[PoE] Blight with the new scarabs - Atlas strategies - Based or cringe? - Stream Highlights

[@Empyriangaming]

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[@Empyriangaming]

Blight has been pretty chill, I also found ~50 abyssal jewels I haven't priced, and the usual corpses / allflames that are current leaguemechanic so not included. Dropping the expensive scarab is also an option, you'll just get more blighted maps instead of ravaged. Next up is Ultimatum! Thanks for watching!

[@doctor_py42]

NeverSink Filter's has a filter for anointed jewelry which contains golden/silver oil, you probably could use that later instead

[@gamingmatt_le_creeper7497]

@@doctor_py42 did you watch the video at all?

[@SkidxX]

I've been doing this strat all league on shore maps for the open map layout, boss rush-> clear map for altars(dupe chance for pump explosion)->do blight. I walk out of each map with 2-3d in random garbage not including the extractables, my current record for a single map is about 20 pieces of extractable jewelry with 8 of them being ones with gold/silver extracts

[@victorelgato1950]

can you do blighted maps next? this got so bad this league and maybe ggg listens to you...

[@Cat_vs_Jad]

For anyone looking to get into blight, you should avoid any map that has "aviod ailments" or "cannot be stunned" Prioritise Chilling and Stunning towers, leave both at tier 3. Put them on Choke points. Get the ring annoint for your Chilling Towers freeze enemies for 0.2 seconds. Then just place damage down once the choke points are covered. And there you go, thats how you do blighted maps without giga damage build.

[@brandohall5116]

you forgot the action speed can't be reduced below 0 mod as well

[@namchu3448]

I use shock tower and minion and there we go my game shutdown

[@LuckyLogics01]

Even easier strat bro.... take the Blight node that make ur towers OP - only build Frostbolt / Purple bats / Arc tower , depending on immunity in lane (If purple immune, dont make bats etc) Thats it.. no care map mods / no care annoints

[@Empyriangaming]

I wanted to mention this and forgot rip

[@fishtacos007]

Meteor tower leaves burning ground bypasses monster resistance. Super op

[@stephenjohnson5353]

I don't always build towers, but when I do, they are always a Chilling Tower MK III and a Seismic Tower MK III next to each other (and never take them to level IV (4)).

[@Empyriangaming]

Yep! Same

[@epyjacek]

Chilling 3 with temporal and an enhance 3 can basically lock down a lane, including bosses. This is only relevant if your build isn't good at clearing.

[@PlayerSalt]

As Sister Cassia feels my body grow warm in her embrace I her her call "You're making me nervous" as she writhes in the throes of passion. I temper my flame ensuring she reaches her peak first before dropping my oils in her crimson prison

[@halllo3690]

Sanest blight farmer

[@proxboi648]

😂😂😂

[@JeffroZethro]

I hate this

[@matejbosela9093]

"And the unrighteous will turn... to ASS!"

[@itz_mitch2896]

spending a few hours to never have to worry about oils for the rest of the league alone seems pretty good for ssf/multi character enjoyers, while selling/using all the extra stuff along the way

[@kevinknoll4504]

Blight is underrated af imo. Especially at league start it's insanely helpful and also quite profitable. And pretty much everybody can do blight, since towers carry hard. Started with blight this league and even now it's still pretty competitive, since div/h is pretty low this league.

[@TheAluvisify]

Yeah, that's something that I learned last league with the Blight challenge. I never sold my oils cause it just felt good knowing that I never had to worry about buying them again (also ended up using them for other characters).

[@isoldmymumforrp5371]

@@kevinknoll4504 A league where mageblood is worth nothing because people farm 5 a map. Is a league where you say d/h is low. Interesting

[@lowfade556]

expedition is like that for me. i run it for a few days and then switch to a more efficent strat. that way i never have to worry about regrets, alchemys, chromatics and so on for the rest of the league

[@BlackSun717]

@@kevinknoll4504 I agree that anybody can do blight, but I would add that if your character has low dps (under ~3m) you should NOT pick the "Immune Response", as it will spawn so many bosses/mobs that you'll fail the blight.

[@TrollyMcGee]

The best thing about blight is that you don't need to invest into it. The big scarab feels like bait. I've been running this with Ritual so you can add 2 selectiveness scarabs. Blight is consistent currency, Ritual is your big money gamble mechanic. Been having tons of fun with it

[@lilynn7777]

What scarabs are u using?

[@TrollyMcGee]

@@lilynn7777 2 selectiveness 1blight chests open twice 1 blight oils are a tier higher (sorry I'm at work and I can't remember the blight scarab names but it's the middle two lol)

[@jordanharrison8769]

Ritual has NEVER been good for me. Ever. It’s a massive waste of time if you aren’t above average lucky. Think I’ve sold an item for around a Divine out of ritual once, and found a raw divine once. Everything is isn’t even better than typical ground loot

[@TrollyMcGee]

@@jordanharrison8769 yea Ritual is only good if you enjoy it and if you use awakened poe trade.. luckily I fill both of those requirements

[@alewis514]

@@jordanharrison8769 ive made a lot of money on Ritual by selling fractured / synthesised items. The big one is Ritual scarab of Abundance which doubles the emount of shit being offered, basically doubling your chances at snagging something expensive. With 2 scarabs of selectiveness you have 5 rerolls in total (4 of them are free, fifth is paid). So that's 6 windows of stuff to choose from. With abundance you have 12. Or even 18 if you use two - I think two is overkill. Use oils tier instead. 12x more crap to pick from per map is huge and WILL pave the way into wealth by sheer large numbers. This is a mechanic that needs to be invested into, unlike Blight which is good even on its own.

[@ytloginn]

One thing you can do with blight is to create a trade site search with a list of the anoints you want to use oil extractors on. Then throw all your anointed jewelry into a dump tab, make it public, run your search against your own account name. Then use that to separate out the good ones to extract.

[@Marbleshade]

Blight is such a great thing to focus on at the beginning of the league if you are an average player. Blighted/Ravaged maps don't use your Atlas, so they are good even if you don't have much Atlas completion. The Atlas nodes can be gotten relatively quickly and once they are done you don't have to worry about any other mechanic until you want to. If your build or gear is trash (or you're just a tank), the towers will carry you no matter what (especially the node that increases tower damage while decreasing player damage). Blight will supply you with the oils you need for your anoints, oils for profit, bubblegum currency, the occasional divine or good fractured item, maps, essences, etc. It's a good source for a lot of things and is profitable even if you have potato skill level. Only real downsides I've run into are mobs getting stuck in Blight/Ravaged maps making your chase them down after pump is destroyed, it can be slow, it can be buggy, and especially this season it runs so poorly that you will be Slideshow Bob next to the pump for most of the mechanic unless you have a great computer. Highly recommend spell mastery that opens chests 25% of the time when you cast for less clicking. EDIT: I think like someone said in chat in the video, just doing the Blights in your maps is probably more profitable. Speed run them on a narrow map like Toxic Sewer to (hopefully) force a single lane, which will always reward you with oil chests. This plus extractors is good money.

[@pigeon7777]

Man, how come if I copy these strategies I don't even make a quarter of the currency :( Also just a warning for those wanting to try blight, selling oils is pain as you often have to sell it one at a time, and maps take a verryyyy long time to sell, sometimes they just don't sell at all. I still have 8+ T16 maps that I haven't got a single whisper for from a week ago. You can try TFT/wealthy exile but I wasn't getting many bites. One thing I would include in these reviews is how liquid the stuff is, because for a lot of people that don't play enough to get large bulk some stuff is very hard to sell

[@uhqliss8537]

List on tft for 90% value youll get plenty of offers

[@IMA93-21]

Horizon roll the shitty maps into better maps

[@hermezkonrad]

It's always been this way with blight, only people who buy oils in bulk are uber-blight farmers. And even then, only oils that actually sell are teal (reduced time in blight), crimson (cheapo lucky chests) and top-3. You can sell at adequate price in bulk if you convert your oils accordingly, and then sell the rest in singles.

[@kevinknoll4504]

@@hermezkonrad You can also just upgrade all oils to at least silver. Selling gold and silver seems to be most effective for basic trade site.

[@hermezkonrad]

@@kevinknoll4504 i had fair share of success in small bulk sale in regular trade for opals and silvers. Only oil that's mostly sells in singles is golden, effectively 2div is +curse annoint and that's biggest bulk there.

[@DarkParadeHF]

You can hold Alt while on the passive tree and it will show what oils it takes to unlock that passive. Its an option if you dont want to look outside of the game for amulet extractions

[@Nevispalsa]

From my blight experience, almost half of real profit which one can spend, is from Extracting gamba. With altas tree you guaranteed 2 oiled jewelry, but on average it's 3-4 per map. I would say every 5th is worth risk, so one could say that every 5 maps you get two additional silver/gold oils.

[@giapreys]

If you dont want to bother with towers but make sure you don't fail; get the chill towers freeze annoint on one of your rings and just throw down a lvl 1 chill tower on each lane. I've done this strat early league with a summoner build combined with Alva temple building and its insane money with just the polished and gilded scarabs.

[@icetusks]

Dialed, great video, I love this series of all the league mechanics. Empy drops new/old meta strats in very simple terms that remind you of tricks/tips to currency making(choices why/how etc). Played most leagues since Syndicate and amazed little things I've forgotten over the yrs lol

[@Josh-lk7vi]

Not sure if you read comments, but want you to know I appreciate your opinion on which farming strat is best this patch. I’ve tried a few and can’t land on one yet, but it’s nice to see someone try literally all of them.

[@Empyriangaming]

Cheers!

[@siorata4365]

THE PORTAL SCROLL BIND IS INCREDIBLE I LOVE YOU

[@manoftherainshorts9075]

Should've run all blight-ravaged maps and see if a profit is there.

[@lepsek]

In my experience, they are always slightly profitable, but rarely make big money unless you hit a Stranglegrasp or some other big unique/card/whatever. Kinda like most casual farming strats atm.

[@RavagedBlightScience]

topend of blight-ravaged in 3.24 is around 15div/h + stranglegasp drop 1in200 on avg. That's very consistent and deterministic content. Unfortunately it's depressing seeing 70 or 90div/h atlas strategies, 3.24 is a mess and sad league.

[@UberJesus]

If you hide items (z by default I think), you can click the actual items that are on the ground to pick them up, instead of having to click the box that show up. This is nice for blight because everything drops in one tiny pile per cyst.

[@SpecShadow]

Blight is one of those "comfy food" mechanics that I pick no matter how profitable. And make my characters to be good at it without relying on towers. also what happened with div cysts? Those only drops stacked decks and no cards...

[@Legionthecomrade]

Blight has always been my favorite league mechanic. It never fails. It's extremely useful. Even if everyone pumps it during league start - you can just sit and wait and things will go up if you need currency. Ran blight for I don't know how many leagues now and I just enjoy it every time. It's very reliable currency and tends to just be very rewarding. Really wish they would address the fact that an autoclicker is mandatory unless you want to damage your hand though. Opening the chests with spells was a nice addition they did.

[@Ce1ticFr0st]

I used to always league start blight to avoid trying to buy oils for the rest of the league. The actual blighted maps are really good to still get currency/exp on a support character; its a really easy way to get an aurabot to 90 or so on your own time with green oils. It solves the issue of playing support that is "what do I do when I'm the only one on?"

[@GreenAve]

9:37 - 9:45 gave me some serious „American dad“ grandpa flashbacks

[@jakobcoper6744]

What was the reasoning behind not using chayula scarab in based or cringe episode breach?

[@DnDandVideoGames]

What build is this? And how did he set it up so it just cast itself and didn't need to press a key to send the spell?

[@igorludak]

what is your opinion about running without scarab drops ? the Unwavering Vision node ? is it worth combining with blight and have more mechanics at the price of scarabs ?

[@fisherkeltath]

Most realistic currency strat videos at the moment, keep em coming :)

[@nicksmacro]

I love 6:26 - Blight be like that sometimes... :D

[@KronMastaMax420]

I got 11 blight ravaged maps from one blight, I was able to keep reopening them lol

[@samdillard1824]

if you're gonna do the Blight Ravaged maps as a non-spellcaster you can totally just get a bodyarmor with the necropolis haunted modifier "your warcries open chests" and use call to arms + warcry for non-spellcasters. this might come at the cost of having an armor swap though (one for the map and one for looting.)

[@iSnaaacky]

Does any know if blight scarab of oils stack?

[@chonolife1]

early in the league blight rav maps went 5 for 1 div on tft, that made the strat feel alot better than now for me atleast

[@andreaagresti5780]

Is there a way not to lag on blight maps ? I have even map going to 1 fps or crashing ( i have a 4080 super and a ryzen 7 7800x3D )

[@aderan5011]

I changed the rendering driver to Direct X12, and it stopped my crashing. I have a 4090.

[@HonFilmzz]

Change to dx 12 had the same problems on dx 11

[@edistotiger82]

Changing to DX12 fixed it for me as well.

[@xMrNight]

I love it how you barely stay serious while doing a commercial lol

[@aduvanas]

When a regular map drops from Blight chest, does it take into account what favorite maps you have on your atlas? Or it is a complete random fiesta of maps that you would never run?

[@evilpugg6866]

My main issue with blight farming is you have to make tons of small sell to add up to profit most of the time. Occasionally you will get a big drop but its 10,000 small sells. To get money. I like it early league when small currency holds a lot of value. But not now.

[@thapolarbearr]

Do blighted/ravaged maps respect favorited maps when they drop? if so would it not be worth favoriting them?

[@mazgill8780]

Im pretty sure they do, but not as much as regular maps I think. I had like half of blighted maps be toxic sewers at the end of my mini project.

[@Darkxellmc]

Why not both blight on the tree and blight on a scarab? Didn't ggg add the ability to have multiple cassias per map now?

[@Pusetryne]

Never though I was going to see Empy doing blight. It is always my starter.

[@donfawn97]

Finally he did the best mechanic in game.

[@Vagitarian01]

POE Tower Defense is cool if you don't want to zoom.

[@adry0927]

is beyond mobs spawns on blight packs?

[@alopez0129]

Yes they do.

[@chandlergordon8878]

blight may have replaced essences as the lowest-tier strategy (for the weakest builds) given the changes to essences. this makes sense to me because essences are a more dynamic market than oils and thus hold their value better. the problem with oils is that there are a finite amount of anoints any given player will ever need to make on their builds and no one is really anointing their blight ravaged maps with 9 golden oils. ....but maybe by the end of the league golden oils will hit 20c and it will be profit-viable to do so, at which point they'll jump in price and finally be worth selling :3

[@MG_Gamezz]

what is the link to your Price checking overlay?

[@trymusic4life]

Awakened poe trade

[@paktincsk]

How you ended it was fine. It actually made me remember to hit the like button just because it wasn't like a bot recording.

[@Crewit]

I think a lot of the profit from blight will come from running the blight (and ravaged) maps. Especially when you corrupt them for a chance to get tainted oil which holds a lot of value.

[@juts89]

Theres a tool you can use to just ctrl c and it will overlay oil types from the annoint

[@trymusic4life]

Do you remember the name? Thanks.

[@nicksweitzer3084]

What ring anoints he using?

[@Empyriangaming]

I didn’t use any. Meteor tower stun is pretty good. Just check the wiki the list is there

[@MrBlbll]

How to end videos? Button for slow fade to black filter while talking about something something cliffhanger.

[@Ryoganify]

Empy at the beach 5:30

[@HarmonyFlys]

love theses vids shows whats good for someone who idk what todo later in the game

[@ZgrayRG92]

add in heist its an extra free loot witth blight especially when u get the fully revealed blueprints!

[@6apa6axx]

I'm not sure avout current atlas, but previously you could get map dupe chance (pretty sure map drop chance would work as well) and get way more value trough even normal blighted maps. Especially with last season tained prices.

[@michaelkruse3536]

i was thinking he could drop the ravaged scarab for the 30% map dupe scarab, not sure if it’s better or not though

[@ash91_]

When she asks for more: @9:13

[@EnderElohim]

Good tactic on blight is build a empowerment tower that power player instead tower and mow down everything with it if you strong. Then just put chill and stun towers all over the place XD

[@ruhzku]

hey empy, im really curious, why do you walk on W?

[@peekays]

less strain on mouse hand, done by a lot of players

[@Empyriangaming]

Habit from all arpgs since diablo 3 beta. I can use both hands and share strain

[@alucarddp7868]

i am a blight farmer there 1 mistake on your calcs that i also made when starting out you exilence the bad oils your calc will be way off. you are not going to be selling anything under Crimson as a normal player unless you have a trading bot that can do all your trades 24/7 to be able to sell a 1/3C Teal Oil ect The best is to upgrade them to Crimson add it as a addon to your bulk blight maps (the normal blight maps not ravage so much) most of the blight farmers also filter out the bad oils as its allot of picking up and upgrading for no reason

[@Mytrixgaming]

How do you make exilence work? since necropolis started it won't let me link my account

[@behdiiboo]

It's a new Excilence. It's Called Excilence CE

[@yamenness8409]

It Is a community fork, exilence ce

[@Dabrixmgp]

My first map using this strat dropped a Hinekora’s Lock after I completed the encounter. My Divines per hour is looking pretty good so far lol.

[@Frank_Art]

I thought he was going to run the blighted maps as part of the experiment 😢

[@Dynesgorandom]

Experiment with what?

[@kevinknoll4504]

They kinda suck when compared to the strat empy did.

[@Tisok]

When is Betray & Go?

[@aderan5011]

I'm not sure what I did wrong, but when I ran 50 of these maps I didn't get a single ravaged blight map. Also, no one wants to buy blighted maps at all-- on TFT or on trade site, even offering at 85% of value. Maybe my filter was messed up, but I hardly got any jewelry that had gold/silver to extract. I paired Heist with this strat, and I think I made more from selling the contracts/blueprints than i did from the actual blight mechanic...

[@MrBahciao]

you cant use singular focus on blight man

[@aderan5011]

@@MrBahciao Didn't use singular focus.

[@Dorgrident]

This strat will be nerfed, since its op when ghosting blight lanes in t17 maps with 5 man group

[@Chromodar]

At this point you might as well call the series "Still Haven't Decided On A Name".

[@kbn_noob]

There is cast mastery which open chest when you use spell you can use it to open blight chest just by using skills no need to click one by one

[@IplayTeemoasaWard]

RIP wildwood ascendancy that did the same for shouts :(

[@andrewpenny9494]

I'd like to see what comes out of the blight ravaged maps. they can be good

[@IplayTeemoasaWard]

Empy you do such much testing for us, thanks a lot. I wanna give back and I only know how in one way, so have a banger on the house: Deadmau5 & Kaskade - I remember (Nautika Remix) Thats all I wanted to say, have a nice night.

[@oneraltn1803]

good one of blight but u take all beyond someting atlas node if u take all increase effect node+ 8 mode corrupted map (whit effect) i am definetly sure profit will be double

[@jackscott5647]

Shiverngm3 - This is you from the future future. Don't buy that watch in July on 2027. Trust me.

[@ramstab]

why are you so wide at 9:51

[@cristianayos516]

Emp, Could you try to make Blight maps in the same quantity to see if it makes a profit or not? Great videos as always

[@panda93247]

Like, comment and subscribe if you havent. And don't forget to ding that bell. That's how you end KZbin videos.

[@TheZizikia]

6:28 the average poe player experience.

[@JRBaldOPPA]

Can you create a series trying these strats on a tier 17 map? :)

[@namchu3448]

2.5 hour to run but 1hour to extract juice . Good thing that u can sleep while def blight still a win

[@Harryaars]

Problem that i have is that Blight just completely lags me out..

[@mob5257]

Thanks for doing these videos on low investment strats for us poor people just wanting to vibe in hideout ♥

[@Possible2319]

how does he use Exilence. Didnt they shit down servers?

[@Empyriangaming]

Excilence CE is a new fork

[@Possible2319]

@@Empyriangaming thanks for the reply!

[@SarusMindfury]

The bad part is that, most of it came from oil... and you dont really bulk-sell the oils .

[@Empyriangaming]

Most of the oil money is 23 golden and 19 silver oils, even if you sell them 1 by 1 it's not that many trades, and some people will buy bulk for annointing blighted maps.

[@poom323]

some blight tower effect is extremely lag, which drive me away from doing blight.

[@PyleTeevee]

IMO do not bother with the annointed amulets.. just focus on the good 50/50(100/100) rings

[@Highs009]

Not looking forward to the incursion strat, is the one i use and i hoping people dont see it as better than what it is.

[@GrimnirLaguz28]

Blight is always really quite nice in the early days of the league. Some leagues I run blighted maps for the first 3 days or so, as all the oils from there are stupid expensive and the hassle of selling them 1by1 is not that big of a deal if they are worth something.

[@NowDiabolical23]

really good video, i like the series!

[@Peronioz]

The only strat strictly limited by your PC's capacity to not blow up :v

[@balla2172]

Grab all oil you can upgrade it .

[@Viriusadles]

Now do 50 Blight Ravaged Maps :D

[@SGIMartin]

Blights biggest issue, is that its blight

[@Merguin]

Honestly, they nerfed the stacked decks from blighted into the ground. Now each little note gives only 1 maybe 2 stacked decks. Before this league you got like 3-6 per little note. This tactic only pays really off, if you run the blight ravaged afterwards in speed mode, but because of the div card nerf, the main income from these is gone :/

[@dominicjohnson7431]

Does anyone have experience target farming stranglegasp? Can it drop in maps or only bloghted maps?

[@VORTEKMusic]

i will never understand why people dont play waste pool instead of toxic sewers for blight since it can drop the doctor...

[@kevinknoll4504]

Better blight layout and thus better overall safe profit I think?

[@VORTEKMusic]

@@kevinknoll4504 waste pool has literally the same tiles and layout as far as i can tell

[@kevinknoll4504]

@@VORTEKMusic ah right it's the toxic sewers revamp. might actually be the play then 🤔

[@gelion1990]

I needed this, thank you.

[@jolintropitantos2511]

Cam wait for the Ultimatum video!!

[@astragalus5007]

my PC can't handle this strat

[@dragonslayer21218]

I mean, no one is going to buy the garbage scarabs or the chaff bulk. So realistically its like 8d an hour

[@DreamGamingS2]

Lower blight oils are useless to add to exilence. It waaaaaaay overprices them because nobody is buying them in bulk. You are going to have a really bad time if you try to trade them 1 at a time. Honestly trading anything below opalescent is a waste of time. So take out all of that and the profit is even worse.

[@kevinknoll4504]

Upgrade to at least silver

[@tylerpickens1096]

Do ultimatum next. Its insane.

[@korhanalparslan8730]

One thing, nobody buys bulk golden oils. It's only people buying 1 or 2 at a time anointing items.

[@kevinknoll4504]

some blight farmers might. just try listing them in bulk of 5 or smth

[@korhanalparslan8730]

@@kevinknoll4504 "bulk of 5".... my point exactly ;P

[@kevinknoll4504]

@@korhanalparslan8730 lmfao it was an example to keep those pesky anointers away.

[@Empyriangaming]

I mean worst case that’s 30 trades lol not like i got hundreds of gold oils

[@Dominik40301]

Imagine the pain in the ass to sell all those stuff just to extract that "profit".

[@Arthrexx]

Gold and silver oils usually sell almost instantly. Which is where the main profit comes from. T17 maps also sell instantly.

[@jonnymiskatonic]

I just started running maps and I have yet to find Cassia =D It's crazy.

[@kevinknoll4504]

Uhhh... with the correct atlas you should have 100% chance for blight

[@herudewantara502]

Im newbie with feeezing totem build... this is the map i wanted for... lol more tower

[@StefanCatalin101]

I got an apothecary in t12:)))