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Welcome, Exiles! If you're looking to maximize your currency and waystone drops in Path of Exile 2, then juicing maps is the key to your success. This guide will break down everything you need to know about juicing, from modifying maps to leveraging emblems, optimizing tower stacking, and selecting the right builds to handle increased difficulty. By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of how to make the most out of your maps while ensuring the best returns possible.

What is Juicing?

Juicing in Path of Exile 2 refers to adding additional difficulty and content to your maps to increase loot and rewards. This involves using mechanics like Breach, Delirium, and others to enhance maps and stack multiple sources of loot bonuses. The harder the map, the greater the potential rewards, especially when it comes to farming waystones and Divine Orbs.

Step 1: Understanding Map Modifiers

Maps in Path of Exile 2 come with prefixes and suffixes. Understanding these modifiers is crucial to maximizing loot while maintaining a manageable difficulty level.

  · Prefixes: Always beneficial, increasing quantity, rarity, or adding rare monsters.

  · Suffixes: Increase difficulty but also enhance waystone drop rates. These include modifiers like extra monster movement speed, additional monster damage, and elemental resistances.

Optimizing Map Mods

The goal is to maximize good prefixes while minimizing detrimental suffixes. Here’s how:

  1. Use an Orb of Alchemy – Upgrades normal maps to rare with four modifiers.

  2. Use an Exalted Orb – Adds additional modifiers (either suffix or prefix).

  3. Using Orbs of Transmutation and Augmentation – If you're out of Exalts, transmute the map and augment it for controlled mods.

  4. Regal Orb for a Rare Upgrade – Once you get favorable prefixes, regal the map and hope for another beneficial modifier.

Ideal Modifiers to Look For

  · Increased Quantity of Items

  · Increased Rarity of Items

  · Additional Magic Monsters

  · Additional Rare Monsters

  · Increased Pack Size

More monsters = more loot. Increased quantity means more drops, and increased rarity means a better chance of high-value items.

Step 2: Atlas and Tower Stacking

Now that we have optimized maps, the next step is configuring the Atlas efficiently. The best method involves stacks of towers.

How to Identify Tower Stacks

Tower stacks are clusters of overlapping towers on the Atlas. These towers allow you to apply multiple bonuses to the same set of maps.

  · Find Overlapping Towers – Hover over towers to see their range.

  · Utilize Emblems – Apply emblems to maps within the tower radius.

  · Stack Multiple Bonuses – Ensure that each map benefits from several tower effects at once.

Tip: If you're struggling to see tower ranges, go to the Ziggurat Refuge. Open the Atlas, click on the boss button, and enter the Ziggurat Refuge. Here, all overlapping rings will be visible, making pathing much easier.

Pathing Strategy

  1. Run bad layout maps first – Maps with poor design should be used to set up towers.

  2. Save good layout maps for last – Once towers are fully juiced, run the best layouts for maximum efficiency.

  3. Memorize good maps – Some examples:

     · Bad layouts: Vile Factory

         · Good layouts: Savannah, Russow Seaming Springs

Step 3: Using Emblems for Maximum Loot

Emblems are powerful tools that add explicit mods to maps, enhancing their loot potential. Ideally, you want to roll Increased Quantity of Items Found.

Preferred Emblem Mods

  · Increased Quantity of Items Found (best mod)

  · Maps Contain Breaches (boosts monster density and loot)

  · Breaches Spawn Increased Magic Monsters (more magic monsters = better drops)

  · Additional Rare Monsters in Breaches (increased value drops)

How to Optimize Emblems

  · Transmute and Augment First – Always start with lower-tier crafting before using Regals or Chaos Orbs.

  · Reforging Bad Emblems – If you roll undesirable modifiers, use the reforging bench to recycle them.

Tip: The best emblem setups feature multiple overlapping bonuses. For example, an emblem that adds quantity, magic monsters, and breach monsters is far superior to one that simply adds generic monster density.

Step 4: Running Fully Juiced Maps

Once your maps are prepped, it's time to run them efficiently.

Map Running Strategy

  1. Apply Tower Bonuses First – Before running maps, ensure all emblems are applied.

  2. Run Breach-Stacked Maps First – Breaches provide massive loot potential.

  3. Use Builds That Handle High-Density Mobs – Ensure your build can clear large packs quickly.

  4. Leverage Party Play if Possible – More players = more loot.

Best Builds for Juiced Maps

Not all builds can handle juiced maps effectively. Here are some of the best builds for high-density farming:

  · Explosive Arrow Ballista – Exceptional AoE and damage scaling.

  · Tornado Shot Deadeye – One of the best clear speed builds.

  · Coc Ice Nova Assassin – Great balance of clear and single-target damage.

  · RF Juggernaut – Tanky build for reliable farming.

  · Poison Concoction Pathfinder – Fast, efficient, and great for solo mapping.

Conclusion

Juicing maps in Path of Exile 2 is one of the best ways to farm POE2 currency and waystones efficiently. By understanding map modifiers, optimizing tower stacking, utilizing the best emblems, and running the right builds, you can significantly boost your loot gains.

Start experimenting with different juicing setups, track your results, and refine your strategy to maximize profits. Happy farming, Exiles!