Strategy
This is a low-investment, high-engagement currency loop that braids three activities together: light mapping to collect Temple beacons, a King in the Mist boss kill at the Crux of Nothingness, and an Atziri city-rush through the Temple. The pitch is that you have to map anyway to charge your Temple tablets, so instead of wasting that mapping time you fold a guaranteed boss kill into every loop. Total entry cost is tiny — three Temple tablets at a few exalts each plus the Audience with the King — under 20 exalts to run.
The King in the Mist is the reliable backbone: every kill drops a Head of the King (worth over a divine), often Ingenuity belts and Omens, and occasionally the From Nothing diamond (around 19 divines unidentified). He dies in roughly 20 seconds. The Temple is the jackpot layer — Atziri (the “city rush”) can drop her lineage support gem, Atziri’s Communion, a rare big-ticket item — while still paying out architect’s orbs, crystallised corruption, orbs of cultivation, core destabilisers, and orbs of extraction every run.
This suits players who get bored grinding a single mechanic. It is explicitly not a 200-delirium-abyss money printer — it is a reliable, zero-investment farm with genuine big-ticket upside.
Atlas Tree & Setup
For normal/traveling maps use the Doryani Atlas points: increased monster effectiveness, an extra map revival, irradiated areas (raises Temple level), and extra wasteland prefix modifiers — all of which also buff the Crux of Nothingness rewards. For the Temple itself, swap to Jeido so pinnacle bosses have a 50% increased chance to drop lineage supports (Atziri is weak, so the 35% less damage to pinnacle bosses is irrelevant). In the Atlas, choose Temple currency as the guaranteed additional reward. Roll your own waystones for the King in the Mist, prioritising rarity and waystone-drop-chance. Exact tree paths should be confirmed against the source video.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low — under 20 exalts per loop (3 Temple tablets + Audience with the King)
- Returns: mid — reliable rather than explosive; guaranteed Head of the King (~1 div) per kill plus Temple currency, with rare big-ticket spikes (From Nothing diamond ~19 div, Atziri’s Communion ~358 div)
- Scales with rarity/quantity on waystones and how well you build the Temple toward Atziri
Step-by-step
- Roll cheap Temple tablets and buy an Audience with the King (a few exalts each).
- Map with Doryani points, ignoring the map itself — rush the beacons and the boss to charge your Temple.
- Reveal and clear the Crux of Nothingness with the Audience in inventory; kill the King in the Mist (~20s) for the Head of the King and Omens.
- Open the Temple via the map device (not the waypoint, which loses the +1 level). Build a straight road to Atziri, killing her every other run (you need the Royal Access Chamber, gated by the Architect’s Chamber).
- Upgrade the high-value rooms — Altar of Sacrifice, Locus of Corruption, Thaumaturge Cutlery, Chamber of Souls — to level 3, lock the best one with a medallion, and repeat.
Risks
- Atziri’s Communion is genuinely rare — the creator killed Atziri ~100 times without one, so do not bank on it.
- New patch monsters inside the Crux of Nothingness no longer drop loot or XP and obscure the wisp, slowing that step.
- Temple building has a learning curve; mis-routing the road wastes a run.
- Returns are reliable but modest — this is consistency, not top-tier divines-per-hour.
Credits & Source
Method credited to Jazzarus. See the source video: The Easiest Currency Farm in PoE 2 0.5 (Atziri + King in the Mists).