Path Of Exile 3.26 Early Best Divine Orbs Farming Method: How To Run Searing Exarch Atlas To Earn More Currency?

With the start of POE 3.26, we are about to embark on a new Challenge League cycle. As always, at the beginning of the league, the first thing we have to do is to farm and reserve enough currency, which is the most important resource in our game process.

Here, we will explain to you the first currency farming strategy we have planned in PoE 3.26. This is a proven strategy that can help you earn a considerable amount of currency in the early stages of the league and is suitable for almost all builds. This is because it was designed immediately after we cleared Atlas and obtained the first two Voidstones, which ensures that it not only requires extremely low investment, but also is extremely easy to get started.

The core of this strategy is Searing Exarch Atlas, which can drop a lot of valuable currency at the beginning of the league. This strategy works best in the early stages of a league before some of PoE currency depreciates, especially in the first 5-7 days after the league starts, you should be able to harvest an average of 2-4 PoE Divine Orbs per hour, depending on how fast you play.

Honestly, this isn’t groundbreaking, but early league currency is hard to come by. Not to mention that this strategy doesn’t require Scarabs, just pure Atlas farming, so you should be able to maintain your map in most situations unless you’re really unlucky. Now let’s take a look!

Atlas Tree

First, let’s take a look at Atlas Tree, which you only need a few points to build.

Here, I think you can give up Essences, because most characters probably can’t handle T16 Essence farming at all, and they really slow you down. But if you’re really good at handling Essences, then keep them. What we mean is that even if you give them up, it’s not a big deal, I don’t count them in my profit.

Anyway, you can invest these points into Scarabs or other relevant map drops.

Additionally, we utilize Shrines to help our lower-level characters and grab all the added map drop nodes. Then we just need to grab all Quantity & Rarity wheels in the middle, and then all Searing Exarch nodes, including Wrath of the Cosmos.

This strategy is simple, you just click on Atlas and Shrines to clear the max monsters as quickly as possible, but you may die occasionally if you encounter very strong monsters on a not-so-good map.

But since we usually plan to do this early on, when the characters may not be level 90 yet, you can get a lot of XP from running these maps, and as long as you don’t die too often on a map, you can still level up.

Map Runs

Let’s move on to which maps to run.

Jungle Valley is a natural Tier 11 map, while Mesa is a Tier 10 map, which is connected to Jungle Valley, and when you insert two Voidstones, they both move to T16, which means we can force the type of Atlas we want on the map.

When you play a T14+ map, you can choose one of three influence types: Searing Exarch (red button), Eater of Worlds (blue button), and The Maven (middle button).

First, we’ll be using Searing Exarch. When you play these maps, once you kill a few groups of enemies, it will trigger an influence. You’ll then see something like minor explosions and Influenced Monster Packs spawn around the map. You can choose these rewards, but they also come with some negative effects that will be applied to your map.

Atlas Types

Currently, there are three types of Atlas: Boss, Minion, and Player.

• Boss Atlas only adds bonuses to the boss and will make the boss harder in some way.
• Player Atlas tends to apply debuffs to the player or increase the damage they take, but it gives you bonuses when you kill monsters. These rewards are very tempting, but I recommend not choosing them early in a league.
• What we want in this type is Minion Atlas, they give you a chance to get a reward for every Influenced monster you kill on the map, and these are exactly what we want to appear.

Normally, they will only appear two of the three random options on Atlas, but we can actually force only two of them to appear by running two specific maps, Jungle Valley and Mesa.

How To Run It?

Let’s start with Jungle Valley map and see why we chose it.

The boss in Jungle Valley map doesn’t actually spawn until you enter his arena, it only spawns in the middle of the fight, so the altar doesn’t register their presence, so all Atlases are Minion/Player Atlases, which gives a higher chance of getting a good effect.

You just have to make sure to click on Minion Atlas every time. If the reward is complete garbage, you can even skip that Atlas.

As for Mesa map, the boss does start on the map, but he’s always in the center of the arena, and you can just run right there and kill the boss about 10 seconds before any Atlas is triggered, and then you’ve eliminated Boss Atlas spawn again.

Then, you either get Minion Atlas again, or Player Atlas again, and then just finish the rest of the map.

Minion Atlas

So, why go for Minion Atlas? We’ll explain it now. It’s the best way to get a lot of rewards on the map.

While the rewards from Boss Atlas can be good, the rewards are onetime, and the rewards from Player Atlas are just too crude. In comparison, while the rewards from Minions are also crude, if you get the good stuff as a reward, you’ll keep dropping it on the map.

So the rewards you can expect are some very rare raw Chaos Orbs, Exalted Orbs, and Orbs of Annulment. You may also get Gemcutter’s Prisms, Orbs of Regret, Vaal Orbs, Orbs of Fusing, or Searing Exarch specific currency, which are all valuable in the early leagues.

In addition, there is a large number of Lesser, Greater, and Grand Eldritch Embers that can drop early in the league, and even Lesser Ember is worth more than 1 Chaos Orb in the first few days.

Divination cards are also common rewards. In my 2 hours or so of playtime, we have received The Taming, Berek’s Respite, and Ryslatha’s Coil. The total value of these Divination cards is far more than 2 Divine Orbs!

Not only that, there are also a lot of Scarabs that drop here, which can also be sold in bulk on Exchange, making it even more profitable.

All of these drops can be sold on the in-game Currency Exchange.

Selling Loot

So, now let’s start selling loot!

Note that you don’t need to waste time liquidating everything, because you may have some items that are worth less than one-tenth of a Chaos Orb, and it’s not worth the time to sell them, just put them in the stash tab.

You can select the items worth selling in the stash tab and then sort them by single item value or bulk item value.

As we said before, we can sell these loot directly in the in-game Currency Exchange, almost without interacting with the trade, which means you can keep running the map and selling these loot.

Finally, I must remind you that every strategy RNG will play a role, someone may drop very rare items and get dozens of POE Divine Orbs in the first hour, but this certainly does not mean that if you complete the map quickly, you will get such expected currency.

However, at least you can earn 2-4 Divines per hour with this strategy, so it is a strategy that everyone can do.

All in all, if you’re not the type who wants to blow up T17 map early, or is ready to farm Legions with all the Scarabs and all the investment, then this is a great way to earn money to keep your build going, and then have the ability to run some more difficult strategies to get a little better with this character.