Strategy
While most of the league chases the popular mechanics, the Vaal Temple has quietly become a strong and enjoyable currency farm in 0.5. This is the Atziri (Siri) rush approach: instead of carefully building a snake-temple like in 0.4, you cut a straight road to the boss and kill Atziri as often as possible, treating the side rooms as bonus loot. Over roughly 6–7 hours of stream farming the creator banked ~100+ Divines in consistent currency alone — and that was without hitting any of the big-ticket drops.
The headline targets are Atziri’s Communion (a new 0.5.1 lineage support gem, ~70 Divines), Jiquani’s Thesis (a soul core, ~33 Divines, only obtainable here via Core Destabilisers), the energy-shield Atziri’s Splendour body armour, and global-drop Lineage support gems like Allas’ Desire (~69 Divines). On top of that you get heavy raw currency from kill drops and currency rooms.
Atlas Tree & Setup
Use Jamanra (JLo) as your atlas master with corrupted-additional-modifier, double effect of explicit modifiers, and chance to reveal an anomaly map. In the Vaal Temple atlas node take Atziri’s Wealth → guaranteed extra temple currency per Siri kill (the Splendour-chance option is weak right now). Crucially, there is a +1 temple area-level node that only applies if you enter the temple through the Atlas map device — never travel in via the waypoint, or your temple drops to ilvl 79. Specifics to confirm against the source video.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: mid — you need ~60 charges per temple plus three (four on Vaal City maps) temple tablets with “chance to gain an additional crystal from Vaal beacons”
- Returns: ~100+ Divines per 6–7 hours of consistent farming, before any big-ticket gem/soul-core drops
- Charge farming doubles as atlas progress — route toward Jade Islands, citadels, and Breach fortresses while collecting crystals
Step-by-step
- Run corrupted T15 (ilvl 80) maps with three temple tablets to bank 60 charges (about 10 maps).
- Enter the temple through the Atlas map device, not the waypoint, to keep the +1 area level.
- Build a road straight down the middle; place all other rooms on the outer rims as filler.
- Each run: kill the Architect, take the Royal Access Chamber, connect it and Atziri, then kill Atziri — roughly every second run.
- Lock and upgrade currency rooms and Lineage-support rooms to level 3 for extra drops; bank temple currency for later.
Risks
- Big-ticket items (Communion, Jiquani’s Thesis, Allas’ Desire) are low drop chance (~1 in 16) — base returns rely on raw currency
- Room placement and connection have a learning curve
- Rooms can no longer be permanently locked safely; temple destabilisation can wipe your road
- Temple currency value is speculative — the creator is holding it expecting mid/late-league demand
Credits & Source
Method credited to DEADRABB1T. See the source video: How to Farm Temple in 0.5 - Atziri Rush Strategy Farming Guide.