How to Choose Your Favourite Build at League Start in POE 3.20: Theory and Recommendations

As players progress through the current leagues in Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, the extremely rare crafting materials available to them will become increasingly rare, increasing the cost of acquiring these items through player-to-player trading and trading websites.

Fracturing Orbs are a good example of this, which can be used on rare items with more than 4 modifiers to destroy a random explicit modifier and lock it in place so that it cannot be affected by other POE currencies.

Once you have a rare item with a high-quality modifier, you can use this orb to fix it so that you can always enjoy the high-quality benefits or powerful effects it brings, thus achieving a better game experience.

In the current game content, the only place and method to farm large amounts of Fracturing Orbs is Harbinger. In view of this, this guide will introduce you to how to effectively farm Harbinger in POE 3.26, including Scarabs, Atlas passive skill nodes and map settings that can be used in your build.

Strategy Overview

First of all, since it is farming Harbinger, the strategy theme provided here is to maximize the number of Harbinger you have on the map you explore.

However, it should be noted that Harbinger, as the monster you need to fight, is not affected by the affixes on Waystones you use when activating the map that increases the quality or quantity of the monster.

In addition, Harbinger itself will provide you with other currency fragments in addition to Fracturing Orbs, such as Annulment Shard and Ancient Shard, which can provide you with higher profits. However, it is not recommended that you collect Chaos Shard, Transmutation Shard and Alteration Shard because they are a waste of time.

Scarab

For Harbinger farming, Scarabs you choose should be related to this type of monster, such as Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards, which will help you drop double the currency Shards, including Fracturing Orbs.

In addition, Harbinger Scarab of Regency is also a very good choice, which will make Harbinger in this area have a 50% chance of being replaced by a more powerful Harbinger Boss, thereby increasing the number of Fracturing Orbs dropped and the quality of other loot.

The last and most important option is Harbinger Scarab, which can bring you the buff of adding three additional Harbingers, which is very useful. However, it should be noted that more monsters to challenge means that your build requirements will increase, so please spend enough POE currency before farming to enhance your character’s offensive and defensive capabilities.

Or Harbinger Scarab of Obelisks, which can also provide you with additional currency Shards after your battle with Harbinger is over. Some players will focus on other loot in other battles, so Scarab of Monstrous Lineage, which increases the size of magic packs, is also an excellent choice.

Map Settings

While the spawn rate and rarity of Harbingers are not changed by the affixes on Waystones, you can still choose to farm maps with higher monster packs, such as Mesa Map, which can keep the pack size above 30.

However, please note that although Tier 17 maps have higher monster pack sizes and additional rewards, it is not recommended to farm Harbingers in them if your build is not enough to allow you to successfully complete the challenges and battles in these top maps.

Because many Tier 15/16 maps contain Harbingers that are already very profitable due to the influence of the build options you have equipped, you should do your best.

Atlas Passive Skill Tree

Similarly, in the huge POE passive skill tree, you also need to pay attention to those related to Harbinger. First and foremost are the ones that reduce Harbinger’s cooldown and spawn rate, such as Additional Harbinger Chance and Ominous Arrival.

Of course, your ultimate goal is to farm more Fracturing Orbs, so passive skill nodes that can increase your currency fragments are also very necessary, such as Additional Harbinger Shards, Unspeakable Offensive, etc.

Or Map Modifier Effect node is also worth activating. Although Harbinger cannot be affected by the display modifiers on the map, this node can greatly increase the quantity and quality of other loot you can obtain during exploration, such as items, crafting materials, and PoE currency.

Is This Strategy Cost Less?

In fact, the cost of entire builds option and the map you set are not that less, because Harbinger Scarab of Regency is worth 8 POE Chaos Orbs in the game, but it should be reminded that it can be used from the early stage of your game to the endgame stage, so it is relatively affordable overall.

If you don’t want to invest too much in the early game, you can remove Harbinger Scarab of Obelisks from your build and instead add Harbinger Scarab, which can increase the number of Harbinger spawns. This strategy will make your challenge more difficult, but more profitable.

These are the specific strategies for farming Harbinger to get more Fracturing Orbs that can be used to reduce crafting costs, based on the latest patch in the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion and some player feedback. Hopefully, you can complete farming this type of enemy and currency faster with the help of this build setup, and get more high-quality affixes for rare items to use. Have fun playing!

Exiles, in Path of Exile 3.26, the developers fixed a bug that only counted Ore Deposit Encounters completed in Delirium Maps, but now even encounters created by Delirium Mirrors are counted.

This means we can now fill up Delirium reward bar faster and win a ton of loot. So now is definitely the best time to farm Delirium!

What Are The Advantages Of Running This Strategy?

To help you maximize your gains, we’re going to introduce you to an affordable and easy-to-pickup Delirium farming strategy. My strategy is mainly for players who may only have an hour or two of game time at a time, because it’s easy to pick up and still profitable, and these strategies have a low investment cost in case the server keeps rolling back. After all, you don’t want to finish farming only to lose 3-4 POE Divine Orbs because of a direct loot price rollback.

We’ve actually tried a similar strategy in previous leagues, but the reason we’re sharing it with POE 3.26 expansion is entirely because the price of Delirium Orbs on Currency Exchanges has started to rise, and almost every mapping player needs them for the matches they want to play. So, farming Delirium is now completely profitable!

On top of that, Cluster Jewels also remain in high demand, and many common Clusters can still be sold for 10-20 Chaos Orbs.

So, this Delirium strategy is definitely worth a try, not only because it’s fast and simple, but also because the dropped loot is sold very quickly and conveniently on Exchange, which is again suitable for those who have limited game time or don’t want to interact with external websites.

Preparation

Now, you need a suitable character build to complete Delirium farming effectively. But in the early stages of the league, if you want to farm more and you already have four Voidstones, it’s important to find a speed build that allows you to quickly get in and out of the map, because our main profit comes from the loot at the end of the map. So, the more maps you run, the more POE Currency profit you make.

In fact, we averaged about 2-3 minutes per map, so in about an hour and fifteen minutes, we completed 30 maps, including rolling the map and storing the loot. Then, it took us about 10 minutes to sell all the loot. This means that in just an hour and a half, we can harvest more than ten Divines with this strategy!

We need to make a disclaimer, however, because of different prices on different servers and the fact that you are still subject to RNG during the farming process, the final profit may vary. But this strategy is definitely simple and profitable.

How To Run?

Now, let’s discuss how to effectively complete this strategy and why they can make good and sustained profits in Secrets of the Atlas expansion.

First, we’re going to run Strand map, because it’s both linear and long, which means you’ll get more Splinters and Delirium Orbs as you get to the end.

We’re only going to use one Scarab in this strategy, which is a Delirium Scarab of Mania, which costs about one Chaos Orb each, and they basically double the speed at which your Delirium reward meter fills up in the area.

But it does also make it harder to farm the map later on, so if you find it too tricky, just abandon Scarab, but you’ll probably lose a few Divine Orbs worth of loot per hour. But even if you abandon it completely, it’s still a profitable strategy.

So in this strategy, we’re going to pick the easiest Atlas tree to give us decent rewards and not slow down our mapping.

Then we’re basically going to do two things. The first is to stop the fog from disappearing any faster. This fog marks the beginning of the Delirium fight, and the player will fight waves of increasingly difficult monsters in the fog. So, running through the fog is essential to maximizing your rewards, because the monsters in the fog will drop Delirium-specific loot, including Simulacrum Splinters.

So, if the fog dissipates slowly, you will never have a problem running out of Delirium. I need to warn you though, if you do this as well, you may get extra rewards at the end, but it will get harder and harder as you get to the later stages of the map.

The second thing is to not interact with any of the main mechanics when you are doing this strategy, except for your mercenaries. Because for every Strongbox you open or every Breach or Legion you open, it will pause the timer and give you more chances to escape the fog. But we want to stay on these maps as much as possible to maximize our gains.

Of course, you can run any map you want, but Strand map is really suitable for running this strategy, not only is it simple but the loot you can get is also more.

At the beginning of the map, there will be a Delirium Mirror, you need to go through it to start your Strand mapping, and kill everything in your way.

Delirium Mists fight offers seven tiers of rewards that are tied to the number of Delirium Mists on the map and the number of monsters killed in the map. Each tier of rewards increases in difficulty and potentially leads to a bigger reward.

Once you have cleared the mist, you can get seven tiers of rewards. You can then choose to end Delirium at any time, collect your loot, leave and repeat the setup.

However, once you get seven tiers of rewards, it will be difficult to get more without investing in additional content. So if you have killed a lot of things on the map and still have no more loot, it is recommended that you run straight to the boss and kill him. Most of the remaining loot will come from the last Delirium explosion, except for some rewards you may get from the altar.

Finally, if you find that this strategy is too difficult, drop Delirium Scarab of Mania and see how things go. Doing this will make things much easier, especially as you get closer to the boss.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, a simple and easy Delirium strategy that requires no thought, you just blast away for an hour and then sell your loot in 10 minutes for 10-20 POE Divine Orbs! It feels really good.

This strategy works really fast and requires very little input on the map, so even if it’s not the most exciting farming strategy in the game right now, it will give you satisfying gains in the shortest amount of time in the early stages of a league.

In the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, there are a ton of bosses waiting to be challenged, but perhaps the most exciting is the endgame boss with Uber variant hidden in Atlas, as the rewards it offers are extremely valuable and generous.

On top of that, some of the endgame bosses are very important in the background of this expansion, and will be inextricably linked to the Zana you need to find, so fighting them and interacting with their corpses will also give you a deeper understanding of the mysterious story contained in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast.

However, you need to be aware that the challenge difficulty of these endgame bosses and their Uber variant is much higher than that of the bosses in the main campaign, so it is very necessary to understand their specific locations and challenge precautions in the current POE 3.26 from this guide, which will allow you to prepare strategies in advance to easily and smoothly deal with these encounters.

Please note that since each player has a different fighting style and build focus in the game, specific methods for defeating these endgame bosses are not covered here. However, once the optimal solution for completing these encounters is found here, it will be compiled and provided to you in a timely manner. Please stay tuned!

Shaper/Uber Shaper

Shaper is one of the first pinnacle bosses you’ll encounter in the endgame, and to unlock this encounter you’ll need to collect pieces of four different maps that make up Key to the Crucible.

These four are scattered across your fights with the four Guardians of the Void: Phoenix, Hydra, Minotaur, and Chimera, who appear on Tier 16 maps.

It is important to note that each of these Guardians focuses on different elemental attacks, so if you want to take them all down at once and craft Key to the Crucible as quickly as possible, invest more POE Currency in your build to increase your resistance to each elemental damage.

After crafting a specific key and successfully defeating Shaper, you will pick up a Fragment of Shape or a Fragment of Knowledge from this arena, both of which are required to unlock the encounter with Uber Elder. Additionally, you can use Cosmic Fragments to enter a fight with Uber Shaper, which is more difficult but more rewarding.

Elder/Uber Elder

Elder is a boss of the same level as Shaper, but requires a Key to Decay and must be assembled using the map fragments dropped by defeating four Elder Guardians: an Eradicator, a Constrictor, a Purifier, and an Enslaver.

However, the difference is that these Elder Guardians do not have a dedicated map, and can only appear on a map with a specific modifier. Therefore, when choosing to activate Waystones for your maps, you should look out for those with affixes that increase the chances of these Guardians appearing, as well as those that increase the rarity of the monsters.

After successfully defeating Elder, you will be rewarded with a Fragment of Terror or a Fragment of Emptiness. They are combined with the fragments dropped by Shaper to allow you to open a portal to fight Uber Elder.

Maven/Uber Maven

You’ll have a chance to encounter Maven once you enter a Tier 6 map or higher, but there are certain requirements to start this encounter: you need to craft a Maven’s Writ using Crescent Splinters, which can be obtained from challenge invitations in Maven’s crucibles that you accept.

According to the developers, you only need 10 Crescent Splinters to start the fight with Maven, but to fight its super-morph form, you’ll need to prepare 5 Reality Fragments, which will appear in boss encounters in Tier 17 maps, with Abomination Map and Ziggurat Map having the highest probability of having them.

Eater Of Worlds/Uber Eater

Unlike the previous bosses, you need to complete Eater of Worlds quest to defeat Infinite Hunger before you can start the pinnacle encounter with Eater. This is a very important prerequisite.

In this quest, Maven will ask you to defeat all the bosses on the map you are currently in, and then you will have a certain probability of receiving a Writhing Invitation. After combining it with Screaming Invitation dropped by defeating Infinite Hunger, you can start the battle with Eater.

After you successfully defeat Eater, you will get a Screaming Invitation after completing the boss encounter in each Tier 14 and above map affected by it.

Uber Eater requires you to use 5 Devouring Fragments to unlock them. They also appear in boss fights on Tier 17 maps, but are more likely to appear on Sanctuary and Ziggurat maps.

Searing Exarch/Uber Exarch

In fact, the encounter mechanism of Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds is very similar. Both require completing the quest and defeating the boss contained in the quest before they can be unlocked. In this boss, the quest you need to complete is Searing Exarch quest, and the boss you need to defeat is Black Star.

Before fighting Black Star, you need to have a Polaric Invitation, which will appear in the fourteenth Tier 14 and above maps affected by Searing Exarch. After defeating Black Star, it will reward you with an Incandescent Invitation, which is your key to fighting Searing Exarch.

Please note that the invitations required here, and the invitations required for Eater of Worlds are likely to appear in the map, so you may need to farm it multiple times, so please prepare enough POE currency to enhance your defense capabilities to facilitate smooth farming.

Likewise, Uber Exarch requires you to deliver 5 Blazing Fragments, which also appear in boss encounters in Tier 17 Maps, and are more likely to appear in Abomination Maps and Sanctuary Maps.

Atziri, Queen Of The Vaal/Uber Atziri

As the name suggests, Atziri is the queen of Vaal civilization and the boss of the endgame zone Apex of Sacrifice. In this zone, you need to defeat the boss encounters in the first two rooms and collect enough Sacrifice map fragments to start the encounter with Atziri in Room 3.

These fragments can be dropped by Vessel of the Vaal in Room 1 and A’alai, Q’ura, and Y’ara’az encounters in Room 2. However, to begin your battle against Uber Atziri, you’ll need to collect Mortal Grief, Mortal Ignorance, Mortal Rage, and Mortal Hope map fragments in Alluring Abyss.

These are the specific introductions and operating mechanisms of several endgame bosses with Uber variants in the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion. I hope you can complete the main campaign as soon as possible in the current new league and enter the endgame to challenge them, and finally get the best rewards and game experience. I wish you a happy game!

The developers have added a lot of new Uniques to the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, with the goal of increasing the build possibilities for players to create and use in the game.

As expected, the new Uniques have been very popular since their release, such as Whispers of Infinity, which can increase your attack and defense attributes, and Coiling Whisper, which increases your curse and spell damage ability, are currently used by about 5% of the total player population.

Dark Monarch, which is only used by 3% of characters, is the focus of this guide, including its modifiers, affixes, and usage strategies. Not only that, here will introduce you to some gear options that work well with it to maximize its potential.

Where Do You Get Dark Monarch?

Dark Monarch is a new Unique Lich’s Circlet added to POE 3.26. You can only get it from the loot of a specific boss, Incarnation of Dread, which is a pinnacle boss with 4 combat phases.

Although the developer has not yet accurately stated the drop rate of this helmet, you can make this farming more effective by carrying some gear with affixes that increase the amount and quality of loot before entering the arena it has.

You can also reduce the number of deaths in encounters to achieve effective farming by enhancing your combat or defense capabilities. Although Incarnation of Dread has a certain resistance to all four elements, it only has 30% resistance to Chaos damage, which is 20% less than the others.

So you can buy POE Currency and stack as much chaos damage as possible in your build to achieve a smooth defeat. Or increase the character’s resistance to elemental damage such as fire, cold and lightning for the various types of damage cast by this boss, which are all very good farming strategies.

Item Overview

Dark Monarch is a rare minion-themed Unique Helmet in the game, and requires your character to reach level 84, which means that you may not be able to equip it on your build after the main campaign is over. You also need to find some profitable maps to farm a lot of experience points to achieve a quick level up.

As a defensive accessory, it can provide you with 167-234 energy shield, which is fixed and will not change due to the application of POE currency. Because there is no variable modifier, its protective effectiveness may not be as good as other crafted helmets.

In addition, Dark Monarch can provide you with 27%-37% chaos resistance, which is more effective for you to survive against some monsters or bosses that focus on this type of elemental damage. And increasing the maximum energy shield value by 50-100 is also effective.

But in fact, players who focus on farming Dark Monarch and want to learn how to use it effectively from this guide may pay more attention to the minion-related affixes rather than the defensive capabilities it provides.

The most popular addition is to increase the level of your minion skill gems, which is very important in endgame content where there are not a lot of experience points to upgrade these skill gems.

Not only that, it also doubles the maximum number of random minion types you have, which is the number of minion types you randomly choose from the following 14 different options when you first get Dark Monarch or you first apply a POE Divine Orb to it.

• Animated Weapons
• Raised Spectres
• Raised Spiders
• Raised Zombies
• Sentinels of Absolution
• Sentinels of Dominance
• Sentinels of Purity
• Summoned Golems
• Summoned Holy Relics
• Summoned Phantasms
• Summoned Raging Spirits
• Summoned Reapers
• Summoned Skeletons
• Summoned Spectral Wolves

Due to this affix, you will not be able to have minions other than the above minion types. Although this seems to limit the types of minions you can use, in fact, it gives you more opportunities to choose more powerful minions.

However, all current POE Items have two sides, and Dark Monarch will reduce the light radius you have by 50%, so you may need to be more careful during exploration.

Best Synergy

Once you get Dark Monarch from a very difficult boss encounter, you can start building around it, otherwise it’s nowhere near as effective as crafted helmets. First, you need to pick support gems that go with it.

For example, Summon Phantasm Support gives you a chance to summon a Phantasm minion after killing an enemy with a supported skill, which deals physical damage with a piercing projectile spell. When paired with Dark Monarch, this combination doubles your number of minions of that type and prevents you from summoning other types.

Or put a Soulwrest Ezomyte Staff on it, which is a new Unique added in patch 3.26. It gives you an additional Phantasmal Might for each Phantasm minion you summon, and your spell damage and casting speed are greatly increased.

Rigwald’s Crest Two-Stone Ring is also a very good choice, allowing you to summon twice as many Spectral Wolves that can kill enemies at super fast speed in some maps where you need to quickly farm loot or experience points, and providing you with 12%-16% additional fire and cold resistance.

Law of the Wilds Hellion’s Paw, which has similar effects, is more suitable for you in some battles that require super high mobility and damage ability, because the gains it provides to you in attack speed, critical strike chance, and global critical strike multiplier are all very considerable.

In fact, with the developers’ hot fixes and patches released during the current league for POE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, there will be more and more gear options that can effectively synergize with Dark Monarch and will be more suitable for different play styles.

The above is a detailed introduction to the new Dark Monarch in the current game and some precautions to pay attention to when assembling it. Hopefully, you can get it earlier in the exploration process, which will give you enough defensive capabilities from that time and enough time to choose other item options around it. I wish you a happy game!