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Kingsmarch content in Path of Exile's Mirage League has received adjustments, but this isn't entirely a negative development. The primary official change is a reduction in its importance, transforming it into optional farming content that players who dislike the mechanic can now bypass.

However, this content still holds significant potential, which requires understanding the specific mechanics and changes in Kingsmarch to optimize your approach.

Kingsmarch Changes

Several core changes in Mirage League have fundamentally altered the gameplay logic of Kingsmarch. The most notable change is that the functions of Ore and Crops have been completely swapped.

• Ore: Now, by sending any amount of ore via your port, your ships will return with PoE currency upon their arrival. This is your new method for acquiring the primary currency of the game.
• Crops: Sending Crops will instead bring back equipment, which consists of armor pieces for different slots. More importantly, this provides a consistent way to target the color of Tattoos you desire.

Gem and Scarab Removal

This is the core reduction in power Kingsmarch has received. Currently, regardless of your actions, you can no longer obtain Gems or Scarab rewards from Kingsmarch. If you previously engaged with this mechanic primarily for these two rewards, it will now hold less appeal for you.

Kingsmarch Strategies

After understanding the changes to Kingsmarch, you may need to adjust your strategies.

Shipment Cargo Ratios

Regardless of the shipment size you plan to send, you should aim to maintain a total cargo value composed of half Dust and half ore. Remember to never send Dust along with crops, as this is not profitable.

Port Selection

When you decide to send Crops, you'll need to choose a destination port, which determines your bonus rewards.

Sending to Kalguuran Ports will grant you Runegrafts, and Sending to other ports will provide you with Tattoos of a specified color. Some rare green Tattoos command extremely high values, while among blue and red Tattoos there are also valuable options.

Bounty Mission Refresh Mechanic

The refresh mechanic for bounty missions is a very practical improvement. You can now refresh port bounty missions using 15,000 gold. If a bounty mission requires resources you don't have in abundance, simply click to refresh.

Continue refreshing until all three required resources match the types of ore you plan to send. This way, you can reliably obtain bounty rewards with every large shipment, essentially gaining extra income at no additional cost. Previously, you might have only been able to complete a bounty once per league due to resource mismatches. Now, you can ensure every significant shipment triggers a bounty, greatly enhancing your returns.

Risk

When sending shipments, be sure to keep your eyes on the risk. Especially when your shipment value reaches 50 million, the risk for certain ports will inevitably increase to 10%. Risk events can result in significant cargo loss, such as losing half your crops.

Therefore, you should only send ships to ports displaying a 0% risk bar. Regardless of your shipment's scale, if the risk is 0, it's safe to send.

Smelting

One unit of ore can be smelted into one Smelted Bar, and one Smelted Bar is worth five times as much as the ore. Consequently, it's essential to wait for ore to be smelted into Bars before shipping them to maximize profits. You can utilize Atlas Passive Tree or other strategies to have ore convert directly into Smelted Bars, bypassing the waiting time.

You can set all your smelters to smelt the rarest ore types. They will automatically process all ore types in descending order of rarity, eliminating the need for manual assignment.

The same logic applies to your miners; assign them all to a single ore type, and they will automatically prioritize mining from the rarest to the most common.

Workers

Workers can now only be leveled up to a maximum of level 5. When refreshing workers, be sure to only use the refresh option costing 4,000 gold. This option has a higher chance of revealing high-level workers.

When hiring workers, be mindful of those with additional tags like "Mapper." While they may have decent levels, their wages will be significantly higher. If you accidentally hire them, this elevated wage will continuously drain your gold.

A typical effective configuration is five level-5 mappers and one level-4 mapper. If a mapper is kidnapped, it's worthwhile to give the ransom, even if it costs 50,000 gold.

You can bulk trade for maps with 8 mods. Equipping your mappers with these 8-mod maps can yield a good return in currency.

Scarab Loadouts

If you intend to delve deeply into this mechanic, here are recommended Scarab combinations.

• Kalguuran Scarab x2: Provides two additional Ore Deposits.
• Kalguuran Scarab of Refinement: Causes ore picked up in maps to convert directly into Smelted Bars, bypassing the smelting step.
• Kalguuran Scarab of Enriching: Increases the amount of ore yielded per deposit.
• Sulphite Scarab: Causes Niko to appear in your maps, which can lead to more ore Deposits.

Other Influencing Factors

Atlas Passive Tree contains a notable that doubles the spawn frequency of Crimson Iron deposits. Allocating this notable will speed up your map clearing, and these deposits will drop a significant amount of Divine Orbs. However, the trade-off is that you will frequently encounter the least valuable ore, potentially reducing the total value of your large shipments.

Mirage can duplicate ore, but it may also convert your ore into low-value Dust. Additionally, be aware that if cargo is "lost in transit" within Mirage, you will directly forfeit the corresponding ore and Smelted Bars.

The above are all the significant changes and strategic details for Kingsmarch content in Path of Exile 3.28. If you choose to participate, understanding these new rules will greatly benefit you.

In POE 3.25, Kingsmarch was added to the game as a region of Settlers of Kalguur league, and players need to build this town. With the update of multiple versions, Kingsmarch finally has a new look and has become one of the core gameplays of the game’s endgame.

Players can recruit new workers, mine ore, trade with other players, and other activities in Kingsmarch area. You are like in a simulation business game. You have to make this place prosperous and provide food for your hired workers.

Workers

In 3.26, players no longer need to collect resources to build this town, but you can still hire workers to collect items for you. Each worker’s work requires a certain amount of time. Skilled workers take less time and require higher wages.

Workers will also work while you are offline, and you can receive rewards when you login. When you have not logged in for too long, your workers will stop working. You can recruit workers to work for you, but you must provide food and wages for each worker. Recruiting workers requires gold, which is a special currency that can be dropped a lot after you kill monsters, so you don’t need to buy POE currency to exchange them.

In the option of recruiting workers, if you are not satisfied with the attributes of the workers, you can use 2000 gold coins to reroll. Using 24,000 gold coins to reroll can ensure that the level of the refreshed workers is not less than level 3 (The highest level of workers is level 5).

Mining And Farming

You can send your workers to develop veins and get ores. These veins often appear in various regions of the world. When you defeat the monsters, you can mark the veins and let the workers come to mine the required ores.

The number of ores in each area is limited. After the workers have mined a certain type of ore, they will automatically mine other mineable ores in this area.

The ores that can be mined are:

• Crimson Iron
• Orichalcum
• Petrified Amber
• Bismuth
• Verisium

After you get the ore, you also need to smelt your ore into metal ingots before you can trade with other regions.

Similar to mining, you can let farmers grow the following crops here. The level of farmers is related to the yield:

• Wheat
• Corn
• Pumpkin
• Orgourd
• Blue Zanthimum

Transportation

After you get resources such as ores and crops, you can transport them to other ports for resources, but this process also has certain risks. When you transport too many resources, there may be accidents that will cause you to lose profits, but you can hire crew members to reduce this probability.

Random events you will encounter at the following times:

• Lose 100% of the reward: The fleet is hijacked by pirates and all goods are lost.
• Lose 100% of the reward: The fleet is surrounded by green light and all rewards disappear.
• Lose 75% of the reward: The king imposes a three-quarters tax on outbound goods.
• Lose 50% of the reward: The customs official asks you for half of the goods.
• Lose 50% of the reward: Being attacked by Karui commandos, half of the goods are lost.
• Lose 25% of your rewards: A quarter of your cargo was misplaced at the port.
• Lose 100% of your crop yield: Your fleet was stranded and your crew ate your crops.
• Lose 50% of your crop yield: A disease destroyed half of your crops.

The more crew you have, the lower your risk is, and even if the risk is zero, you may still lose crew members.

Port Rewards

Each port requires different cargo and can also exchange for different rewards. Ores can exchange for weapons, armor, unique items and other rewards. Crops can bring you rare currencies such as Divine Orb and Vaal Orb.

• Crimson Iron: Random Armor, Str Armor, Energy Shield, Dex Armor
• Orichalcum: Random Weapons, Str Weapons, Int Weapons, Dex Weapons
• Petrified Amber: Rings, Belts, Amulets, Jewellery with quality
• Bismuth: Quality skill gems, Vaal skill gems, Quality support gems, Exceptional support gems, Flasks, Ward Armor, Jewels
• Verisium: Scarabs, Stacked Decks, Unique Items, Splinters, Catalysts, Oils,Fossils, Heist Contracts, Blueprints, Rogue’s Marker
• Wheat: Armorer’s Scrap, Blacksmith’s Whetstone, Orb of Augmentation, Orb of Transmutation, Orb of Alteration
• Corn: Orb of Alchemy, Orb of Scouring, Orb of Chance, Chaos Orb, Vaal Orb
• Pumpkin: Chromatic Orb, Jeweller’s Orb, Orb of Fusing, Glassblower’s Bauble, Gemcutter’s Prism
• Orgourd: Cartographer’s Chisel, Orb of Horizons, Orb of Unmaking, Instilling Orb, Enkindling Orb
• Blue Zanthimum: Blessed Orb, Regal Orb, Orb of Annulment, Exalted Orb, Divine Orb

When you successfully deliver goods to Karui ports, you can get Tattoos as a reward. After successfully delivering to Kalguuran ports, you can get Runegrafts as a reward.

Atlas Runners

You can set up 10 maps and send three Atlas Runners to complete them. If they return successfully, you can get all the rewards. If the map is too difficult, you may lose them.

The more difficult the map is, the more experienced Atlas Runners are needed. Even if they all die, you can still claim some rewards.

Recombination

In Kingsmarch, you can find Rog, The Disenchanter, who can disassemble your normal quality items into Thaumaturgic Dust, which can be used to reassemble the affixes of the items.

Still with Rog, you only need to use gold and Thaumaturgic Dust to reassemble two items, trying to move the affix you want to one item.

In addition, player currency trading and the black market have been reopened in Kingsmarch. As long as you have enough time, you can almost farm all the items you want here.