Strategy
Temple (Vaal Temple) farming was the dominant strategy back in 0.4 and burnt a lot of players out, so most people skip it in 0.5 — and that is exactly why it is quietly lucrative again. Because so few players engage with it, the corrupted currency it drops (Architect Orbs, Vault Cultivation Orbs, Crystallised Corruption, Core Destabilisers and more) stays expensive on trade. This guide covers the accessible half of the mechanic: Atziri boss rushing, rather than the time-consuming ‘temple hydra/snake’ building that dedicated farmers use.
The method works across all budgets and slots neatly into whatever else you are doing. Its real strength is as a side mechanic: while you travel toward Grand Expeditions, breach hive colonies, or citadel/boss fragments, you slot temple tablets into the maps you would otherwise run empty, bank access crystals, then take a short break to chain a handful of Atziri runs for corrupted-currency profit.
Atlas Tree & Setup
Access the mechanic from the north side of the infinite atlas starting area. Take the Atziri’s Assets Wealth node and choose the temple currency option first; the rest of the board fills quickly and order barely matters. Run temple tablets in your maps (roughly 3 per map area) to trigger Vault beacons and collect access crystals — these cap at 60, so stack them up and chain-run temples rather than going one at a time. On a budget, ignore tablet mods entirely; if you want to speed up, tablets with ‘chance to gain an additional crystal from Vault beacons’ accelerate the farm at higher opportunity cost.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low — temple tablets are cheap (around 10 exalted each effective); no build investment required and low-geared characters can clear Atziri if you do not over-juice the temple.
- Returns: mid — a single Atziri run in the video netted 20+ divines (Architect Orbs alone ~16 div, plus a Core Destabiliser at ~4.5 div). Grand Expedition farming currently beats it on raw div/hour, which is why this shines as a low-effort side income rather than a main farm.
Step-by-step
- Grab the Atziri’s Assets Wealth temple-currency atlas node, then fill the board.
- Run ~3 temple tablets per map to gather access crystals (bank up to 60).
- At the temple console, fill the outer rooms with junk to force the Architect Chamber and Royal Access Chamber onto your central three-wide road.
- Run 1: kill the Architect to unlock the Royal Access Chamber; place it near your main road.
- Run 2: connect the road to the Royal Access Chamber AND to Atziri, clear the required rooms, then kill Atziri.
- Prioritise valuable reward rooms (Corruption Chamber, Tablet Research vaults) along the way, and alternate Architect/Atziri every other run.
Risks
- Layout management has a learning curve — you must plan rooms so the road survives when the central vault destabilises rooms on exit.
- You need to be able to kill the Atziri boss; over-juicing the temple with medallions makes it harder.
- Currency-per-hour is lower than juiced Expedition/Delirium, so treat it as a side mechanic while progressing toward other content.
Credits & Source
Method credited to GhazzyTV (with a shout-out to Milky BK for the hydra-building approach). See the source video: Easiest Way to Farm the Atziri Vaal Temple — PoE2 Beginner.