best place to farm corrupt areas?

[Hora Bablonde]

Ive never fought atziri and just got my first end game character so where is the best place to find corrupt areas late game? Like a map where the corrupt area spawn right near the entrance or waypoint in late game areas is ideal.

[Septic]

You mean those side areas with the beating heart above them? If so why would you need them to spawn right at the entrance or waypoint, if you die just hit "spawn at checkpoint" and you will be outside the corrupted entrance portal. But for me(not farming them) personally seen alot of them when farming the Ledge but think they are very random.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Septic:

You mean those side areas with the beating heart above them? If so why would you need them to spawn right at the entrance or waypoint, if you die just hit "spawn at checkpoint" and you will be outside the corrupted entrance portal.

If OP wants to farm them, that'd be really quick to access them. Just run a few meters from the wp... nothign to do with dieing.

[Septic]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by Septic:

You mean those side areas with the beating heart above them? If so why would you need them to spawn right at the entrance or waypoint, if you die just hit "spawn at checkpoint" and you will be outside the corrupted entrance portal.

If OP wants to farm them, that'd be really quick to access them. Just run a few meters from the wp... nothign to do with dieing.

Might be me that is a newb here(most likely) but are we able to hit Ctrl and reset corrupted instances? And why use/look for the wp when townportal scrolls are so plentyfull :)

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Septic:

Might be me that is a newb here(most likely) but are we able to hit Ctrl and reset corrupted instances? And why use/look for the wp when townportal scrolls are so plentyfull :)

You can't directly create corrupted areas. You can create the instances that contain them. OP is asking for an easily accessible spawn point. So you just go from the waypoint to that point and check, on failure retry. With "return to character selection" you don't need scrolls to try again fast.

I'm not awary of any such positioning. There are some areas that are easier to not miss them (e.g. ledge or tidal island), but those usually have lower spawn rates to compensate. I'd suggest trying something like Wetlands to farm. The corrupted area would spawn on the edge of the map, which you can just circle through from the waypoint, which is near one of the walls. It may be a bit big, but I've seen quite a few corrupted zones there while leveling, so the spawn rate may be ok-ish.

Edit: Also, you can create a new instance from within that zone at the wp, so you save one loading time when refreshing.

[Lagwin1980]

There is no instance where it's right next to the entrance, that would be exploitable.

Up to you, but 2 places that are OK for it are tidal islands and fetid pool because the are a loop, you run in, follow the path in one direction ustil you reach the entrance again...it dose have a slightly lower rate of spawning them compared to bigger areas though.

If you are specificaly looking for midnight fragments, you might want to look at your current poll of the lesser fragments, if you have an excess of the lower end ones put one in the map device and it'll spawn a corrupted area to run.

[Septic]

@The_Driver

Thx i learn pretty much every day since i started playing again :) and some things are a bit newish for me.

[Hora Bablonde]

What about act 4 areas that are possible to create them? the wiki has not been updated yet and the only area I have seen them in act 4 is aquaduct.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Goblin Goat-Butts:

What about act 4 areas that are possible to create them? the wiki has not been updated yet and the only area I have seen them in act 4 is aquaduct.

The wiki lists "The Dried Lake" with at least 2 possible zones (Abandoned Dam, Ancient Catacomb); the mines (1,2+crystal veins) with Haunted Mineshaft at http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Corrupted_area

[Hora Bablonde]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by Goblin Goat-Butts:

What about act 4 areas that are possible to create them? the wiki has not been updated yet and the only area I have seen them in act 4 is aquaduct.

The wiki lists "The Dried Lake" with at least 2 possible zones (Abandoned Dam, Ancient Catacomb); the mines (1,2+crystal veins) with Haunted Mineshaft at http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Corrupted_area

Awesome! Thank you for the info and not ragging on me for being so terribly unobservant ;P

[Hadopire]

Personally, i like to alt museum map until i get two unique bosses, then vaal it. then rush to the boss. this way you can farm 2-4 fragments per map. Plus farming corrupted areas is boring.

[Psyringe]

Dried Lake is probably your best bet. Boost your speed as good as you can, run along the bottom edge of the map (don't engage mobs), look for a corrupted area that branches off from the edge. Kill Voll when you meet him, for experience and loot. When you reach the mountain range, run back diagonally through the middle of the map to check for the second corrupted area.

It can be done, but it's very tedious, since corrupted areas don't have a high spawn rate. Personally I'm using corrupted maps instead. If you have a lot of Vaal orbs, you can vaal individual maps, preferably (as someone else already) the museum map when it has the "twinned" mod, as that will spawn six bosses who can drop Vaal fragments. Dry Woods is another candidate, it has two bosses by default (four when twinned). If you don't have many Vaal orbs, but find a cartographer's strongbox, craft the box for increased quality/quantity (and preferably increased chest level) and then corrupt it with the orb, that will corrupt all maps inside.