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7D per map Catalysts farm | Poe2 0.5.5

Updated on Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026

Overview

This is a simple Hiveblood farming strategy focused entirely on turning Hiveblood into Catalysts through Genesis and selling the full result for profit.

In my testing, I’ve been running the strategy in 20-tablet batches, with the results averaging roughly 7 Divines per map/tablet use from the Catalyst conversion alone. Normal map drops, Breach loot, splinters, Waystones and other drops are not included in those numbers.

The setup itself is very straightforward: run corrupted T15 maps with three Breach tablets, stack increased Hiveblood found in Maps, use Jado to improve tablet effectiveness, farm the Breaches, then take the accumulated Hiveblood and Lavish Wombgifts to Genesis and Birth Catalysts.

You don’t need Delirium, expensive maps or crazy juicing for the baseline version. Faster/stronger builds can add those on top, but the strategy shown here is intentionally kept simple.

After each batch I Birth the Catalysts and sell every single Catalyst in bulk through Ange, including the cheap ones. Even the low-value Catalysts add up over a full batch.@

Guide

1. Maps

For the baseline version of this farm, I simply use corrupted T15 Waystones.

You do not need expensive layouts, Delirium, special map modifiers or heavily juiced maps for this strategy to work. The goal is to get into the map, clear the Breaches quickly, collect the Hiveblood and move on.

If you get a terrible layout, you can use Jado's corrupted-map options to help replace it rather than forcing yourself through something awful.


2. Breach Tablets

Use 3 Breach Tablets and look for:

% increased Hiveblood found in Maps

I normally aim for around 50% or higher.

You do not need to pay extra for things like increased Magic Monsters, rarity or other expensive tablet modifiers for the baseline strategy. Hiveblood is what we care about.

Decent tablets were costing me around 5 Chaos each, although cheaper ones with lower Hiveblood rolls can still be used.

The important part is simply stacking as much increased Hiveblood found in Maps as you reasonably can.


3. Breach Atlas Tree

For this farm, most of the Breach Atlas tree is irrelevant.

The two selections I care about are:

Shape the Chains: Empower Rares
Select the option giving 30% increased Effectiveness of Rare Breach Monsters.

Breeding Program: Lavish Fruit
Select Lavish Wombgifts, giving 100% increased chance to find the selected Wombgift.

Lavish Wombgifts are important because these are what we later use in Genesis when converting our farmed Hiveblood into Catalysts.

Everything else on the Breach tree can be set up around your own preferences.



Wombgift Supply

If you run out of Lavish Wombgifts, you do not need to stop the strategy.

You can usually just buy them from other players for around 2 Chaos each. Even paying around 3 Chaos per Wombgift can still be worth it, although your final profit will obviously be lower.

So don’t treat self-farming every Wombgift as mandatory. As long as the purchase price still leaves enough margin on the Catalyst conversion, buying extra Wombgifts is completely fine.


4. Jado Setup

The main Jado node for this strategy is:

Partial Translations
Gives 0–40% increased Effect of Explicit Modifiers on Tablets.

This is especially useful because it can increase the effectiveness of the Hiveblood found in Maps modifier on your Breach Tablets.

I also use:

Unexpected Missions
Corrupted Waystones open Maps with an additional random Modifier and can also change Basic Map layouts.

Unforeseen Threads
Gives a chance when completing Maps to reveal a nearby Anomaly Map.

Long Days
Gives 20% more chance of Random Extra Content.

Only Partial Translations is directly important to the Hiveblood part of the farm. The rest are mainly extra value and utility while mapping.


5. Running the Maps

The actual gameplay loop is extremely simple:

  1. Open your corrupted T15.
  2. Run the Breaches.
  3. Collect the Hiveblood and Wombgifts.
  4. Finish whatever else you personally care about.
  5. Leave and open the next map.

For this strategy I am not counting normal ground loot toward the profit.

That means things like Breach Splinters, Waystones, currency drops, tablets and random map drops are all extra.

The numbers shown in my testing come specifically from:

Hiveblood → Catalysts → selling the Catalysts

My maps were usually around the 3-minute mark, although obviously this depends on your build and map layout.


6. Tablet Preservation

I normally test the strategy in 20-tablet batches.

For easier comparison, I divide the final profit by two and show the result as profit per 10 tablets.

That is also roughly comparable to 10 map runs, but it is not always exactly 1:1 because the Atlas can sometimes preserve tablet uses.

So preservation can effectively stretch the same investment across additional maps.


7. Genesis Catalyst Setup

Once you have accumulated Hiveblood and Lavish Wombgifts, go to the Genesis tree and set it up specifically for Catalysts.

The Catalyst-related modifiers I use are:

Complete Refinement x2
Can only Birth Catalysts.

Catalyst Chance x2
Each gives 15% chance for Birthed Currency to be a Catalyst.

Additional Duplicate Catalyst Chance x4
Each gives 30% Suppressing chance to Birth an additional Catalyst of the same type.

Additional Different Catalyst Chance x2
Each gives 30% Suppressing chance to Birth an additional Catalyst of a different type when Birthing Catalysts.

Additional Item Chance
Gives 20% Suppressing chance to Birth an additional Item.

Jewel Catalyst Chance
Gives 4% chance for Birthed Catalysts to be Jewel Catalysts.

Enhanced Creation
Gives 10% chance for Birthed Catalysts to be Jewel Catalysts.

The idea is simple: push Genesis as hard as possible toward Catalyst output and additional Catalyst births.


8. Birthing the Catalysts

There is no special conversion trick here.

Once you are finished farming:

Take your Lavish Wombgifts to Genesis → spend your accumulated Hiveblood → Birth Catalysts.

Keep going until you have converted the Hiveblood from your farming batch.


9. Selling the Catalysts

I sell every Catalyst I get through Ange in bulk.

That includes the bad ones.

Some Catalysts can be worth almost nothing individually, sometimes even around 10 Catalysts for 1 Chaos, but I still sell them.

Chaos adds up very quickly across a full 20-tablet batch, so throwing away the cheap Catalysts means throwing away part of the actual profit.

After selling everything, I convert the Chaos into Divines and calculate the final batch value.


10. Profit Testing

The results shown in the video are based on repeated 20-tablet batches.

I then divide the result by two to make it easier to compare:

Profit per 10 tablets / roughly 10 map runs

In my testing, the strategy has been averaging around 7 Divines per map/tablet use from the Catalyst conversion alone.

Again, that does not include normal map loot.


11. Optional Juicing

The version shown here is intentionally kept simple.

If your build is strong enough, you can add things like:

  • Delirium
  • City maps
  • four-tablet setups
  • additional mechanics
  • stronger Waystones

But none of that is required for the basic Hiveblood → Catalyst strategy.

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