As someone that has done hundreds and hundreds of each type to test the viability of this strategy and the profit per hour for each significant tier on average I can tell you that compared to other farming methods currently Blights are NOT the most currency per hour when min-maxing. It is however good for mid investment gambling that you literally can't lose but may hit big . (As long as you can complete the map obviously) T1-5 maps generate around 27c profit per map on average (recorded sample size 500) [~4c per min not including time to sell items] T9 maps (opalescent drops here) were around 51c on average (recorded sample size 250) [~7c per min not including time to sell items] T15 maps (golden & shaper/elder frags drop here) were around 83c profit (recorded sample size 375) [~12c per min not including time to sell items] The biggest issue is that if you are not running extremely large amounts of these you will not get the bulk required to easily sell consumables (fossils, scarabs, fragments etc). Quite a lot of trading is required as well and a vast majority of the things you get are low to mid value items. While many of these types of things can be ignored or used by the player (saving you from spending money on them) the actualized profit is much less substantial. Selling oils that are not Opalescent, Silver and Gold can be a pain in the butt as well even if you have bulk... unless someone else running blighted maps wants to buy your bulk black/crimson oils if you aren't using them yourself. This makes sustaining maps quite difficult if you do not have a large sum to invest at the beginning and time to dedicate to trading before you buy another large set if you want to maximize profitability and time efficiency. The higher in tier you go the more loot on average that drops from a pustule. Because of this scaling Stacked Deck alone was worth about half the cost of running a map no matter the tier. (Low tier maps on average dropped 3.5 stacked decks each while t15 dropped around 8) This is essentially controlled gambling since you never really lose over the long term (as each map tier is profitable). Riding the wave from one big ticket item to the next can be fun but a majority of your value comes from stuff that may take more effort than its worth to get rid of (time efficiency wise) unless done in mass bulk at inflated prices due to that bulk stock. The requirements to do low tier maps are pretty much nothing however finishing high tier ones can be a bit of a pain for some players. Even at the point I was at AFKing 3-4 maps at once with baron zombiemancers the profit per hour was less than just doing high tier mapping/delving as efficiently as possible or unsustainable to continue getting the maps I needed in the quantities I needed for high tier ones (its why i have WAY more low tiers recorded). The TLDR of it is that on average you can run around 7 maps an hour. Even if you are making 80c profit per map you're still making less per hour not including trade time than you can make during other things that take substantially less investment (spending 420c per hour even if you double it is not viable for MOST players). These are thing such as zana mission farming, t14-16 speed mapping or delving. Hell even doing strictly t1 maps on a build that can level and sell 20+ gems is going to generate about the same amount of profit per hour when done efficiently. However Its an easy and relatively lazy way to make money at the cost of lots of trade time (buying maps and selling items) and high initial investment requirements if you wish to really maximize your time (doing t15s) unless you want to do low investment low reward for the lower tier maps. If you have the capabilities of doing 3-4 maps at a time though (multiple computers) it can be obscenely profitable as long as you don't mind the trading time or have someone to do all the trading for you that you trust. As a single person on a single account its very much just a lazier way to make similar money to other efficient farming methods (especially with baron zombie builds)

16:14 "and that's it, it's not that complicated" Everything in path of exile is complicated

I really appreciate the content! I’ve watched a couple of your guides and you definitely have something that most other Poe creators don’t. You prioritize information while still remaining concise. I don’t think you said anything twice in the whole duration of the video, and that makes it so much easier to learn from. Also you didn’t drone on about how this was the best, you just weighed the pros and cons and that was that. It’s nice to see a creator who wants you to do what you want, and gives you the knowledge to do so vs creators making videos like the way they play is the end all be all of poe. Thanks for the great content and keep it up!

The guide's REALLY Good! Thanks a lot for these guides man!

Wow dude! Thanks for the super informative video! I love blighted maps but I didn’t know so many of the stuff you mentioned here! Thanks a ton!

Thanks for this amazing guide ! I did skip Blight League so I never really knew what I was doing, failing any blighted map I tried. This has helped a bunch !

one of the better if not the best blight map guide out there!

Thanks a lot man, great video!

Awsome video !! Thanks

nice video, i really like the style, you make the videos. Keep on

Im binge watching your videos and these are great :D

Can confirm, have been running T15 blights with 3x crimson oils for the last week or so and have been making good money. I typically buy 5 - 10 at a time depending on how much currency I have and then run them all at once. Even if I fuck up one or two I STILL manage to nearly double my money... Biggest winners are the sheer number of Stacked Decks you get, averaging about 5 - 10 per map which basically covers the cost of the map, and also if fragment chests get the lucky proc you can get shaper/guardian fragments which are another 40c+ each. Everything else (fragments, oils, currency, cards, rares, fossils, scarabs, essence) is just gravy on top :)

Great Video Thank you!

great video !

awesome guide thanks

Only thing I would add is to avoid certain blight maps. Vault map will glitch and have 2 or 3 lanes stuck behind the vault door, meaning you never finish the map and could have some of the nicer pods behind the door.

Thanks for information, will try next league farming Blight :)

I know that this has nothing to do with any of this. But I really like the big yellow ball pumping while you explain stuff

Easily my fav poe content creator, keep up the grind and thx for providing different takes on the game. Legit gonna put this video to use tomorrow after a long week.

Saving this video as I am quite interested in farming blight maps as I find the mechanics of them to be amazing. Great video!

Dude...GREAT content! Ty!

I've been doing a countless blight map farming and tbh I dont know anything about the mechanic cuz I don't even use any tower,its pretty interesting to see how tower interacting,thanks for the guide and the last thing you say its pretty much true,you just cant run single blight map and expected to get all the profit,pretty solid guide man,def worth a sub

now that's a good guide, pity u dont have high sub number, keep up the good work ! :)

great guide, I love running blighted maps in my first league, and I found skeletons extremely useful using splash damage, they run and kill entire lines of enemies

Surprised nobody here mentioned how effective Scout towers are (the ranged minion lvl 4 upgrade). There's a good reason many people just get a bunch of scout towers, especially with the range anointment which is fairly inexpensive to get.

Thank you for this very helpful instructional vid. I am a new player to the modern POE game and this is the best advice I have seen on this confusing aspect of the game.

Thanks man this helped. I was alching maps and lost a few 😕

Came here to say one thing. I put the scout tower damage annoitments on both of my rings and summon nothing but those towers in a blighted map. Maybe some empowers here and there but those scout towers are insane. They take care of anything and everything before it has a chance to get close to the pump.

Please make a syndicate mechanic video as I’m still unsure of how the various syndicates interact with each other and when to execute/bargain/interrogate

ty for the video guide i wish you could do a drawing of a setup arround the pump in the blight map words sometimes arent enough

On other note really well made video

Thanks for the video big d

how can you only have so few subscribers, your content is top notch

I'm a veteran PoE player and enjoyed Blight a lot, but man, props to you. I really didn't realize that the T4 towers will ignore the mobs immunity thingy. Ty!

just did my first one, two exalted drop! plus the rest of things am sorting now

Thanks for thjose tipps! But one question, what build is in this video with those dark bubbles?

Going to try this tonight.

Nice.

keep going

Just starting to explore my atlas (tier 1 and 2) and I'm surprised to have blights on them, I always get reasonable packs of currencies which are always a big help to me.

I came back after a number of months and keep running into league mechanics that are new. First time I failed immediately because I didnt know anything about it. After playing it a few times it's pretty fun and I like it alot.

When did u start making poe content? I've never seen or heard of you before. Keep up the good work, and BTW is it possible to make a build around obliteration wand in combo with the broken heart chest?

Are blighted Maps are worth it? I run about 100 T15/T16 blighted Maps and here are my Results. Total of Maps, Oils and Incubators Maps 87x T15 blighted Map 13x T16 blighted Map Oils 293x Crimson Oil 7x Silver Oil Incubators 13x Diviners Incubator (I always used the Incubators that i had found.) Total Cost Map, Oils and Incubators 7528 Chaos Orb or 40,69 Ex /Exchange Ratio 185 Total Runtime About 18 Hours Total Income / Pure Profit Without Rares and Uniques 12513 Chaos Orb or 67,73 Ex /Exchange Ratio 185 With Rares and Uniques 17804 Chaos Orb or 96,24 Ex /Exchange Ratio 185 Detailed Map Information Run1 10x T15 blighted Maps with 30x Crimson Oil Time 1:42 660 Chaos Orb Investment 1595 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run2 7x T15 blighted Maps with 14x Crimson Oil and 7x Silver Oil Time 1:08 666 Chaos Orb Investment 564 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run3 8x T15 blighted Maps with 24x Crimson Oil Time 1:14 549 Chaos Orb Investment 875 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run4 8x T15 blighted Maps with 24x Crimson Oil Time 1:19 572 Chaos Orb Investment 2639 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run5 23x T15 blighted Maps with 69x Crimson Oil Time 4:00 1656 Chaos Orb Investment 2128 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run6 9x T16 blighted Maps with 27x Crimson Oil Time 1:54 765 Chaos Orb Investment 959 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run7 7x T15 blighted Maps with 21x Crimson Oil Time 1:10 553 Chaos Orb Investment 2740 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run8 10x T15 blighted Maps with 30x Crimson Oil Time Unknown 726 Chaos Orb Investment 1342 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run9 4x T16 blighted Maps with 12x Crimson Oil Time 0:37 308 Chaos Orb Investment 242 Chaos Orb Pure Profit Run10 14x T15 blighted Maps with 42x Crimson Oil Time 2:18 1073 Chaos Orb Investment 2036 Chaos Orb Pure Profit My Charackter Cyclone Pure Fire 3.9 Chieftain 5.9Mil Shaper Dps pastebin.com/x7TmKczk Also to Read @ www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2769365

Whats the program you use to actually see the PoB from the pastbin or github

That music background... was like do I have Poe still on...

The smothering tower is actually insanely powerful, especially when you combine it with a buff tower.

Also if you run low lvl blighted maps and you have time on your hands, if you set up your itemfilter for chaos recipee, youll get arround 20+ chaos just doing that from one map. Its a bit tedious to do, but with dump tabs it can be fairly efficient

So in the process of running 120 T15+ maps and all I have to say is I personally am running the as magic maps as the cost to roll the maps with easy mods was only 24c and it allows you to squeeze out just a tiny bit extra from the maps.

Any tips for melee characters? What I personally did was get the Golden Fireball Anoint which made Fireball towers fire in a circle and the increased cast speed one. and both did quite the work for me but as always, maps get too hectic to build when 3 minutes pass, so you can't build towers anymore. I found that Ancestral Totems also help a lot in keeping enemies out but they sometimes miss their mark.

so i am guessing in hiest that blighted maps are not worth seeing as you get way more of everything in them then blighted maps?

I'd even go as far as saying any decent build can do it (ie properly optimized, not necessarily investment-wise). I don't agree on everything you've said about towers, but that's the beauty of the system. Different strokes for different folks. I'd also say that my choice on tower does often revolve around the strengths of my build (ie am I lacking clear or single target) AND what the bosses in the map will be resistant against. Some extra notes on towers: -Sentinel Towers can be invaluable as they actually stop waves and bosses for a good few seconds + they are more reliable than glacial cage towers for that purpose alone. Dropping one of those when in a pinch has saved me a good few times. -Glacial Cage Towers are much better than what you give them credit for. The big reason being that they also stop enemies from moving which allows meteor towers with their delay to eradicate larger packs of enemies and hit bosses more reliable. -Meteor Towers are also pretty massive ... even their extra meteor annoint is probably one of the better options on rings. I know you mentioned them, but I think you undersold what they can do for builds with low single target.

Honestly, no. Not the most profitable thing but you only need 2-3ex to be able to sustain blighted maps, teals and chisels well enough to be able to run them all the time while only focusing on 10C+ sales. Then you can expect to be able to farm 1ex+/h with red blighted maps. I'm about done with this league so a tip to those of you who are going to do this (and a general sales tip that can be applied to everything), as you're getting valuable drops (with blight specifically), mark your good drops up 2.5-10% based on how big your pool of maps to run is. This helps limit how many trade requests you're going to get while you're stuck in a blighted map and it also maximizes profit and avoids price fixers. For instance, when I only had currency for 3 blighted maps at a time I would mark 10C items at about 12C, I'd mark 40C items at 42C. This made it so that when I had 10-15 items with an average price of 30C ea that I was focusing on selling I was able to get an offer on something roughly every map I ran. Now that I have about 10ex 'liquid' for blighted maps and a couple tabs full of 10-100C items I mark everything up 10% so that I still only get offers when items take a big, usually sudden upwards swing.

I feel as long as you have enough dps the towers and ring anointment become almost if not entirely pointless. I run blighted maps a lot with a cycloner/self curse/ soltice vigil slayer and I basically only build towers at the start then completely forget I even gain points. most builds especially when the maps isn't alched can easily run these without any real difficulty. Then again maybe the video was aimed at those who know very little about the mechanic/poe

dose duelist cyclone build work?

Your flasks seem to be on Auto. how do you do this?

1:52 or go to the config file and put False value in the voice sound like and get some more FPS Really liked Blight after PC upgrade, sadly it was after aforementioned league :

"INSANE PROFITS!" 1c on screen

At 10:18 does anyone know if a flicker strike build would work?

Another tip not mentioned. Awakened8 boost anoints too. So for example 9 lucky chests turn into 11 etc etc.

10/10 content. Great explaination. Only change id suggest is change up the creepy serial killer music in the background.

I only use the scout tower and buff them with the other one and i only fail maps becouse of lagg but thats just my internet who cant keep up😅 but further i havent lost any map

scout tower is one of the best for dmg towers.

I run t15 3 real blighted maps non stop. I whole heartedly agree with everything you said and can say you are completely correct on everything. I have time and time again had people say "I did 5 and I barely broke even". To them I say, how? Oils and raw currency alone pretty much pay for the map, stackdecks help it fully even out, and anything else is pure profit. Like you said, sample size means a lot and that is what people aren't seeing. In my 20 map full test, I acquired empower 4, enlightened 4, and 3 other 21/23 gems. Yes those are lucky, but this league I have acquired over 20 of the 2ex+ gems. Items are also important such as rings and belts. Yes it takes a lot of time and you have to balance that yourself, but getting that juicy 10ex ring or the occasional 1ex strengthbstacking belt offsets it in most cases. There is so much loot, and knowing what sells, and what doesn't is probably the most important thing to know when it comes to loot. Thank you for this video. I hope a lot of people see it.

I really like this focused and well-planned content. I am 700+ hours in and still learned a ton from this guide. Keep up the good work!

Not sure if you'll see this big ducks- Would be willing to do a video on Mjolner? I love the weapon- it just seems useless. Also, I'm getting the feeling that inquisitors are not that great (which might be due to trying run mjolner on the inquisitor). I do have 2 mjolners, so I have the option to dual-wield, so if you could cover that use case scenario as well, would be appreciated. I'm still an amateur at the game, so that might be my problem as well. Shrugs. This game is complicated. I like it though. :)

I dont know if this video had an impact in blighted maps' price but since yesterday they got really expensive. Last week I bought 10 T1 blighted maps for 1 ex and now the people are selling one for 0.5 ex.

My Vaal arc toon got fcked by small blight encounter that pop up in random maps. Some pack doesn't even give me soul to cast vaal arc.

Did my first blighted map after watching this vid, 12c investment, 200c profit

Hey what’s the skill used to make those 6 black orbs shoot out?

Is this guide still up to date in Heist (just started playing)

My problem with blighted maps is that my pc can't handle it. Too many mobs and my game lags. :') I like the idea. I didn't play blight league because of school but in metamorth I found out that sister Cassia is the best NPC. XD haha I just like how she's just chilling singing and you interrupt her. :D

blight maps are definately profitable and enjoyable, but I make more running fully juiced up t16s since I have a fast build, also more exp/hr for leveling gems and such

OMG, I'm so confused. Still new and glad I didn't waste the blight maps I have because I would have gotten rolled.

I made a Freezing Pulse Hiero for other reasons and melts Blighted maps with a 5link till... i would say T14. Then, get a fking 6L man (?) No, really, 2EX on fusings to make anything you want a 6L if you already have the colors and base as you like, but moving on. I saw people saying that same thing you said here, that doing them white is the best bet. Is in any official place said that the quantity of a map doesnt affect AT ALL the drops from the cysts? Is an assumption or the results of testing?

ran 10 maps totally worth it.

You need to roll your maps obviously, at least for pack size xd. Of course selling oils and stacked decks gives return, but those are too abyssmal :). There is no point of just running crimson annointed white maps if you can kill sirius in a8 or delve deeper than 300. The towers break the simetry a bit, it rewards players beeing good at the tower defense mechanic so if your build is going nowhere(can't kill sirius, bad a killing legions, can't delve) but you still have some AoE, blighted map is a way to recover over time.

10 flying minion towers. Build as many as you can as close to the pump and you win every time.. literally haven't used a single skill when building like this once you hit your 2nd max tower

Ignore minion towers -> have issues with proximity shields Avoid glacial cages and use meteor tower for bosses only? Glacial cage + Meteor is absolutely busted. Even more so that while chilling slows, glacial completly blocks a path... Such guide.

So I tried your pastebin and it clears well but I’m killing myself... am I missing something?

Well done mate, just one thing; If you really want to show "how its done", don't mute Cassia, especially in short encounters as some ppl might not be aware, because Cassia is telling you "new roots, exile" which means in really short encounters some mobs can reach the core before you can even say "fuck", so don't put this in a tutorial video, really. Aka don't mute, cuz helps a lot. Also not everyone is playing Necro builds, thus making the hint from Cassia even more worthy, and in overwhelming situations helps even more.

Good video but the music was too loud

Overall really good, but you really shouldn't ignore minion towers. They're very good at stopping packs and bosses (especially if a lot of portals are resistant to seismic towers) which makes them synergize very well with meteor towers since these can often miss if you're not properly stopping the mobs. (technically you can use glacial cage towers for that, but theyre more expensive and sometimes fail to cast it on the correct targets)

Huh. I thought the icons on the bottom meant what elements the mobs are, not what they're weak to

all i do realy is meteor with annoint twice meteor and glacial cages and nothing else, all the mobs get trapped and the meteors clears them all at once 80% or more of the times, the rest is struglers

this method (3 teal or 3 crimson) is recommended for new players, but not NEARLY as efficient as the following: 1. Take a tier 16 blighted map (promenade has great setups) 2. Hillock it to 35% quality 3. Anoint it with 3 golden oils (yes you read that correctly, it will get explained later) 4. Buy 3 socket resonators, Fractured fossils (110c each), and 2 others I used Dense and Corroded to block out more life mods and elemental mods (no reflect yo). We use these because the resulting map is gonna be mirrored (thus unghangeable), and we dont want undesirable mods on them Use the resonators on the map. It will create a copy every use. It will copy anointment, quality, and mods. Congrats, you just spent 120c every time to get a map that'sworth 375+ c. Note about the golden oils: it makes it so chests have 75% chance for double loot ( 93% if you have awakener level 8). Essentially, nearly double the loot. Even if you bought the initial map for 80c, that with 3 golden oil is gonna be worth at least 150-160c. And you just copied it for 120.

I made 5 ex per hour active flipping. I'd say that's easily the fastest farming strategy. The only downside is that you're not leveling and progressing your character.

Strongly disagree with your take on the minion towers. I clear every single t14-16 map with only chilling cage and scout towers.

Easiest Blight maps: Hierophant arc build Looots of Ice cage towers Wait till done

The best is summoner build cuz is 100% AFK

Cassia made me feel insecure if i failed a pump :(

man, do more shit. You're one of very few who know how to talk, don't have moronic sentences and still manage to keep it clear and grounded. Thanks.

and here I am tossing amber oils on them to reduce tower cost

Blighted maps get better the slower your character is imo.. a 3 mirror investment character wont be clearing them much faster than an optimized 50c investment character... so if youre poor and like to play slower, blighted maps might be the best way to farm currency.. however, they arent even close to the currency per hour youll make crushing T16 maps with a speed mapper using HH. Id go as far as to say you wont even make 1/3rd the currency of those people.

Blighted maps are bugged asF on Ps4. If you die mid mission rewards disappear, no cysts are spawned, you dont get ANY rewards if you die mid mission. Happened like that, die mid map, go back, find pump destroyed with no cysts or rewards. Imo dumpsterfire of a mechanic

Why do I feel like blighted maps are going to be expensive now

Welp rip this method

Why make another video where u can look Empy video about 144 Blughted mapT14 done. I done 1/4 of his amount and I double my money. But stop doing that because of the map price.

map price is so high and getting higher as more videos on this are been made ..... well rip blight maps farming . as map price shades any possible profit if we dnt consider lucky high ticket drops . which are possible to drop from any content in the game with same time investment as in blighted map .

I tried this on 7 Blighted maps. Here are the results: MAP 1: lvl 13: WHITE | 3 teal Total income: 102c Map price: 50c *Profit: 52c* MAP2: lvl 13 RARE | 3 teal Total income: 150c Map price: 50c *Profit: 100c* MAP3: lvl 13 RARE| 3 Crimson Total income: 216c Map price: 50c *Profit: 166c* MAP4: lvl 15 WHITE | 3 Crimson Total income: 219c Map price: 65c *Profit: 152c* MAP5: lvl 15 RARE | 3 Crimson Total income: 90c Map price: 65c *Profit: 25c* MAP6: lvl 16 WHITE | 3 Crimson Total income: 103c Map price: 65c *Profit: 38c* Map7: lvl 16 RARE | 3 Crimson Total income: 125c Map price: 65c *Profit: 50c* These results were based on numbers from Excilence (If you dont know, its a great app for measuring profit in POE) I probably made more but excilence doesn't measure everything perfectly. Also forgot to factor the cost the anointments *Conclusions* *White vs Rare* If you struggle go for white, but if you can manage it when you get more confident, transmute and alt a couple of mods you dont mind, then regal it to a sort of low tier rare map. You may as well have the extra quantity and I am not so sure it doesn't affect chests, I dont think its ever been confirmed. *This video* is the best tactics I have seen. I used to go for Fire, meteor for damage, chill for slow, glacial cage last line of defence and golems to be a general pain when I didnt know what else to build. I anointed both my rings with golden oil and followed the guide, this tower strategy definitely feels stronger but its effectiveness can range depending on the luck of tower placements and choke points. In one map I had a choke point and clustered towers that were unpassable. In other maps with open layouts it wasnt possible to get a lot of towers within range of the embue buff. But it still worked out ok. *Profit* I really enjoy blighted maps, I think they are a pretty consistent profit maker, but on the other hand, ignoring the luck factor, I don't really think they make much more profit that spamming juiced up red maps.

For having a viable statistics you need at least 1000.