Strategy
This is a budget-friendly boss-rushing strategy that turns cheap, mass-run maps into roughly 35-40 divines an hour with almost no upfront investment. Instead of heavily juicing individual maps, you path across the Atlas to every boss node — citadels (Stone, Iron, and the rest), Matriarch and Patriarch Halls, Jade Isles, anomaly maps — and clear them in bulk. The twist that makes it shine this patch is Hive Colonies: clearing one drops a Breach Lord’s Sack worth close to 10-11 divines, and they keep appearing all over the Atlas.
It is designed for players who feel overwhelmed or short on currency. The pathing maps themselves are just regular corrupted T15s, and the boss maps only ask for a high waystone-drop-chance roll, so you are not sinking currency into rolling perfect maps. A fast clear-speed build pushes the div-per-hour higher, but even an average build profits.
Atlas Tree & Setup
Path your Atlas tree straight toward the boss content — citadels, Matriarch/Patriarch Halls, Jade Isles, and anomaly maps (these are boss maps too, and drop high-value lineage supports like Rocky Flow at ~150 div, Rigwald’s Ferocity at ~175 div, and Grudicons at ~600 div from the desert map). Take the node that increases the chance to find lineage supports in forest areas, and use tablets that make maps count as forests when farming Jade Isles for that extra ~50% lineage chance. Specifics beyond this should be confirmed against the source video.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low — pathing maps are plain corrupted T15s; boss maps only need 100%+ waystone drop chance
- Returns: high — roughly 35-40 div/hr, scaling with your build’s clear speed
- How it scales: faster builds path and clear more boss maps per hour; Breach Lord’s Sacks (~10 div each), passive Simulacrum splinters (~2 div each), and revealed tablets (blank ones and high-mod ones both sell well) stack the profit
Step-by-step
- Pathing maps: run regular corrupted T15s with Delirium tablets (increased effectiveness is the key mod). In cities, swap to Delirium tablets with increased rare monsters to hit 200% quickly.
- Use Doriani while pathing — Evolutionary Presser (effectiveness), Improved Calibration (more modifiers), and especially Hidden Patterns (10% chance a completed map unlocks a map behind it, so you skip filler maps). Remnants of Greatness can reroll nearby biomes toward forests.
- Chain-unlock the boss maps: run pathing maps until each boss map is unlocked, queue up 5-10 of them, then clear them all in one shot for maximum speed.
- Boss maps: swap to tablets that give increased quantity of waystones found, paired with increased effectiveness. Use T15/T16 maps with 100%+ (ideally 105-110%) waystone drop chance — this multiplies reward drops (2-3 of each per boss).
- Lineage supports: on Jade Isles and lineage-dropping maps, use Jato with Untold Histories and make the map count as a forest. Optionally use Visions of Paradise (~5-6 div) for a second completion — well worth it on the desert Grudicons map (600 div each).
- Hive Colonies: only clear the Hive Colony itself for the Breach Lord’s Sack — skip the Hive Fortress entirely.
Risks
- The per-hour figure depends heavily on your build’s clear speed; a slow build earns noticeably less
- Boss-node spawn RNG varies run to run — some maps have far denser boss sets than others
- Requires comfort reading the Atlas and swapping tablet sets between pathing and boss maps
- Late-league prices drift; the div-per-hour and item values quoted move with the market
Credits & Source
Method credited to Warlug. See the source video for the full Atlas walkthrough and live farming footage: PoE 2 Best Farm for Boss Rushing + Delirium (In-Depth Guide).