Poe2 -> T7 vs T15 Rarity Farm

Tested some t7 farming tonight and compared it to t15 farm. Ran 20 maps of each.

Waystone setup:
-6 mod -> chaotic rarity (no desecration)
-1x paranoia + 2x fear

Tablet setup:
-3x Rare Monsters (total 109% increased for each run)
-1x irradiation tablet, 2x breach tablet*
*I did not run chance for extra breaches, but I had the Crumbling Walls node on--ended up with 36 breaches in the t7 maps and 33 breaches in the t15 maps

Character setup:
-200% character rarity
-Solo (no leech, no aura bot)

Atlas setup:
-standard rarity farming atlas
-local knowledge OFF, Remnants of Power and Unstable Energies both ON*
*Overall, most of the runs ended at around 180-200% in both map rarity and rare monsters w/ 4% quant from the tree

Map clear method:
-Cleared every rare and boss on each map and completed all breaches and abysses

Result:
-T7: 299 exalt, 65 chaos, 1 annul, 6 divine, 3 orb of chance, 1 greater exalt (!)
-T15: 197 exalt, 42 chaos, 1 annul, 7 divine, 5 orb of chance, 7 greater exalt, 1 perfect exalt, 1 greater chaos
-T7 maps found roughly 50% more exalts and chaos orbs with 1 fewer divine.
-T15 maps notably had a perfect exalt drop

Comments:
To start off, sample size is small. Farham will probably release a video soon with a better dataset and controls (see notes on breach # and atlas procs above).

With that aside, I think the findings support the idea that you can "block" the greater/perfect exalt/chaos with the lower tier waystone. The question is... was I just lucky with the perfect exalt drop? Hard to say with the small sample size and potential for variance. I will add that it took me about 1hr 15min to clear the 20 t15 maps and very close to 1hr clear the 20 t7 maps. Maybe t7s can be a viable strategy if you go fast given how close the divine drops were.

Thanks for reading!

Edit: If anyone knows the answer to this.. Does the irradiate tablet on the t7s open up the possibility of greater orb (possibly perfect as well) drops? The single greater exalt drop in the t7 maps was definitely a clear outlier, but maybe the tech is to make sure the t7 is not irradiated.

> Does the irradiate tablet on the t7s open up the possibility of greater orb (possibly perfect as well) drops

The drops are based on (item) levels (e.g. the trails can drop them too), it'd depend on the mobs/boss level extra bonus.

The perfect(ed) orb requires lvl79, which is every mob at T15 (non-irradiated). The greater Greater Exalted - 72 which is T8 (non-irritated), or a boss of T6, rare at T7, normal mob of abyss depths T7 (or an irradiated T7, so yes). Source: https://www.poe2wiki.net

I thought how the drops worked was a relatively wide spread knowledge. The massive downside of running low level maps is the lack of experience... and that aside chaos and divine orb any other item is useless (ok lineage gems can be good)

In that regard I do not think the thread belongs to the "bug report" section.

meanwhile waystone t7 = 1 chaos
t15 = 15 ex

^_^