NEVER Fail A Blight EVER AGAIN!

In almost every video I see on blight, they ask not to upgrade the seismic and chill towers to T4. Why is that?

Thank you, this really helped. I had no idea that towers off the screen weren't helping which is what I was having issues with. Now with what I learned here I can beat this super easy even when I get crappy tower positions.

Around the 5 minute mark - how is he able to tell which "nodes" (is this what it is called?) will travel through the area where he is building the towers? As in, I can see all of the different spawning types of places on the bottom of the screen, but I cannot see where they are located on the map.

Blight is how i start my leagues, ill farm it for a week straight and usually have enough currency to move onto my second build by the end of week 1

This is all well and good, but how do you placed down towers when there are none spawning in your lanes? The amount of times that I have had a single pustule blight where the pustule spawns less than half a screen from the pump and there are no towers that spawn. Even with massive DPS the monsters still get through due to numbers. I have also unfortunately have a blight spawn with lanes all in different directions, and only had one tower spawn right on one pustule, the other four lanes having no towers. Kind of makes it impossible to do blights that way. Can you please find an instance like that Ziz and show us how it can be done flawlessly?

Ty for this Z. I recently found ur Poe vids on YT. I played harvest on PC. Just returned to the game on PS and blight maps have been a struggle for my poison BV

I could play Blight all day long without the actual Path of Exile.

place your tp directly on top of the blight pump and you will never miss be caught off guard with a mob on your pump and also if you die you respawn on top of it to defend it

what would be the best oils for ravaged blight map if my build can clear it easily without any towers

So complete noob here to blight mechanic....only place seismic and freezing towers down, and try and get a seismic and freezing very close together. If there's another slot nearby, place empowering tower and upgrade them to max but don't specialize them?

TL:DR shock->seismic for perma stun, chill for slow, empower if it'll hit any of the above, and then meteor last but not least if there's space. Close to pump is best

I just completed my first blighted map and got a Divine out of a chest. Thank you Zizaran!

It still feels like the Scout tower does more damage but it doesnt have burning ground so its less consistent

i was so hype for Blight-Ravaged maps...

hey ziz, thank for the video. it help for new player and returning player as well

chill effect is bad imo, and also i cant use immune response cuz they all fail with that node on

I am getting wrecked by blight chance encounters in my map. Did the seismic + chill but it doesn't seem to stun lock like it does in blight maps, and then my damage isn't high enough to kill them before the pump. Any advise welcomed.

I love that you give us tacit permission to struggle and maybe fail. Other streamers say things like, "there's never a reason to fail a blight map" and then when you do, it feels bad

i did not know blight towers stopped working if you move to far away. well that explains a lot

Zizaran: "Now you'll see that if I move far away the boss will get right through my stun tower."
Boss: 🤡

I do Blight every season to get my cash flow rolling. A couple of notes - Burning ground from meteors is OP. Even if a monster is immune to flame towers, the burning ground still wrecks them. I go for 25% increased effect of empowering towers as my other anoint. If you're just starting out, start with two amber and one sepia. Once you have built up some Oils. Switch to 2 Amber and 1 Azure or 1 Crimson to increase rewards. This alone, even with a crappy build will allow you to take in T13+ blighted maps with relative ease. Once you have a decent build you can do whatever you want and really rake in the currency. It's not really worth it to alch or corrupt maps. Just run them blue. Watch for "Cannot be Stunned" like Ziz said. Also, cannot be slowed below base value is kind of annoying as well.
Ravaged maps are not worth it unless you absolutely know what you're doing. Just sell them for 15c a pop or what they are (they're typically 15c, regardless of tier).
The offscreen not killing monsters is still lame. There will be some maps that, unless you have a really good build, they are impossible. I think it's Silo that is the worst for this. It almost always starts with a line in one direction with towers far away from the pump and then immediately starts a line in the opposite direction with towers far away as well. It's awful. Similar to what Ziz showed here, the best layouts are the ones that would be shitty to run a normal map in. The cramped/maze-like maps.

You can also empower chill adn stun towers, then the mobs dont mvoe AT ALL, if combined with the effect of towers oil.

Towers don't work if you can't see them?? Holy crap, that explains my YEARS of frustration and never being able to do Blight maps effectively! Wow, that is absolutely infuriating.

Thanks for this! - this helped me get through a blight map despite chugging 1 fps. The loot makes it so worth it tho

About 2 minutes in I was as confused as when I first saw this mechanic. Literally everything you said feels like you are speaking a foreign language. I really do appreciate your content and trying to make us all better at PoE, but I think unless someone has a pretty good concept of Blight to start this looks really cool, but that's about it.

Instead of chill ring enchant I pick Empowering tower effect. With t3 empowering tower chill tower perma freezes enemies and stun tower perma stuns letting you stop both types of enemies. Also burning ground from meteor damages enemies immune to fire tower.
This setup lets you fully afk blight revaged maps, just gotta sit in range of all towers (when you go about 2 screens away, towers deactivate).

i love blight but the fact that the towers are screen limited and sometimes you get flooded with proxi shields takes away all the fun

0.2 sec chill tower lock down + meteor tower burning round is a general consensus and then putting level 3 empower level 3 frosty and level 3 seismic in all choke points and then once thats in your chokes put meteor towers to kill everything off. Scout towers/frost cage close to pump for random slippery boys. Basically impossible to fail unless you are in a wide open layout with bad rng. Even then salvageable.

You probably want to corrupt your blighted map too, as it gives a chance to drop tainted oils.

looks around and whisper how did you know i keep failing

I wish people would stop calling it afk blight they have added so much on death effects and ranged shots that you can actually struggle to stop moving long enough to not get insta gibbed upgrading a tower

I'd love to see a guide about 2 things:
1. how and when to change your gear when going in to red maps. I usually have no problems at all getting to maps and getting started, but once im at a point where its unlikely to get upgrades from just rares that drops, i get stuck.

2. A not so beginner guide on getting faster to maps. Which quests / zones should be skipped, things like that.

i always use chill tower stun for 0.2 sec and 25% more stun duration from seismic towers annoints, works best for me.

I don't think I've ever completed a blight 😮

With explode glove you can have offscreen clear like 100+ mobs die every time you kill 1st in line

Maybe il become a blight owner next league, looks solid

My fave mechanic in the game, and I still have hard time doing this (also I got gpu upgraded so I hope I won't crash again)

Well dont want to watch whole video, 2 mins is enough... I'll give ya a tip as a blight player... you look for spot where you can place 3 turrets on each way and you build seismic in a front, freeze somewhere near it and green one. You upgrade them to 1 lvl before max and leave them like that. If you dont have mod on map that monsters speed can't go below basic value there is no way that anything will pass it even on rav-blight maps and if there will be still some problem use 0.2 sec freeze annoint. For clearing I recommend annoint for ring that meteor leaves burning ground. GL & HF for easy money.

THANK YOU! I finally know what to deal with this mechanic and dont have to avoid or even block it in the atlas tree. I now know that you can and i now know how to annoint rings and the most important thing is the perma stun tactic. Ive realised i was making huge mistakes when i kept upgrading my towers to the highest lvl. I thought that the higher lvl of the tower the better. Sooo many blight runs lost and just as many times saying that its the last time im doing that. Again, thank you. This video was a much needed help!

Most people may not agree with me here but fun-wise the blight encounters/maps are my favourive game mechanic because is it the only mechanic which you can effectively do with your friends playing together. All the other stuff is more like a single player game except for blight.

It's nearly impossible not to fail a blight every now and then. Because if turret points spawn to far away from the pump, say, both in north and south, when you go north, turrets in south shut down, yes, they actually stop working when you are not near them. But it's possible to achieve a 90-95% success rate, even in blight-ravaged mods. I don't remember whose video was it, but I follow someone else's strategy, 2 ring anoints are the chilling towers freeze enemies and meteor creates burning ground. If you have never done blight-ravaged maps before, this burning ground might seem counter-intuitive, but it's just fantastic, because even enemies come from resistant to fire towers get damaged by it. There are a few things to pay attention to, you cannot do maps with ''enemy's action speed cannot be lowered to below base'' and the second thing is, there are gonna be occasional monsters that cannot be frozen, for this reason, you mix some seismic towers at level 3 supported by empowering towers, they'll be stun-locked in place. I've literally made so many maps afk, I am not even exaggerating, when you are done putting the towers down, it just takes care of itself.

edit: BTW, I didn't even use any oils to make blight easier, you can focus on rewards only with this strategy; x3 silver, x3 opalescent, x3 crimson.

@zizaran the spell mastery "25% chance to open chests near you" works on blight chests and is a decent aoe, makes looting take 1/4 the time saving a lot of time

Wow. Didn't realise the tower stoped working when you move far away. I lost countless blights because of this. I was investing heavily on one side and moved to the other side thinking I got it covered... And if the blight is indoor, I always put a frozen prison near a door, usually nothing gets past that

i wanna be honest i am not a pro poe player nor have i much knowledge about it and mostly learn stuff on this channel....blight is one of my most fun things to do in poe (along with exploration) just that i really sucked at it and failed so many maps last season that i just rage quit....and i wanted to dodge this new poe season because i have the feeling that poe is prob not made for me and im more of a diablo casual...but watching this and how easy blighted maps can be gives me the motivation to just get into it again after the client finished downloading...thanks alot for those videos 100% helps to keep me motivated to actually play the game

Can you do short videos like this one for other content like ritual, abyss, breach that isn’t too advanced

pog he read my mind. need gold oil x2 this league

The blight in toxic sewers was not a good enough example of a "bad blight" and neither was the blight map. It's not helpful to anyone to see you getting lucky. We need examples of actually bad scenarios so we can learn how to adapt and beat them, like getting a star shaped blight while you're a melee build. You don't have enough resources to cover all the lanes with towers and there are no choke points. The only solution seems to be to abandon it.

There is also a long standing bugged zombie rhoa, that GGG seems to have never addressed. It is undying and just slowly move towards your pump, best way to speed it up is to go as far from that mob as possible in your map.

It shows up occasionally and is not a huge detriment if you have high pump life. Just a heads up for folks.

Pretty wild that people have realized how to utilize "bad maps" to do specific League content.

I have a 100% success in blights I don't crash in, which means I fail more than half of them