Path Of Exile 2 Quick Gold

When players complete Path of Exile 2 campaign and enter the engame Atlas, they will encounter Towers similar to Waystones but with a unique layout. Completing these Towers will reveal the surrounding area of ​​the map. Based on these Towers, players have already developed a method to farm money using them - Tower Hopping.

Whether this method still works in patch 0.5.0, and what its actual profitability is, I will provide a detailed explanation based on actual testing.

What is Tower Hopping?

In PoE 2 Atlas map, there are numerous Towers. After clearing Towers, we can insert Irradiated Tablets to affect the map within the Tower's radiating area. Each Tower can have up to three Tablets inserted.

The core idea of ​​Tower Hopping is to utilize a unique Irradiated Tablet called The Grand Project. With this tablet, completing a tower unlocks all maps within its radius.

In other words, even if you don't have a direct unlock path to a map, as long as it's within the tower's radius, you can start farming. This means you can bypass many meaningless, low-yield maps and jump directly to high-value target maps, such as Citadel and The Jade Isles.

Tower Hopping refers to continuously finding new towers, placing them on the tablet, and then only farming the most profitable maps nearby before moving on to the next tower.

Core Configuration for Tower Hopping

Map Selection

To maximize profits, map selection must be targeted. Target maps mainly fall into three categories:

1. Citadels: Including Iron Citadel, Stone Citadel, and Copper Citadel, these are the main sources of profit.
2. Anomaly Maps: Such as The Jade Isles and Mansion in the Mists.
3. Corruption Zone: Provides Fracturing Orb.

Tablet Pairing Strategy

For Citadels map, we used a tablet with the unique monsters having extra rare modifiers, and additionally stacked affixes that increase the number of rare monsters. This is because the drop rate of Crisis Fragments from Citadels boss is affected by the map's Waystone Drop Chance.

For Anomaly Maps, we used Visions of Paradise unique tablet. This tablet adds new encounters and mechanics to maps already explored in Path of Exile 2, essentially allowing the map to be run twice. For high-yield maps like The Jade Isles, the rewards from running the map twice are quite substantial.

Additionally, we can select nodes on Atlas Passive Skill Tree that increase tablet effects and the number of rare monsters, further amplifying the effects of tablet affixes and improving overall profitability.

Actual Test Input vs. Output

To further verify the money-farming efficiency of Tower Hopping, we conducted actual tests and meticulously recorded and statistically analyzed the total cost and returns.

Cost of Investment

According to the data, all Tablets used in this test cost approximately 120 Divine Orbs, including The Grand Project, Visions of Paradise, and other high-value Tablets (containing affixes such as high Waystone drop rate).

As the data shows, one of the barriers to entry for this build is the need to prepare a large number of high-value Tablets in the early stages. If you want to complete the preparation work faster and start Tower Hopping earlier, you can also buy POE 2 currency from IGGM.com to save time accumulating in the early stages and focus more on farming maps and increasing profits.

Profit Details

This test completed approximately 39 core maps (some maps such as The Jade Isles and Mansion in the Mists were repeated challenges), plus some paving maps, ultimately yielding a total profit of approximately 180 Divine Orbs.

In this profit, besides direct currency drops, the largest source was Crisis Fragments, including Ancient Crisis Fragment, Weathered Crisis Fragment, and Faded Crisis Fragment.

Among them, Faded Crisis Fragment is significantly more expensive than the other two. This is because the Citadel corresponding to this Crisis Fragment cannot be enhanced with Tablets, resulting in lower production and thus maintaining a high market price.

In addition to currency drops and Crisis Fragments, we also obtained 15 Ritual Tablets through Ritual content naturally generated from Path of Exile 2 map. These 15 Ritual Tablets, after being upgraded to Rare, are each worth approximately 0.5 Divine, contributing to the overall revenue. While not a large amount, it's still a pleasant surprise as a free extra source.

Combining all drops, the total revenue from this Tower Hopping test was approximately 180 Divine orbs. After deducting the initial investment of approximately 120 Divine, the final net profit was approximately 50-60 Divine, depending on the market price at the time.

However, it should be noted that this test included not only approximately 39 core maps but also a large number of paving maps used to find Towers and connect high-value maps; therefore, the actual number of maps completed exceeded 60. Overall, the net profit per map is only about 1 Divine.

Therefore, while Tower Hopping in version 0.5.0 can still be consistently profitable, its returns are significantly lower compared to other popular farming strategies in the current patch, such as farming Ritual maps, Abyss maps, and Breach maps, and it's no longer considered a top-tier farming method.

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In short, Tower Hopping is a usable but not groundbreaking farming strategy. It's suitable for mid-to-late game PoE 2 players who have already accumulated some capital and want to quickly approach Citadels. However, for players seeking to maximize their profit per unit of time, there are other more efficient options.

Infernalist is one of the coolest Ascendancy classes in Path of Exile 2. It allows you to command a demonic army or transform yourself into a fire-wielding demon.

However, in PoE 2 Patch 0.5.0, Infernalist is not a particularly popular choice, and the pick rate of Demon Form is even lower. The reason is that this is not an easy build to control. It is extremely dangerous, and a single mistake can cause you to die instantly, leading to a frustrating experience. But at the same time, it is incredibly powerful. As long as you can stay alive, it can melt through almost everything.

Demon Form Witch Mechanics

Demon Form

First, let's talk about the core skill, Demon Form. Its effect is that every second while transformed, you gain one stack of Demonflame state. Each stack of Demonflame grants 3% more Spell Damage. This is an independent damage multiplier, which can greatly increase your overall damage.

In its default state, Demon Form has a maximum limit of 10 Demonflame stacks, meaning it provides 30% more Spell Damage. This may not sound like much, but if you also choose Mastered Darkness, you can remove this limitation and stack Demonflame infinitely.

This means that with 200 stacks of Demonflame, you can easily gain 600% more Spell Damage. Without relying on extreme scaling methods, this level of damage amplification is almost impossible to reach through any other method in the game. In theory, your damage can continue scaling infinitely.

Demonflame

However, this power comes with a serious cost. Every stack of Demonflame causes you to lose life, and the higher the number of stacks, the faster your life drains. If you reach 200 Demonflame stacks without any form of life recovery, you will kill yourself within only a few seconds because of this drawback.

Keep in mind that this life loss cannot be reduced by any defensive mechanic, including Armour, Evasion, Block, Deflection, or Energy Shield. Since you cannot prevent the life drain itself, you must recover life faster than Demonflame can take it away.

Pyromantic Pact

One of the solutions to this problem is Pyromantic Pact passive. It removes your Mana pool completely and replaces it with Infernal Flame.

Unlike normal Mana costs, using skills will fill your Infernal Flame meter. When Infernal Flame bar becomes completely full, you immediately take Fire Damage equal to your maximum Life plus your maximum Energy Shield.

This sounds like a drawback, but everything changes when combined with Recoup mechanic. Recoup collects a portion of Fire Damage you take and converts it into Life Recovery over the following few seconds.

However, this is still not enough. You also need Sacrosanctum Corvus Mantle. This chest armour itself provides 20% of Damage Recouped as Life. It can also gain a Recoup modifier through corruption, further increasing your recovery. In addition, Damage Recouped as Life effect can also recover Energy Shield.

With this setup, as long as you continuously cast skills and fill Infernal Flame bar, the overflow damage will ignite you. Your 75% Fire Resistance reduces three quarters of that damage, while the remaining portion becomes a Life Recoup effect that offsets Demonflame's drawback. Sacrosanctum also restores Energy Shield, helping prevent sudden deaths when you are hit by enemies.

Maximum Mana

This recovery cycle is not easy to build, and there are several traps you need to avoid. One important factor is that Infernal Flame's capacity equals twice your maximum Mana. If your maximum Mana is too high, filling Infernal Flame bar becomes extremely difficult, which breaks the entire cycle.

You need to keep your maximum Mana under control, and ideally it should stay below 700.

Skill Cost

After solving the mana issue, the next problem is how to increase Mana consumption. The key point is that this build does not aim for low costs. Instead, it focuses on extremely high skill costs.

The higher the skill cost, the faster you fill Infernal Flame bar, allowing you to trigger Recoup mechanic more frequently and recover Life.

You can link Despair with Focused Curse Support Gem, which comes with a 120% Skill Cost Multiplier and greatly increases the cost of each cast.

To make Infernal Flame bar smaller and easier to fill, you also have several other methods to reduce its required capacity.

• Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel: Converts important passive nodes within its radius into Knightly Tenets, causing Intelligence to no longer provide base Mana and instead granting Evasion Rating.
• Megalomaniac Diamond: Grants Vulgar Methods, which provides a 10% reduction to maximum Mana.
• Melding (Passive): Provides another 10% reduction to maximum Mana.
• Overzealous (Notable Passive): Grants 16% increased Cast Speed and 15% increased Skill Cost.

With all of these combined, a single cast of Despair can almost fill the entire Infernal Flame bar. However, this might require you to invest in these items and unique gems. You can join PoE 1 & 2 currency giveaways in IGGM Facebook Group. If you win, The mirrors can be enough to completely revamp your build.

Demon Form Witch Skills

Active and Support Skills

Core Skills

Doedre's Undoing also needs to be linked with Despair, completely changing how this skill works. Instead of being a normal curse that you directly apply to enemies, it turns Despair into a Cursed Ground effect placed on the ground. Any enemy entering the area will automatically become cursed. You can only have two active cursed areas at the same time.

The limit of only two areas may seem like a weakness, but it is actually the foundation that allows the entire build to function. When linked with Spell Cascade Support, each cast creates three cursed areas.

Whenever you cast a new Despair, the newest cursed area replaces the oldest one. This triggers the effect of Impending Doom Support, which grants Doom Blast. Doom Blast instantly deals Chaos Damage when the curse supported by it expires.

Every new Despair cast replaces an existing cursed area. Interestingly, when a cursed area is overwritten by a new one, it counts as the old curse ending, which activates Impending Doom and creates a massive Chaos explosion.

Doedre's Undoing also spawns Witchtoads on the ground after you cast Despair. They jump toward the nearest enemy and explode on contact, requiring no additional actions from you.

Trickster's Shard is also linked with Despair. It creates up to four clones of yourself, and they repeatedly cast Despair with 50% less damage. This allows you to see your entire screen filled with explosions.

What Should You Pay Attention To?

This build feels extremely satisfying to play, but that experience depends entirely on constant casting. Even when there are no enemies nearby, you still need to keep casting. Otherwise, Demonflame's effect will eventually catch up with you and kill you.

You also need to be extremely careful with maps that have modifiers such as "Players have less Life Recovery" and "Less Cooldown Recovery Speed." These maps are basically forbidden areas for this build because your recovery speed will not be able to keep up, causing you to die.

Demon Form Witch is not suitable for beginners or players who simply want to press a single button and zone out. You need a clear understanding of your actions and capabilities to effectively manage the effects of Demonflame.