White Maps Bestiary
The White Maps Bestiary Farming Strategy is an ideal method to begin farming currency if your build is not capable of tackling the higher tiers of content, but remains fairly competitive even at the later stages of progression assuming you have enough speed to complete the Maps efficiently.
Set-Up
When setting up to run this strategy, it is recommended that you purchase enough materials to complete a sizable batch of maps. Failing to do this makes selling your drops far more difficult, as you frequently need to interrupt farming to trade for additional supplies.
Map Choice
White Maps Bestiary farming can be done on any white Maps. It's important to identify the best layout of map at each tier to capture Beasts as quickly as possible, but any low tier Maps can be used. We recommend:
- Tier 1: Ramparts Map
- Tier 2: Dunes Map
- Tier 3: Strand Map
- Tier 4: Cemetery Map, Dark Forest Map
If you have access to favorite slots, Shadow Shaping can be used to prevent undesirable Maps from dropping; increasing the chance for you to drop one of the Maps listed above. If allocated, favorite every map of tier 1-4 that you DON'T want to drop.
Map Device
- Harbinger - 3 Chaos Orbs; Area contains 3 additional Harbingers.
Fragments
Select a fragment setup based on your desired investment level.
| Early Progression | Shadow Shaping |
| Bestiary Scarab | Bestiary Scarab of the Herd |
| Bestiary Scarab of the Herd | |
| Bestiary Scarab of Duplicating | |
| Harbinger Scarab | |
| Harbinger Scarab of Regency |
Atlas Passive Tree
Gameplay
Rolling Maps
1. Alchemy Orbs - Use Orbs of Alchemy on every map. Re-roll Maps your character cannot run using Orb of Scouring and Orb of Alchemy.
Running Maps
Pre-Map - Take in a stack of Remnant of Corruption.
Step 1 - Activate Delirium Mirror.
Step 2 - Clear the map, capturing all Yellow Beasts and only valuable Red Beasts you encounter. If you are unsure which Red Beasts are valuable, don't worry about it, just capture all of them.
Step 3 - Kill any Essences you encounter and remember to use a Remnant of Corruption on monsters containing the following Essences.
- Screaming Essence of Envy
- Screaming Essence of Dread
- Screaming Essence of Scorn
- Screaming Essence of Misery
Step 4 - Kill all monsters summoned by Harbingers in the map.
Step 5 - Kill the Map Boss.
Step 6 - Collect Delirium rewards; reset.
Loot Breakdown
Here are the primary drops to sell with White Maps Bestiary strategy. If you're having trouble selling your loot, refer to our Currency Exchange Guide for tips on efficient selling.
Store your valuable Red Beasts with Bestiary Orbs to sell. Beasts to look out for include but are not limited to:
- Farric Wolf Alpha
- Farric Lynx Alpha
- Fenumal Plagued Arachnid
- Cracic Chimeral
Your remaining Yellow Beasts can also be stored and sold in Bulk. Crafters are always looking to buy entire inventories of them.
PRO TIP: Due to a change in 3.21 Crucible League it is now much easier to release Beasts from your Menagerie. Simply go to your Menagerie open your Bestiary ("H" hotkey by default) and click to release any unwanted Red Beasts.
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 will increase your profits. Upgrade all Essences to Shrieking and sell them using Bulk Selling methods.
The reward for killing Harbingers is Currency Shards. They can drop regular shards, exclusive shards for regular currencies, and also exclusive shards for exclusive currencies:
- Fracturing Shard
- Ancient Shard
- Annulment Shard
- Exalted Shard
- Mirror Shard (Good luck with this one)
After farming a set of Maps you can expect to have a large amount of completed orbs. Sell the following items using Bulk Selling methods:
- Exalted Orb
- Orb of Annulment
- Ancient Orb
- Fracturing Shard
FAQ
Most of the farming strategies in Path of Exile are the most optimal in red maps and not worth your time in white maps. In this strategy, Harbingers and Delirium don't scale at all with higher map tiers. Bestiary and Essences, even though they are better in higher tier maps, are still very profitable in white maps.
Delirium Orbs drop chance scales with the amount of killed monsters during Delirium encounter and doesn't scale with map tier.
Loot from Harbingers doesn't scale with map tiers or increased quantity of items dropped.
There is no benefit from farming Yellow Beasts in higher tier maps. There are some Red Beasts that appear only in higher tier maps, but Fenumal Plagued Arachnid and Cracic Chimeral still appear in white maps and are very profitable.
Essences in white maps can appear only up to Screaming Tier, whereas the Shrieking Tier has a chance to appear in yellow maps or above. This makes them less profitable in white maps, but you still have a chance to acquire corrupted Essences as a result of corruption of the purple Essences.
Buy Bestiary Orb from Einhar and use them to itemize your beasts. After that use Bulk Selling Methods to sell them quickly.
For this strategy, Orb of Alchemy only increases the amount of loot provided by the generic monsters and increases the monster count for the Delirium. Both of these benefits are barely noticeable, so if you struggle with map modifiers you can choose to run them white.
Credits
Written by: Zen_M
Reviewed by: Facefoot, IBoilerUp