Farming Breaches is one of the most rewarding mechanics in PoE 2.By engaging with this content, players can gain valuable loot, experience, and unique items. This guide outlines Breach Farming and Juicing T15 Maps for players who want significant returns without exorbitant investments. This method avoids high-cost setups like 800% rarity or 300% quantity maps and focuses on practical, affordable options.

• What Are Breaches?
• Why Farm Breach?
• How to Find a Good Area? 
• Atlas Tree
• Breach Mechanics
• Prepare Tablets
• How to Prepare Juiced Maps/Waystones?
• How to Preparing Traversal Maps?
• How to Traversing Maps to Juicy Areas?
• Juiced Map Preparation
• Breach Farming Results: Loot Analysis
• Profit Evaluation
• Takeaways and Tips
• Alternative Strategy: Simulacrum Splinter Farmin

↖ What Are Breaches?

With PoE 2 comes the expansion of breaches, an endgame league mechanic. They spawn as purple hands on your Atlas map or on the gameplay maps, and once activated they spawn hordes of monsters. It present players with a chaotic but rewarding experience, ideal for those looking to farm currency, gear, and experience in the most efficient way possible.

Key Features:

• Appearance: Breach locations are shown as purple hands on the maps.
• Activation: Approaching a breach creates a growing circle filled with monsters.
• Monsters: Normal, magic, and rare monsters.
• Clasped Hands: Special loot containers that are breached to gain deeper rewards.

↖ Why Farm Breach?

Fights get heated where players engage against several monsters in an ever-expanding circluar area, or as we would call it: a breach. It has its perks as well, including:

1. Enhanced Loot and XP

• The abundance of monsters to defeat in a breach (normal, magic or rare) is mind-boggling.
• Killing more enemies extends the breach duration and increases loot drops.
• Being able to spawn numerous enemies gives an immense boost to levelling.

2. Outstanding Pound of Silver Opportunities

• Unique currencies such as Catalyst or Breach Splinters can be found within the loot.
• Extra loot can be crafted or sold.

3. Distinct Artifacts

• Powerful endgame builds stats boosters such as rings and other items exclusive to breaches are obtained.
• Incredible rewards from Pinnacle encounters from Breach Stones.

↖ How to Find a Good Area? 

Maximizing your tower influence while boosting the map and reward Atlas requires proper selection of the area in the atlas. Towers raise the already high amount of monsters within the maps even further, along with increasing their density, rarity, and quantity.

How To Zoom Out Your Atlas?

In order to properly zone in on tower domain zones:

• While pressing the Escape key, use the mouse wheel to zoom out.
• The zoomed-out view of your Atlas will help locate the tower influence ranges.

Tower Influence Range

Every tower has a significant influence radius that is often underrated. For example:

• These maps which are several nodes away can be affected by a single tower.
• Maps which are located further from the tower, but within the tower's range are still affected by the modifiers.

How to Identify High-Influence Zone?

↖ Atlas Tree

For effective Breach farming, pay attention to loot increasing, monster concentration, and map modifier nodes. Above is a summary of the most critical nodes and their consequences:

Key Atlas Tree Nodes

Key Keystone Nodes

• Prefix/Suffix Boost: An additional 25% chance for additional loot map prefixes or suffixes.
• Tower Influence: Each tower gives a 3% bonus to explicit modifiers, up to a total of 27% with nine towers.
• Tablet Doubling: A 20% base chance for tablet effects to double, further increasing rarity and quantity.

↖ Breach Mechanics

Investing in Breach-specific nodes on the Atlas Tree is essential for maximizing splinter drops and monster density.

Breach Passive Nodes

Notes: 

• Monster Density: Farming monsters is extremely efficient with the nodes increasing monster density by 40%.
• Breach Speed Control: With a 30% slower breach, you can clear breaches at a more leisurely pace which reduces the strain while playing the game.

Boss & Simulacrum Points

• Boss-Focused Nodes: (Map Boss Modifiers) Put points in to increase map boss monster levels by +1, which makes currency drops and overall loot quality better.
• Simulacrum Nodes (Optional): For those with strong builds, these nodes can provide versatile passive income, but attempt them at your own risk:
  • Instilled Emotions (1 Point): Has a 20% chance for maps to drop random emotions that increase splinter drops within the maps.
  • Simulacrum Splinters (4 Points): Increases the amount of simulacrum splinter drops by 100%. This leads to the reliable passive income of 10-20 simulacrum splinters per map.

↖ Prepare Tablets

To optimize Breach farming, selecting the right tablets is critical. Let's breakdown of the types of tablets you should prioritize and how to use them effectively.

1. Tablet Selection

Breach Tablets:  

• Focus on tablets with 7+, 8+, or 9+ Breaches. Avoid lower-tier tablets (e.g., 5 Breaches), as they yield fewer maps and lower rewards.  
• Two main mods to prioritize:  
  • Chance for a map to contain additional Breaches (preferably 8–10%).  
  • Increased monster density in Breaches.  
• Optional mod:  Open and close Breaches 5% faster – Use only one of these per run; avoid the 10% variant as it’s unnecessary.  

Regular Tablets:  

• Choose tablets that irradiate the map, granting +1 monster level. Higher monster levels improve the quality of dropped currency and items.  
• Prioritize mods like:
  • Rare monsters have a 30% chance to have an additional modifier (Nemesis mod). Running three of these ensures a 100% chance for additional modifiers, significantly boosting loot from rare monsters.  
  • Increased item quantity (20–30%).  

2. Mod Prioritization

• For Breach Tablets:  
  • Always pair Chance for additional Breaches or Increased monster density with Item Rarity.  
  • Avoid spending excessively on mods like Plundering for Quantity, as these can cost upwards of 10 Exalts. Instead, focus on affordable mods that provide consistent value.
• For Regular Tablets:  Prioritize mods that improve quantity and Nemesis modifiers. These are relatively inexpensive (1–4 Exalts) but provide significant returns by enhancing rare monster drops.

3. Optimal Tablet Setup

Use the following combination for maximum efficiency:

4. Budget-Friendly Alternatives

For those on a budget:

• Consider tablets with less complex mods like Increased Rarity or Increased Quantity.
• Don't spend too much on Breaches density or other extra density modifiers unless their cost is reasonable.
• Example: Even tablets with only 20% Increased Quantity can support casual farming.

Notes:

• Keep an eye out on tablet trade prices because they can change dramatically at any point in time.
• Don't get sucked into paying more for minor changes, stick to the tried and tested changes that suit your farming needs.
• Try out some combinations to see what suits you in terms of your playstyle and spending.

↖ How to Prepare Juiced Maps/Waystones?

Step 1. Selecting Maps

Criteria for Juiced Maps: 

• High Rarity: Focus on maps with high rarity modifiers to increase loot drops.
• Avoid Negative Modifiers: Exclude maps with the following modifiers:
• Burning Ground (unplayable due to constant damage).
• 50% Monster Resistances + 75% Monster Life (too difficult for breach farming).

Sorting Process:

Step 2: Applying Greed Sextants

Why Use Greed Sextants?

Greed sextants increase map rarity and add delirium effects, allowing you to farm Delirium Splinters and Simulacrum Splinters for additional profit.

Application Process:

1. Gather all maps selected in Step 1.
2. Apply Greed Sextants (cost: ~1.5 exalts per sextant) to each map.
3. Ensure the maps retain their high rarity modifiers post-sextant application.

Step 3: Corrupting Maps

Corruption Risks and Rewards:

• Corrupting maps can yield powerful modifiers but also carries risks such as:
• Downgrading map tiers (e.g., from T15 to T14).
• Adding unplayable negative modifiers.

Corruption Process:

• Corrupt all maps prepared in Step 2.
• Review outcomes carefully:
  • Discard bricked maps (e.g., those with only negative modifiers).
  • Store downgraded maps (e.g., T14) for non-breach usage.
  • Keep upgraded or high-rarity maps for breach farming.

Step 4: Sorting Maps by Usability

After corruption, organize your maps into the following categories:

Notes:

1. Monitor Costs: as well as corrupted maps, should be monitored carefully to make sure that the overall profit margin stays positive.
2. Plan Ahead: It is better to prepare several maps in advance, this way no time will be wasted in-between running boundaries to collect the required items.
3. Optimize Loot: Use loot filters to adjust the things that will be displayed so that valuable drops such as Delirium Splinters and Simulacrum Splinters will be easy to spot.

↖ How to Preparing Traversal Maps?

Traversal maps are essential for reaching your desired farming locations. These are low-cost maps that allow you to progress through the Atlas without wasting valuable resources. 

Section 1: Select Maps with Low-Cost Modifiers

• Avoid Expensive Modifiers: Skip maps with costly prefixes or suffixes like “50% more Monster Life” unless necessary.
• Focus on Delirium: Prioritize maps with at least 21% delirious for added rewards.
• Use “A” Modifiers: Apply the cheapest available modifier (“A”) to the maps. These modifiers may not be ideal but are sufficient for traversal purposes.

2: Corrupt Maps for Potential Upgrades

• Use Vaal Orbs: Corrupt maps using Vaal Orbs, which are relatively inexpensive.
• Check Outcomes: Look for improved modifiers such as increased pack size, rarity, or quantity.
• Discard Unusable Maps: If corruption results in undesirable modifiers, set those maps aside.

Section 2: Sorting and Organizing Maps

After preparing your maps, it's crucial to sort them into categories for efficient use.

1. Pass-Through Maps

• Used solely for traversal.
• Low-cost and low-value maps with basic modifiers.

2. Juiced Maps

• High-value maps with strong modifiers.
• Include increased pack size, rarity, and quantity for maximum rewards during Breach farming.

Section 3: Evaluating Corrupted Maps

Once maps are corrupted, evaluate their usability based on their modifiers.

Key Modifier Criteria:

• 6 Prefix Maps: Ideal for juicing with high rarity, quantity, and pack size.
• 8 Mod Maps: Can be valuable but require careful evaluation of specific modifiers.
• Suffix-Only or Empty Prefix Maps: Typically discard unless they serve a specific purpose.

Examples:

Section 4: Storing and Managing Maps

Best Practices for Map Storage:

• Organize by Tier: Separate Tier 14-16 maps from lower-tier ones.
• Label Categories: Use stash tabs to label pass-through maps and juiced maps for easy access.
• Preserve Valuable Maps: Avoid wasting high-tier maps with poor modifiers; store them for future use or trade.

Section 5: Final Setup for Breach Farming

Once your maps are sorted and prepared, finalize your setup before running Breaches:

• Use pass-through maps to progress through the Atlas efficiently.
• Reserve juiced maps for actual Breach farming sessions to maximize rewards like Simulacrum splinters and valuable loot drops.

Example Final Setup Table:

↖ How to Traversing Maps to Juicy Areas?

1. Choosing the Starting Point

To begin, select an entry point that minimizes travel through unprofitable maps. Here's how:

• Good Maps: Savannah, Woodland, Riverside, Blooming Fields.
• Bad Maps: Aury, Maya, Crypt.

2. Optimizing Tower Progression

Towers play a critical role in influencing maps and generating currency. Follow these steps:

Tower Strategy:

• Start at the first tower after clearing the initial map.
• Immediately use tablets in the tower to influence surrounding maps.
• Continue progressing tower by tower while placing tablets strategically.

3. Influencing Maps for Maximum Drops

Influencing maps early ensures consistent currency generation throughout your route. Influence Strategy:

• Place tablets with modifiers like increased monster density or quantity early on.
• Focus on influencing maps that are part of your main route to the juicy area.

4. Efficient Pathing to Juiced Zones

To reach your juiced area efficiently:

• Avoid wasting good maps along the way.
• Pass through unprofitable maps to conserve resources for high-value zones.

Example Route Adjustment:

• Instead of passing through Savannah (a good map), reroute through Aury and Maya (bad maps).
• Save Savannah and similar high-value maps for the juiced zone later.

5. Juicing the Final Area

Once you've reached your designated juicy area, focus on maximizing profits:

Key Steps:

• Place high-quality tablets in towers within the juicy zone.
• Ensure all maps in the area are influenced by breaches and modifiers.
• Run these maps with 21% delirium or higher for optimal drops.

↖ Juiced Map Preparation

1. Juiced T15 Maps Preparation

Key Steps:

1. Select High-Tier Maps: Focus on maps with high monster density and favorable layouts (e.g., Rust Bowl, Savannah, Blooming Field).
2. Apply Map Mods: Use Chisels, Alchemy Orbs, and Vaal Orbs to increase map quantity, rarity, and monster pack size.
3. Add Breach Tablets: Ensure maps include Breach modifiers to boost monster density and loot potential.
4. Optimize Atlas Passives: Allocate points in your Atlas tree to enhance Breach mechanics (e.g., increased Breach spawn chance, faster breach opening).

Example of Juiced Map Stats:

2. Currency Gains and Results

Example Loot Breakdown from a 2-Hour Run:

Total Profit:Approximately 1.5 Divines (excluding RNG drops like raw Divines).

3. Optimizing Breach Placement

Choosing the Right Maps for Breaches: Some maps are better suited for Breach farming due to their layout and density potential. Focus on maps like Rust Bowl, Savannah, and Blooming Field. Avoid maps with poor layouts or low density.

Steps:

1. Use Breach Tablets to ensure Breach spawns on your selected maps.
2. Prioritize maps with high monster density modifiers for maximum splinter drops.
3.  If possible, aim for maps with additional modifiers like increased rarity or quantity.

Example Breach Placement Strategy:

4. Running Juiced Maps Efficiently

Execution Strategy:

• Start with High-Priority Maps: Begin with your most juiced maps to maximize early returns.
• Monitor Loot: Keep an eye on Breach splinter drops and prioritize areas with higher density.
• Track Stats: Record map stats and results to refine your strategy over time.

Example Run Workflow:

• Open the selected juiced map from your stash/dump tab.
• Clear the map systematically, focusing on Breach encounters first.
• Collect all valuable currency drops and splinters before leaving the map.
• Deposit loot in a dump tab and repeat with the next map.

↖ Breach Farming Results: Loot Analysis

The table below summarizes the loot obtained from 10 fully juiced T15 Breach maps:

↖ Profit Evaluation

Investment Costs

A large investment must be made in map juicing if one wishes to achieve the best results. Significant costs comprise of:

• Breach Scarabs: Increases reward and Breach density at the same time.
• Sextants: Add modifiers that increase quantity and quality of items in maps.
• Map Fragments: Further increases the rewards and quality of the maps.
• Estimated Total Investment: ~100 Exalted Orbs (~6-7 Divines).

Net Profit

• Net earnings after investment costs are estimated to be around 3.5 Divines for 2 hours of farming, roughly 1.75 Divines per hour.
• But this is without taking into account the rare valuables that can be sold, which can be worth a lot depending on their modifiers and base items.

↖ Takeaways and Tips

↖ Alternative Strategy: Simulacrum Splinter Farmin

As an alternative to full Breach farming, consider focusing on Simulacrum Splinter farming:

• Target Maps: Choose maps with high mob density and favorable layouts for splinter drops.
• Efficient Clearing: Prioritize clearing Breaches quickly while collecting splinters along the way.
• Patch Updates: Keep an eye on upcoming patches that may improve map traversal or introduce new farming opportunities (e.g., Citadel visibility).

This strategy offers a more consistent income stream with lower reliance on RNG-based drops like Divine Orbs. 

When implemented properly, this farming tactic has low risk and can pull in up to two divines an hour even in less than ideal situations. Even though average returns can change due to RNG, this method is good for mid-tier players because of the steady revenue provided by splinters and rares. 

If you want to refine your strategy even further, alternate passive setups, higher tier tablets, and waystones are all good places to start.