Ascended Atlas Farming Combinations

Hey...

This new Atlas is pretty amazing if you ask me. I mean... Burial Chambers is an easily sustained t16 again, the T16 map pool is quite possibly larger than it has ever been and there are several entirely new systems in place to inject even more juice into an atlas that was already pretty darn juicy.

So... My Personal goal right now is Headhunter... pretty typical league goal I think. the way I am approaching this goal is in a pseudo SSF fashion (trade league but self farming ancient orbs). Valdo's Rest has the New Diplomatic _____ a Harbinger buffing atlas notable for that region, most of us have seen it, but if you dont know it essentially injects a full on pack of about 4-5 harbingers in very close proximity in every single map in Valdo's rest. Obviously you can add a Scarabe to juice this further, adding between 2-6 more harbingers into the map. ZIf that isnt enough, you can stack the harvest influence "infused Harbinger" on top of all of this which will give you something like 6 more random harbinger spawns. The "Boss is accompanied by X harbingers" Sextant still exists as well which will force at least 2 more harbi's into the map and now the ones with the boss will drop better shards. The Icing on the blue fiery cluster effe is that "Nemesis 3" Got elevated and is now actually even stronger than ever before causing all of the aforementioned Harbingers to now drop significantly more and better quality shards.

I've only been blessed enough to run about 5-6 of these Really big all in on the harbingers style maps, none of which were blessed with the new Elevated mod so I could actually kick things up even higher, but with the infused mod, the generic sextant, the Diplomatic envoy I think its called and a big kid scarab I basically get 2 ancient orbs per map (1.5 average approx)

In about a week of very casual play I managed to amass about 30 orbs (Failed to HH so far but oh well) and over that time I discovered that the Gloom Shrine Sextant as well as anything that can promote beyond in this region also synergize extremely well. Especially when you can manage to locate the big Harbi pack and then grab the Gloom Shine before enguaging... you basically will either force your game to crash on impact or you will one tap multiple screens of harbinger mobs and then die to about 10 beyond bosses all stacked on top of one another. If you manage to survive what is possibly the most GPU/CPU intensive encounter in all of gaming, you will be completely saturating your screen with harbinger shards and if you are doing it in the aforementioned way, you will be doing it about once every 60-90 seconds.

It's really really fun, I've seen other content creators talking about this strat for HH gameplay as well because the harbingers pump out so many rares that the stack accumulation for you HH is basically unbeatable in the current iteration of PoE. no doubt adding prophecies and other little known juice additives will make the farming even more insane. I think if i went really hard into it i could probably and fairly reasonably farm up 100 Ancient orbs over a weekend and generally speaking that is about a half an HH on average... Pretty cool IMO.

This got me thinking though about other cool atlas combo's that might exist. for instance, I know many players are making quite a lot farming legions in new Vastir i think it is, Delirium is always fun and intrinsically profitable.

**One of the cool ideas I had that i have yet to try out it I have noticed that Sirus comes to empower at least one map during your sirus spawning rotation, and he will always spawn in tandem with one of the other conc procs (Drox, Veritania, you know). Sirus also seems to always posses every single unique monster in a map and those uniques almost always drop an influenced item. I figured that its very likely the best means of farming up influence bases (SSF BOYS WHERE YOU AT) By simply adding as many rouge exiles to any map you know will proc one of your conquerors. For instance, You have all of you Concs proc'd, you know the next map you place in New Vastir will proc Baran... Ok cool so you load up on rougue exiles and unique monster affixes and you hop in...

C R E A T I O N I T S E L F!!!!

Ok good so dad is home... Great.

So, you spec'd into total anarchy and rouge trader, you have a nemesis/beyond map in hand, with a bestiary scarab, a metamorph scarab, and a harbinger scarab, you also managed to get a rougue exile sextant proc as well as a legion monolyth sextant. Nemesis, Beyond, Metamorph, Bestiary, Legion, and Harbinger... just for fun... lets pretend we even get a natural Blight proc. That would be 7 different content types for 14 rougue exiles, then we can add infused anarchy for 12 more, plus our sextant modifier for 2 more... Thats 28 rougue exiles at least, thats basically a map boss in every single monster pack. With all those unique monsters empowered by Sirus obviously the map is going to be insanely difficult, but the combination of Sirus influence and the 15% chance to proc extra rewards off slain rougue exiles will ensure that we wind up dropping multiple entire inventories of influenced bases. The craziest part about this Sirus Strat is that not only will Sirus empower every rougue exile, but he likely will empower many of is not all of the other unique monsters from all of the other various content types we have applied to the map... a very N^x situation indeed. The funniest part of this aformentioned idea is that... well you can also add delirium orbs to this base map for a minimum of 2 more rougues as well as a tremendous more modifier to monster types and quality. If I am right about how the Sirus influence is working, we could pretty quickly crash the market for explody chest bases using this method. New Vastir is the Influence farm spot mark my words. You could also try this method out in Haewark Hamlet provided you spec'd into the Beyond nodes there and most likely harvest and although you would lose out on about half the rougue exiles you make up for it in Beyond bosses, however I have not tested this method personally so I don't actually even know if Sirus can posses the Beyond mobs.

The New Atlas Basically Rules and I'm Having A Very Good Time!

I was really hoping maybe we could start a little atlas farming mega thread about it?

TL:DR
Diplomatic Estcourt your way to an SSF'd HH EZ PZ
Also Total anarchy + Rogue Traders into hyper juiced up Conqueror Procs will yield the most and highest quality influenced bases the game has ever seen... lets crash the Explody Chest market together?