Strategy
This is a budget farm built around collecting Precursor Tablets rather than any single league mechanic. Each tablet type drops from its matching mechanic (Abyss tablets from Abyss, Breach tablets from Breach and so on), but slotting several tablets of one type into the Atlas lowers how often that same type drops. The game deliberately nudges you toward variety, so stacking one mechanic is the wrong way to farm tablets.
The fix is to run three Irradiated tablets. They only add one monster level, which means every endgame mechanic can still spawn in your maps and every tablet type stays on the drop table. Item rarity does nothing for this farm, so the whole setup can be bought for a few Chaos Orbs and pays for itself almost immediately.
It suits players who like touring the Atlas, want something cheap to start with, and don’t want to spend hours building a juiced map setup. It also works well as a side income while you travel across the Atlas and stockpile maps for other strategies.
Atlas Tree & Setup
- Tablets: three Irradiated tablets rolled with monster effectiveness and increased quantity of Waystones. These sell for roughly one Chaos each; an extra prefix such as additional random map modifiers is a nice bonus.
- Atlas passives: take every source of increased monster effectiveness you can reach, including the rare-monster effectiveness corner, the desert-area node and the grass node (which covers the Ezomyte cities). Pick the mountain option for the Faridun cities, because the mountain cluster grants increased quantity of tablets. The swamp pack-size node is optional.
- Waystones: tier 15 with six modifiers, then corrupted, if your build can handle it.
- Atlas master: Jado for the extra random modifier on corrupted Waystones, plus the usual partial translations and more random extra content. The fourth pick is free; the creator takes a travel-oriented node.
- You do not need finished Ritual, Delirium or Breach trees, because you only want the tablets.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low. About three Chaos buys a full set of tablets for the budget version.
- Returns: mid. You get a steady stream of every tablet type, and almost all of it is profit.
- Scaling: tablets that also carry additional random modifiers cost around 12–13 Divines each at the time of the video. Run them on city maps with Delirium and Doryani (more monster effectiveness per explicit modifier) plus improved calibrations, and a single map can drop 20–30 tablets. The creator thinks the roughly 45 Divine setup is rarely worth the effort compared with the budget version.
Step-by-step
- Buy three Irradiated tablets with monster effectiveness and Waystone quantity.
- Allocate the effectiveness and tablet-quantity Atlas nodes listed above.
- Craft tier 15 six-modifier Waystones and corrupt them, with Jado as your Atlas master.
- Run maps across the Atlas, doing whatever mechanics show up, and sell the tablets.
- Expedition variant: take the Expedition node that makes ocean and island maps count as mountain, then use the tablet-quantity node for mountain areas. Swap the tablet prefix to monster rarity or number of rare monsters (about one Divine per tablet). A Grand Expedition can drop 10–15 Expedition tablets, which sell well right now.
- Bonus tip: keep Audience with the King in your inventory so Crux of Nothingness areas appear. King of the Mist is an easy kill, and an unidentified From Nothing was selling for about 90 Divines.
Risks
- Tablet prices move quickly; the budget math assumes tablets stay cheap.
- Six-modifier corrupted tier 15 Waystones still need a build that can survive them.
- The juiced Delirium and city version costs around 45 Divines before the first drop and is easy to lose money on.
- Market values quoted in the video (From Nothing, Expedition tablets) reflect prices at recording time.
Credits & Source
Method credited to lilbotq. See the source video: The Easiest Way to Make Currency in PoE2? Farming Tablets.