Do You Know Why Farming PoE Guardians Is Profitable

Posted by xietingting on February 28th, 2018

In Path of Exile, what I want to say is that if you want to get more path of exile currency in the game. Farming Guardians is important. But why? The following content is the answer.

1) Fragment: first and the most obvious reason is the Shaper Fragment. In general any guardian map will pay 75% of its cost just by getting you the fragment. This leaves the cost of a map ~ around 3-6 chaos (+alch/chisels and bloodlines mod). That is super cheap. You'll earn even more if you sell your fragments as Shaper Sets.

2) Map Drops: obviously a T16 map has the highest lvl of map drops. In addition to getting other guardian maps back (on average 2 Guardian map drops per 3 runs with 157% Atlas bonus, 80% quant on a map and bloodlines) you're getting a TON of other red maps. Any T15 usually sells for 10-15 chaos, T14 for 6-10 chaos, T13 for 3-6 chaos. And you're getting a ton of those.

3) Shaped bases: Abyss has buffed Guardian and Shaper farming by letting them drop a shaped 85ilvl (or 86 in the case of shaper) base. I would estimate this chance to be around 1:6 or around 16% chance. Some of the bases are super valuable and cost literally several exalts like the sceptre bases that are used for stat sticks, any rings or amulets, certain armour and weapon bases.

4) Guardian exclusive unique poe items: this is relevant early league with items like The Scourge or The Brass Dome costing even up to several exalts. Even after first two weeks of the league these items maintain their cost, Poe Ninja says that even 2 weeks in The Scourge was selling for 80 chaos. This extremely profitable and should be put in the 1st spot if you can farm a lot during first two weeks of the league.

5) Abyss Jewels & Stygian Vise bases: this is not a case now but next league when Abyss is going to get nerfed and exists only in 10% of maps and Abyss Depth in even less maps the market for high ilvl Stygian Vises and Abyss Jewels will become a thing. Abyss jewels & Stygian Vises aren't getting nerfed and everyone will still need 5-10 Abyss jewels and a Stygian Vise base to craft. Abyssal depths from guardian map is the only place to get ilvl86 jewels and Stygian Vises in the game.

The things above are items exclusive to Guardian maps. You will still get all the other currency drops including chaos, exalts, Sextants (yes you're selling those for really nice $$ to all the people running Vaults), divination cards and unique items. If you feel collecting orbs is so slow, you can buy chaos orbs on U4GM.