Strategy
This is the relaxing, low-effort counterpart to grinding 200% delirious eight-mod maps. The idea is to zoom through the ocean travel maps that sit between Grand Expedition nodes and, in each one, clear the Breaches, kill the map boss, and run the Expedition before moving on as fast as possible. The goal is to fill in a whole sector of travel nodes in one session so you can bounce back and forth between Grand Expeditions and these quick clearing maps.
Breach and Expedition make up the bulk of your profit on a map-to-map basis, and both stay profitable even at low investment. These are deliberately not turbo-juiced maps, so you fly through them. Roughly 90-95% of the time you’ll get regular Breach hands; if a map spawns Breach hives and you can path around them without wasting extra maps, do so — hives give more gifts but roughly half the blood per map and are slower.
Atlas Tree & Setup
Use castoff six-mod maps left over from Grand Expedition crafting and corrupt them (eight mods or T16 is a bonus, not a requirement). Run Jato as your master for unexpected missions, Eastern Knowledge, and Partial Translations. On the Atlas tree, take the Expedition choice nodes (preferring extra explosives), pick Swamp mastery for the 10% chance to convert Exalted drops to Chaos, and take Shrines plus Overlord’s Domain (Essence) for speed. In the Breach tree, avoid hives, take Lavish gifts (or Sign Wound gifts if gambling on rings), and Empower Rares. On tablets, every tablet must carry quantity of Hive Blood — this is your limiting resource — ideally paired with a womb-gift bonus; skip the unique tablet since it just adds slow rare monsters. Keep a stack of Liquid Verisium to gamble low-value Verisium remnants.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low. Returns: mid — around a divine per map from Expedition alone, plus Breach currency and crafting materials on top. The big payoff is Genesis-tree crafting: farming Breach blood to craft caster rings (a floor of ~300-600 divines, and a Pneumonic ring with +1 spell skills can be a ~3,000 divine jackpot). Scales with how much Hive Blood you can accumulate.
Step-by-step
- Corrupt six-mod castoff maps and slot triple Hive-Blood tablets.
- In each ocean travel map, clear Breaches, kill the boss, and run the Expedition.
- Move to the next travel node immediately — don’t over-juice.
- Bank Breach blood, then spend it on the Genesis tree targeting caster rings.
- Alternate sessions of Grand Expeditions and ocean-clearing maps.
Risks
- Blood is the hard bottleneck — low Hive-Blood rolls throttle your ring crafting.
- The ring jackpot is a gamble; expect mostly incremental currency, not instant mirrors.
- Breach hives can slow you down if you can’t path around them.
Credits & Source
Method credited to Path of Evening. See the source video: Breach Is The Most Chill Farm Strat In PoE 2.