
# Core Concepts

- **Essences as Crafting Currency:** Essences are a crucial crafting currency in Path of Exile, often demanded by players.
- **Farming Method:** Farming essences is a reliable way to make money, especially for new players with limited resources.
- **Map Tier Irrelevance:** Essences don't scale with map tier or quantity, making them equally viable in both low and high-tier maps.
- **Atlas Passives:** The number of essence monsters and atlas passives significantly affect essence farming.
- **Avoid** Combining this strategy with other mechanics that increase time spent in maps, like ritual. You want optimize for speed.

# Farming Process

1. **Map Choice:** Choose a small map with predictable layouts, like Burial Chambers or Glacier.
2. **Atlas Passives:** Make sure to have the Prolific Essence, Crystal Resonance, and Amplified Energy passives. Optionally, you can also spec into Crystal Lattice.
3. **Kirac** Add the "Essence" modifier to your map through the map device.
4. **Map Clearing:** Clear the map as quickly as possible, prioritizing essence monsters.
5. **Essence Types for Corruption:** Target purple essences (Dread, Envy, Misery, Scorn) for corruption into higher-value essences.
6. **Interacting with Essence Monsters:** Monsters begin in stasis and to start the fight you click on them. Place mines/traps/totems on top of them to instantly kill them when they come out of stasis.

# Maximizing Profits

- **Atlas Strategy:** Essential atlas passives include Prolific Essence, Crystal Resonance, and Amplified Energy.
- **Combining with Other Mechanics:** Essence farming can be combined with other league mechanics like beasts and harbingers for increased profit.
- **Selling Strategy:** Use bulk trade tools for efficient selling, and utilize Harvest mechanics for rerolling essences to maximize value.
- **Compasses** You can buy compasses to increase the number of essences you get per map. Such as 'Contain a Remnant of Corruption", "Your Maps contain an additional Essence

# Additional Tips

- **Map Choice:** Choose linear maps for efficient farming.
- **Atlas Memories:** Use specific atlas memories, like einhart's memory of Crystal prisons, for targeted essence farming.
- **Avoiding Dangerous Modifiers:** Be cautious of map modifiers that increase difficulty without enhancing essence rewards.

# Conclusion

Essence farming is a reliable and profitable strategy in Path of Exile, suitable for both early and late-game players.


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