Early on in Fate of the Vaal, a lot of players bounced off the new temple stuff pretty fast. It looked like yet another league where you crawl through maps for scraps, not a real way to stack wealth. That changed the moment people started copying Fubgun's tech and turned the campaign itself into a farm. Using a reset loop in Holten and stacking crystals is now one of the fastest ways to push your stash, right up there with trading and even buying a bit of gold path of exile 2 if you are into that route.

How The Holten Loop Actually Works

The core of the setup sits in Act 6, in that Holten interlude area. There's a Vaal pack that spawns close to the waypoint again and again, as long as your character is not more than ten levels above the zone. So people roll a fresh alt, keep it under level 74, and just sprint the same short route. You zone in, move a few seconds to the circle, delete the rares, scoop the crystals, then reset the area. No maps, no long loading screens, just a tight loop that fills a whole temple in a couple of minutes. If the character creeps too high on experience, you just step into Atziri in the temple and let her kill you a few times to drain XP, which feels slightly cursed but it works.

Why The Snake Layout Prints Currency

Having a pile of crystals on its own does not do much. The value comes from how you place them. Players are using what people now call the Snake Method: you build a single path that twists through the temple from the entrance rather than spraying rooms at random. Tools like the Atziri Temple Editor make this way easier to plan, and they matter because one bad room can break the whole chain. The idea is simple enough, though. You aim for Spymaster rooms for the medallions that lock in your shape, and you grab Garrisons to juice the effectiveness. Once that chain hits four digits on effectiveness, the chest explosions go wild. You start seeing a steady stream of raw divines, exalts, and high item level bases that actually sell instead of going straight to the vendor.

Real Farm Numbers And Build Choices

On a decent clear build, the numbers look silly. People who can move fast and delete packs in one or two hits are easily clearing a full snake temple in under five minutes, sometimes faster. A Lightning Arrow Deadeye, a Toxic Rain Pathfinder, even some melee setups with good movement skills all fit the bill. You do a quick Holten loop to top up crystals, chain temples back to back, and watch the currency tab fill up. Reports of over 100 div an hour sound insane at first, but once you run it for an evening and get a bit of rhythm, it stops feeling that far off, especially with a good loot filter and a bit of trading on the side to move bases.

Patch Risk, Economy Shock And Other Options

Everyone knows this is living on borrowed time. Grinding Gear Games tends to let busted stuff sit for a bit during holidays, then come in with a targeted fix. Holten spawns might move, the level rule might tighten up, or crystals could get hit directly, and you can already see the market bending under the pressure as crystal prices crash. So you either jump in now, roll that alt and spam temples while it lasts, or you sit it out and lean on more standard mapping, bossing, or trade. Some players just do not want to rerun campaign zones at all, which is fair, so they mix regular farming with buying currency from places like u4gm to get straight to the fun part of trying out high-end builds before the current league tech disappears.