Players who have been treating the new league like business as usual in Path of Exile 2 are quietly missing a wild moment for making profit, both in-game and through trading poe 2 currencies during this weird economy shift. The Fate of the Vaal feature looks normal at first, a bit of campaign flavor and some puzzle rooms, then it suddenly flips your whole endgame plan once you see what the Holten campaign reset setup can do. After a few hours of testing it myself, it did not feel like hype anymore, it felt like the old busted tech you only see a few times in a game's life cycle.

The Holten Act 6 Reset Loop

The core idea is simple but a bit grimy. You stop thinking about red maps and you live in Act 6, specifically the Holten interlude area. The Vaal packs show up right next to the waypoint every run as long as you stay under the level cap for the zone, so the meta move is to roll a new character, sprint the story, and park them there. Most people go for something that clears fast with low gear, like an Amazon style setup, then watch their XP bar and deliberately die to Atziri or random temple mobs when they creep too close to level 74. It feels scuffed, especially when you are chain dying on purpose, but pulling a full temple worth of crystals in under two minutes starts to make the whole thing feel pretty reasonable.

Building The Snake Temple

Where most players fall off is after they stockpile crystals and just slam rooms with no plan, then wonder why the loot looks average. The trick the community is calling the Snake Method changes that, because you are not really building a normal temple, you are drawing one long path from the entrance like a maze. You chain Spymaster rooms to stack medallions and then add Garrison rooms to juice monster effectiveness, so every step down the line ramps up both danger and drops. People are using the Atziri Temple Editor or their own little spreadsheets to map it out first so they do not accidentally cut the path short or leave the final node exposed to destabilization that wipes the run.

Loot, Economy And Community Drama

Once the snake layout snaps into place, the runs start to look nuts. You see massive density, chunky rare packs, and those stupid big loot explosions that make it hard to see the ground. Folks are reporting raw divines, mirrors, and high item level bases dropping at a rate that makes normal mapping feel like a side activity, which of course has smashed crystal prices and pushed more value toward liquid currency. Older players shrug because it reminds them of old Harbour Bridge loops from PoE 1, while newer folks are worried they will log in to a wrecked market after the holidays when GGG finally has time to react.

Is It Worth Your Time

Whether you jump in really depends on what you enjoy doing in ARPGs. If you like breaking systems, running the same zone hundreds of times, and seeing your stash turn into a spreadsheet of profit, this Holten setup is kind of perfect right now and probably will not last. If that sounds miserable and you just want to try builds, speed through bosses, or play with friends, then you might be better off skipping the grind and grabbing currency from a place like u4gm so you can log in, gear up, and actually play the builds that interest you instead of living in Act 6 all week.