Path of Exile 3.27 update, known as Keepers of the Flame, brings the Genesis Tree mechanic, a system that has quickly become a core part of endgame progression, item crafting, and profit strategies. Easy 5-6 link items very early, tons of currency, and uniques make the Genesis tree absolutely bonkers now! So, how to set up the Genesis Tree to boost your character power and maximize returns can be daunting at first. Let's show you how the Genesis Tree works, outline top strategies for different build needs, and explain how to use the tree for effective profit crafting.
Path of Exile 3.27 Genesis Tree & Breach 2.0 Guide
The Genesis Tree is a new core mechanic in Path of Exile’s Breach league (3.27), tied to the new Breach encounters. It operates as a “growth” mechanic where you feed it resources (mainly Graft Blood) acquired from completing breaches. In return, the tree allows you to “grow” valuable rewards such as currencies, rare and unique equipment, crafts, and mysterious items. As you invest more into the tree, you unlock and customize powerful bonuses and crafting options, making it a central progression system in the league.
How Does the Genesis Tree & Breach 2.0 Work?
Participate in Breaches: Do breaches during the campaign and mapping. Completing breaches grants you Graft Blood and sometimes Hiveborn Body Parts.
Collect and Use Graftblood: Graft Blood is the primary fuel for the Genesis Tree. Spend Graft Blood to activate various “wombs” on the tree which produce items, crafts, or currency.
Acquire Skill Points: Feeding the tree Graft Blood gives you Genesis Tree skill points. These points are spent on the tree to specialize and improve your rewards.
Hand in Hiveborn Body Parts: Turn in body parts to Alith at the Keepers of the Flame Monastery for additional rewards and quests.
Use Womb Gifts: Womb Gifts are special rewards from the tree, required to grow certain items (equipment, currency, crafts).
Customize Your Tree: Choose paths and nodes that increase item levels, quantity, quality, specific item types, additional drops, etc.
Refund Points: You can freely refund tree points, allowing you to adapt your tree to your current needs (e.g., farming currency, rares, or uniques).
How to Get Maximum Graftblood in PoE 3.27?
Engaging with each breach encounter in maps efficiently is the key to maximizing graftblood:
Efficient Breach Clearing - When you enter a regular breach, focus on clearing all monsters around its outskirts before finishing off the boss or rares that spawn in the middle. This approach ensures you fill up the blood bar at the bottom as much as possible. By taking extra time to clear the surrounding monsters, the amount of graftblood collected can rise from a typical 800 to upwards of 1,000 or even 1,200 per encounter, with 800 being the low end if the breach is rushed.
Defend Encounters Strategy - Defend encounters require you to uncover all portals indicated by gray and pink dots on the minimap. Walking over these dots converts them, signaling that monsters will spawn from those points. Destroying walls can make movement easier, but the main goal is to reveal all portals. Using skills strategically—such as alternating between offensive abilities and defensive ones like shields or healing, helps manage the monsters effectively, especially for builds with less area coverage.
Fortress Encounter Strategy - The fortress encounter stands out for its massive blood rewards. Clearing the entire fortress, including opening all the purple chests, is crucial. These chests often drop new uniques and valuable currency. Full clearing the temple before starting the main encounter can push graftblood rewards from around 5,000 to over 7,000 per run. After clearing, prepare for the 24-wave fight, using abilities wisely and topping off your health between the predictable damage pulses. Paying attention to dangerous map modifiers can prevent sudden deaths during the final waves.
Choosing the Right Grafts - When it comes to gaining more graftblood per run, using grafts with increased graftblood gain modifiers is highly recommended. For example, combining multiple modifiers that grant up to 25% increased graftblood gain each can further boost your blood collection. It's more effective to purchase high-quality grafts from the trade market than to craft them yourself, as most self-crafted grafts may not be ideal. Also, prioritize grafts with large blood pools, so you can store more and spend less time returning to the tree.
How to Craft Anything with the New Breach Tree in PoE 3.27?
The new Breach Tree gives you a lot of control over the gear you can create, especially once you have enough points unlocked from completing quests. With these points, you can influence the item type, base type, and modifiers you want. For experienced players, this will be intuitive, but newer players might find it confusing at first.
Selecting Item and Base Types
The tree lets you guide the item you’re crafting—such as gloves, boots, body armor, helmet, weapon, or shield. You can also steer the base type, for example, setting intelligence for energy shield items, strength for armor, or dexterity for evasion. While you can’t specify an exact base (like a Vaal Regalia), you can increase the chances for a particular attribute or base type to appear.
To craft a wand, you might select a ranged weapon node with an intelligence requirement. For a body armor with energy shield, you’d focus on intelligence as well. If you want a hybrid like energy shield and evasion, you would look for nodes that combine dexterity and intelligence. On the flip side, you can reduce the chance for dexterity to boost the odds for intelligence or strength.
Influencing Modifiers
The next step is setting up your tree to influence modifiers. Some nodes reduce the chance of rolling certain mods—such as attack, mana, defense, or attributes—while others increase the chance for specific tags like elemental or resistance. If your goal is to craft a belt with life and resistances, you could reduce the chance for unwanted tags (like mana or defense), then increase the odds for resistance and life modifiers.
Understanding tags is important here. Each modifier has associated tags, such as elemental, fire, cold, or resistance. By checking these tags—visible by pressing alt while hovering over an item—you can see which mods you’re influencing with your choices.
Using Mod Pools and Weight
The mod pool refers to all possible modifiers that can roll on a specific item. Tools like Craft of Exile let you see these pools for any gear. The weight of a mod determines its likelihood to appear. For example, if a tier three life mod has a weight of 1,000 out of a total pool of 51,000, you have about a 1 in 51 chance for that specific mod.
When you use nodes that multiply the weight of a tag—say, increasing the chance for fire resistance by 10x—you greatly improve your odds of getting that mod, especially if you’ve removed other conflicting tags from the pool.
Step-by-Step Example: Crafting a Belt
To craft a belt with resistances and life:
Set the node for a 5,000% chance to generate belts.
Reduce unwanted tags such as attack, mana, defense, attributes, or physical modifiers.
Increase the tags you want, such as resistance or life.
Using this method, when you craft, you’ll generate items with a much higher chance of rolling your preferred mods.
Applying the Method to Any Item
To craft a wand, for example, pick the range weapon/intelligence nodes, then boost tags for attack mods, lightning damage, or crit chance as needed. Always adjust the tree to reduce the tags you don’t want and increase those you do. This approach works for any gear type—just start with the correct item and attribute nodes, then fine-tune the modifier tags.
Sharing and Experimentation
You can share their “recipes” by showing tree setups that result in specific items, such as a kinetic blast wand. Experiment with different tag combinations to refine your results, and check resources like Craft of Exile to see which tags and weights influence your desired mods.
If you have questions about specific crafts, ask for help or search for shared tree builds. With this system, you can create gear that fits your needs throughout the campaign and endgame.
PoE 3.27 Best Genesis Tree Build & Profit Crafting Guide
When configuring your Genesis tree for profit, focus on nodes that maximize your returns from currency, rares, and uniques. So first of all, we break down each tree section, show recommended nodes and routes:
Graft Genesis Tree (for Crafting Powerful Grafts)
Choosing the right grafts is a matter of matching your character's needs. For instance, a lightning build should path toward Ash grafts, while a physical build benefits from Ugraft. Players often invest in nodes that provide a chance for additional grafts, improve modifier rating, or boost the rarity of grafts. For many, the most effective approach is to focus on the specific grafts that enhance your build and then supplement with nodes that increase overall quality or frequency.
Best Nodes To Focus: Rarity and tier rating nodes to improve graft quality.
Pick the path:
Go up through rarity or tier rating nodes.
Specialize in the graft type that suits your build (e.g., physical, elemental, or specific grafts).
Bonus:
Invest in modifier tier rating for better grafts.
Choosing additional grafts is less useful unless you want more variety.
Example: If you play a physical build, specialize in uGrafts for impale/phys bonuses.
Currency Genesis Tree (for Farming Currency)
The currency section of the Genesis Tree is one of the most popular for profit crafting. Key nodes include a 5% chance for birth currency to drop as a full stack and chances for additional currency items. Many players avoid nodes that convert currency drops into shards (since Divine Orbs have no shards and the main goal is to obtain them directly) and skip nodes that convert currency into gold, as chaos and divines are often more valuable.
Stacking nodes that add extra currency rewards per pop is a top strategy. Nodes that increase the chance of receiving full stacks or provide extra currency items per womb gift further boost returns. Some players experiment with the mysterious section to increase lavish womb gifts for even more currency opportunities.
Best Nodes To Focus: Nodes that boost the number and quality of currency drops.
Pick the path:
Aim for the 5% chance for birth currency to drop as a full stack (mandatory for profit).
Stack nodes that give a chance for wombs to birth an additional currency item.
Avoid nodes like “Reflexive Contractions” (which convert currency into shards) unless you specifically want shards.
Don’t take nodes that convert currency to gold unless you really need gold.
Efficiency: Use high-capacity grafts to minimize trips to the tree.
Unique Item Genesis Tree (for Farming Uniques)
When targeting unique items, the Genesis Tree offers nodes that increase the chance of birthing fullborn (corrupted) uniques and allow rerolling for better outcomes. For those aiming for top-tier uniques like Mageblood or Headhunter, it's better to avoid nodes that add fullborn modifiers (which can dilute the pool).
Body armors and shields are popular targets for profit, as many sought-after uniques in these categories carry good market value. Pairing nodes that enhance socket and link rolls with those that increase the chance for fullborn uniques can reliably produce well-linked, high-demand items. While the odds of hitting a chase unique remain low, rolling linked body armors like Diala’s Malefaction, Perfect Form, or Covenant can be a steady source of income.
Focus: Rolling for valuable unique items, especially fullborn (corrupted, high-quality) variants.
Pick the path:
Go right for corrupted flesh (100% increased chance for fullborn and corruption).
Take nodes for rolling unique items an extra time, keeping the rarest outcome.
Specialize in target farming certain unique slots (e.g., body armors, shields).
Profit:
Body armors and shields are popular and can yield valuable fullborn variants.
Take “Throbbing Veins” for 150x socket/link rolls on unique weapons and armor.
Rare Item Genesis Tree (for Crafting High-End Rares & 6 Link Items)
Rare item crafting with the Genesis Tree shines in 3.27 due to the ability to heavily influence outcomes. By stacking nodes for specific gear types (boots, body armors, weapons, jewelry), attribute requirements, and desirable modifier types (life, resistances, speed), you can easily produce high-quality items. For example, using nodes to force intelligence-based boots with high movement speed, life, and chaos resistance can yield gear upgrades or valuable tradeable items in just a few pops.
Six-link rare items are much more accessible; the cost of making them has plummeted, and it’s now trivial to generate items with ideal links and stats for many builds. You can also target fractured items, which can form the base for lucrative crafts or sales.
A typical approach is to pick a gear slot you wish to upgrade or a market-demanded item, then path through the tree’s nodes to maximize the odds of rolling the right base, attributes, and modifiers. Modifier tier rating, reroll “keep best outcome” nodes, and additional item nodes all help in pushing for the best possible results.
Focus: Rolling 5-6 links and high-quality rare armor/weapons/jewelry for use or profit.
Pick the path:
Go for “Arterial Mesh” for increased 6-link chances.
Take all small nodes for random modifier value/tier rating.
Guarding Flesh and increased body armor chance for more hits on body armors.
Severing (lowest level modifier removed) for cleaner items.
Reduce chance of unwanted affixes (e.g., mana) to focus on valuable stats.
Hybrid bases (Dex/Int armors) are usually most valuable.
Mysterious Genesis Tree (for Mystery/Ancient Rewards)
The mysterious section provides chances for extra items or special rewards not directly tied to currency, uniques, or rares. Investing here can add more currency womb gifts or increase the chance for commonly found items, which can be worthwhile if you have spare points or want to experiment with different reward types.
Focus: Nodes that increase chances for Lavish Womb Gifts (usually currency).
Pick the path:
Go up to Pathogenesis and take Lavish Womb Gift Chance.
Natural Selection for more additional item bonuses.
Artificial Selection is untested, not generally recommended yet.
Now let's present some specific Genesis tree builds for different Breach craftings, to help you get a better understanding of how to use Genesis Tree for profit:
POE 3.27 New Breach Genesis Tree for Easy 6 Links & Currency Farm
With the new Breach Genesis tree, you can set up a currency-focused route that not only generates valuable currency items such as Divines but also makes it very easy to craft and obtain 6-linked body armors to sell for even more profit. The most effective way is to use high-capacity grafts, ideally those with 5,000 or more graph blood, so you don’t need to interact with the tree constantly. On the tree, prioritize nodes that give you a 5% chance for birth currency to drop as a full stack, and stack options like float seeds, grasping flesh, and progal offsprings to maximize the number of additional currency items from each craft. For equipment, progress towards nodes like arterial mesh and guardian flesh, which greatly increase your chances of rolling 6-linked items, and choose the right base types (such as intelligence/dexterity body armors) that are popular and sell well. Avoid nodes that convert currency rewards into shards or gold early on, since direct currency is much more valuable. By following this approach, you can consistently farm both high-value currency and easy-to-sell 6-links, making the Genesis tree an excellent tool for both gearing up and building wealth early in the league.
POE 3.27 New Breach Genesis Tree for Resistance (Fire, Cold. Lightning) Crafting
The Genesis Tree crafting system allows you to manipulate modifier tags directly, letting you boost or block entire groups of mods. By setting up your tree to favor elemental resistances, you can guarantee that your crafted items roll with the desired resistance mods, instead of endlessly rolling and hoping for luck. Utilizing a tool like PoE DB is extremely helpful, as it shows all modifier tags for any item, letting you plan which tags to block or increase while setting up your crafts.
Boot/Gloves Craft Example - To craft resistance boots, start by selecting nodes that increase the chance for boots, as well as those that improve modifier tiers and item level. If you want better rolling outcomes, invest points in nodes that offer higher modifier tiers and consider nodes for fractured bases if your build benefits from them. Depending on your needs, nodes that add attributes or mana can also be useful. When crafting boots, movement speed is a must, so be sure to pick the speed node along with resistance nodes. If you don’t have enough points, respec as needed—moving points around the tree comes at no cost, making it easy to adjust your build.
Ring Example and Tag Control - For resistance rings, allocate points toward nodes that increase the chance of rolling rings and boost resistance mods. Reduce the chance for attack or physical mods by blocking those tags on the tree. Reference PoE DB to identify which mods have the highest weight and block or reduce those, ensuring resistance mods are more likely to appear. Aim for higher tier nodes, as they yield better results.
Fast and Flexible Respeccing - One advantage of the Genesis Tree system is the ability to easily respec points without penalty. This flexibility allows you to quickly shift focus between different item types, such as boots, gloves, or rings, to address any resistance gaps in your gear.
No Need for Expensive Bases - By using tag control and the Genesis Tree, you can efficiently cap your Fire, Cold, and Lightning resistances right from the start of the league. There’s no need to rely on expensive bases or spam chaos orbs. With just a few smart choices and a clear look at modifier tags, you’ll have high-tier resistance gear in no time.