos Orb
• Gemcutter's Prism
• Orb of Regret
• Vaal Orb
• Orb of Unmaking

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:

• Divine Orb
• Exalted Orb
• Regal Orb
• Veiled Chaos Orb

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.

How To Run It

The most efficient way to run Eldritch influence is to aim to complete as many altars as possible while also prioritizing maps with higher eldritch monster pack size for additional rewards. Targeting fast maps with high monster density will yield more eldritch altar rewards but also more invitations per play session boosting profits dramatically.

When running influenced maps refer to the currency strategy you are following for a full understanding of exactly how and when to manipulate the altars in your maps. For general purpose play clear all eldritch monsters within the map, prioritize selecting the highest value reward and avoid all global modifiers unless instructed to target them.

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

Atlas Passives

Atlas passives are a massive boost to Eldritch Influence and understanding which ones are worth taking is essential, refer to our review below.

Scaling Loot

Multipliers

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.

Scarabs

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%.

Selling Your Loot

Here are the drops you can expect to acquire with this strategy, follow our Bulk Selling guide to learn more about how to sell them or pick up some advanced sales tricks in our dedicated Eldritch Influence farming builds.

Ichors And Embers

While completing maps you will drop a large amount of eldritch embers (Exarch) or ichors (Eater) you must sell these. Doing so in higher quantities will increase profits and save time ,so try stack them up! Sell the following:

• Lesser Eldritch Ember
• Greater Eldritch Ember
• Grand Eldritch Ember
• Lesser Eldritch Ichor
• Greater Eldritch Ichor
• Grand Eldritch Ichor

Eldritch Currency

Very rarely while mapping you may drop an eldritch crafting currency which can be incredibly valuable. Sell these as you receive them. Sell the following:

• .Eldritch Chaos Orb
• Eldritch Exalted Orb
• Eldritch Orb of Annulment

Eldritch Invitations

After completing a number of influenced maps sell your eldritch invitations individually, offload them in bulk or run them yourself. Invitations are a great source of income and focusing on generating as many as possible to sell should be a priority. Sell the following:

• Incandescent Invitation
• Polaric Invitation
• Screaming Invitation
• Writhing Invitation

Generic Loot

While farming Influence you will accumulate a lot of mixed loot from your random altar rewards 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
• Scarabs
• Divination Cards

Do not neglect selling other miscellaneous drops not listed here they will lead to greater profits!

Filtering

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:

• Orb of Chance
• Orb of Alteration
• Orb of Alchemy

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.

Credits

Written by Grimro, Fubgun
Reviewed by Facefoot