NEVER Fail A Blight EVER AGAIN! 

if you support your lvl 3 seismic tower with a lvl 3 support tower the mobs will get perma stunned, incase they are immune to seismic you just place chilling tower (not fully upgraded!) with the ring anoint "Your Chilling Towers freeze enemies for 0.2 seconds while they are affected by chilling beams" and these mobs will get perma stunned aswell

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.

The fact that the screen limit thing with towers hasn't been changed/fixed in all these years - it's the most infuriating thing about this mechanic and almost completely invalidates 99% of the "Tower" nodes that spawn.

I love Blight. It's such a chillout experience.

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 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 use to struggle with blight maps, then i watched a video on it where they said to build green towers to level 3 and stun towers to level 3, and it perma stuns everything, then add a few meteor towers to damage everything that is stunned and if they are immune to stun, then freeze towers work and the cages are pretty good too. Now i can finish blight maps!

a few more pointers for anyone who happens to read this and cares for blight - 1. monsters action speed cannot be modified below base value map modifier bricks chilling towers similarly to how stun immunity bricks stun towers. 2. meteor tower burning ground damages fire immune portal units too, thats why that anoint is extra valuable, it generally makes it the best dps tower even if there are a lot of fire immume portals. they dont stack incredibly well though, so sometimes having an arc tower or a scout tower might be more valuable dps wise alongside a meteor in a cluster. 3. empowering towers are incredibly strong and i recommend everyone to either get empowering range or empowering effect anoints alongside the meteor. 4. always build in clusters, build around your empowering towers, if there are even 20 lanes and they need to go through a cluster of empower + chilling + stun + meteor, they will never go through. 5. if you have a bad layout, always prioritize CC over damage. 6. if you can afford it, always have a glacial cage tower as well as a sentinel tower somewhere on top/close to the pipe, its a nice stop gap to any stragglers that got through your defenses somehow, probably when you werent in range for a moment.

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.

Thank you! I could never finish a blight map 😂, now i know that I don't have to turn on all of the towers.

Thanks so much for all of your guides 🙏 Blight has always been fun but scary, so I'm glad to get some good info so I can run some myself 💜

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!

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 used to hate blight until I learned the burning ground+boosting tower method a couple years ago (from tripolar I think?). Now blight is one of the mechanics I always go full into because it just solves your currency issues and it can be done no matter the gear I got.

Best mechanic in the game to me. I maybe a bit bias & nostalgic because it was the first league I joined the game. Great vid. Awesome tips for all.

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

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

@Zizaran you forgot to mention that the burning ground is op because it still damages monsters immune to fire towers so with that enchant the towers will be able to damage all monsters

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

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

'Your Chilling Towers freeze enemies for 0.2 seconds while they are affected by chilling beams' anoint is absolutely busted with the meteor burning ground anoint. It's relatively expensive (opal/silver) but you'll never fail

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.

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

Great vid!

Great info "Enchunt" is cracking me up

@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

Thanks for the guide. Waiting for an Incursion guide.

Didn't realize how good the stun towers were. I almost never used them, guess i'll be changing that now.

if only blight didnt crash my game everytime(since Arch-nemesis league)

Could you do a follow-up for more detail? Symbols and meanings and what they are immune to and immune against? And what towers are best to use for what and at what level? I've failed multiple over the last leagues, low dps, where towers don't do enough DMG or like you show, stun or freeze.

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

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

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

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

once I learned how to do blight it is one of my favorite things to do now

Jumped on to try this tactic and it worked great, problem was the server/game crashed when i was opening the pods so I lost the map and all the loots 🙁

Do you get more rewards depending on how much “tower currency” you saved?

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

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

I very much enjoyed blight league, but haven't gotten far enough in any league since then to farm blights.

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?

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

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

Never fail a blight again, until your client crashes repeatedly when trying to build towers...

...I've been enjoying blight ever since it was a league mechanic, how am I just now learning the towers stop working off screen?

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.

Love blight. really do. hate the crashes and i'm tired of losing 10% of my exp if it doesn't disconnect me fast enough.

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.

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)

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

I may not have needed this video personally but thank you for making it.

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.

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

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

*looks around and whisper* how did you know i keep failing

How can you tell if they are immune to stun?

Blight is great except for when you get soul link and life regen rares. Those are a real blast when it comes to blight.

Chilling tower special is much better then this anoit(chilling tower chill effect) you put, because you will freeze the enemies and the freeze immunes will be stunned with the stun tower.

i would never fail blight if only it did not crash my game when i try to build a tower every 2nd-3rd encounter or blighted map :D only reason i stopped doing blight

Best way to never fail a blight is to never do them :)

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.

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

I tried blight for the first time yesterday and failed the tutorial mission lol

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

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

I've always just spammed winged towers with chill stun empower supports always t3 and I never fail

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

Why do I see EA b-totem x'D

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

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.

Meh, just spam scout towers plus 25% increased damage or range anoint and let them kill everything.

First :)

Why are you talking about blight? The prices are sky rocketing.

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.

Hhmm so you just put freezing turret next to freeze immunity teleport where boss can come out..ziz seriously *it's time to stop*

You have a lot to learn about blight before you make a video like this tbh. Maybe consider changing your title?

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

Thanks for the video, but "try to die less than I do" is the most stupid catch phrase ever... no matter how you say it. Come up with a new one today.