PoE 2 Expedition Farming Guide: Best City Maps, Atlas Tree, Tablets & Currency Strategy

Summary

If you want the highest currency-per-hour farming method this league, city map Expedition is the answer — Verisium Remnants provide massive effectiveness and rarity bonuses, cities allow 4 tablets and 2 Expedition encounters per map for far more remnants than normal maps, making it a literal money printer; those who'd rather skip the grind can buy POE2 Currency, but if you want to earn it yourself, this is the fastest path.

Step 1: Core Expedition Gameplay

Expedition works by placing explosives, detonating buried markers and remnants, and then clearing the "enraged" monsters.

The single most important rule: Your goal is to detonate as many Verisium Remnants as possible. Everything else is secondary. If you can grab chests or other rewards along the way, great. If you can't, skip them. Don't slow down for full clears.

As for "should I full clear the map first" — in POE2 there are no mandatory clear mechanics yet (like Eldritch Altars in POE1), so you only need to kill rare monsters, then complete the Expedition and boss as quickly as possible. Order doesn't matter. The core is movement speed.

Each map gives you a limited number of detonations. If some remnants are positioned awkwardly and are hard to cover, you may need to invest in an extra explosive via the Atlas tree to ensure coverage.

Step 2: Expedition Atlas Tree

This is the core configuration. The current version revolves around city maps, since only cities can hold 4 tablets.

Mandatory Nodes

On "extra remnant vs. extra explosive": This is a 60/40 trade-off. An extra remnant means more money, but an extra explosive lets you cover more remnants. In maps with random layouts, the extra explosive is slightly more practical, because missing two or three remnants due to bad positioning costs far more than having one fewer remnant.

City Biome Choices

City map biome selection has clear priorities:

Ezamir Cities → Swamp: The key is "Exalted Orbs have a 10% chance to drop as Chaos Orbs." This conversion makes your income explode — detonating dozens of Exalts and watching them turn into Chaos is common.

V Cities → Forest: Increases rare monster count. Simple and effective.

Faradun Cities → Desert: Provides monster effectiveness, which fits Expedition's reward logic perfectly.

City-Specific Nodes

The unique value of city maps lies in invasions and extra bosses:

Warring Survivors: 20% chance to be invaded by another faction.

Warlord's Vendetta: Invaded cities have a 20% chance to contain an extra Citadel Boss.

Stacked together, you have a chance to encounter a random Citadel Boss that drops Crisis Fragments — Ancient and Weathered fragments are worth about 1~2 Divines, while Faded fragments can reach 10+ Divines. Even if the proc rate is low, when it hits, it's pure profit. Additionally, Summoning Circles have a 5% chance to summon a random Citadel Boss. While normally not recommended, it's worth investing in for this specific setup.

Map Master Choice

Jado is the best choice for Expedition:

Partial Translations: Amplifies tablet modifiers. Tablets provide massive bonuses, so further scaling is critical.

Unexpected Missions: Free extra random modifier while preserving city biome bonuses. Extremely high value.

Eastern Knowledge: Remnants have a chance to be rerolled and automatically keep the rarer result. Expedition maps have many remnants, so this node pays off heavily.

The last point is flexible: Long Days (more Summoning Circles/Exiles) or Keen Appraisal (easier to find high-value items). Neither is game-changing.

Step 3: Tablets and Map Preparation

Expedition Tablet Modifier Priority

Effectiveness is a non-negotiable mandatory modifier. After that, prioritize:

Surpassing Chance to Contain Additional Remnant (30%~40%): Every tablet needs this. Four tablets stacked = 120%+ additional remnant chance, guaranteeing at least one extra remnant, potentially more.

Item Rarity: If paired with Effectiveness, tablets become very expensive, but it's worth the investment.

Secondary Options: Monster Effectiveness, Monster Rarity — both are acceptable.

What to avoid:

Additional Bosses Encased in Ice: Terrible rewards, and the "monkey boss" can one-shot you when you least expect it, ending your map.

Vaal Relics (V Relics): Take up massive space, come with immunity modifiers (turning off your damage), and the rewards don't justify the difficulty. Testing tablets full of Vaal Relics will make you want to quit within minutes.

Map Preparation

Six-mod Waystones are the baseline. Use Chaos Orbs and Chaotic Quantity Omens to reroll. Target modifiers:

Monster Effectiveness

Item Rarity

Monster Rarity (diminishing returns, but still good)

Avoid keeping "Pack Size": In Expedition, since you already have massive monster rarity bonuses from remnants (4 remnants = 200%+), the small rarity from tablets or maps gets heavily diluted. Pack Size is the weakest modifier for Expedition.

Wildwood Sacred Bloom is an optional extra juicing method. It covers the target map and all adjacent maps (up to 5 at once). It's mutually exclusive with Delirium Fog. While Delirium has higher paper value, it's slower and harder. If you're chasing currency per hour rather than per map, Wildwood offers a better experience with competitive actual income.

Step 4: Practical Execution Details

Using Liquid Verisium

Always keep at least one stack of Liquid Verisium in your inventory. The rule is simple:

When you find a remnant worth less than 1 Chaos Orb, reroll it with Liquid Verisium.

Exception: If the remnant has an Opulent Rune, do not reroll it. The monster rarity bonus from Opulent Runes carries through the blast chain. Even if the last few remnants in that chain are "trash," the final loot can still be very rich. From experience: a chain starting with an Opulent Rune, ending with a 1-Chaos "junk" remnant, can still drop multiple Divines.

Blast Chain Order

One of Expedition's core mechanics is modifier propagation: modifiers from earlier remnants carry over to all subsequent monsters and chests.

Therefore, detonate the most valuable remnants first — especially those with high-value runes (like Opulent) or high rarity rewards. Let their modifiers carry through the entire chain, amplifying all subsequent loot.

Regarding Bosses: If your build isn't tanky enough, rush the Boss first before clearing remnants. This prevents the Boss from inheriting too many modifiers and becoming unkillable.

Key Reminders

Don't just detonate remnants without killing monsters: Remnants themselves don't drop loot. They modify the runic monsters and chests that spawn afterward. If you detonate remnants but don't kill the monsters, you get nothing.

Play within your build's limits: This strategy's profit is built on your ability to reliably clear heavily buffed monsters. If your build isn't there yet, downgrade to normal Expedition or reduce tablet count, then scale up gradually.

Markets shift: Logbook prices fluctuate. Opulent Runes, Crisis Fragments, and Exceptional Verisium prices all change as the league progresses. Check the market regularly and adjust your tablet buying/selling strategy.

Summary: The core loop of city Expedition is — go in, blast remnants, collect money, get out. Configure your Atlas tree and tablets around "more remnants + higher effectiveness," pair it with the correct biome choices, and your POE2 Currency per hour will far exceed any other farming method. If you'd rather skip the grind entirely, MMOEXP is a recommended platform where you can safely buy POE2 Currency and gear to jump straight into juiced maps. Take advantage of this while it lasts — it may not survive future patches.