Strategy
This is a late-league plan for reaching level 100 quickly without bleeding currency. It runs in three stages: travel maps that hunt for a Grand Mirror, a breach (or abyss) stage that pushes delirium-fogged maps from 40% to 200% Delirious, and finally juiced abyss city maps where most of the experience comes from.
The engine is the Delirium atlas tree. Once its quest is done, every small node adds a chance to summon a Grand Mirror near a map whose boss you kill in the fog. Completing a Grand Mirror map lets you pick one map on the atlas and blankets a large region around it in delirium fog, so you aim it at a city biome: city maps take four tablets instead of three, which multiplies tablet value. Higher Delirious percentage means harder maps with more rewards and experience, capping at 200%.
Splinters pay for the whole route. Travel maps with delirium tablets drop roughly 150-300 Simulacrum splinters each, around half to a full Simulacrum per map, so the setup phase already turns a profit.
Atlas Tree & Setup
- Delirium tree: the small nodes that raise Grand Mirror chance
- Abyss tree: Lord of the Pit agitation (increased effectiveness per closed pit) and two additional rare monsters per abyss
- Atlas master: Jado, mainly for Partial Translations (tablets boosted by 0-40% on map entry, snapshotted) and Unexpected Missions (an extra random modifier on corrupted maps)
- Area level: start with the T16 Wasteland map to raise area level, and use an Irradiated tablet to push a T16 to level 81
- Travel-map tablets: delirium tablets with unique-boss chance or delirium pack size, plus increased Simulacrum splinter stack size and experience gained
- Breach tablets: pack size, breach pack size, and unstable breaches spawning extra rares when stabilised (select non-unique when searching)
- City (abyss) tablets: increased effectiveness per closed pit, rares spawned from abysses, experience gained; one Irradiated tablet with an extra random modifier, pack size and experience; and one Unforeseen Consequences, which adds 14 abysses and costs only a few chaos
Investment & Returns
- Investment: mid — most rare tablets sit around 1-5 chaos; the main cost is volume and waystones
- Returns: mid — about 2-4 divines of splinters per travel map, plus abyss loot, Voices chances from Simulacrum, and very fast experience
- Scaling: higher pack size and monster effectiveness on waystones and tablets raise both experience and loot
Step-by-step
- Run delirium-tabletted travel maps and complete every mirror shard to raise the Grand Mirror chance.
- If the atlas says a Grand Mirror was revealed but you cannot see it in a breach biome, use a Breachstone to reveal the Hive Colony first.
- Run the Grand Mirror map, kill both the boss and its mirrored copy, then use the mirror on a map inside a city biome. Mirrors can chain into new mirrors.
- Use the fogged maps outside the city with breach (or abyss) tablets to push the region from 40% to 200% Delirious, usually within two maps.
- Run the city maps with the abyss tablet set on high pack size T16 or eight-mod T15 corrupted waystones for the bulk of the experience.
- Turn leftover 200% maps that are not in a city into Simulacrums, the only source of Voices.
- Roll spare waystones with identify or alchemy, two exalts and a corrupt; keep T16s for cities and use high Wasteland drop chance results in Citadels for fragments.
Risks
- Prices quoted are late-league snapshots; tablet supply and fragment values will shift
- Juiced, corrupted, 200% Delirium city maps are dangerous and an XP-loss death costs time at high levels
- The setup has several moving parts, so one weak tablet set or a missed mirror shard slows the whole chain
- Abyss tablet combinations with all three ideal mods have limited supply; fall back to fewer mods when they get expensive
Credits & Source
Method credited to Mezuman. See the source video: LEVEL TO 100 FAST… WHILE MAKING MONEY - POE2 0.5.5 Forbidden Rites.