The state of juiced blight events in maps

Blight map events + scarabs are orders of magnitude worse performance wise than blight ravaged maps. I've speant ~5 days testing it out and the hardest part has been learning to do it without making the game crash/getting booted back to the login screen.

Using mostly the lowest graphics settings and a 4070ti, here's a screenshot of my average experience mid-event:

https://imgur.com/a/titanic-blight-test-3sZwiiH

In that state, if i dont move away from the event there's a good chance the game will crash.

Some may suggest the answer is simply dont juice things so much and the problem goes away. But i dont think it's good for the most rewarding form of this mechanic to be in such a state. in the last 3 days of testing i have found five T0 uniques (only found 1 ever before doing this) and have picked up so much gold its almost lost all meaning. I even had to run 'Meticulous Appraiser' because too much loot was dropping and the game would crash if i ever pressed 'Alt'.

Here's an example of a finished event:

https://imgur.com/a/blight-tests-rewards-vyG8PfK

I'm enjoying doing this because i've played a couple thousand hours and its my way to goof around in game. But if this gameplay was presented to a non-PoE player as 'end-game content' it would not leave a good impression.

I don't have any suggestions for 'fixing' this issue, just wanted to bring some awareness to it. Thanks.

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Direfell wrote:

Using mostly the lowest graphics settings and a 4070ti, here's a screenshot of my average experience mid-event:

https://imgur.com/a/titanic-blight-test-3sZwiiH

Looks like your CPU is just going all crazy with the large packs of enemies

Yes, that would seem like a major source of the issue with the blight events.

I'm not actually sure if map pack size affects # of blight enemies, but my test maps have 40-50% increased packsize. not at all that high compared to what's possible.

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Direfell wrote:

Some may suggest the answer is simply dont juice things so much and the problem goes away. But i dont think it's good for the most rewarding form of this mechanic to be in such a state. in the last 3 days of testing i have found five T0 uniques (only found 1 ever before doing this) and have picked up so much gold its almost lost all meaning. I even had to run 'Meticulous Appraiser' because too much loot was dropping and the game would crash if i ever pressed 'Alt'.

I only have one question...... How? Please enlighten me and don't let me die stupid! I almost only played blight events and blighted maps from zero till lvl. 100 and therefore I did a lot of those BUT while the loot was always good the gold earned was always horrible. What combination of scarabs have you used? Or is it because I only did T16 maps?

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666lol666 wrote:

How?

It has nothing to do with T17s and chances are most people will be doing this in T16s as you need quite the build. If you only care about gold, ghosted elder portals or ritual exiles also works.

There are different scarab setups for blight depending on your build power but generally it's:
1x Blightheart, 1x basic Titanic, 1x Legend everytime and then you add 2 loot scarabs like 2x Treasures/2x Wisps/1x Wisp 1x Gittering.
When I was fiddling around with it, I enjoyed 2x Wisps the most.

Run it on 8-mod city square, kill the bosses first then full-clear and lastly click the blight for maximum quant altars.
https://poeplanner.com/a/98R

If you can, try fit in a rarity flask and the rarity benchcraft on helmet for maximum gold and T0s.

Reference video in case you like that more (not mine):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLWnQHHw6c

try predictive mode

what you see in blight (and blighted maps) is actually server lag resulting in packets being delayed. getting better (or worse) cpu/gfx wont change much. the telemetry you see is for devs. on its own it is useless and people SHOULD not try and read into 'cpu times' and such without debug open, it is useless information on its own.


as long as GGG allows scenarios that overload total cpu cycles per frame - this is what youll get. there is no possible workaround when you intent on sticking 200 blocks into a box made for 10

i do not know your build but the more 'nearby' mechanics you use the worse it will get.

if you use - drop hex bloom support, it is the finest blight map killer ive ever seen.


predictive mode wont fix it, but your PC will try to play this on its own and it actually has far more resources than server thin-client - it will stutter etc, but it at least should crash less

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Scarletsword wrote:

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666lol666 wrote:

How?

It has nothing to do with T17s and chances are most people will be doing this in T16s as you need quite the build. If you only care about gold, ghosted elder portals or ritual exiles also works.

There are different scarab setups for blight depending on your build power but generally it's:
1x Blightheart, 1x basic Titanic, 1x Legend everytime and then you add 2 loot scarabs like 2x Treasures/2x Wisps/1x Wisp 1x Gittering.
When I was fiddling around with it, I enjoyed 2x Wisps the most.

Run it on 8-mod city square, kill the bosses first then full-clear and lastly click the blight for maximum quant altars.
https://poeplanner.com/a/98R

If you can, try fit in a rarity flask and the rarity benchcraft on helmet for maximum gold and T0s.

Reference video in case you like that more (not mine):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLWnQHHw6c

Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try! :)

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I only have one question...... How? Please enlighten me and don't let me die stupid! I almost only played blight events and blighted maps from zero till lvl. 100 and therefore I did a lot of those BUT while the loot was always good the gold earned was always horrible. What combination of scarabs have you used? Or is it because I only did T16 maps?

Scarabs are:
Titanic scarab
Titcanic Scarab of legends
Scarab of Wisps
blight scarab of the blightheart
Blight scarab of invigoration.

Strat is pick a map you can rush boss, clear map grabbing as many +quantity altars and then do blight event. Overlapping as many empowering towers over the 'killzone' is also key.

With a well rolled corrupted map, altars and meticulous appraiser you should be getting 80-120% map quantity and 900-1100% map rarity. Also have 200-300% rarity from my gear. (meticulous appraiser will kill your raw currency drops)

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Direfell wrote:

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I only have one question...... How? Please enlighten me and don't let me die stupid! I almost only played blight events and blighted maps from zero till lvl. 100 and therefore I did a lot of those BUT while the loot was always good the gold earned was always horrible. What combination of scarabs have you used? Or is it because I only did T16 maps?

Scarabs are:
Titanic scarab
Titcanic Scarab of legends
Scarab of Wisps
blight scarab of the blightheart
Blight scarab of invigoration.

Strat is pick a map you can rush boss, clear map grabbing as many +quantity altars and then do blight event. Overlapping as many empowering towers over the 'killzone' is also key.

With a well rolled corrupted map, altars and meticulous appraiser you should be getting 80-120% map quantity and 900-1100% map rarity. Also have 200-300% rarity from my gear. (meticulous appraiser will kill your raw currency drops)

Thank you, I'll try your strat too! ;)

I tested it and I can confirm that this is a crazy stategy. The amount of loot in such a small space is absolutely nuts. I love it! ;o) After pressing Alt the pc was frozen for 2-3 seconds, not a chance in hell to see everything. You really need a TIGHT lootfilter for this crazyness. I got about 400 clear oils out of one map. lol It might be not the number one strategy but I've never seen such a loot explosion (as a single player) in more than 12 years of playing POE. And oh boy is it a gear check... first time I was not prepared.... I died but thank god I always place a portal right on top of the pump so I was still able to finish the blight spawn. Most fun I had in a long time. :)
Edit: I almost forgot to talk about the gold - about 45k with ZERO magic find gear not even a gold flask - pretty impressive for a T16 map.