Strategy
This is a low-budget tablet farm. Each endgame mechanic drops its own type of tablet, but slotting tablets of one type reduces how many of that type drop. The farm gets around that by running three Irradiated tablets. They only add +1 monster level, so every mechanic can still appear and every type of tablet can drop. Item rarity doesn’t matter here. Tablet drops scale with monster effectiveness and quantity of waystones, so the setup costs only a few chaos.
The creator mostly uses this farm while travelling across the Atlas to bank city maps for other strategies, and sells the tablets they pick up along the way. It’s aimed at players who enjoy variety in the endgame and don’t want a large up-front investment.
Atlas Tree & Setup
- Tablets: three Irradiated tablets with monster effectiveness and quantity of waystones, about 1 chaos each. Adding “map has additional random modifiers” is optional.
- Atlas passives: take every source of increased monster effectiveness you can reach, including the rare-monster corner, desert areas and grass areas (Ezomyte cities count as grass). Take mountain for Faridun cities, because the mountain node increases the quantity of tablets. Swamp (pack size) is minor. You don’t need to finish any mechanic trees.
- Atlas master: Jado for budget runs. Take Corrupted Map (an extra random modifier on corrupted waystones), Partial Translation, the “long days” node for more random content, and any fourth node you like.
- Waystones: tier 15 with six modifiers, corrupted, if your build can handle it.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low (about 3 chaos of tablets per map)
- Returns: mid. It’s a steady stream of tablets of every type, and nearly all of it is profit.
- Scaling: an Expedition variant, or an expensive juiced variant (below)
Step-by-step
- Buy three Irradiated tablets with monster effectiveness and quantity of waystones.
- Set up your Atlas for effectiveness and the mountain tablet-quantity node, and pick Jado.
- Run corrupted T15 waystones with six modifiers while you travel, clear every mechanic you find, and sell the tablets.
- Expedition variant: take the Expedition node that makes ocean and island areas count as mountain, and use tablets with monster rarity or extra rare monsters (about 1 div each). One Grand Expedition can drop 10–15 Expedition tablets.
- Juiced variant: use tablets that also have additional random modifiers (12–13 div each), on delirious city maps, with Doriani and Improved Calibrations. This can drop 20–30 tablets per map, but costs around 45 div per map.
- Always carry Audience with the King. Run the Crux of Nothingness whenever you pass one. King of the Mist is an easy kill, and an unidentified From Nothing sells for about 90 div.
Risks
- The juiced variant costs about 45 div per map in tablets and takes a lot of setup. The creator doesn’t think it’s worth it outside the start of the league.
- Tablet prices change with demand, so price-check before you sell.
- Six-modifier corrupted T15 maps need a build that can survive them.
Credits & Source
Method credited to lilbotq. See the source video: 100% Budget-Friendly Endgame Farm for BIG Profits in PoE2.