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Farming Tier 17 (T17) maps in Path of Exile is a lucrative but challenging endeavor due to their scarcity and high value. The best strategies focus on maximizing map drops, efficient boss kills, and leveraging map modifiers and scarabs to increase quantity and rarity, ultimately sustaining a profitable T17 map pool.
Why Farm T17 Maps?
T17 maps are among the highest tiers in the game, offering excellent loot, currency, and divination cards. However, they cannot drop from within themselves, meaning players must farm lower-tier maps—especially Tier 16 (T16)—or use special strategies to generate T17 maps. This creates a market inefficiency that skilled players can exploit to farm and sell T17 maps profitably.
Best Farming Strategy: Boss-Rushing with Silo and Maven Bait
One of the most effective methods is the “Maven bait” strategy on the Silo map, a T16 map with a simple, linear layout that allows quick clearing and boss encounters. Here’s why it works well:
1. Linear Layout: Silo’s straightforward path lets you quickly reach bosses, minimizing time spent on exploration.
2. Multiple Bosses: The map can summon Maven with three bosses, increasing map drops and loot.
3. Maven Bait Mechanic: By killing side bosses but not the main Silo boss, players can delay Maven’s fight phase, allowing repeated farming of boss summons and maximizing map drops.
4. Map Drops and Duplication: Players average about 0.6 to 0.8 T17 map drops per run, boosted by shrine effects and map duplication scarabs.
5. Additional Loot: Besides maps, this method yields valuable items like coffins and allflames, enhancing profitability.
Scarabs and Map Mods
Using Cartography Scarabs—especially the Scarab of Corruption and Scarab of Duplication—is essential. These increase map quantity, add modifiers, and raise the chance of corrupted maps, which drop more loot and maps. Running eight-mod corrupted maps further boosts monster density and loot drops, creating a self-sustaining cycle of high-value farming.
Alternative Approaches
1. Originator-Influenced Maps: In the Mercenaries of Trarthus league, Originator-influenced maps allow the “More Maps” modifier to apply while still enabling T17 drops, increasing efficiency.
2. Invitation Farming: Farming Shaper, Elder, and Conqueror invitations alongside T17 maps can yield valuable guardian maps and unique rewards.
3. Boss Rush and Strongbox Farming: Some players prefer boss rush strategies with builds optimized for fast clear speed and strongbox farming, maximizing map drops per run.
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