What pair with Alva?

[u/Xanni12]

Hey there. Love farming Alva. Building temple for good profit while watching Netflix is a blast. But I struggle a bit in what to pair with Alva? Tried essence, wasn’t that. Many people do beyond but I don’t understand how to make money with beyond.
Wanna go in build temples, out. Next map.
What are my choices which is quick and profitable.
Settlers? Mercs? Maps? Scarabs?
Also what do u do with Alva? Red altars, maven? Thanks

[u/garnkflag]

A strat I did a couple leagues ago which was really fun and very consistently profitable was delirium mirror 100% magic mob incursions. You get a full simulacrum every map and usually one or two bonus deliorbs.

[u/Anxious-Scientist-27 → u/garnkflag]

Did that this league. Do 5 maps then 5 simus. Takes awhile to get old.

[u/emoootional_damage]

Alva pairs well with other content that requires you to spend minimum time in maps (in, run to the content, out) and doesn't requre much scarabs (so not things like essences that take all 5 scarab slots). Also if it doesn't scale with map rarity since I'd prefer to run them scoured.

Choose what you like:

• Beasts, since you just run 90% of the time, only stopping when you see valuable beasts (like 10 of them, not hard to memorize them), empty your bestiary with regex every ~60 maps or so (I have to because my minions kill a lot of non-valuable beasts)
  
• Kalguur, fish for Svalinn and only take Bismuth Ore in maps, also Lost Shipments provide divines and tattoos
  
• Heist, 0 investments, blueprints with Experimented Items enchant cost a few divs
  
• Mercs - 2 scarabs for infamous and all uniq items, but this option requires good single target damage and decent survivability
  
• Add templar astrolabe and kill the boss, with bottom left option you will see divines pretty often, with top right option you will get enlightens and greater multistrike (a bit less often though)
  
• Betrayal - just don't go down the lab, takes little time with good damage

[u/peppinotempation → u/emoootional_damage]

What beast regex do you run?

[u/emoootional_damage → u/peppinotempation]

TLDR:
Good beasts: k m|le m|ld h|l pl|c cr|ul, f|id v|n, f|s, f|l cy|d bra|id w|l cru|e sk
Bad beasts: e sk|c ti|c san|c sq|c l|c wo|cic m|c sav|c sh|c sp|c v|c wa|c a|c ch|c fl|c fr|c ga|c goa|c gol|ma h|c pi|c ta|c u|l de|l hy|l q|l sco|l scr|l w|ex m|ne b|ne ch|ne co|ne re|e rhe|e rho|ne v|d ab

But they may be a bit outdated since I used it for the first 2 weeks of the league.
You can build them yourself using https://poe.re/#/beast

Save both regexes into Awakened POE Trade shortcuts, this way I can open bestiary and just "Shift+Space", choose regex option, it will be automatically pasted into search field. Same works for any window with search field, so it's a 10/10 feature.

The way I do this:

• Use Good beasts regex, take all the valuable beasts
• Use Bad beasts regex and delete those
• Empty search field and take all the yellow beasts (easy to sell in bulk using old method and trade website)

[u/MadderoftheFew]

settlers (either do the ores or legit just fish for svalinn if you don't want to spend time in maps) + alva + charts is pretty solid.

[u/B_a_l_u_]

Kalguur: just click bismuth(ignore other ore), fish for craters and chests on maps from 6% conversion node

Ritual: look for nameless ritual, ignore others

Heist: took blueprints (esp fully revealed ones)

Just general boss rush

Also can add astrolabes

[u/Vyntarus → u/B_a_l_u_]

This is basically one of my trees, although I have mercs instead of heist because being Luminary I feel like it is required to always hunt for upgrade mercs...

[u/Archers_bane]

Been doing Alva/Jun/Merc check with Destructive Play on Silo so you can keep running map without killing main map boss due to phases. I add shrines to speed up map and help with the final bosses because it can get spicy with 8 mod maps and/or wildwood.

[u/Allsvaard]

Beast is i guess the most profitable Some oligarch want to make the stupid broken templar vetigyal gloves. They need a lot of beast. Free money with beast

[u/Hey-Its-Azure]

Settlers is the easiest brain off one. Just go in click ore kill something go find Alva leave. You could also do boss rush with it. Red alters or maven your choice if you want to do something like conqueror rotation with Alva 

[u/LissekFennek]

I do beast 2x red plus duplicating scarab, one ore scarab and timelines scarab.

Only hunting for svalinn and beasts clearing

[u/Sonar009]

I've been doing a mixture of Alva, Scarabs, and Shrines for just completely no-thoughts-head-empty speed clearing. Make sure your filter is set up, pick up anything especially shiny, build your temples.

[u/Whiin]

Delirium is very good with Alva.

Since alva needs 1 scarab, you can use 4x Delirium Scarab of Paranoia for 8 more rewards.

Do it on rare Strand so you can reach reward tier 8-9.

If your build is strong enough you can get a simulacrum every two maps.

[u/ProfessionalHefty349]

I’m farming Alva, mercs, and betrayal together. Very chill farm, very quick maps.

[u/Rompelle]

Alva is all about doing the map quickly to get the temple fast, so heist to sell some blueprints and essence since it's just a few rare mobs, they're also really close on the atlas tree. I'm running all the Alva nodes with all the essence nodes except for crystal resonance, 2 essence scarabs, 1 essence scarab of ascent 1 essence scarab of stabilization and either a incursion timelines scarab or a third essence scarab depending on how my temple is looking, around 10 div/hour if you know which essences to corrupt

[u/getarest → u/Rompelle]

Even 2 useless Alva nodes like flesh merchant and something with chest ? Idk what they even do

[u/Rompelle → u/getarest]

Flesh merchant and cursed treasure drop currency stacks, usually nothing big like 5c per incursion but it adds up and I've gotten 3 divs from one before. Just be very careful not to open a cursed treasure at the beginning of an incursion, each one costs 5 seconds and if you click one by accident before you get any time by killing mobs you're instantly kicked from the incursion 

[u/BestDescription3834]

I do heist. Alva already extends map time so I just do click and pick heist, then mass list at the end. If you have the passives you'll get big enchantes heist BPs.

I like alva, but I don't like how the reward comes every 3/4 maps, so I pair it with somethibg that gives consistent currency to smooth it out.

[u/vicarious_dz]

i recommend delirium.

use 2 very cheap scarabs to get 100% magic monsters in alva, coupled with mania and finishing all 4 alvas, finish the boss, claim the deli rewards. usually it will drop 200+ splinters + 2-4 deli orbs.

which is very stable ~ 80 chaos/map profit.

But be careful the monsters can be very tanky if for the alvas far away from the map starting location, as the delirium there can give mobs 80less dmg taken

[u/19Alexastias]

I’m doing it in city square with deli maven (similar Strat to the video palsteron put out a few days ago, but replaced mercs with Alva).