This guide covers the essentials of farming Expedition in Path of Exile 2, including its rewards and how to face the pinnacle encounter by completing Expedition Logbooks. It also highlights the best Atlas Passive Nodes to optimize your currency generation.
As you explore your Atlas and complete maps, you'll occasionally encounter the Expedition mechanic. This involves generating valuable loot by placing explosives at dig sites and defeating the monsters unearthed. The special currency you earn can be used to craft items with Rog, Gwennen, Tujen, and Dannig. Not interested in crafting? You can also sell these items to other players via the Currency Exchange.
Your primary goals during an Expedition are as follows:
To place your explosives, click the UI element or assign a hotkey in your settings (by default, to the left of your Skillbar). The number displayed shows how many explosives you can still place. Create a fuse line that will sequentially detonate, unearthing Remnants, Runic Monsters, and Chests within the green circle around your cursor.
Be cautious: Yellow Remnant Modifiers could make the Expedition impossible for your build. If you encounter mods you can’t deal with, skip them!
If you want to undo an explosive placement, simply click the back arrow in the UI to adjust your placement. Once satisfied, click the Detonator (usually located in the center of the Expedition, near the NPC) to start the encounter.
Defeat the monsters that emerge—Expedition monsters can be quite dangerous, so don’t let your guard down!
Tip: If your build excels against large groups of enemies (e.g., Herald of Ice builds), you can wait for all the monsters to be unearthed before clearing them in a single go.
Don't forget to click all the Excavated Chests and loot the area!
The exclusive rewards from Expedition include: Black Scythe Artifacts, Broken Circle Artifacts, Order Artifacts, Sun Artifacts, Exotic Coinage, and Expedition Logbooks. Additionally, Expedition encounters generate a substantial amount of Waystones and regular currency by spawning numerous additional mobs within your maps.
Maps have a chance to naturally feature an Expedition encounter, indicated by the icon shown above.
To guarantee an Expedition encounter, use an Expedition Precursor Tablet on a Watchtower. This will add an Expedition encounter to the number of maps specified by the item’s implicit modifier. Any explicit modifiers apply to all uncompleted maps within the tower's radius.
To run the Expedition Logbooks you’ve collected, take them to Dannig and select the "Show Expedition Map" option. Logbooks are essentially massive Expeditions that yield large amounts of loot. Alternatively, you can sell them to other players.
As with all Atlas mechanics in Path of Exile 2’s early access, Expedition features a Pinnacle Boss encounter. To earn Expedition Atlas Passive Points, you must defeat Olroth inside a Logbook. Olroth has a 20% spawn chance if the Logbook’s Area Level is 79 or above.
Once inside the Expedition, check your minimap for a Skull Icon, which indicates Olroth's location. Direct your explosives toward the skull until you detonate the Boss Encounter marker, which opens a path into the Crypt where you can fight him.
In order of importance, allocate the following nodes:
You can use the Logbook Atlas Tree to raise your Logbook Area Level to 79+ to spawn Olroth, even in lower level Logbooks.
Black Scythe Artifacts, Broken Circle Artifacts, and Order Artifacts can be used to craft gear by talking to Rog (Armour), Gwennen (Weapons), and Tujen (Jewelry). Use Exotic Coinage to reroll their crafting offerings, or convert Sun Artifacts with Dannig to a different type of your choice.
Once you’ve found a promising base, you can craft it. If nothing seems good, use an Exotic Coinage to reroll the vendor’s selection. The item level (ilvl) increases based on your character's level, scaling up to ilvl 80 at level 90.
Crafting is straightforward. You have three options:
You cannot skip two consecutive crafts. Once you run out of good options, or if the item is no longer worth crafting, take the item.
You can drop the following Crafting Currency by killing Expedition Monsters and looting the chests afterward:
Expedition Logbooks drop from Runic Monsters and Excavated Chests.
Olroth has a unique loot table, with more items dropping as you increase the difficulty of the encounter. This is a partial list of unique items that can drop:
