Best Currency Farming Strategies in PoE 3.29: 8 Farms That Print (Curse of the Allflame)

Updated for 3.29.2 Curse of the Allflame (patched 2026-08-05) · last verified 2026-08-12. All currency values float week to week — verify live on poe.ninja.

Quick answer: In Path of Exile 3.29 (Curse of the Allflame), the highest raw-currency ceiling is the league mechanic itself — Charts and Voyages — where you chain 9 completed Charts into one Voyage for a heavily-juiced undersea payout. For steady, low-stress income run the "blue-collar" farms the community swears by: Kalguur/Kingsmarch, Harvest, and the low-budget favorite Alva/Incursion. Want the lowest skill floor? Expedition (Tujen) turns loot straight into currency with no trading step. Want a gamble with a big top end? Abyss, freshly buffed in the 3.29.1–3.29.2 patches. Below is the full ranked menu, what each one costs to set up, and how to pick.

Curse of the Allflame didn't delete the old farms — it re-priced them. The ships-and-seafloor mechanic added a brand-new money loop on top of Wraeclast's classic Atlas strategies, and the 3.29.1 and 3.29.2 patches then buffed Charts, Voyages, Abyss and Mercenaries. The players getting rich this league are the ones reading the current patch notes instead of copy-pasting last league's tier list. Here's the current picture.

How currency actually works in PoE 3.29

Path of Exile has no gold for trading — the entire player economy runs on currency orbs traded as barter. Farming currency means farming the orbs that other players want: Chaos Orbs (the workhorse that rerolls all mods on a rare), Divine Orbs (the premier high-value currency, which rerolls a mod's numeric values), and the crafting-orb ladder around them. "Getting rich" in PoE means converting your farm's raw drops — Scarabs, Essences, Divination Cards, Ducats, crafting bases — into stacks of Divine and Chaos.

Two things reshaped what's worth farming this league:

• The seafloor mechanic added a whole new loop. Charts and Voyages drop currency, Scarabs, gold, Ducats and chest loot directly, and they're the single most profitable new thing in 3.29.
• The socket-colour overhaul re-priced Chromatic Orbs. Sockets are now white by default and any gem fits any socket, which made naturally coloured items rare — so the old "chromatics are worthless" leveling wisdom is dead, and the RGB vendor recipe is now genuinely worth picking up. Small example of the bigger rule: check the patch, not your muscle memory.

One more note before the list: you do not need an expensive build to make currency. Several of the best strategies below run in white and yellow maps on a league-start budget. Clear speed helps everything, but consistency beats raw damage for most farmers.

The best currency farming strategies in 3.29, ranked

Strategy	Type	Setup cost	Payout profile	Best for
Charts & Voyages	League mechanic	Low–med	Highest ceiling, spiky	Anyone; the "must-try" of 3.29
Kalguur / Kingsmarch	Semi-idle raw currency	Low	Steady Divines, Bars, Fossils	Set-and-forget grinders
Harvest	Blue-collar grind	Med	High, scales with investment	Consistent daily income
Alva / Incursion	Blue-collar grind	Very low	Steady, cheap to start	Low-budget characters
Expedition (Tujen)	Instant currency	Very low	Reliable, no trade step	Lowest skill floor
Abyss	Endgame gamble	Med–high	Big top end, variable	Strong builds chasing spikes
Legion	Early funding	Low	Fast, front-loaded	Days 1–3 scarab funding
Breach	Density farm	Low	Decent, re-priced down	Fast clear-speed builds

1. Curse of the Allflame — Charts & Voyages (highest ceiling)

The league mechanic is also the best new money-maker. You find Lost Charts guarded by monsters inside your maps, take them to The Sovereign (Corsair captain Valerie's ship), and descend in the Bathysphere to loot a drowning seafloor area — placing Allflame Lanterns to create oxygen zones so you don't drown. Once you've charted enough areas, you link 9 Charts into a Voyage, one long chained expedition where the real loot is, then collect everything shipped back to the surface.

The 3.29.1 patch made this loop dramatically stronger. Per Grinding Gear Games' own patch notes, "Quantity and Rarity values granted by Chart Modifiers will all be raised by 20-40%," currency/Scarab/Stacked Deck/Map chests now spawn far more often as scattered loot, and — importantly for anyone buying Charts to run Voyages — the Chart trade-market Gold fee was greatly lowered. Diviner/Arcanist/Operative Strongboxes now also spawn by default above area level 67, so you no longer grind Vesper upgrade pieces first.

For the full loop — how to build an optimal 9-Chart Voyage, lantern management, and the best chest priorities — see our dedicated Charts & Voyages currency-farming guide. If you want to squeeze the crafting layer, the Allflame crafting & Ducats guide covers turning seafloor Ducats into real value.

2. Kalguur Ore / Kingsmarch (steady raw currency)

Kingsmarch (the Kalguur settlement) remains one of the strongest all-round semi-idle currency lanes. You feed it Kalguur Ore Deposits, ship goods out via King's March, and it pays back a consistent stream of Divine Orbs, Tattoos, Bars, Fossils and gold while you keep mapping. Maxroll notes Kalguur "still has good potential as a more grounded raw currency farm in 3.29" — the settlement's own materials help offset last league's nerfs. Pair it with Delve and Mercenaries and it largely self-funds. This is the pick if you like income that ticks over in the background while you do something else.

3. Harvest (grounded, scales with investment)

Harvest is a rock-solid 3.29 currency generator. You plant and harvest monster crops for crafting juice and raw currency; as maxroll puts it, "Harvest steps up the investment to substantially increase total income." It's the classic "office worker" grind — low variance, very consistent, and it rewards you for investing more into the strategy rather than praying for a lucky drop. If you want a farm that reliably pays the same amount every session, this is it.

4. Alva / Incursion (the low-budget favorite)

Ask r/PathOfExileBuilds for a cheap consistent farm and the answer is Alva. It's repeatedly called "the cheapest easiest atlas strat" and "super consistent" — you invest a single Incursion wheel on the Atlas passive tree, run Alva scarabs, build Temples, then double-corrupt high-value rooms (Gemcutter's Prism rooms are a common target). It works in white and yellow maps, so a fresh, budget character can farm it immediately. Alongside Temples, players group Harvest and Bestiary as the "big three blue-collar farms" — steady, forgiving, and cheap to start.

5. Expedition — Tujen (lowest skill floor)

Expedition took only minor QoL changes in 3.29 and remains the best "reliable, low-skill-floor" recommendation. The reason is Tujen: haggling with him converts your Expedition artifacts directly into raw currency with no crafting and no trading step. That removes the biggest friction point of most farms (selling your loot), which is exactly why it's the friendliest strategy for newer players or anyone who just wants currency without running a market stall.

6. Abyss (endgame gamble, freshly buffed)

Abyss is the high-variance endgame lane, and it got meaningfully stronger across the recent patches. In 3.29.1, Lich bosses lost their immunity phases (with +25% boss life), three reward chests now drop on a boss kill, and Abyss chest loot variance and quality improved — especially Currency and Scarabs. It keeps getting iteration in 3.29.2. The top end is big but streaky, so this is the pick when you have a strong build and want spikes rather than a flat wage.

7. Legion (fast early funding)

Legion was reworked in 3.29 and is the go-to early-league funding strategy. The common opener is a Legion + Strongbox hybrid — Legion scarab as the primary, boxes left open — to bankroll scarabs for the first two or three days before you pivot into whatever the market is rewarding. It's front-loaded and fast, which is exactly what you want while your Atlas tree is still thin.

8. Breach (re-priced down, but still clears)

Be honest about this one. Breach is strong when your build has serious clear speed, but its rewards were re-priced down after the 3.28 "Mirage" mechanic was removed — roughly halved by community estimates. It "still prints" for the right build, but it's no longer the runaway earner it was last league. Good, not god-tier, this time around.

Staples that fill the gaps: wherever your main strategy has downtime, Essences and Divination Cards are the dependable filler lanes — low setup, always-on, and they stack up quietly while you run everything else.

Which farm should you run? (by budget and playstyle)

There's no single "best" — there's a best for you:

• You're broke / just hit maps: Alva/Incursion or Expedition (Tujen). Both start cheap and pay reliably in low-tier maps.
• You want the highest ceiling and don't mind spiky returns: Charts & Voyages. It's the league mechanic for a reason.
• You want income that ticks over while you do other things: Kalguur/Kingsmarch.
• You want a consistent, scalable daily wage: Harvest.
• You have a strong build and want big gambles: Abyss.
• It's day 1–3 and you need scarab money now: Legion + Strongbox hybrid.

Watch the market during the first weeks of the league — prices shift fast, and the correct answer changes as currency floods in. Stay flexible and pivot toward whatever is over-priced that week.

How to turn farm loot into Divine Orbs faster

Every farm above outputs a pile of stuff — Scarabs, Essences, div cards, crafting bases, Ducats — that you still have to convert into the Divine and Chaos Orbs you actually want to spend. That conversion is where hours disappear: listing items, price-checking, sitting in your hideout answering trade whispers. If you'd rather skip the grind and get straight to gearing, buying PoE currency at a fair rate gets Divines and Chaos into your stash in minutes so you can spend the league playing the build instead of running a market stall.

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FAQ

What's the best low-budget currency farm in PoE 3.29? Alva/Incursion is the community's top low-budget pick — it's cheap to set up (one Incursion wheel on the Atlas), runs in white and yellow maps, and pays out consistently by building and double-corrupting Temples. Expedition (haggling artifacts to Tujen) is the other great cheap starter because it converts loot straight into currency with no trading step.

Did Curse of the Allflame kill the old farms? No — it re-priced them. The 3.29 league added the Charts/Voyages money loop on top of the classic Atlas strategies, and reworked Abyss, Legion and Breach rather than removing them. Old staples like Harvest, Kalguur, Expedition and Incursion are all still strong; their relative value just shifted, so check the current patch notes instead of last league's tier list.

Is Breach still worth farming after the Mirage removal? It's decent, not dominant. Breach was reworked in 3.29 and its rewards were roughly halved once the 3.28 "Mirage" mechanic was removed. A build with strong clear speed can still make good currency in Breaches, but it's no longer the runaway earner it was last league — most farmers get more out of the league mechanic or the blue-collar farms.

Charts or Voyages — which makes more currency? Voyages. Charts are the entry-level version of the seafloor loop and give fast, steady returns, but Voyages (built by linking 9 completed Charts) are the high-end, heavily-modified version where the real money is. Run Charts to build up, then cash in with Voyages.

How do I farm Divine Orbs specifically in 3.29? Divines mostly come from converting bulk farm output, not from raw drops. The most reliable Divine lanes this league are Kalguur/Kingsmarch (which pays Divines semi-idle) and high-investment Harvest, plus selling the Scarabs and chest loot from Voyages. Always verify the current Divine rate on poe.ninja before you buy or sell, since it inflates through the league.

Do I need an expensive build to farm currency? No. Alva, Expedition, Legion and Kingsmarch all run comfortably on a league-start budget in low-to-mid maps. Clear speed improves your rate, but consistency matters more than raw power for currency farming — a cheap, tanky mapper that never dies out-earns a glass cannon that keeps face-planting.