Strategy
This guide explains Grand Expedition farming in 0.5.5 in a simple form. It looks complex, but it only needs a little map preparation. The farm happens on the atlas sea: you use Expedition Logbooks to reveal more of the sea, find the large Grand Expedition maps (the shuriken-shaped icons), and farm those while skipping everything in between. Logbooks cost almost nothing at the time of the video, so use them wherever you can.
Inside a Grand Expedition, the value comes from carry-over runes. Gold-framed remnants pass their runes on to remnants you detonate later. You pick up strong carry-over runes early and finish on a 7+ rune remnant with all the buffs stacked. Liquid Verisium rerolls a remnant when its runes or rewards are poor.
Atlas Tree & Setup
- Finish the King’s Marsh quest line first to get every Expedition atlas point
- Island rumours worth knowing: the Fallen Star rumour guarantees a unique map with at least a Perfect Flux-tier reward. The Icy Cold rumour leads to a map with good terrain and strong Grand Expedition buffs.
- Best Grand Expedition bonuses: “all remnants have a minimum number of runes” (use your best waystone and reroll aggressively), then “+1 minimum runes”, then extra remnants and bigger or more explosives
- Priority carry-over rune: the Rune of Wealth (gold). Next are the purple runes that add monster buffs and rarity.
- Atlas master: the Expedition master shown in the video, which boosts runic items to item level 82
- Tablets: only irradiated tablets apply to Grand Expeditions. Prefixes are rare monster count, monster rarity, item rarity and effectiveness; the suffix adds two random mods.
- Waystones: effectiveness of 86% or higher, ideally with monster rarity
- Biome: desert for the best rewards; forest or swamp if your build is weaker
Investment & Returns
- Investment: mid. Logbooks are nearly free, and tablets are about 12–13 divines each.
- Returns: high. The creator calls it a top-tier farm and got a roughly 12x multiplier on a map that was only average.
- Map prep is very light compared with city or Grand Mirror farms
Step-by-step
- Finish the Expedition quest line and take all Expedition atlas passives
- Use logbooks to expand the sea and find Grand Expedition maps
- Clear the maps in between quickly with no tablets, using the Delirium passive that can open nearby maps
- Choose Grand Expeditions with strong bonuses and check the island rumour
- Run them with your best waystone and irradiated tablets
- Inside, collect carry-over runes first, especially Wealth, and reroll poor remnants with Liquid Verisium
- Finish on the biggest remnant with all the buffs stacked
Risks
- Choosing carry-over runes takes practice before it pays off well
- Desert biome mods make monsters noticeably stronger
- Results vary a lot with each map’s bonuses and your tablet rolls
- Prices of Perfect Flux and item-level-82 bases can change during the league
Credits & Source
Method credited to なこ. See the source video (Japanese): 0.5.5でトップティアのファーム エクスペディションを解説.