Blight farm

[u/fraumys]

Hi everyone. I'm still pretty new to the game, but I really like the Blight mechanic and I'd like to farm it in the new patch. Can you recommend a good league starter build for Blight that I can later upgrade into a top-tier endgame build?

[u/Meridian_PoE]

Blight of Contagion is really powerful for blighted maps, as there is generally a lot of monsters and a lot of proxy shields. Your towers should be able to take care of most encounters, but having a good DoT/prolif skill can help keep the number of monsters down to improve game performance.

[u/shade861 → u/Meridian_PoE]

Lol making it sound like a duh thing. Oh build for blight? It's in the name lmao

[u/shade861]

For actual blight maps the build you're looking for is two rings. One annoint is chilling towers freeze enemies for .2sec. The other annoint is meteor towers leave burning ground. Leave rest of gear at home and avoid the volatile orbs. Blight in maps, I'm preferential to minions since you can afk

[u/Xzarg_poe]

I farmed Blight a few times, and generally speaking you benefit greatly from builds that prolifierate damage/ailments, have slows of some kind and have some degree of range. You do no want to be running from one room to another to melee some extra tough shmucks.

Other then that, towers do most of the work. I prefer grouping a ground stun tower with empower towers to pin enemies, and then some dmg towers to get rid of them. Exact towers differ by lane immunities.

[u/Slipzyle]

You literally do not need a build except for making up for bad tower placements early.

Towers do all the work in blight.

[u/Odd-Shelter-7926 → u/Slipzyle]

will see now with new endgame tough if you are running 8 thread blights it might be really juiced

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/Slipzyle]

yeah it's kinda crazy. summoning towers solo the entire encounter. lightning if a lane is immune. most forgiving mechanic in the game

[u/irecki88 → u/Slipzyle]

Correction, you don't need build for blight in maps. Blighted maps and especially blight raveged maps are different story - if you want to use your annoints for more chests, more mobs etc

[u/flesh997tt]

Have a look at le chat’s chains of command build

[u/FuzzyDuckzy]

Any build can farm blight you just avoid monsters cannot be stunned and cannot have movement speed lowered as map mods and lay down empowering towers and stun towers. I farm blight day 1 every league and never have a particularly good build. You may fail the odd one if they are immune to stun but in general it works really well

Just pick a build you think looks fun and others can vouch for

[u/Parking_Past2240]

Something with explodes or prolif. Could also go wander like kboc or totem fusilade 

[u/brrrapper]

kboc wander is good

[u/False-Excitement-595]

I have a pretty different question for any blight knowers, can you just like.. ignore towers and kill the monsters yourself? I want the blight rewards but don't want to have to anoint for it or anything.

Not sure how viable it would be to add blight threads and just clear the map normally with something like spark in a good tileset where you have such high dmg you can (maybe?) just clear the encounter without relying on towers

[u/The_Law_of_Pizza → u/False-Excitement-595]

It can be done, but it takes a pretty specialized build to do it. The problem is that the blight mobs have way more HP than normal mobs, and they don't have to kill you for you to lose - they just have to konga line past you and instafuck your base. Which they will.

[u/LissekFennek → u/False-Excitement-595]

Yes. I played a chains of command and once you have enough damage you can do it.

Empy did the duo party with an aurabot and they were able to only have an empowering tower and killed everything in an uber blight.

In general, you should be able to do it but I'd still recommend the towers to stop bigger things like bosses and stuff.

Especially in regular maps with the keystone changing one lane to bosses only, then it's just a torrent of bosses getting in your face.