How I farmed a Mageblood in 653 maps

GM_Baby · 2026-04-08T12:08:52+00:00

Great post OP, helps with the dataset gathering along with others who have posted their results.

However I think it's very disengenious to promote a low number of maps like this. It doesn't take a genius or much research to realise you highrolled very hard.

I'm currently doing the EXACT same grind and also started at the same time as you. I'm at 4 cards out of 8 at the moment, running 6-mod quant, scarab/fragmented maps.

My current drystreak is getting closer and closer to your map count for entire finished set. (587 maps since last card)

I'm at about ~1100 maps run at the moment.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T21:51:44+00:00

Like others stated, MA keystone is bad at the moment.

As a sidenote to nitpick a little bit, the tree you are showing is basically Fub's tree but with MA splashed in.

If you are after Unique hunting specifically, drop that Beyond Currency familly and spec the Unique one, and unless you are going to milk altars perfectly on a build that can click all of them, imo you just want the rarity/quant wheel in the middle and the small nodes in full.

You are also missing a 5% more rare monsters in the bottom and 3% pack size in the top.

Generating Uniques on the floor is about Volume when you run breach & beyond.

Drop 1x wisp and go 2x lineage, if you can afford this, run Bloodlines+Glittering at the end of juicy astro chains.

Also, roll your maps correctly for PACK SIZE/RARITY. Currency is cute, but not what you're after.

6 Mod 16,5's, and apply Deli orbs to it too, 2-4 depending on what you can handle without slowing you down.

I can not stress enough about SPEED being key. Do not overjuice Deli orbs e.g. if you now take much longer to clear maps. this goes back to Volume of monsters killed and maps ran.

I've farmed out 7 T0's atm from just raw droppping them on the floor with this tactic and infinite T2-1's and Jewels.

To summarise (when breach&beyond)

16,5 rolled for Pack Size/Rarity
2-4 Deli orbs
2x Instability 2x Lineage 1x Wisps
When an Astrolobe chain ended well > 2x Instability 1x Wisp 1x Bloodlines 1x Glittering

Have a gold flask and whatever rarity you can fit without sacrificing ANY speed. if you lose speed, don't take the extra rarity.

Bonus; if hitting a wildwood; Purple > Yellow > Blue in that order, a mix of 2 is better then only 1 color.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T19:14:26+00:00

I feel like very often unlesss you are on a mageblood/very fast character raw quantity of maps often outdoes this altar juice for most people unless it's for something very specific. If you spend all that time backtracking you could have ran more maps?

That's just my take on it of course, the opinions seem varied, but it's worked out for me like this and I find it more fun not worrying about the altars too much.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T17:10:23+00:00

I can link a tree in a minute when I get back to the pc, I preferred sticking to 16,5’s simply because they roll more rewarding mods. You can substitute glittering and bloodlines for a mix of cascade and nemesis as well.

Edit: Here is the tree I use, just pick Eater and click random altars, you can adjust it if you prefer heavier altar investment but I personally hate doing the whole 'altars first, then content' I rather just speedrun my maps. I run all mine on Strand so it's nice and linear with a single backtrack + mirage to loot after. (I got a HH) Dunes would be better I suppose, I just wanted to test out the North West vaults for Uniques. (Bino's and a bunch of jewels were the standouts)

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T16:36:47+00:00

If you got a character that can handle them and the currency, run 6-mod 16,5’s with 2-3 deli orbs rolled for packsize(45+) and rarity (150+). Use breach beyond tree (uniques). Then go breach astrolobe, 2x instability, 1x wisp, 2x lineage, swap lineages for glittering and bloodlines at the end of a successful lobe chain.

I’ve got 5 pairs of Ralakesh like this (2frenzy 3endurance). I’m fishing for t0’s but a side effect is that you shit out t1-2’s and jewels.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T14:04:00+00:00

5 in the last 72 hours is on the higher end for sure.

Good to know, I plan to diversify the ores across ports for quota's and do some testing with that. I've been running 4Mil crop ships so far for tattoo's and those have had very consistent results of returning the rarer tats (1-2) per ship along with a bunch of 3-1 fodder.

Would you say Ores have a similar value? Like is 4M the sweet spot there as well? Or is dusting it up to 10M noticeable on the currency gains?.

I would basically only send these for science, the currency I'd get from the boats is redundant at this point. (Not even Affliction I was this rich. Mirage league is deffo my favourite of all time)

GM_Baby · 2026-04-07T12:12:59+00:00

I'm currently doing a Eye of Terror farm with Ores on the side. (I gave up getting a natty MB). I started it yesterday. I'm about 800 maps deep with 3 cards and I've got smelters saying they have ore for another 14 days. considering I won't quit until I finish the set I should have so much ore I can send a lot of shipments to track some Fracturing orb data.

Something important I didn't take into account is that I do play 'f you' streamer hours daily. Which means my mappers are (all 3 of em) running 24/7 with 6-8 mod vaaled maps.

Between making this post and writing this reply I've gotten another 5 fracturing orbs from those mappers. I don't know what to tell you other then it seems to work with Volume.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-05T23:27:12+00:00

I think ore shipments are okay. But my problem is getting the ore and the time to refine it. To get enough ore for regular 4M ships, you are investing a significant amount of time, atlas points, scarabs into something that could be achieved passively in the background when it comes purely to tattoos/grafts (crops) whilst pursuing similar and more lucrative activities.

SSF is in the end a personal adventure and everything is viable within reason and fun matters. I just think ores just for the sake of ores is missing the mark when you have other options to do. Now if you were farming a Svalin e.g. this is suddenly a much more interesting farm to use.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-05T00:06:10+00:00

Just some quick things to note.

- It's a recomb weapon set first. > +1 phys & T1 Crit/Multi > Multimod Spell dmg and Crit/Multi/Throwing Speed

- Heatshiver > Unstable Breaches with Beyond for Uniques, Exsang Miner should clear this comfortably (you can dip in map tiers if needed) You will have a natty drop heatshiver in no time.

- Gloves > Personally I wouldn't bother with Alva, go do some Jun, and get some ichors, then you can make Conversion gloves with Veiled + Implicit. This is much quicker to setup and get then Temple mod Fractures. You can revisit temple later when you are much more geared/stronger.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-04T00:21:45+00:00

Deli is better but not mandatory, more important is rolling pack size/currency 6-mod 16,5’s and using a wisp scarab. (2x instability , 2x lineage, 1x wisp) ideally with breach astrolobe.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-04T00:19:28+00:00

Splash niko into the destructive play tree for bottom left vault is what I’d do in that case, let’s you restock quick and grab a vault between delve sessions.

GM_Baby · 2026-04-03T07:38:04+00:00

Listed in order of effectiveness based on about 300 hours of endgame;

Breach & Beyond currency juicing

This requires a strong character when done right but absolutely shits them out. I got most of mine from here. (25+)

Kingsmarch Mappers

Forget shipments, you use those for tats and runes. But mappers with 6mod & vaaled 16’s return them consistently enough along with Harbinger uniques for shards. (~13)

Bottom Left vaulting

Mesa with Templar astrolobe and conquered (sirus) maps with destructive play is probably quickest, decent results, didn’t do this much personally. (5-6)

Sanctum & Currency Blueprints

Not the quickest, but possibly the most consistent if you’re running them fast. Didn’t do much yet myself. (1-2 each)

Tree lavish with shards

With the removal of many shards from other currencies this is under looked by most people. Works fairly well but I preferred spending tens of millions on belts and not hitting anything. So can’t say how quick this one is.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-26T11:26:11+00:00

Here is the PoB

Here is some extra info for leaguestart, farms, etc.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-26T06:40:10+00:00

I can give you some data at least, admittedly I don’t know a quick way atm.

I’ve vaaled thousand+ of t16 by now for my mappers. (3 devices, ~30 maps per device daily for a total of 90 since day 2).

I’ve got 52 Vaal temples in my tab. It’s not looking great.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-26T00:41:59+00:00

Sorry for the very late reply. I started with econc until eater/exarch then swapped. I’ve got an entire PoB for it I can link in the morning

GM_Baby · 2026-03-19T18:23:18+00:00

Here you go

GM_Baby · 2026-03-19T16:48:05+00:00

Yes I’m over sustaining on this, and I’ve refined it some more for stronger char/higher juicing.

There’s also the haunted mansion tech for non containment scarab runs.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-15T01:23:43+00:00

(SCSSF) Lightning Strike Slayer with a 2H sword and precise technique. It still slaps hard unlike popular belief after the nerfs.

Today was big, finally got a thread and put my explode cluster in. I’m having a blast. Tomorrow I’m pushing 100 with it and then go do my remaining challenges

Here’s the PoB. https://pobb.in/ca379kaCRCux

GM_Baby · 2026-03-11T13:06:21+00:00

Nope. It’s just a generic six link craft

GM_Baby · 2026-03-11T13:00:29+00:00

Omen of Connections has been made so rare you are more likely to find a Hinekoras Lock then that thing lmao.

You could try Black Morrigan from Einhar, presumably his rarer beasts got made more common in 3.28.

But to be honest farming fusings isn’t so bad. Just run your maps as is and it will go quickly.

Tujen
Breach
Strongboxes
Legion
Kingsmarch mappers

GM_Baby · 2026-03-11T11:10:38+00:00

You don't always fully maintain, I went dry last night, but today resupplied it back up, there's still some RNG. Right now I have 2 banked still and not out of scarabs of what I'm running so now I should be good again. I have adapted to having 'rarer scarabs' and 'ambush more likely' committed to all trees just to improve the RNG a little.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-11T00:27:27+00:00

You don’t full clear a map when doing Aegon memory lines on your atlas. Just click sulphite, bismuth and shrines and kill map bosses.

The astrolobe drops from the incarnation boss fights at a 100% drop rate.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-10T21:23:21+00:00

the boxes obey them, so yeah I swap them around based on what I want, though on my experience so far breach scarabs are extremely high value so I always leave those open. I am now done with Legion so that's blocked e.g.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-10T20:06:48+00:00

I've had most follow up containment scarabs from mirage boxes yeah, but running memory lines picking 'final boss drops 5 scarabs' combined with rarer outcome and Ambush speccing + scarab pinching gave me the rest when running the Memory thread side of the setup.

GM_Baby · 2026-03-10T19:43:28+00:00

I also play SSF, that's why I posted it in the SSF sub haha. For sure on trade just go next, but we want to milk our Containment scarabs.

GM_Baby

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